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IDEA Definition of Assistive Technology 

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An assistive technology service is defined by IDEA 2004 as "any service that directly assists a child with a disability in the selection, acquisition, or use of an assistive technology device."

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"A tablet is a wireless, portable personal computer with a touchscreen interface. The tablet form factor is typically smaller than a notebook computer, but large.

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"A popular platform teachers use fund classroom technology is DonorsChoose.org, a website started in 2000 by a teacher. The platform allows educators to fund everything from technology supplies to professional development trips. (In some districts, it’s the only platform that districts allow educators to use to raise funds for classroom supplies.)."

Abamu, J. Aug 7, 2017. No Begging Required. Retrieved from https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-08-07-no-begging-required-teachers-share-5-creative-ways-to-fund-classroom-technology

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Top 3 Budget Tablets For Educators

Documentation in the classroom is shifting from paper to digital and it is becoming increasingly affordable for educators to make the transition. From my experiences speaking with early childhood educators, there is a common misconception about the cost of tablets.

To set the record straight, we've done a review of tablets providing good value. Last year we did a post about choosing the right tablet for your child care and early learning programs that evaluated the criteria to look for in tablets and suggested some of the best choices in various price ranges. The iPad still seems to be the go-to choice for many educational programs, so this year we've decided to focus on alternatives.

This year's review focuses on tablets in the sub $200 price range (a couple retailers sell models just above the $200 price point). Our analysis considered both critic reviews, as well as consumer ratings, and resulted in the following category winners:

1. Ultra Budget Tablets Category ($75 to $125 range)
Winner: Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite (Retail Price ~$120 to $130)
We believe the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite, with a long battery life for the ultra budget price point, to be the best tablet in this category. It runs on Android 4.2, has a 2MP rear-facing camera, 7 inch screen with 1024 x 600 pixel resolution and a 1.2GHz processor. Primary downsides are the lower screen resolution and performance (i.e., computing speed), but you can't really ask for much more at this price. Alternatives in the Ultra Budget Tablets Category include the Acer Iconia B1 series, Amazon Fire HD 6, and HP 7 Plus.

2. Budget Tablets Category ($125 to $175 range)
Winner: ASUS MeMO Pad Series (Retail Price ~$125 to $170)
The ASUS MeMO Pad series of tablets includes the MeMO Pad HD 7, MeMO Pad 8 and MeMO Pad ME17X models which vary in price, but which are all winners in this category. The lower end of the series, the MeMO Pad HD 7, runs on Android 4.4, has a 2MP rear-facing camera, 7 inch screen with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution and a 1.33GHz processor. Primary downsides are the camera quality and build quality. For example, a number of early years programs using HiMama with the ASUS MeMO Pad HD 7 have reported cracked screens, even with the use of cases. Alternatives in the Budget Tablets Category include the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7, Lenovo IdeaTab S5000, Dell Venue 8, and HiSense Sero 7.

3. Economical Tablets Category ($175 to $225 range)
Winner: Galaxy Nexus 7 (2013 model) (Retail Price ~$175 to $210)
The Galaxy Nexus 7 (2013 model) is the clear winner in the Economical category with excellent performance, a crisp display, and above average battery life. The Nexus 7 runs on Android 4.3, has a 5MP rear-facing camera, 7 inch screen with 1900 x 1200 pixel resolution and a 1.5GHz processor. The display and camera quality are a big jump up from the winners in the more budget categories. Alternatives in the Economical Tablets Category include the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, Samsung Galaxy Tab 4, Lenovo IdeaTab A8, and Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7.

It is no big surprise that the ASUS MeMO Pad series and Google Nexus 7 have made our winners list for the second year in a row. However, opening up our review to the lower end of the tablet market brought some great new options into play. This was viable this year as tablets in the $100 to $125 price range are now powerful enough for documenting learning in the classroom setting.

There are tablets outside those mentioned in this review that may also work for you, however, make sure you read reviews online and I would suggest comparing specs to the category winners mentioned here. Remember that screen size, battery life and camera specifications are important considerations for tablets that you plan to use in the classroom.

Happy shopping!

