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Schools Abandon Textbooks To Go All iPad

Schools Abandon Textbooks To Go All iPad | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it

Apple says schools in more than 600 districts have bought iPads for all of their students. We meet one principal, Patrick Larkin of Burlington High School, who decided to stop buying textbooks and use the devices instead.

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How Should States Design Their Accountability Systems Under ESSA?

How Should States Design Their Accountability Systems Under ESSA? | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
With the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replacing No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, states have gained substantial new freedom to reshape their school accountability systems, including criteria for how to measure and communicate school performance to the public. One dominant model is the streamlined letter-grade system first adopted by Florida, which focuses on student achievement on annual statewide tests. By contrast, California is developing a dashboard-style system, which encompasses multiple measures, such as student a
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A Must Read Interactive Guide for Teachers New to iPad

A Must Read Interactive Guide for Teachers New to iPad | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
For those of you new to the world of iPad, here is a great free interactive guide from Apple Education to help you make the best of iPad in your teaching and in your professional growth. This guide is part of a series of free interactive iBooks  Apple has recently published covering a wide range of its products with the explicit purpose of helping educators and teachers effectively integrate these products and apps in their day to day teaching.

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Anita Rissler's curator insight, November 30, 2016 2:32 PM
Ladda ner Apples interaktiva gratisbok till iPad eller iPhone - du lär dig hur du använder iPad - http://apple.co/2glw1lV
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What does research really say about iPads in the classroom?

What does research really say about iPads in the classroom? | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
Two educators put the research to the test. When (and how) are iPads in the classroom most effective?

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13 Bloom's Taxonomy apps for showing true thinking skills

13 Bloom's Taxonomy apps for showing true thinking skills | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
APPitic.com, an app resource site with more than 6,000 apps in more than 300 subcategories, offers a number of apps pertaining to Bloom’s Taxonomy. Here, we’ve gathered a handful of those apps, arranged by Bloom’s levels, and you can access more on the APPitic site. All of these apps were originally curated by Apple Distinguished Educators via APPitic.

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Math Fact & Computational Fluency Game

Math Fact & Computational Fluency Game | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
Door 24 Plus is a free iPad math app for students in grades 1-8.  It works to establish students’ fact fluency and then builds computational fluency.  Door 24 Plus requires students to solve proble…
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How to Use Multiple Apps at Once on an iPad - How-To Geek

iOS 9 added a long-awaited feature to the iPad: the ability to have multiple apps on-screen at the same time. iPads support three different types of multitasking: Slide Over, Split View, and Picture in Picture. The other app-switching gestures on an iPad still work, too.

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The (3) best ways to share information from your iPad

The (3) best ways to share information from your iPad | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
With iOS 8, Apple expanded the iPad’s ability to share information in many different ways.  This has long been a frequently requested feature that was already available on various other mobile platforms in one form or another.  Sharing information and data, in any form, can be a very useful tool for all iPad owners.  I want to discuss three of the best ways iPad users can share information, and the processes they can use to make this possible.

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5 Go-To Tablet Activities: Starter Kit

5 Go-To Tablet Activities: Starter Kit | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
Teaching with tablets can feel like re-learning how to teach at times, but these activities will give you the edge you need to keep up with the times.
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Tablet Apps to Engage Students with ELA Skills

Tablet Apps to Engage Students with ELA Skills | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
Engaging students in lessons on sentence structure, parts of speech, and punctuation can be a challenge.  MadLibs is not a new product, however their iPad app makes story creation and English Language Arts instruction exciting for students.  Perfect for stations, partner work or a transition activity, MadLibs asks students to plug in different parts of speech to create a story.  It’s a great springboard for conversations on sentence structure and introducing students to adverbs, adjectives, and more.

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High-quality, imaginative math games for children

High-quality, imaginative math games for children | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
high-quality, imaginative math games for children


"This strange procession continues through 100 levels, with no explanation or elaboration. Addition, multiplication, division, fractions—all of them appear, without fanfare or explanation. By game’s end, at level 100, you’ve moved seamlessly, baby step by baby step, from a cute baby dragon eating a spiky two-headed lizard, to this: “2 over x plus d over e equals b over x,” which you solve, fearlessly and perhaps even a bit impatiently, in exactly 14 steps. You are 4 years old."

