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As mobile devices become more popular, education leaders differ on when and if devices like iPads should be integrated into K-12 curricula. 
Andrew Marcinek is an instructional technologist at Burlington High School in Burlington, MA. He is also a regular blogger on Edutopia. Follow him on Twitter @andycinek. 
New Trier Township High School will expand the use of iPads next school year, increasing the total available for students and staff to 735. Six hundred of those will be put in the students’ hands, available for use 24 hours a day. 
Apple's new software lets anyone create digitally rich eBooks for iPads. iBooks Author experts Joe Wood and Burt Lo share why this new software is important and how to introduce it to schools right now. 
Via Duncan White 
Proposal would give Apple devices to all middle school students. 
On a warm spring morning, a pair of first-grade boys enter the computer lab at Jamestown Elementary, a traditional-looking red-brick neighborhood school that's educated generations of students. 
Special educators throughout the region say the iPod and the newer, larger iPad tablet, are becoming an important tool in teaching and communicating with their students. 
While many schools are finding ways to incorporate technology into the classroom, students in Jonathan Stovall’s class at Parker-Bennett-Curry Elementary School use iPads every day. 
ASHBURNHAM -- Though there were some fears and concerns initially, the iPad Pilot Project the Ashburnham-Westminster Regional School District began earlier this school year appears to have had largely positive effects, district staff and teachers... 
McGraw Hill Education, one of Apple’s leading partners in its e-textbook initiative announced in January, thinks that the new iPad unveiled on March 7 will lead to a revolution in education materials, but perhaps not for the obvious reasons. 
Schools in Palm Beach County are fast embracing newer technology, by loosening restrictions on student cell phones and teaching more with iPads and iPods. |
Next fall at Sturgis High School, each student will receive a school-issued iPad. 
Last week an educator asked the question, “What digital learning technology can my school district invest in that will not become obsolete?” The answer… teacher training technology! More ... 
If you are making a technology plan for district funding today, it is wise to think where the mobile technology evolution will be in the next three to five years. This type of proactive thinking wi... 
Efforts to make "typing" on handheld devices like iPads functional are inspiring new ideas for modifying or replacing the typewriter-inspired keyboard format. 
[...] when McAllen Memorial High School Principal Rosie Larson saw a group of them huddled against the school building, tented in blankets against the unseasonable cold, she did a double take. 
Speaking of useful apps, this one's a genuine life-changer... 
And why that's not much at all.... 
Four-year, $1.4 million plan will put iPads in the hands of all students grades 6-12 and make Lyndhurst an all-Apple district. 
As the newest iPad launches today, odds are that it will become an even more popular tool for use in the classroom. 
With one swipe of a finger, the students can create weather systems, draw cold fronts and conjure up hurricanes and thunderstorms, complete with vivid sound effects and flashy graphics. 
'We still use keyboards and guitar, but it all ends up in the computer,' says Will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas. |
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