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A group of tech-savvy librarians offer up a list of their favorite education apps this year. 
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Last week Google released another round of updates to their Expeditions program. Expeditions is the virtual reality program that lets students experience immersive views of more than 200 places including the International Space Station, coral reefs, the Taj Mahal, and the White House.
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How creative are you? When the Apple iPad Pro was released last autumn, I interviewed several artists who had just started using the advanced tablet and its clever, super-precise Pencil. The results they came up with were phenomenal and used some of the inexpensive, or free, apps available for general use on the iPad.
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Apple still seems to view online services as add-ons to its devices, not as products or platforms that rise above the equipment.
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"A disaster." "Largely gaming devices." "Students use them as toys. Word processing is near to impossible." "WE NEED LAPTOPS!!!" These were the findings from a survey of high school students and teachers in a district in the US state of Maine on how effective iPads were for learning and teaching. Almost 90% of teachers and 74
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This tablet program was as much about helping faculty integrate technology into their courses as it was about outfitting students with computing devices for their academics.
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Apple is putting more tools in the hands of educators today with the official launch of the new Classroom app for iPad that promises to opens up new, more
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Along with being optimized for the larger tablet, version 1.2.0 also works with the Slide Over feature in iOS 9.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Using this now with a standard iPad. Works great! Previous apps that I have used to turn my ipad into a 4th monitor ran over bluetooth or Wifi and lagged a bit. The refresh rate with this app is great. Highly reccommended.
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Speaking to one group of educators, a student teacher in the room just created a new Twitter account and shared her enthusiasm for trying something new. I asked her what the message was regarding …
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About $40,000 worth of iPads have been dished out to five Taranaki schools.
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Shipments of Apple tablets, including iPad and iPad Pro, dropped nearly 25 percent in the last quarter of 2015, leading an overall decline in the tablet market. Meanwhile shipments of detachable tablets — devices that include removable keyboards — actually doubled in the same period.
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A new study reports that iPads helped lessen a child's anxiety before surgery as much as sedatives.
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If you're creating an app for an iPad, then why not create it on an iPad too. Is Apple's Swift move to do this just another step towards the end of the personal computer?
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Local Projects teams up with the New York Hall of Science to build an app that reveals the physics of the playground. Via Jenny Pesina
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Grade four Melbourne student Anvitha Vijay has been coding for two years. It's paid off.
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BROOKLYN, New York – I’m sitting on the floor at The Academy of Talented Scholars (PS 682) in Bensonhurst, watching kindergarteners create robots on an iPad. Via John Evans, Yves Carmeille "Libre passeur"
johanna krijnsen's curator insight,
May 28, 2016 1:56 AM
the iPad is the perfect device for children because it’s tailor-made for the visual, touch-centric nature of a drag-and-drop programming interface.
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Parents working in Silicon Valley are sending their children to a school where there’s not a computer in sight – and they’re not alone
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Those of us who use iPads in education were excited to hear about some new features in the upcoming iOS 9.3. It looks like Apple is making an effort in improving how iPads work in the classroom. A common complaint about iPads in schools was that they are difficult to share amongst multiple classes. Now,… Via Meredith Hinze
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Learning the ABCs has just become easier thanks to a new research-based and school-tested iPad app developed by Deakin University education and IT researchers and IT students. Via ColinHickie
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In the end, the research and our data merged. The greatest truth was that the less a teacher uses technology, the less comfortable they will be with technology in their classroom—this is neither age dependent nor years of teaching dependent. We know many “old” teachers (present company included) who love the latest technologies and embrace them joyfully in our classrooms. What has been the most interesting outcome for us in our research is the number of classrooms teachers who with a little hands-on support created technology rich lessons with a minimum of training or professional development. The bottom line was that when we mixed training with support we created a successful and innovative learning experience for teachers and their students.
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Welcome to our Teaching with Tablets course. This is an interactive and participatory online course on how to make effective use of iPads and tablets for teaching and learning. Our course is aimed at educators across all levels, from Primary to Higher Education, from NQTs to experienced practitioners. Anyone with an interest in the field is very welcome.
It is a flexible online course that you can join in with at a pace and depth that suits you. We will suggest activities and ideas and encourage you to try them within your teaching. We would like you to leave each session with a new idea to try out in practice and then share your experiences on the Google+ community. In turn you can learn from the experiences and gain ideas from fellow professionals.
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