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Moving content broadcast out of the classroom

urning homework time into contact time

Providing tutoring:

‘If we buy this device for students, what will they NOT be able to do that we and they will wish they could?‘ 

I love my iPad as a learning device, I think the only answer right now is the laptop (at least for kids older than 3rd grade).

Kids may already have their own mobile devices, so open up BYOD.  Why buy them things they might already have?

the district shelved the idea when it became apparent that students preferred using their personal mobile devices and that the cost of buying and ­refreshing ­notebooks every three to four years would be ­prohibitive

surveyed the 155 eighth-graders ­participating in the pilot, they learned something ­interesting: Although students loved the idea of having their own computer to do their homework, 52 percent of them were using their personal computers rather than those issued by the school

IT department beefed up the wireless network in its two middle schools and the high school and standardized on a set of cloud-based applications

Roslyn's rush of attention obscures how the district has undertaken this pilot systematically. "We've been studying 1:1 programs and what's made them successful," says Edward Salina Jr., assistant superintendent for human resources and administration. Both he and Brenner have closely aligned themselves with this project, including overseeing teacher professional development and seemingly small details such as consulting with students about the best iPad covers to buy.

Jody Bowie, a high school physics and earth science teacher at Putnam City High School in Northwest, Oklahoma, uses this program to push his students to write their own textbook. He uses an iPad in the classroom, taking advantage of the long battery life and his ability to import Google documents into the program for maximum flexibility.

As educators what do we want from e-textbooks?

need to be visually stunning

e-textbooks need to have an inherent interactivity that engages

around 2025 that amount should let us buy equivalent of one human brain and by around 2050 an equivalent of all human brains!  I share the two graphs just to emphasize that the pace of change will only increase and all our predictions about evolution of Learning Technology could come true sooner than later

competitors will now face a new iteration of the iPad, one that's faster, smaller, and lighter than the model introduced a year ago--all while retaining the $499 entry price that has proven all but impossible for Apple's competitors to match.

company is offering 18 different versions of the iPad 2

original iPad came in six different variations

iCloud (here’s more on the iCloud.com launch), which allows iTunes purchases including songs and TV episodes to be stored on Apple’s servers and tapped into on-demand via any of your iTunes or iOS devices. This includes the option to have your purchases automatically download to each of your devices (buying a song via iTunes on your computer and having it immediately also download itself to your iPhone, for instance) and also includes the ability to download any previous purchases, including those you may have lost due to drive failure, for free