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Beyond Angry Birds: iPads in the Secondary Classroom

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Beyond Angry Birds: iPads in the Secondary Classroom Welcome! My goals for today: to introduce you to the exciting and rapidly evolving world of iPads in education You will leave today with: practical examples, links to apps and ideas for projects Today, you will be given the opportunity to: ask questions, consult with colleagues and spend some time on an iPad Who are we teaching?

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This page will contain links to items I have created about the iPad, items I have created using only the iPad, and some videos I have been involved in! I hope you enjoy them!

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This article originally appeared in Zócalo Public Square and the New America Foundation's Weekly Wonk. Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University; Zócalo Public Square is a partnership of NAF and Arizona State.
Last year, 40 tablet computers were delivered to the children of two remote Ethiopian villages. The villagers were 100 percent illiterate-the kids had never seen road signs, product labels, or printed material of any kind.

Technicians from the One Laptop Per Child program dropped off a stack of boxes, showed a couple of adults how to use the solar chargers, and then walked away. Within minutes, the kids had cracked the packaging open and figured out how to turn the tablets on. Within weeks, they were singing their ABCs, picked up from the English-language learning software installed on the tablets. Within five months, some kid figured out that the tablets had built-in cameras-they had been disabled for ethical reasons-and hacked the Android operating system to activate them.

So, frankly, it shouldn't have come as much of a shock when a few hundred of the tech-drenched children of Los Angeles figured out how to "hack" the $678 iPads they were given by their school district, just one month into the new school year.

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In recent weeks, Los Angeles distributed iPads to 50,000 students in the public school system as part of a pilot for a $1 billion citywide initiative. Kids at Westchester High, one of the few schools that allowed students to take their tablets home, quickly noted that they could bypass the district-installed security filter with two clicks, allowing them to access banned sites like YouTube and Facebook.

One of the student hackers-if two clicks can be called "hacking"-was Westchester High valedictorian candidate Brian Young, who was hauled into the principal's office for a dressing-down. "He wasn't threatening me, but he told me millions of dollars of technology had been compromised because of me," Young told the Los Angeles Times. Young said he fiddled with the security settings innocently, after having trouble getting online at home. Apparently, the iPads are configured to work well only on the limited in-school network. Young said he'd hoped to download some apps that the school's network couldn't handle or didn't permit. We don't know whether young Young was looking to download something to help with his math homework or whether he was pursuing ... other extracurricular activities. But that didn't stop school administrators and local media from panicking.

L.A. Unified School District Police Chief Steven Zipperman fretted in a confidential memo obtained by the Los Angeles Times that students would share their "hacks" via social media. "I'm guessing this is just a sample of what will likely occur on other campuses once this hits Twitter, YouTube, or other social media sites explaining to our students how to breach or compromise the security of these devices," Zipperman wrote. "I want to prevent a 'runaway train' scenario when we may have the ability to put a hold on the roll-out."

But why would students gaining mastery over their digital devices be considered a "runaway train" at all? The iPads were loaded with software from the textbook giant Pearson, so perhaps the fantasy was that high school students would be content paging through glowing versions of their textbooks.

But the whole point of introducing current technology into the classroom is to help education catch up with the rest of the world, which has been utterly transformed by fast computers with fast Internet access.

Unfortunately, when it comes to technology in education, traditional schools tend to use fuzzy math. Give 'em iPads, the thinking goes, and the test scores will soar. The intended mechanism isn't always clear, and the vision becomes even more muddled when the inevitable committees, unions, and concerned parents get involved. The result too often is restricted access to semi-useless tech crippled by proprietary software deals and censored Internet.

Implementing bold ideas like "flipping the classroom"-having students watch lectures at home and spending their classroom hours doing problem sets, engaging in group discussions, or getting one-on-one tutorials-means letting kids use the relevant tech on their own time and in their own way. It means trusting them with access to devices like the ones they might someday use at work.

Schools are supposed to be places of free inquiry, where kids seek knowledge and debate ideas in a safe space. Limiting access to such basic sites like YouTube signals that kids can't be trusted to make their own decisions-about information sources or time management.

One of the most famous innovations in online learning to date is Khan Academy, which offers thousands of tutorials on subjects from A to Z. What site does Khan use to host those lessons? YouTube. Sorry, L.A. school kids!