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7 Great iPad Apps for Visual Whiteboarding ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

7 Great iPad Apps for Visual Whiteboarding ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
Visual whiteboarding is a powerful technique to integrate in your instructional methodology. It basically consists of representing ideas in a visually interactive way using drawings, shapes, sketches, charts, diagrams and many more.The strength of visual whiteboarding is that it enlivens data presentation and enhances comprehensibility through the use of graphic illustrations. There are several apps ideal for turning your iPad into a visual whiteboard to project on a big screen and share with your students in class. Below are some of our favourite titles to recommend in this regard :

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How to backup your iPad to iCloud | iPad Insight

How to backup your iPad to iCloud | iPad Insight | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
When you finally decide to buy that sleek new iPad, one of the first tasks you are presented with is whether or not to turn on iCloud back-ups.  Whether you decide to turn them on when you first purchase your iPad or later on is up to you.  However, for demonstrative purposes, and because I bought and activated my iPad quite a while ago, I will quickly walk you through the set-up process from within the settings app.  One thing to note with iCloud backups is that with iOS 8 Apple moved the backups to a different location within the settings app.

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Donald Trump’s huge, ambitious school voucher plan, explained

Donald Trump’s huge, ambitious school voucher plan, explained | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
When Donald Trump set out to pick the next education secretary, he faced a stark choice. He could choose an insider who had shaped education policy for a state or large school district. Or he could bring in an outsider — someone who views traditional public schools as a failed system in need of dismantling.

He picked an outsider.

Unlike most of her predecessors, Betsy DeVos, Trump’s nominee for education secretary, has never taught in a public school or college, run a school district or public university, served on a school board, or shaped state education policy. DeVos, a billionaire philanthropist, instead made her name as an advocate for school vouchers — the idea of letting students use public money to attend private schools.

Together, DeVos and Trump want to oversee the biggest change to American public education in half a century. Trump’s plan for his first 100 days includes a $20 billion federal voucher program for children living in poverty, a program he’d likely pay for by dismantling the biggest existing system of federal support for public schools.
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California teacher shortage worsens, especially in cities

California teacher shortage worsens, especially in cities | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
The teacher shortage across California is getting worse, hitting urban districts hardest, but pinching even rural and suburban schools as well, according to a survey released Wednesday.
As a result, students are seeing a revolving cast of substitutes, canceled courses and less qualified teachers in their classrooms, according to district officials who were surveyed.
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February 22, 2016 12:01 PM
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4 Outstanding iPad Apps for Recording Audio Notes ~ EdTech and mLearning

4 Outstanding iPad Apps for Recording Audio Notes ~ EdTech and mLearning | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
Looking for some good audio note taking apps to use on your iPad? The collection below has you covered.  These are four of our favourite apps for recording audio notes on the go. Check them out and share with us if you have other suggestions to add to the list. Enjoy

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December 21, 2015 11:58 AM
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50 Popular iPad Apps For Struggling Readers & Writers

50 Popular iPad Apps For Struggling Readers & Writers | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
Whether you’re the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you’re undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike.

Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle.

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GwynethJones's curator insight, December 20, 2015 2:38 PM

We're not an iPad school but these are cool! Hey, that rhymed! lols

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3 Apps to Explore Outer Space

3 Apps to Explore Outer Space | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
With only a few more chapters to go in Andy Weir’s The Martian and the recent news of water on Mars, outer space has been on my mind more than usual.  If your students are curious about the moon, planets, or space travel, they’ll want to check out these fantastic apps for the iPad.  Each one will help students explore outer space as they read informational text, view video clips, and interact with the content on their screen.  These apps can inspire young scientists and take students on a virtual trip beyond the walls of your classroom!

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6 Handy iPad Apps for Creating Educational Movie Slideshows

6 Handy iPad Apps for Creating Educational Movie Slideshows | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
Below is a collection of some very good iPad apps for creating educational movie slideshows with students. You can use your selected photos, add a video  and/or a soundtrack and mix all together in a beautiful and engaging slideshow. While features provided differ from one app to the other, most of these apps let you use existing photos and videos to create animated slideshows.

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Willemijn Schmitz's curator insight, October 24, 2015 5:32 AM

Handig overzicht

Wendy Zaruba-Lundene's curator insight, October 25, 2015 5:10 PM

Here are some great apps for creating video slideshows.

