Weekly Reflection Day 9/10: iPads in Education
Posted by Lauren HudsonJul 21
The future in education is now, with the iPad. Apple’s recent product is changing the way technology in the classroom works. What used to be a hassle is now turning into a fun learning experience, for students and teachers. A great introduction for iPads can be found at the Teach with Your iPad wikispace, which introduces the iPad and the iPad 2. They even offer a list of activities that teachers can use in the classroom to engage students in the learning. For a more in-depth tour of the iPad, I highly suggest Apple’s own guided tour. I’m already familiar with most of what iPads can do, but those tours introduce new teachers and students to apps such as iMovie and iBooks, something I know I’d definitely use in my own Language Arts classroom. How-to Geek has included a list of tips, tricks and tutorials to make running an iPad smoother and lets teachers and students become more familiar with using an iPad every day!
Other apps which would be useful to teachers could probably be found on Appstorm’s “100 Incredibly Useful & Free iPad Apps.” These are free apps, which means that any student or teacher can download them and not have to worry about costs! With so many free, useful, and engaging apps, why pay when you don’t have to? I’m sure with more digging in the App Store, which has over 90,000 apps, teachers and students can find more apps to further the iPad’s educational uses. Or if 90,000 apps or even a 100 apps is too much to browse through, Learning with iPads’s section on educational apps highlights some of the most useful and used apps in the classroom.
The iPad offers an interactive approach to learning; some of the apps available help to keep students engaged, such as online textbooks that have interactive pictures and the like. It also makes the learning more accessible. Many people have referred to it as “information at your fingertips” because of the availability of the Internet and online resources/research.
The iPad is changing the way students and educators work, think, and learn!
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