One Laptop Per Child considered the Ethiopian kids' hack a success. "The kids had completely customized the desktop-so every kids' [sic] tablet looked different. We had installed software to prevent them from doing that," a contrite Ed McNierney, OLPC's chief technology officer, told the MIT Technology Review. "And the fact that they worked around it was clearly the kind of creativity, the kind of inquiry, the kind of discovery that we think is essential to learning."

On Oct. 1, LAUSD pronounced its ed tech experiment temporarily out of control and admitted that several schools were in the process of attempting to pry the new tablets from their students' clammy hands.

Los Angeles should take a page from OLPC's lesson book. School officials say the project has not been halted and that schools are still on track to distribute another 300,000 tablets next fall. But unless administrators are willing to radically rethink their goals for the billion-dollar tech initiative in the coming months, a few hundred kids figuring out how to customize their iPads may just be the most beneficial result.

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L.A. Students Hacked Their School-Provided iPads Right Away. That's Fantastic.

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This article originally appeared in Zócalo Public Square and the New America Foundation's Weekly Wonk . Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University ; Zócalo Public Square is a partnership of NAF and Arizona State.

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Learning in Hand:  iPads in the Classroom

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Learning in Hand:  iPads in the Classroom

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Apple iPad Education School College University

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Apple iPad in Education - Independent Girls Secondary School

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The Stephen Perse Foundation in Cambridge have been rolling out their one to one iPad project with Square Group since May, 2011. They recently invited us along to see their progress and learn more about how the teachers and students have embraced 24/7 learning.

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iPads in Education:  A High School Case Study

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iPads in Education:  A High School Case Study

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Apple iPad in Education - High School Case Study

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John Hampden Grammar School in Buckinghamshire contacted Square's education specialists in January 2012 about procuring iPads for their pupils. Six months on we visited class 7A and their teachers to find out how the iPads have affected their lessons and ultimately their grades.

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I recently blogged that you can now play Angry Birds in your web browser. This opens up all sorts of video analysis possibilities for physics lessons and assessment. Students can easily make their own videos or you can pre-record your own. Videos can be recorded using Jing, Screencast-O-Matic, or Camtasia Studio.

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Apple's iPads are quickly becoming a popular and powerful educational tool for classrooms. Beyond the immediate benefit of engaging students, iPads can improve education efficiency and standards. However, many teachers are unsure of how to use them effectively. Coupled with concerns over the costs involved, iPad implementation in schools is seen as an unnecessary and expensive risk.

As the case studies below demonstrate, iPads are being used in education environments around the world with great success. Teachers can have paperless classrooms, take attendance, share interactive presentations and test their students-all on their iPad.

So just what are they doing? Education Dive has compiled a list:

1. SHOW MATH PROCESSES, NOT JUST ANSWERS
Presidio Middle School in San Francisco, California uses iPads to teach students algebra. While the material is the same in the textbook, the iPad helps students understand how to solve math problems because they can view videos explaining the material as many times as they need.

2. POLL STUDENTS
Julie Wilcott, a science teacher at Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, uses the app to poll her students on what they know and don't know, which allows her to spend more time teaching the lessons they struggle with.

3. GO ON VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS
Most students and schools cannot afford to take a field trip to another country. However, Monica Mitchell, a fifth-grade teacher at Albert Harris Elementary in Martinsville, Virginia, took her class on virtual field trips to the Royal Navy Museum in Portsmouth, England and Yellowstone National Park using the Skype app for the iPad. Mitchell projected the tour of the Royal Navy Museum onto the SmartBoard in her classroom where students were able to interact with the museum guide and ask questions.

5. PROVIDE INTERACTION WITH MATH AND PHYSICS CONCEPTS
Chris Williams, the Mathematics Co-ordinator at Spring Cottage Primary School in Hull, England, has a list of ten interactive iPad apps that helped him teach math to his students. Red Bull Kart Fighter, a track racing game, helped teach students how to calculate averages. International Snooker was used to help students solve problems such as, how many ways are there to score a set amount of points? Angry Birds, a catapult game with high scores, was used to help teach students how to order and partition large numbers. Similarly, John Burk, a ninth-grade physics teacher at Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, used Angry Birds to teach students constant velocity and constant acceleration.

6. NURTURE CREATIVITY WITH STORYTELLING PLATFORMS
Educators at Ringwood North Primary School in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, created the Epic Citadel Challenge to foster storytelling, creative collaboration and individual initiative. Students used their experiences in the virtual landscape to tell a story in the medium of their choosing.