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Ways I Pads and Tablets are helpful for Students with Disabilities

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Ways I Pads and Tablets are helpful for Students with Disabilities

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"Ways to use tablet devices to support students with disability in the areas of communication, academics, organization and social emotional skills to support their inclusion in mainstream classrooms are addressed. Lastly, barriers to using tablets to support students with disability in inclusive classrooms are described and ways to remove these barriers are suggested."

Cumming, T. Sep 20, 2020. Tablet Devices for Disabilities Retrieved from https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S1479-363620200000014009/full/html

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15 Ways to Use a Tablet in the Classroom

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Spread the love81 percent of teachers think tablets can enrich classroom learning, so let's look at how tablets may be used effectively in the classroom to engage students and further learning. Virtual Field Trips It is unlikely you will be able to take your students on field trips to every destination you cover in class; however, with a tablet, your students can go on virtual field trips anywhere.

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Tablets in the Classroom

In one of the many areas where technology was received with apprehension but embraced after a while is in the field of education. Educators, teachers and also parents were skeptical about the use of technology for learning. The concerns were obvious and justified. With decreasing attention spans and growing screen fixation, did classrooms really need the intervention with digital devices like iPads and Windows 10 tablets?

But the answer is sharply affirmative. Education has been clasped with the traditional methods of interaction, learning and engagement for a long time now. Even as computers entered schools, their use was limited to learning computers themselves and the use of computational abilities for enhanced learning was never given a priority. But technology swept education like a whirlwind and there's no looking back. Today, more and more educational outfits are making use of technology in the classroom via laptops, computers and e-learning apps.

Read more: Technology in classroom: Education industry trends

One of the most versatile, compact and classroom-friendly digital devices is the tablet. Tablets can be effectively used for education, loaded with educational apps and content. But when it comes to narrowing down the tablet of choice, educators and decision-makers at educational institutes might be overwhelmed with the variety of choices available.

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In this article, we will be discussing the comparison or difference between a Windows tablet with Windows 10 vs iPad, one of the most popular tablets in the classroom.

Using iPads in the Classroom: The Goods and the Bads

1. Fantastic Design and Build Quality

It is difficult to compare with anything that is as sleek-looking as the products by Apple. Apple products are known for their minimalist yet attractive design and solid colors. Although the design might not be the number one priority when looking for tablets for classrooms, aesthetics don't hurt! iPads are available in different screen sizes, and schools can pick the one that seems most suited for their operations. The iPad screens have enhanced brightness configurations and reflect a wide number of colors, adding to the visual elements of the device, which is critical for students for learning.

2. Compact and Lightweight

iPads are compact, making them easy for students to carry around from one class to another, or even within the classroom. iPads weigh under 500 gms, which means they are ideal for dynamic learning for students of all age groups.

3. Long-lasting Battery Life

The iPad claims to have a battery life that lasts for 10 hours. Although under heavy operations, this may vary, iPads are generally known to have a greater battery life than any of its contemporary devices and can sustain throughout school hours.

4. Intuitive and User-Friendly Interface

Apple is known for presenting a simple, clutter-free user interface which is also essential to drive focus and attention among the students. Since Apple products are rapidly being accepted in modern households, chances are that students are already aware of how to go about using them. This can help them to grasp the device usage faster and strike an element of familiarity, that can help them to learn with added eagerness. Since the iPad OS was built considering mobile devices, it clearly has an edge over Windows 10-based tablets in the classroom.

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5. Wide Range of Apps

The App Store has more than 2 million applications, out of which 200,000 are officially labeled as educational apps. Moreover, there is plenty of other design, drawing, writing, video and audio making and editing apps that can be effectively used on iPads in classrooms for an immersive learning experience.

6. Mirroring to Apple TV

iPad can be seamlessly connected to any Apple device for instant file sharing- including iPhones and MacBooks used by the educators. This also facilitates mirroring iPads to Apple TV screens for displaying content, discussing assignments, etc at the classroom level. All this without bulky infrastructure or endless wires lying around in a class full of active kids!

7. The Cost

iPads are costly. There's no denying that. And while all of these features and capabilities we discussed in the above points are valid, not all schools and educational organizations can afford to purchase and upgrade iPads in classrooms.

