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Meet a school district and its pioneers who break with the widely held public school tradition of selling students short on education and technology.
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AT the slide of a finger, St Kieran's Primary School Year 6 students are now learning via iPad technology, thanks to a $14,500 school grant.
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Webster County schools have changed a lot in the past 150 years and as technology continues to revolutionize education, schools continue to change. Once, blackboards were made from pine lumbercovered with egg whites and charred potatoes.
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When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died this past week, some of the most heartfelt online tributes came from educators and students.
Apple helped pioneer the use of computers in schools back in the 1980s with the graphical interface of the Macintosh. These days, it's the iPad that's the hot trend in education and Jobs' education legacy is growing with the popularity of mobile devices in the classroom.
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Bringing a cell phone or other handheld computerized device to school used to warrant an automatic suspension, especially if the device beeped or rang during class.
But these days, teachers are using these previously prohibited devices during school hours as part of their lesson plans. The change in how pervasive the technology has become has school districts scrambling to adjust their policies and, in some cases, working to provide the devices for students.
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Students are no longer giving educators an apple. Instead, public educators are now giving student Apples worth more than $500.
According to USA Today, Zeeland Public Schools in western Michigan has decided to give an iPad to every one of its 1,800 high school students as part of a new program. Educators’ longer-term plan is for every student in grades 3–12 to have an iPad in their hands.
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The White House will unveil plans Friday for a research center that aims to bring more digital learning into the nation's classrooms.
The center, dubbed "Digital Promise," will aid the rapid development of new learning software, educational games and other technologies, in part through helping educators vet what works and what doesn't.
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Seventy young faces stared, mouths open. Some leaned forward to better see the North Bend School District's technology specialist present 10 iPads to two sixth-grade classes.
'Basically, you are the first people in the North Bend School District to use iPads," Suzy Callery told the two classes.
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Peyton Thompson, a sixth-grader at St. Joseph's Catholic School, couldn't wait to get his hands on his very own iPad on Wednesday. 'I'm so excited for it,' he said.
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Timothy Tran can't wait for Monday, the first day at the new Lake Minneola School, where he'll be among 1,250 students using an iPad loaded with digital textbooks and applications for his biology, chemistry and geometry classes.
It's good-bye to carrying a backpack filled with heavy books.
"It's going to be easier and simpler," said the freshman. "It's going to make it more interesting and fun."
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In March 2010 I proposed that educators use the Twitter hashtag #edapp to make it easy for other...
...I now propose using the hashtag #iosedapp when mentioning apps or lists of apps for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
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For a self-described "Mac person" working as a technology manager in a college preparatory school that had been a "Mac school" for as long as he could remember, it was a hard thing to have to face but he said it out loud: "Apple never took enterprise computing seriously," says a somewhat disillusioned Adam Gerson, co-director of technology at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City.
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Interactive Elementary, the company behind cutting-edge educational applications for the iPad, has introduced updates to Middle School Math, its flagship product. Highlighting the updated version is a new module in which students practice basic operations. The company will be extending more free updates next month.
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A Rio Grande Valley school district plans to equip every one of its students with an Apple iPad, rolling ahead with a digitally enhanced curriculum effort that's among the largest of its type in the nation.
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A Timmins educator has been honoured for incorporating new technology in the classroom.
Ted Weltz, principal of O'Gorman Intermediate Catholic School, saw an educational opportunity and formed a partnership with Dr. David Booth and Ph.D. candidate Tina Benevides from Nipissing University. He witnessed results that benefitted his students.
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“The curriculum is moving to more of an electronic format. Within the next 10 years, books will be electronic.” That was the opinion of Michael D’Alessio, 13-year member, and now director of Mathematics and Instructional Technology at Watchung Hills Regional High School.
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Some parents in Richland School District Two concerned about the use of iPads in the classrooms. WACH-Fox got a few calls and emails from parents concerned their kids were using the iPads for more than just educational instruction.
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Fifteen young Ludington children will teach about 300 Michigan school superintendents how to use iPads during a conference in Traverse City Thursday.
Most of the children were in kindergarten — six — or second grade — five — last year when they used the iPads during lessons throughout the year. The other four are second-graders this year and are using the iPads this year.
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Middle School Math was never supposed to be fun but now it can be with the new iPad app by the same name! Watch our video-review to see why you will want it for YOUR child!
Developed by Interactive Elementary, Middle School Math was designed to offer opportunities for student engagement at every turn. Stretching the full gamut of a well-rounded mathematics curriculum, the seven modules in Middle School Math truly push the boundaries of interactive learning. Interactive Elementary also offer a full range of tutorial videos on their site to help in navigating their app, unlocking all that it can offer.
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Some students got a welcomed surprise when they learned they were the recipients of shiny new iPads. The classroom of the 21st century is becoming more oriented towards digital learning devices and less reliant on the standard textbook and worksheet packets to the delight of many parents and students.
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Bangor Middle School teacher Rick Muellenberg says his students have never been excited about getting their textbooks on the first day of school, but today they couldn’t wait to start studying with their new iPads.
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As the new academic year begins this week, Brookfield High School (BHS) Principal Joe Palumbo said the school’s new iPad program for freshmen is an “ambitious” plan that will require “classroom management” from teachers to address the “distractibility factor” that occurs when students have access to the Internet.
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