7. CONVERTS WORDS INTO RAPS
The Holy Family School in Ashland, Ky., is taking advantage of teacher and student-friendly apps that convert educational texts into engaging material for students. For example, AutoRap will take your words and turn them into a rap and Strip Designer enables the creation of comic strips.

8. GO PAPERLESS
Jackson Christian School in Jackson, Tenn., has virtually paperless classrooms. Students no longer carry binders and textbooks, while teachers administer tests on their iPads.

9. ENGAGE THE DISENGAGED
Educators at Manor Lakes P-12 Specialist School in Wyndham Vale, Victoria, Australia, found that the iPads were most effective in prompting their most disconnected students to i nteract in the classroom and have fun while learning. For example, the iBooks and Marvel Comics apps were used to engage students in reading.

12. GRAPH DATA
Julie Garcia, a teacher at Innovation Middle School in San Diego, California, uses the iPad to show students how to graph data and look for correlations.

15. IMPROVE WRITING SKILLS
David Andrews, a Year 6 teacher at Spring Cottage Primary School in Hull, England, has a blog where he posts case studies of iPad implementation in his school. His fellow teacher, Mr. Williams, used Bike Baron, a motorcycling game, to improve his student's writing skills by having them write about their experiences playing the game.

17. ASSIST SPECIAL NEEDS LEARNING
Warringa Park School, a special needs institution in Hopper's Crossing, Victoria, Australia, has a list of apps which have been particularly successful in teaching students who have special learning needs. Proloquo2Go aids students who have trouble speaking. Mad Addition, Mad Subtraction and Mad Multiplication help students learn math and have fun while doing it. Red Fish 4 Kids assisted students in learning how to spell.

Similarly, First Words Animals aids with letter and word identification. Jack and the Beanstalk Children's Interactive Storybook helps keep students engaged as they learn how to read. Whizzit 123 and Toddler Counting helped students with numeracy. Likewise, the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia allows teachers to maintain a group learning environment even with students who cannot leave their hospital beds and do not have fine motor skills.

18. DECREASE EXPENSES
While iPads are often seen as a luxury, a study by Oklahoma State University reported that iPad implementation actually decreased costs for students and schools because they reduced and sometimes nullified the need for physical textbooks.
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Yesterday, I spent the day flying from Maine to Florida with my family. We have a 28 month old and a 14 month old. As any parent who has flown with toddlers will tell you, you pull out all of the tricks to entertain your children on the days you fly. In our case that included as much iPad use as they wanted. There was plenty of Clifford watching. There was also a lot of time looking at animal pictures and videos on the Kids US Atlas and Kids World Atlas apps.

Kids US Atlas and Kids World Atlas are iPad apps that feature interactive maps. It is a freemium app which means part of it is free and part of it requires an in-app purchase. I used just the free parts with my kids. The free parts of Kids US Atlas and Kids World Atlas have an interactive map that features animals. Kids tap on the animals to see pictures and videos of the animals. The Kids US Atlas app features 25 animals and the Kids World Atlas app features 40 animals.

Mpow Headphones

The picture at the top of this post is one that I shared on my personal Facebook page and on Instagram last night. A bunch of people wanted to know where we got the headphones that our kids were wearing. We got them on Amazon, of course!

The headphones are Mpow Kids Headphones. They come in a two-pack which is perfect for those who have two young kids. But the best part is that you can plug one pair into the other so that both kids can watch and hear the same iPad or phone. The Mpow Kids Headphones are currently available from Amazon for $25.99 and are Prime eligible.

And if you're thinking about getting a new iPad, Amazon still has current generation iPads on sale for $249!

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Take better notes, solve tough math problems and study smarter with the best student apps for your phone and tablet.

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30 iPad Apps Every Teacher Should Be Using

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1- Sound Cloud

SoundCloud is the world's leading social sound platform, with over ten hours of music & audio posted every minute by the world's largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and other creators. With the SoundCloud app for iPhone and iPad, you can hear anything, wherever you are.

2-Keynote

Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it makes creating a world-class presentation

3-Google Drive

Get started with 5GB for free to safely keep all your stuff in one place and then access it from any device, anywhere. Store documents, pictures, or other files - even the big ones - using Google Drive and easily share them with anyone.

4-Google Search

Search the web faster and easier with the latest Search app from Google. Get new features available only in this app. Now, with streaming voice search.

5-Evernote

Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity.

