KICS Infants iPads in Ed

You've heard of the iPad and seen it in action... but what purpose would it serve in the classroom? You might be surprised. While there are plenty of education-oriented apps in the Apple App Store right now, most are a bit too expensive to deploy on a large-scale level such as multiple classrooms. For example, at $9.99, most popular iPad apps would cost about $300 per app for a classroom of 30 students.

These past few weeks have been all about Book Creator in the classroom... Book Creator is a wonderful and student friendly app for creating books with audio. Last week my students shared their thoughts about Romare Bearden's artwork Home to Ithaca using the See Think Wonder Thinking Routine (we love Project Zero Making Thinking Visible - Thinking Routines).

Great art ideas with links to apps. Art ideas match up with many units of inquiry and math concepts.

Apps are aligned to stages, educational areas with a focus on Blooms Taxonomy. Each of the stages are described and focus areas for apps are listed. Suitable apps for each stage are listed, described and prices are shown.

Information about Padlet with links to how people have used it with their classes.