Tony Guzman's curator insight, October 29, 2015 4:28 PM

This article shares six iPad apps that will help you make educational movie slideshows.

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TEACHING WITH iPAD IN A FLIPPED CLASSROOM: 10 reasons to use technology in the classroom

TEACHING WITH iPAD IN A FLIPPED CLASSROOM: 10 reasons to use technology in the classroom | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it

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Lenescu's curator insight, September 21, 2015 5:15 AM

#TICE #classe

elearning at eCampus ULg's curator insight, September 21, 2015 11:17 AM

If the activity is well design, sure

Anne-Marie Armstrong's curator insight, September 25, 2015 9:51 AM

Keeping up with instructional usage.

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4 apps that make writing with an iPad possible

4 apps that make writing with an iPad possible | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
1]Tablets are a fantastic tool for media creation. But when it comes to more traditional needs, like writing, laptop or desktop computers are still the way to go (or so the conventional wisdom says).
But as it turns out, tablets are extremely versatile tools for supporting writing instruction in the classroom, for everyone from our littlest learners to high schoolers and beyond. Why use tablets for student writing? Research indicates that using digital tools in teaching student writing encourages students to be more invested in their writing, facilitates collaboration, encourages creativity and personal expression, and allows students to share their work with a wider and more varied audience. Read on to learn about a few of my favorite apps to support the prewriting process and enable your students to create dazzling digital books.
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iPad students learn the most important skill

iPad students learn the most important skill | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
There's something in the air and like the best of things, it's exciting and scary at the same time. More and more articles like this one and this one and even this one proclaim the death of so...
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iPads & Google Classroom - Multi-User Device

  By Jon Corippo iPads in general are not multi-user devices. Using the Google Classroom app an iPad can be shared amongst students. Sign Out The key to using Google Classroom on an iPad with ...
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How to Use Green Screen Effects on iPads

How to Use Green Screen Effects on iPads | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
It is easy to use green screen effects on an iPad to produce professional looking photos and videos. Learn how with the Green Screen app by Do Ink.
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Top 20 ipad apps to flip your classroom in #tabletscourse | Listly List

1000 MLearning apps https://mlearning.zeef.com / My Learning Diary is made with my favorite #flipclass tool Glogster http://dumacornellucian.edu.glogster.com/duma-cornel-lucian-creative-use-of-tablets-mooc-by-eun/ | GoClass for iPad, Educreations Interactive Whiteboard for iPad, Aurasma for iPad, Showbie - Paperless Classroom, and Knowmia Teach for iPad

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EUSD BTSA/Induction's curator insight, May 10, 2015 12:34 AM

Looks good! 

CETEI's curator insight, May 10, 2015 5:03 PM

Top 20 ipad apps to flip your classroom in #tabletscourse 

Willem Kuypers's curator insight, May 11, 2015 2:17 AM

Des applications pour soutenir la classe inversée.

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How to Transform Teaching with Tablets

How to Transform Teaching with Tablets | School Leaders on iPads & Tablets | Scoop.it
When you look at the very best work happening in iPad classrooms, you'll see students creating media, showcasing their understanding, collaborating with peers, and communicating with broad audiences. The pockets of excellence are ever-present and inspiring. On the whole, however, tablets are most often used to reproduce existing practices—to distribute resources and enable students to take notes.


Past generations of school leaders might have been forgiven for permitting these patterns of technology adoption, but today we have the benefit of history to look back on. We know that without a change in our technology integration strategies, there's no reason to expect that a new device will magically create new teaching practices in schools.


To make the most of the investment in tablet computers, school leaders need to do three things. First, they need to work with their communities to articulate a clear vision for how new technology will improve instruction. Second, they need to help educators imagine how new technologies can support those visions. Finally, they need to support teachers and students on a developmental journey that will take them from using tablets for consumption to using them for curation, creation, and connection."


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Ajo Monzó's curator insight, May 19, 2015 5:49 AM

Very interesting, thanks!

Mershon Viscusie's curator insight, May 19, 2015 1:41 PM

Questions to ask:

How will learning be different?

How will students improve as learners? As scholars? As citizens?

What will they be able to do 3 or 4 years after the ipad adoption that they can’t do now?

If ipads are the answer, what was the question?

What does awesome look like?

How does an ipad align with a vision of  meaningful and purposeful learning?