Robert Boltz's List: iPhone

• We exchanged ideas with other teachers in the pilot about how different applications could be used in classrooms.

  • We as educators should get this input from the students. We can probably just hand them the device, they'll find the apps that will help them in the classrooms.
• We became frequent visitors to virtual professional environments such as Classroom 2.0 and Touch dedicated Web sites like I Education Apps Review.
• many teachers highlight the potential for educational communication, saying that the Touch facilitates the pushing of instructional content such as documents and multimedia files to students. Others were excited about the feedback potential─such as turning the Touch into a classroom-response system for assessment purposes.

  • I think all of the curriculum specific apps that are being created as well as the social networking tools will have a bigger impact.
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• “I would allow for more access to other applications (but with restrictions), but I would also allow for the students to use the iPod in a way that would be helpful for them, and not in a way a teacher thinks.”

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• Interesting that there is no mention to how they are tackling letting the students take the Touches home and staying CIPA compliant. - Robert Boltz on 2009-10-08