8. Need for MDM

iPads cannot be centrally managed without an iOS MDM. The iPads purchased from authorized carriers, resellers or Apple itself can be added to the Apple School Manager that helps in configuring apps (via VPP) and other basic configurations on iPads, but managing them end-to-end for security is only MDM-driven.

Using Windows 10 Tablets in Classroom: The Goods and the Bads

1. Dominance in the Global Education Market

When it comes to the global education market share, Google is clearly winning. But as Apple and Microsoft struggle to make their presence felt, it is Microsoft that takes over. Microsoft had around 22% of the educational market share in the U.S.A in the year 2018 against 18% of Apple.

2. Affordable Costs

The reason that makes Windows 10 tablets a better choice over iPads is undoubtedly the cost. Windows 10 tablets are affordable, making them a great choice for school deployments.

3. Ability to Plug in the Existing Infrastructure

It is most likely that schools are currently making use of Windows laptops for education. This makes plugging in Windows 10 tablets to the existing infrastructure cost-effective. Microsoft offers teams for education to create a tight hardware-software infrastructure especially for schools which makes it a great option for education.

Unlike iPads, Windows 10 tablets can be managed via a System Center or any other of the common network management tools.

4. Docking Station to Attach to a Monitor

Many OEM producing Windows 10 tablets also offer docking stations that can be attached to a wired network and monitor. When paired with a wireless mouse and keyboard, the tablet can be turned to offer a full-blown PC experience.

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5. Microsoft Office

Technology companies across the globe have strived to create a product that is as good as Microsoft Office and the verdict always has been, there's more to achieve. The capabilities of Microsoft Office are extensive and with Windows 10 tablets, students can leverage the power of MS Word and MS PowerPoint for writing, editing and crafting documents and presentations for learning. Teachers can also make use of these applications for better classroom management and offering interactive learning.

6. Battery Life of Windows 10 tablets

This is perhaps where iPads and Windows 10-based tablets have a real neck-to-neck competition. The battery life of Windows 10 is claimed to last around 10 hours, just like the iPad. So considering for use in classrooms, both Windows 10 tablets and iPads are at par.

7. Low Total Cost of Ownership

While the low total cost of ownership might not stand true for high-end devices like Microsoft Surface, the other Windows 10 devices are certainly more cost-effective when compared to iPads. When it comes to creating an ecosystem with a keyboard and mouse, the total cost of ownership for Windows 10 tablets is certainly lower.

If you are looking to deploy tablets for school, this article might help you to make your decision! Once you decide the device right for your school, you can efficiently manage it using Scalefusion MDM.

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Yes! You finally got your brand new and shiny iPad for the classroom! There's only one tiny (read: enormous) problem. There's one iPad and there are 25 students. So how are you going to use this iPad?

Don't worry. There are so many apps you can use in your one-iPad classroom. That's why I've made a list of 20 amazing educational apps for you. Take a look at these one ipad classroom ideas!

20 apps for the single-iPad classroom

Before you start using these apps, it's useful to know how to project your iPad's screen on the wall. Take a look at this post to see how you connect your iPad to a projector or a computer.

Plickers is a real-time assessment tool and is both an online tool and a classroom tool. It lets your students share their thoughts in a glance, anonymously. You can see if your students understand your lesson topics. All students get to answer the questions, which makes them participate more.

Using Plickers requires the Plickers app and the Plickers cards. Go to the website to get them.

You ask a multiple choice question and the students answer it by showing the cards. The questions you ask must be inserted on the Plickers website. Each side of a card represents a question letter (A,B,C or D). When all cards are raised, you can simply scan the card with the Plickers app and it will show you what your students answered instantly.

Plickers is a great tool for formative assessment, warm-ups, exit tickets and lesson refreshers.

ClassDojo is a free digital reward system in which every student gets evaluated on positive and negative behavior. Not only the teacher has access to ClassDojo, also the students and their parents can access the platform by entering a unique code.

As a teacher, you set up some "behavior tags". A behavior tag consists of a description and an icon. You can add icons with a description of your own. Choose a description for the positive behavior tags and a description for the negative behavior tags.

Positive behavior gets the value "+1" and negative behavior gets "-1". The teacher assigns the positive and negative behavior icons to the students.

