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iPads in the Classroom

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More material can found on the CESA 7 Ithings wiki.

 

I got my iPad in mid July, 2010 and I am still having a great time exploring. I'll keep adding info to this wiki about apps and uses for education as I find them. I see the iPad as a strong alternative to laptops--not just a "big iPod" as so many have named it. With the right apps, this machine can become a real workhorse. Although its lack of ability to play Flash may give you a diminished web-browsing experience, for the most part, Flash isn't essential and I believe it will be replaced by html5 in the future. The other missing piece is the lack of a video camera, so videoconferencing like you can do on most laptops is out. :-(   Perhaps future versions will address this--I hope so! 

 

OS 4, which has already been released for iPhone and 2nd and 3rd gen iPod touches, will be coming in fall 2010 for iPad. Some of the new OS 4 features were included in the iPad's OS when it was released. Those include: Support for Bluetooth keyboards, the iBooks app and support for Apple’s iBookstore, the ability to create playlists in iTunes, spell check, Places support in the Photos app, and Home screen wallpaper.

 

The wait may bring even more improvements than already existed in the summer release and will be welcome. The ability to create folders for your apps is one great feature. Multi-tasking with some apps and fast app switching are two other improvements. I am also keeping my fingers crossed that the new OS will allow those of us using wikis to edit them--yes, you can view a wiki on an iPad, but you cannot edit one. (What's up with that??!) As soon as it's released, I'll post updates to this page.

 

Lists of recommended apps: (Note that I have NOT reviewed every app on these lists...these are other people's ideas of what works for education!)

(For additional apps lists for iPods in education, see both my page on this wiki. For more iPad app lists I may have found recently and not yet posted here, check out my Delicious bookmarks)

 

ISTE Connects comments on Education Applications for iPad (published just a week after the iPad was released.)

 
 Apps for Education (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)

 

Essential iPad Apps for Principals (from Eduleadership.org)

 

Gizmodo's list of "Essential iPad Apps"  A mixed bag list of apps including news, games, productivity and more. Some free some not.


I Education Apps Review - IEAR- reviews applications for iPod and iPads   

 

U.S. News & World Report: 10 iPad Applications for Higher Education

 

Texas Computer Education Association's member recommendations (iPhone, iPod but many compatible with iPad) Downloadable spreadsheet, nicely organized by curriculum area.

 

How I made my iPad replace my MacBook - Mac Forums lists the apps the author used to do so. 

 

iPad games: 10 of the best for free One person's thoughts on the 10 best free iPad games

 

IPAD Apps | rogerneilson  some iPad "must have" apps

 

iPhone-iPad-and-iPod-touch-Apps-for-Special-Education nice list compiled by the creator of two apps "ArtikPix" and "Percentally" Each app has a one sentence description

 

40 Amazingly Educational iPad Apps for Kids organized by curriculum area and sometimes age with short descriptions 

 

20 Amazing iPad Apps for Educators Published by TeachHub.com (by teachers, for teachers) "Teachers with a love of technology and a passion for nurturing the minds of their students can easily discover creative ways to incorporate the iPad into the daily routine, and some of these great educational and organizational applications are bound to help them get started."

 

Seline HD: the #1 iPad Music App, Top Best-Seller, nominee for "Best Musical Innovation 2010"... as seen in the hit video "The iPad Orchestra" (http://ipad-orchestra.com), featured by TechCrunch, MacLife, TUAW and many more.

 

Middle school apps from a school that is piloting iPads in their classrooms    

 

For free textbooks in the ePub format (readable on iPad, Kindle) check out CK12.org's Flexbooks

Flexbooks are available for download from their site or through iBooks on your iPad.

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.

 

Articles worth reading:

 

eBook restrictions vex users | Policy | eSchoolNews.com frank discussion of restrictions built into the various ebook readers

 

For autistic kids, iDevices are life changers - The Globe and Mail Great suggestions for using iPods/iPads with special needs students

 

New Jersey school that implemented an iPad-only curriculum for freshmen and seniors in six classes: Baroque art history, advanced geosciences, two Advanced Placement calculus courses and freshmen English and history courses.

 

Evaluating the iPad for Education
A private liberal arts college in Oregon took Apple's iPad through its paces to test its value as a a tool for learning inside the classroom and out. The evaluation followed a pilot of Amazon's first-generation Kindle, which the college eventually decided against. In the words of the college's CIO, the Kindle just wasn't an adequate "alternative to paper." Did the iPad fare any better in the college's rigorous and methodical testing process? YES!

 

Creating Content with iPads by Brad Flickinger-Brad was tired of people saying that the iPad is only for  "consuming and not creating online digital content. There is no doubt that the iPad is a great device to browse the web, read an eBook and check email (consuming) but it can do so much more than that." You will see from the list in his article "that the iPad is far superior to the laptop in a lot of different areas of digital content creation."

 

iPad Tips and Tricks:

 

iPad Presenting: Powerpoint, Videos, Web Demos and more - Teach42  Steve Dembo's tips on using an iPad to present

 

http://www.gilsmethod.com/how-to-access-30000-free-ebooks-for-the-ipad A how to for downloading Project Gutenberg's books to an iPad

 

Link to CESA 7 iThings User Group wiki

 

 

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