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iPads have exploded throughout schools and classrooms. Their flexibility, versatility, and mobility make them a phenomenal learning tool. As teachers seek ways to integrate these devices, we recommend focusing on specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and the creation of student-centric learning environments. Below, you will find a list of objectives, each one connecting to recommended apps and tools.

Read Write Think is a website that has some great reading and writing resources for teachers. There are lesson plans, student inter-actives, mobile apps, etc. There is also a parent section that has subjects like "how to start a blog" and others.

cecibunney, I love this one and have saved it to use when I get my own classroom again for additional supports. Thank you!

use this popular free mobile app and social network to engage our students and get them to connect with our subject matter

Celly brings the power of mobile social networking and knowledge discovery to everyday life in a private and secure way. Family, friends, neighbors, classmates, coworkers, and teammates can use social building blocks called "cells" for everyday collaboration, knowledge sharing, and group communication on any device. join by text in seconds unlimited members group messaging with moderation multiple-choice polling scheduled reminders track feeds automatically link networks together phone numbers are kept private works on any phone with text messaging (SMS), Android app, web and email

a friend of mine told me about celly last term, but i haven't had occasion to use it yet. have you?

here's a cool article with a bunch of ways to use pinterest in the classroom

This is a great free tool for elementary or sped classrooms more so than middle or high school, but it could be used at any. Once the teacher puts in the students names the students can choose their Avatar to go with their name. There is also an App to this, so teachers can be walking around the room and click on the person being on or off task by use of their phone or other mobile device. Points are given for on task and taken away for off task. Teachers can look at the end of class/day to see what students were being on task, or on task and for what reason. Parents or other staff members could even access individual students to check on behaviors.