The fun thing about ClassDojo are their little monsters. Every student is a different monster. It's very visual and funny! You can assign the tags in front of your class, or you can let them see the weekly overview. That way they see whether they have been good (or bad) this week.

When you want to manage older students, you can use Classcraft. Classcraft engages students to live by your class rules in an interactive way.

Students can create their own avatars that have special powers at home. They play in groups. If someone ignores a deadline, it may fire back on the whole group. Working together and having respect for each other is very important.

Students can gain different points by playing by the classroom rules. For example: students who help other students receive a certain amount of points. When they have enough points, they can use a power like: the "warrior" can eat in class". They can also lose those points by not playing by the rules. If they lose all their points they get a sentence like: bring a treat for the whole class or hand in an assignment a day early.

End your week by assigning points to students and let them choose what to do with it.

BookWidgets has some great widgets you can use in a traditional classroom with just one tablet or computer.

Use the Randomness widget to pick out students or to give students random exercises. Use your own imagination because you can decide what content to put in it. Click here to see an example.

You can also use the Flashcard widget. Project your iPad screen and let your students practice the words, one by one. Take a look at this example.

Another fun widget to use in front of your class is Hangman. Let your students guess the letters of a difficult term they just learned. If they found the word, they have to explain what it means. Here's an example. Dutch students have to guess some animals in English.

I can go on and on about widgets that are suited for a single iPad classroom, because there are so many. The last one I want to show you is the Image viewer. Sometimes you want to show your students an image with a lot of important details on it, but you can't zoom in enough. Just use the Image viewer. Zoom and pan around and let your students discover the image. Check out this example of a construction site.

Take a look at the widgets library for some examples and start creating your own widgets!

This great app allows you to use your iPad as a document scanner. It automatically detects documents or notes of any size and offers enhancement options.

As it has a lot of other good features, I would use it in a single iPad classroom to share examples with students via the projector. You can, for instance, instantly show student work that is very good or encourage student's reasoning about questions that seemed complicated.

Stage lets you create, collaborate, and demonstrate. Combine your camera with an interactive whiteboard so you can freehand sketch over live video or images, create Madden-style demo videos and get creative by inserting pictures, shapes, text and labels.

Record videos or screen capture images and save them directly to your device's photo library.

To be more specific: use Stage to scan student work, books or worksheets. Then start annotating them in front of class while you are projecting your iPad screen. It's a bit like Evernote Scannable, but with a live annotation tool.

Use this app to create an interactive whiteboard, suited for brainstorming. The purpose of this app is to encourage students to capture and share their creative minds.

Let students use your iPad one by one to write and add notes to the board. You can start from scratch, or they can choose one of the 13 background templates. You can even brainstorm about how to put football players on the field!

This web browser app is just heaven! It has everything you need on just one screen.

Show students the time by adding it to the screen or add a timer to limit your students' working time. You can even add a traffic light and choose if the light is green, orange or red. That way, students know if they are too loud or if they have to keep quiet or not. Try to give your own meaning to the traffic light.

Another great feature is the possibility of using working symbols. Choose the right symbol that suits your lesson situation: collaborating, discussing, whispering or silence.

We're not done yet. Use the textpad to write text on your screen or the drawing pad to make a sketch. You can turn your whole screen in a drawing pad, or just a little corner.

The best is yet to come... QR codes! Add a QR code to the screen. Of course, your students would need a device at their disposal for this. Just add the website you want to link to, and he will generate another QR code.

It's also very handy to have a calculator on your screen to do some quick calculations or to pick out a student randomly with the random name picker.

If you want to change the background image, or the language settings, that's possible too. You can choose between 7 standard languages or add your own translation yourself.

This web app is amazing for getting your classroom under control. Assign scores to your students in just a few minutes set up.

Students can get scores for answering correctly, handing in homework on time, being nice in class, etc. You choose. They can also lose points for being disrespectful, forgetting their textbook, and so on.

You can also play games with it and make a competition out of your lesson. Beware not to punish your students to fast by withholding points. This might become an issue later on. Students won't dare to speak up anymore.

When you want your students to be quiet, you can use the app Too Noisy. Open it on you iPad and make sure your students can see it. You might want to connect your screen to the projector or computer.

