iPads in the classroom

Logitech has announced a brand new iPad accessory, which it claims will be the first keyboard “specially designed for the classroom.” How so?

Social media posts and videos are cropping up in academic publications more and more. This chart shows just how to cite social media with ease.

Bodelin Technologies began selling the attachment earlier this month and reports a response unlike any it's seen in the company's more than 10 years of making hand-held microscopes.

Preview and download the course iTunes U: A Course Creation Guide for Educators on iTunes U. (RT @sjunkins: An iTunes U Course on How to Create an iTunes U Course from the brilliant mind of @TresslerTech.

Preview and download the course iTunes U: A Course Creation Guide for Educators on iTunes U. (RT @sjunkins: An iTunes U Course on How to Create an iTunes U Course from the brilliant mind of @TresslerTech.

Is your iPad getting slow? Check out these 7 tricks to speed up your iPad. This post delivers long-term results, and it explains what does NOT work as well.

I love hands-on science activities, especially when I can integrate technology into my lesson.  Two fantastic free apps for Earth Science are Mineral Identifier and Common Rocks Reference.  These a...

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Inkflow works like a Word Processor for Visual Thinking. Capture your ideas as easily as with pen and paper, then arrange and reorganize them with your fingers!

"For today's post I am sharing with you an excellent presentation featuring some of the top educational iPad apps. I have gone through each title and found them really worth sharing with you here. Have a look and share with us your comments . Enjoy!"

"Frog Dissection for iPad is an app that is popular with biology teachers. The latest version of the app includes more labels, quizzes, and videos. Of course, the main purpose of the app still remains. That purpose is to provide a virtual environment in which students can dissect a frog just as they would if they had a frog and a scalpel in your classroom. The app provides step-by-step directions for students to follow as they virtually dissect their frogs."

I made a promise on Techlandia a while back that I kept..... Getting on to Twitter has changed the course of my teaching career. I went from ignorance, to lurking, to participating.

"I have owned an iPad for quite some time now, and found it to be an excellent tool for both amateur photographers like myself and professionals alike. Sure, an iPad will never be able to replace a computer for serious photo editing (well, for me, anyway,) but I feel that it has definitely earned a place in the discerning photographers kit bag."

Most writers are easily distracted; trying out just one more app often sounds better than slogging through your manuscript.

"How do you learn best?  For me, it depends on what I am learning.  Sometimes I need to take notes, other times I need to think out loud.  Some things are easier to learn with another person while with other things, I need to be alone.  My guess is most of us have different styles for learning depending on what it is we are working on."

There has always been at least some sort of disconnect between how things like mobile learning are taught in a classroom and how things work in the 'real world'.

"Jarrod Robinson aka @mrrobbo  Come along and find out how to develop your own mobile applications for iPhone/iPad/Android and web devices without any need to know complicated code."

We have recently been talking a lot about Blooms Taxonomy here in Educational Taxonomy and Mobile Learning. Our Blooms Taxonomy section has also grown exponentially to include all the web tools and...

The British startup hoping to create the next generation of coders by playing games

What are the stages of technology in learning, and how can these stages be used as a framework for improving learning?