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  • May 08, 14

    blogs.kqed.org/...nk-about-using-ipads-in-school

    • Elley Goldberg likes almost everything about having an iPad. She says it’s easier to turn in homework through school-approved apps, get feedback from teachers, find information and annotate her reading. She also likes when teachers flip their lessons, asking students to watch a video lesson at home. “It helps to do the lesson at home sometimes because then you can come into class and ask more questions rather than having a whole class that needs to ask questions at the same time during a lesson,” Goldberg said.
    • Kyle Conrad is excited about the various apps he can use to organize his work — not to mention that he doesn’t have to carry books around. But his main complaint: Hillview has a strict policy that students can’t download any new apps to their iPads. Instead, the school approves which apps will be used school wide, manages the download process and commits to supporting teachers working with those apps. But that process, as in any bureaucracy, can be slow. “My social studies teacher found this perfect app for what we were doing in social studies, but wasn’t allowed to download it because the tech has to get all of our iPads and download it together,” Conrad said.

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  • May 08, 14

    news.nationalgeographic.com/...arning-education-space-science

    • Students saw learning gains after as little as 20 minutes of study on the iPad, the research found, and if supported with guidance from an instructor their improvement may have been even more pronounced, the scientists suggest. "The bottom line is that these iPads and similar tools actually do make a difference," said physicist Matthew Schneps, a founding member of the Science Education Department at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts.

  • May 08, 14

    www.macworld.com/...ls-the-right-way-to-do-it.html

    • This was supposed to be the year of the iPad’s crowning triumph in education—its adoption by and distribution throughout the nation’s second-largest school district, Los Angeles. Events haven’t quite turned out as planned. 

       

       A $1 billion iPad-distribution program that started in the fall has run up against a series of obstacles. Students hacked their way past the tablet’s security; parents raised concerns that they were liable for iPad damage; and the program ran into cost overruns. Put all that together and the result is that officials recalled the iPads while they rethink their plan. Reportedly, the conflict even put Superintendent John Deasy’s job in jeopardy at one point.

  • May 08, 14

    www.businessweek.com/...he-rise-of-educational-tablets

    • In September, the Los Angeles Unified School District began carrying out a $50 million plan to equip 30,000 students in 47 schools from kindergarten through 12th grade with an iPad. Giving kids iPads sounds like installing candy machines on every desk, or worse, Xboxes. The educators naturally disagree. They spent $678 per iPad, loading them up with software from the Pearson (PSO) educational group and locking them down so that students couldn’t wander around the Internet unchaperoned.

  • May 08, 14

    www.edutopia.org/...-schools-jennifer-krzystowczyk

    • Wondering what will happen if your school brings iPads into the classroom? Is your district discussing the purchase of iPads as opposed to laptops? Here at Bellevue Public Schools in Bellevue, Nebraska, we have dipped our toes into the iPad arena and have discovered some amazing and inevitable elements from our experiences! 

        

       We are not an iPad-saturated district. In fact, we have intentionally not implemented this model as we feared that iPads would become dust collectors, picture frames or bookends. Assuming teachers will know what to do with them is a completely false assumption. Our model has been one of control, training, coaching and reflection. Not everyone in our district receives a cart of iPads. Out of approximately 800 teachers, 16 have sets of 30 iPads.

  • May 08, 14

    www.huffingtonpost.com/...ipads-in-schools

  • May 08, 14

    www.macally.com/...cons-of-ipads-in-the-classroom

    • More and more schools are purchasing iPads for their students. And its not only colleges but also  elementary schools. Many of these schools are purchasing some of the iPads test them in select classrooms. Los Angeles Unified School will spend over $1 billion for iPads, as they attempt to roll them out to all 60,000 LAUSD students. However, it is met with a lot of controversy. Lets look at some of the pros and cons of iPads in schools.
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