Putting my router and cable modem on a UPS was a genius move by me. I can watch Parks and Rec uninterrupted on my iPad during a thunderstorm.
Tag: ipad
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One iPad per classroom
If you have been allocated just one iPad for your classroom then you have very different issues to 1-to-1 classrooms as the iPad is not designed as a shared device. But don’t despair! There are apps for that!
Via: @iPadWells via @WiredEducator
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Using an iPad with your reading workshop
How Technology Can Support and Enhance Your Reading Workshop writes:
As with most of my planning, I started with the end in mind. I thought to myself, “What if students could jot their thinking down, in real time, and receive feedback without interrupting the workshop?” Even if they didn’t receive feedback in the moment, could they at least jot their notes down to share at a more appropriate time? This is when I started using our reading notebooks in a more meaningful manner. I began to model “during reading” responses instead of only “after reading” responses. We began to use our notebooks in a more authentic way. After workshop, we would have rich, shared discussions.
However, for everyone to have the opportunity to share would have taken too long. So, instead of having one child share at a time, I started utilizing partnership and small group sharing. This worked well, but not every child had the chance to grow from the group’s thinking. I wished there was a way that each child had a chance to share their thinking with the whole group. This way, the odds of receiving specific feedback that would be most beneficial would be enhanced. The more minds working together, the better.
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iPads for all
A School’s iPad Initiative Brings Optimism And Skepticism
One of California’s poorest school districts, the Coachella Valley Unified southeast of Los Angeles, is currently rolling out iPads to every student, pre-kindergarten through high school. It’s an ambitious effort that administrators and parents hope will transform how kids learn, boost achievement and narrow the digital divide with wealthier districts.
But, as with tablet efforts across the country, this one faces skeptics and obstacles. Some wonder if its projected benefits are being grossly oversold.
Everytime I read one of these articles, the emphasis seems to dwell on the device. It’s as if there exists the perfect device and every district that picks something different is doing it wrong.
Concentrate on what you can do with what you have. The best camera is the one you have with you, just like it is with you and your students.
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Follow and backchannel the Apple event today
I’ve set up an IRC bot to feed MacRumorsLive Twitter account into the #eduk8me IRC channel on Freenode. You can use the web client or any IRC client to connect to the #eduk8me channel on Freenode.
(I’m at the Ohio ITSCO Leadership Symposium, so I don’t know how much time I’ll have to join. 🙁 )
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iPads and reluctant writers
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: iPadifying the Writing Workshop – Part 1
“One of my students,” shared the 5th grade teacher whom I was interviewing for a podcast, “has trouble filling up the page. He just can’t do it. It’s too much. But, when writing on the iPad, using the on-screen keyboard, he can. He can type a few words at a time in the small space and pretty soon, he’s written a page. That’s amazing.”
There is a writing app called iA Writer for the iPad and iPhone/iPod touch that has a focus mode, where it only shows a few lines at a time. I wonder if that would help too?
Are there applications for other devices that have a focus mode? (Besides iA Writer, which has a Mac version. 🙂
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Six months too young for the iPad?
Discovering That Your 18-Month-Old Is Using an iPad in Pre-School
On a recent summer day in Nashville, Kara Teising opened her Facebook page for a lunchtime scroll through her timeline when she discovered a photo posted by her son’s daycare: an image of her 18-month-old son surrounded by other toddlers, their chubby faces glued to a brightly colored, animated screen of an iPad. …. After several discussions with the school’s leadership, Teising and her husband decided to pull their son out.
Do parents of today hold some ideology of childhood that doesn’t include electronics?
I shared my theory with Kirkorian –that we parents might idealize a childhood without technology as better. “I often hear ‘grown ups’ talk about the inherent value of ‘real’ objects over technology,” she said, “but frankly I don’t see a difference (and there’s no research to suggest there is one) between a stick and an iPad. Of course kids should have time to explore the natural environment and interact with other people. A more realistic question is whether an hour or two of touch-screens per day is going to devastate permanently cognitive/social development. It’s unlikely, but we just don’t know yet, and any answer will depend heavily on program content and the characteristics of individual children.”
Is there a difference between a stick and an iPad?
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Post Apple event 9-10-2013 notes
So the latest Apple event happened. I’m always a little disappointed in them. Maybe I put my expectations too high? Anyway, for schools, the big news is the inclusion of the iWork apps (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers) and two iLife apps (iMovie and iPhoto) now available for free with new purchases. Too bad they didn’t include Garageband, but for schools looking at one to one programs with iPads this is an amazing deal. Right the start the students will have some powerful creation tools that have no equal on any other handheld or tablet device. The iPhone 5C and 5S sound pretty cool, but nothing in the “gotta have it” department. Not enough for me to update my iPhone 4 yet.
Nothing else in my predictions were announced, although the iPhone 4S lives on. I’m hoping for new iPads in October, just in time for the holiday season. They’ll probably be released, but will they be a good enough value against the Android tablets? I mean, the Android tablets have Minecraft too. I’m so tempted by the Barnes & Noble Nook HD+ Tablet. The screen is an amazing 1920×1280 resolution and at $149 it’s half the price of an iPad mini. But then I would lose TweetBot, Pythonista, and Drafts.
The one interesting piece in the event is the inclusion of a 64-bit processor in the iPhone 5S. There have been rumors circulating about Apple testing Macbooks Airs with ARM processors like those in the iPhones. Could the iPhone 5S be a stepping stone to these new laptops? A $499 Macbook Air with 24 hour battery life sounds pretty sweet.
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iPhone 9-10-2013 Event Predictions
Today is the latest Apple iPhone event, a time when the Internet turns to all things Apple.
What will probably be announced
The next version of the iPhone will probably be announced, the iPhone 5S. Purported to be twice as fast as its predecessor the other redeeming feature will be the availablility of the 5S in a Champagne color. To combat the low end market for smartphones, Apple is rumored to also be coming out with the iPhone 5C. Because it will use a plastic case, it will be available in a wide range of colors. The iPhone 5, 4, and 4S will be retired.
A release date for iOS 7 will also probably be announced.
Less likely to be announced
A controlpad accessory for the iPhone and iPod touch to be released with iOS 7. This will allow games to take advantage of physical controls. Adding it to the AppleTV along with apps for the AppleTV could also be announced.
The new Mac Pro shipping date could be announced, but that is a long shot.
What will probably not be announced
- New iPads
- A new iPod Touch
- Anything with computers other than the Mac Pro
- The iWatch
What would you like to see?