6- iBooks

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books

7-Dropbox

Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Access any file you save to your Dropbox from all your computers, iPhone, iPad and even the Dropbox website!

8-iBooks Author

Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad. All you need is an idea and a Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that feature a wide variety of page layouts. Add your own text and images with drag-and-drop ease. Use Multi-Touch widgets to include interactive photo galleries, movies, Keynote presentations, 3D objects, and more. Preview your book on your iPad at any time. Then submit your finished work to the iBookstore in a few simple steps. And before you know it, you're a published author.

9-Pages

Pages is the most beautiful word processor you've ever seen on a mobile device. This powerful app has been exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Create, edit, and view documents wherever you are.

10-Skitch

Use shapes, arrows, sketches and text annotation to get your point across fast. Mark up photos, screenshots, maps, and webpages then share them with anyone you like.

11-Penultimate

The original and most popular handwriting app for iPad. Penultimate gives you the natural experience of writing on paper, with the added power and availability of Evernote. Take notes, keep sketches, or share your next breakthrough idea -- in the office, on the go, or at home on the sofa.

12- Skype

Say "hello" to friends and family with an instant message, voice or video call on Skype for free. There's so much you can do, right from the palm of your hand.

13-Evernote Peek

Evernote Peek is a learning app designed for the iPad 2 Smart Cover. No Smart Cover? No problem! The new Virtual Cover lets any iPad get in on the fun. Studying with an iPad has never been more natural. Simply peek under the cover to prepare for a quiz, practice a language or strengthen your memory.

14-Book Writer

Innovative application to make books with iPhone/iPad! Book Writer will help you make a magnificent book, which you may read through iBooks.

15-Google+

Stay connected and share life as it happens with Google+ for iPhone and iPad. Join a Hangout, post a photo, or see what friends are sharing while you're on the go.

16-ShowMe

ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It's an amazingly simple app that anyone can use, no matter how young or old!

17-Notability

Notability powerfully integrates handwriting, PDF annotation, typing, recording, and organizing so you can take notes your way! Discover the freedom to capture ideas, share insights, and present information in one perfect place on iPad.

18-ScreenChomp

A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun!

19- Socrative Teacher Clicker

Socrative brings smart clickers, student response and ease of use to a whole new level. Engage the entire classroom with educational exercises and games while capturing student results in real-time.

20-Educreation Whiteboard

Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play

21-VoiceThread

Create and share dynamic conversations around documents, snapshots, diagrams and videos -- basically anything there is to talk about. You can talk, type, and draw right on the screen.

22-CloudOn

CloudOn brings Microsoft Office® to your iPhone & iPad and links it to your Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive accounts.

23-Book Creator

The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore. Ideal for children's picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.

24- iTalk Recorder

iTalk Recorder is a full-featured recording app with a streamlined and intuitive user interface. Press the big red button to record; press it again to stop.

25-iStudiez Pro

A student's life is a dizzying mix of activity and just plain craziness! Take charge of your schedule and put iStudiez Pro to work for you! Take advantage of iStudiez Pro easy navigation and never miss another course, lecture and lab, track tasks and deadlines, plan homework, arrange assignments and much more!

26-GoodNotes Free

GoodNotes lets you take handwritten notes, sketch diagrams, mark-up PDFs and organize them on a beautiful bookshelf. Turn pages with a swipe, highlight or add notes to any page, and share your notes with anyone.

27-Animoto Video Creator

Turn your photos into stunning, professional-quality videos, complete with music and text, with Animoto's free app! Parties, holidays, trips and family events - you've got a ton of photos on your phone just waiting to be turned into something incredible.

28- StudyBlue

This app is made for serious studiers; flip online flashcards for fast feedback on what you know, then re-study concepts you've not yet mastered using Study Filters.

29-Join.me

With the join.me mobile app you can join an online meeting no matter where you go. Or get the most out of mobile meetings by using your join.me pro account and your iPad to host meetings and present files from your device.

30- iMovie

iMovie helps you turn the HD video you shoot on your iOS device into a thrilling trailer or masterpiece worthy of the red carpet (even if it's just the one in your living room). And since iMovie is designed for Multi-Touch, all you have to do is tap, swipe and drag to make some movie magic.

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30 iPad Apps Every Teacher Should Be Using

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1- Sound Cloud SoundCloud is the world's leading social sound platform, with over ten hours of music & audio posted every minute by the world's largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and other creators. With the SoundCloud app for iPhone and iPad, you can hear anything, wherever you are.