Challenge your students to keep the needle of the noise meter out of the red part. This app might come in handy to keep students quiet during group work.

Another way to use it is to help yourself from speaking too loud. If you have to raise your voice, this means that the class is too loud. You can tell your students you won't speak louder so they know they have to lower the murmuring in order to understand the teacher.

There's not much to tell about this one. It's a timer. That's it. Use this app when you want to set a time on your students' work or when you want to set a time to their thinking process.

The timer looks more fun than the timer in "Classroom Screen". The apps shows you an alarm clock where time is ticking away.

This is a fun app you can use to kill a dead moment. Just open this app and show it to your students on the big screen.

Talk about the fact with your students. Who didn't know it and who had already heard of it? Some facts are really funny and some others are very interesting and informative. If you do this the first 3 minutes of every lesson, students will go home with some extra knowledge. They will even explain it to their parents and brag about it. Well, I would!

Sometimes it's very quiet in the classroom when you ask a question. That's because nobody wants to answer, knows the answer or they are just lazy. On the other hand, you have students that are always raising their hand.

use "Decide Wheel" to randomly pick out students. You can even use it for other difficult decisions or for games.

Change the words on the wheel into names, questions, calculation, terms or translations. Spin the wheel and let students solve the question or calculation.

If you are the funny teacher, you should really take a look at this app. It's a sound board with over 100 different sounds.

So how can you use this in your classroom? It's easy. Use it to encourage your students when they have to do a presentation.

Use the drum roll to announce a winner, the censor when you hear students saying a wrong or bad word, the applause to acknowledge the student's work and many more.

Choose the best sounds for in the classroom and add them to your favorites. If you trust your students, you can hand over the tablet and let them introduce other students with the sound buttons.

This app isn't an app that helps you to collaborate on ideas and gives you a solution to brainstorm easily. This app gives you the idea.

Use Brainstormer in art lessons, and language lessons to give students an idea to start from. The app gives them inspiration to start with. Let them write a story, using the Brainstormer app. I'm very curious what the result will be!The app can also help you to pick out a topic for the next writing assignment.

Tap roulette is a very simple app that basically chooses someone by picking a finger.

Students have to put their fingers on the screen. Tap roulette detects them and chooses one. It's so simple, but your students will love it!

Let students pick out a team leader this way or choose who has to give feedback to another student. There are a lot of decisions to make in a classroom, so this app will be used a lot!

Sometimes it's hard to come up with some original rebuses. This web app helps you to make a rebus in seconds. Just insert your sentence and it will convert the sentence into a nice rebus. you can even choose the difficulty level!

Use a rebus to spice up your lessons and make it more visual. I always loved to solve them as a kid. I still do!

Make some nice word clouds with this Wordclouds app. Use it in presentations to visually support text.

Add a file with words or type the words at that moment. Choose between a lot of different sizes so your word cloud can fit any screen beautifully. The web app also helps you to put the words in a chosen shape or colour.

If you have a dead moment in class or are an English language teacher, you should definitely try this app out. Project your screen and play this word game with your students.

The purpose is to let your students fill in the blanks in a sentence that is given. You'll see that they will be creating very funny stories that way. Mister Phil N. DeBlanks helps you to fill in the blanks. Got it? :)

TED-Ed is TED's youth and education initiative. TED-Ed wants to celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything they do is with only one goal: supporting learning.

They produce a growing library of original animated videos and providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons.

TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week.

What I love about TED-Ed videos is that they explain things I never even thought about and are actually great to show your students!

These were my top picks for the classroom with just one device. All those apps are suited for an iPad, and most of them also work on Android. I hope you have some inspiration now to use that iPad in your classroom more often.

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Like many forms of technology, tablets were initially viewed as an entertainment device. But it hasn't taken long for professionals across many different fields to find very compelling use cases for tablets. Educators are the perfect example of a profession that has embraced the benefits of tablets.

As we've previously discussed, tablets are changing the future of education. In addition to helping all young learners, tablets are also an especially powerful tool for teaching children with disabilities. We're going to dig into how this technology can be used as a therapeutic device, along with the types of personalized apps and learning experiences that are available through a tablet.

