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**iPads in Education - a bit of a home page with Wiki and discussion ** "A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank...but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child." -- //Forest Witcraft//

Tablet computing and mobile devices promise to have a dramatic impact on education. This Ning network was created to explore ways iPads and other portable devices could be used to innovate education. [|http://ipadeducators.ning.com]

** 1:1 Laptops in the classroom ** Research project on 1:1 Laptop program late 1990s. So no High Speed Internet. Web 2.0 technologies not around [] http://www.classroomconnections.k12.sd.us/information/research/Learning_With_Technology.htm

**The Journal of Learning, Technology, and Advancement ** **Learning with Technology: The Impact of Laptop Use on Student Achievement ** []

**Student outcomes include:**

• Laptop students spend more time engaging in collaborative work than non-laptop students

• Laptop students participate in more project-based instruction

• Laptops lead to more student writing and to writing of higher quality

• Laptops increase access to information and improve research analysis skills

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">• Laptop students become collaborators (interact with each other about their work)

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">• Laptop students direct their own learning

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">• Laptop students report a greater reliance on active learning strategies

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">• Laptop students readily engage in problem solving and critical thinking

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">• Laptop students consistently show deeper and more flexible uses of technology

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">• Laptop students spend more time doing homework on computers

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">**Teacher outcomes include:**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">• Teachers who use laptops use a more constructivist approach to teaching

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">• Teachers who use laptops feel more empowered in their classrooms

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">• Teachers who use laptops spend less time lecturing

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Slide share has a heap of good presentations for and against iPads <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[] ==
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">iPads in Learning a slide share presentation **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Jess McCulloch **

**A good Blog - Do iPads belong in your school?**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">http://blogs.computerworld.com/18352/does_apples_ipad_2_belong_in_your_school

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Reading, Writing, Arithmetic ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Of course, badly applied digital technologies do not boost learning and become an expensive peccadillo. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Clark County School District is facing a[| storm of criticism] following revelations that many of the million dollars value of purchased iPads are being used by school administrators. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Many in the district are angry because they feel that the devices are being purchased even while basic reading and writing supplies aren't seen as being high enough on the purchasing agenda. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">But [|experience in the higher education sector] has shown that use of devices such as iPads can reduce student costs, reduce paper costs and boost attentiveness, learning ability and otherwise enhance the learning experience. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">An earlier Australian research project at the [|Victoria Department of Education] found use of iPods generated, "//Improvements in all curriculum areas and also in behavior, motivation and responsibility by the end of the project.//"

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">iPads in the classroom...can you see it? ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Posted by Antwon Lincoln on June 24, 2010 at 5:43pm in IntroductionsView Discussions <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">A teacher who Blogs about Technology <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">iPads in the classroom...can you see it? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Posted by <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">[|Antwon Lincoln] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> on June 24, 2010 at 5:43pm

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 130%;">"If you heard any of my [|presentations], I usually do not jump on band wagons. I tend to be a realist when it comes to implementing technology in education. I know the realities out there. Too many obstacles (i.e. teacher, principals, and IT). However, I see something guys. I see a shift. You may not believe that all schoolswill have iPads for students. And I not suggesting that all schoolswill. But what you see is a device that will change what our kids expect<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> from educators. Apple has started another revolution."