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Why the iPad will change education as we know it
(image source: http://www.ninjamarketing.it) When I was in high school, we lugged really heavy and expensive textbooks around e.g. Gardner’s Art through the Ages (Amazon link), our backs bearing their...
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Review: ABC Magnetic Toys for Kids for iPad
Did you ever wish you could just rewind time to a place where building blocks and stacking towers was your only worry for the day? ABC Magnectic Toys for Kids for iPad lets you step right into that...
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iPads in Education: Wake up and Smell the Future
I love it how a few days after the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas ended, where people lustily obsessed over 55-inch wafer-thin screen TVs, Apple has got people talking arguing about...
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Study Shows iPads in Kindergarten Class Improve Literacy
Image Source: Inquisitr.com Initial results from a research study in Auburn, Maine show that kindergarten literacy scores increased in classrooms where iPads were used. Auburn is the first public...
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More Crazy iPad Numbers: K12 Customers Bought Twice as Many iPads as Macs...
There were a lot of crazy, impressive iPad numbers revealed in this week’s Apple Q2 financial results call – including 67 million iPads sold in two years. A recent report at Apple Insider highlights a...
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iPad in Education: Report Shows School Districts Doubling Down on Their iPad...
It looks like the iPad’s impact in the education arena in the US is continuing to grow. A recent report by Fox Business cites some of the impressive numbers for the iPad in the education market and...
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Learning with Lynda.com on iPad
Even if you have been following trends in online education only casually in recent years, you will have noted that the advent of the iPad (and rivals) has opened up many avenues towards new...
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Recommended: 10 reasons the iPad is an awesome tool for classrooms and education
I read a great article the other day on iPads in the classroom, over at iSource. The title, as mentioned above is ‘10 Reasons the iPad is an awesome tool for classrooms and education’. It’s written by...
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iPad in Education: 8 Million iPads Sold to Educational Institutions
Apple shared some impressive numbers today about iTunes U, which has passed the 1 billion downloads milestone. They also offered up some very impressive numbers relating to the iPad in the education...
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iPad in Education: at Burlington High School
Apple has a superb ‘Apple in Education’ profile video up – highlighting the great impact iPads are making at Burlington High School in Massachusetts. The school’s principal and teachers talk about how...
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10 Great iPad Apps for Students on the Autism Spectrum
I’m continually impressed and amazed at how much impact the iPad is having in education – and especially in helping students with autism or on the autism spectrum. So I’m delighted to share this guest...
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Featured in the iPad App Store this Week: Apps for Elementary Schools
This week the Featured section of the iPad App Store is full of even more highlighted app collections than usual. One of the notable app collections that caught my eye is ‘Apps for Elementary School’...
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iPad in Education: iPads Chosen in $30 Million Deal with Los Angeles Board of...
Image Source: http://www.larkin.net.au/blog/2013/03/01/vic-ipad-workshops/ Apple has announced today that they’ve received approval from the Los Angeles Board of Education on a $30 million rollout of...
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Los Angeles School District Plans to Rollout iPads to All Its 640,000 Students
Image Source: http://www.larkin.net.au/blog/2013/03/01/vic-ipad-workshops/ Wow. More details have come out this week on the massive iPad rollout by the Los Angeles Unified School District. The...
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iPad in Education: 7 New Schools Open in Holland with iPads as ‘Virtual School’
Image Source: | Source: O4NT Today seven new ‘Steve Jobs Schools’ have opened in the Netherlands. These schools have a radical new approach, with iPads right at the center of it. The schools are...
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iPad in Education: Great Kindergarten Case Study
Talk about a great endorsement – they just don’t get any better than this. Just in case you can’t read the quite text on the image above, here it is: For the first time in 22 years of teaching, 100...
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Apps to Get Your Kids Coding on the iPad Part 1
In the past, coding was a pretty niche affair, those of us with our Acorns, Spectrums and Commodore 64s experimenting with lines and lines of code. I remember as an 8 year old, spending ages typing...
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5 iPad Apps for the Productive 21st Century Student
When I was at school, I struggled badly with random, un-filed bits of paper, leaky ink cartridges in my Parker Pen and terrible hand writing (as well as chronic laziness and an addiction to Cricket)....
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Teaching With An iPad
Francis Picabia, 1920, Image Source: Artforum This fall I successfully taught two college courses using only an iPad 2 (and iPad Air) — no desktop or laptop. The experiment went easier than I expected...
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Essential Education Apps for iPad: A High Schooler’s Take
Every so often there’s a revolution in education. The iPad and the boundless possibilities it brings with it are one of those revolutions. Whether you’re an iPad aficionado or simply a recreational...
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iPad in Education: Huge New Rollout in Minnesota, Huge LA Project Suspended
This week brings good news and bad news in terms of the iPad’s adoption in US educational institutions. Earlier this week it was reported – by The Verge and others – that the massive iPad rollout in...
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iPads in Education: Why iPad?
There have been lots of interesting stories in the news recently about various iPad deployments in education, some good, some bad. Earlier this year our school made a carefully considered decision to...
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Osmo for iPad Review: Magical and Educational
We are all used to interfacing with a computer through mouse, keyboard, and in more recent times, touchscreen. Osmo has created an educational game system that allows you to interface with the iPad...
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Bring a New Dimension to the Classroom – Verso for iPad
There are so many educational apps for iPad out there, many are total rubbish, some fall into the category of “Cool, but not quite good enough to give me a tangible educational benefit”. A select few...
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Survey Says Schools Will Have More iPads Per Student than Computers in 5 Years
A new survey, reported on recently at Apple Insider, offers new evidence of the iPad’s growing momentum in education, and in particular in schools. A new survey of technology directors in U.S. school...
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iPad in Education: With a Special Needs Child
I’ve posted before on the iPad helping children with autism. This week I spotted a video of the iPad in action helping a special needs student named Dennis Lamme Jr. Here’s the short Intro for it on...
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iPad in Education: Long Island University Deploys 6,000 iPads
If you were asked to guess which US university has made what is apparently the biggest deployment of iPads to students and faculty, which ones would you guess? Maybe my hometown’s University of Texas...
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iPad in Education: NYT Says Schools Are Embracing the iPad
We saw a number of stories of the iPad being adopted in educational institutions – from kindergartens to universities – during its debut year. This week The New York Times has an article that focuses...
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iPad in Education: Tennessee School Requiring All Students to Have iPads
Webb School, a private school in Knoxville, TN is requiring all fourth through 12th grade students to have an iPad for classes next year. “To be able to use that technology whenever they need it,...
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Just Another Awesome Story on the iPad Helping a Child with Autism, and His...
Photo Credit: FRED ZWICKY/JOURNAL STAR I’ve seen a number of stories over the last year about iPads being used to help children with autism. One I spotted today at TimesReporter.com – thanks to a...
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