HOW TABLETS CAN BE USED AS A THERAPEUTIC DEVICE

Many children with disabilities have challenges related to their motor skills. What's great about tablets is they're much easier to operate than previous forms of technology. Thanks to their intuitive design and operation, children with disabilities only need to complete very basic inputs to engage in highly immersive learning experiences. Researchers have actually found that using a tablet on a regular basis can help children develop and improve their fine motor skills.

The intuitive nature of tablets has been especially evident for children with autism. Educators have used quotes including "it's like a fish to water" to describe how autistic children respond to tablets. Estimates peg the success rate for using tablets to educate those with autism at above eighty percent.

TABLETS OFFER A HIGHLY PERSONALIZED LEARNING EXPERIENCE

One of the big shifts in education has been to focus on the individual needs of different types of learners. For special needs children, tablets make it easier than ever to tailor high-quality learning experiences to what will benefit a specific child the most. One of the amazing things about what can be accomplished through this type of personalization is students are able to get instant feedback and have the activities they're working on tailored to their needs in real-time.

Another way that tablets are able to harness the power of personalization is through voice recognition. Since communication and language skills are a significant hurdle for many special needs children, having a device that makes it possible to practice these skills in a structured way is invaluable. Finally, the availability of so many different apps means there's generally one that's focused on helping a child with just about any type of problem.

If you're excited and inspired about the type of learning that tablets can enable, we encourage you to learn more about our mission and how you can play a direct role in putting these powerful learning devices in the hands of kids who need them most.

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Mobile devices like iPads in the classroom can be valuable learning tools for today's tech-savvy students.

Apple's iPad has been found to be a very effective and engaging in education. But this is only true if these devices are integrated into the classroom in the right way.

Simply having technology like iPads in the classroom just for the sake of having technology is not a good plan. Take advantage of all these fabulous gadgets have to offer by taking the time to plan a solution for your iPads integration.

Below are the 5 main things to consider when implementing any schools program for iPads in the classroom:

1. Infrastructure

Check your school wireless network infrastructure. Make sure you check your signal strength and distribution as well as capacity.

You will need a more robust school wireless network with a strong, reliable connection to support all those iPads in the classroom.

2. Purpose

Before even buying the iPads get a plan in place as to how the iPads will be used for education. There needs to be specific goals laid out and thoughtful planning.

Yes, iPads are cool, and yes, they can really increase engagement and enhance learning, but simply going ahead and funding all these iPads without a plan is a waste.

Set goals, for your iPad implementation program and have a plan, because any technology no matter how great it is, is a total waste without a well thought out strategy.

3. Students

You're likely to hear praise from your students is you make these cool devices part of the curriculum.

Don't forget that even though most students may be tech-savvy, don't expect them to be able to operate the iPads perfectly and easily right away.

You might need to hold a few training classes to make sure students are able to properly use them. You don't want them getting lost in a lesson, becaue they can't figure out how to work them.

4. Teachers

Teachers already have a lot of work on their plate. Many stay after school and take work home just to stay caught up. Add a new device and tell them they have to integrate it into their lessons and you might end up with some pretty mad and stressed teachers.

You need to approach teachers with the positive aspects iPads can offer and encourage them. Offer them training on the device and the resources they need to get familiar and comfortable operating it for learning.

Show them different apps that can help make their life easier and give them plenty of time to get used to it before passing out the iPads to students.

5. iPads

The iPads themselves are a whole other ball game to tackle. After getting the infrastructure to support them, there's a lot to consider before bringing these devices to the classroom.

Think of inventory options. Will students be able to take them home? How will you assign them to students? How will they be stored? What types of protective equipment options are there? All these details and more need to be carefully considered and laid out in a policy.

When implementing iPads in the classroom there is a lot to consider, but with good solid plan it can be a great success and creating a lot of benefits for both educators and the students.

If you're considering implementing a 1:1 iPad plan at your school and have any questions or need help you may contact us here.

We have worked with schools all over the country to bring great mobile devices like the iPad in education. Also check out our free eBook below for more help.

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Mobile devices like iPads in the classroom can be valuable learning tools for today's tech-savvy students. Apple's iPad has been found to be a very effective and engaging in education. But this is only true if these devices are integrated into the classroom in the right way.