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Looking forward to trying out a flipped classroom. It will be exciting to help enrich student learning by providing content that students will have access to at home as well as in the classroom.

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The utility and benefit of the iPads for students that are already engaged academically is clear but what are some best practices for using the iPads to engage students that are struggling academically?  In other words, what should we be doing to make sure this tool helps close the achievement gap?

Dave Moore - AMS

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Seeing the student’s excitement about learning and how it will change the way teachers instruct will support a deeper understanding of the content being taught.
Kimberly Lechlider - Neelsville MS

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Allowing all students to have equal access to technology is bridging the gap between home and school.  Students are able to take the learning home and parents cam become involved with their children’s education.
Kimberly Lechlider - Neelsville MS

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We as teachers need to flexible learners as do the students as this new technology is incorporated into our classrooms as a way of teaching and learning.
Kimberly Lechlider - Neelsville MS

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How quick and/or easy will it be to add new apps into our 'store'?

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Giving students an equal opportunity when it comes to technology. Some do not have access to technology at home which makes bringing learning home harder. Through the VILs program, all students have access to the same technology.

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Emotion
Students enjoy using technology. By bringing new technology into the classroom, students will hopefully be excited to learn.
Kayle Cossa, Argyle.

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The excitement that learning extends after students leave the school building after 3pm gives me hope that students will be prepared and ready to learn the next school day.

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I'm most looking forward to everyone being able to access technology in all classes and at home.  I think it will help to create more authentic lessons and hope to use this opportunity to continue to transform my teaching into more authentic and redefined lessons.  I think this well help promote use past just digital graphic organizers and worksheets.

-Jen Aguiar, Argyle MS.

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With this new tech, how can we as instructors monitor students and keep them directed on task?

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Empowering students and bridging the gap among students to allow everyone the opportunity to use and own an electronic device.
-Jen Aguiar, Argyle MS

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Three critical components:
Knowledge, Application, & Connections

-Jen Aguiar, Argyle MS

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Engagement & Excitement.
Students felt more engaged in lessons and excited about what they were learning.

Jen Aguiar, Argyle MS

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Having students get inspired by a days lesson and explore something further on their own. That is wonderful.

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Powerful Use of Technology to me is that everyone has an equal access to learning.

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How can I communicate with other cohorts in order to collaborate and co-plan together, possibly even have my students collaborate with other students around the country?

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what is the future after four years of free connectivity?

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How to use Ipad in a computer based class to teach programming languages ,scripting languages,web design etc.

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I love when Mr. Payton spoke about accessibility from home and how students can become autonomous learners. He closes by saying "I'm going to have to become a better teacher, I'm going to have to be open, I'm going to have to become VULNERABLE". To me there is nothing more beautiful and insightful then when my students teach me something new!

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Providing the device along with four years of connectivity will really empower students and teachers alike and make a difference in present day learning.

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Where would the Impressionists have been without the invention of portable paint tubes that enabled them to paint outdoors? Who would have heard of Andy Warhol without silkscreen printing? The truth is that technology has been providing artists with new ways to express themselves for a very long time.

Still, over the past few decades, art and tech have become more intertwined than ever before, whether it's through providing new ways to mix different types of media, allowing more human interaction or simply making the process of creating it easier.

Case in point is a show titled "Digital Revolution" that opened earlier this summer in London's Barbican Centre. The exhibit, which runs through mid-September, includes a "Digital Archaeology" section which pays homage to gadgets and games that not that long ago dazzled us with their innovation. (Yes, an original version of Pong is there, presented as lovable antiquity.) But the show also features a wide variety of digital artists who are using technology to push art in different directions, often to allow gallery visitors to engage with it in a multi-dimensional way.

Here are seven examples, some from "Digital Revolution," of how technology is reshaping what art is and how it's produced:

Assemblance by Umbrellium - Powered by Pangolin and KVANT

Let's start with lasers, the brush stroke of so much digital art. One of the more popular exhibits in the London show is called "Assemblance," and it's designed to encourage visitors to create light structures and floor drawings by moving through colored laser beams and smoke. The inclination for most people is to work alone, but the shapes they produce tend to be more fragile. If a person nearby bumps into their structure, for instance, it's likely to fall apart. But those who collaborate with others-even if it's through an act as simple as holding hands-discover that the light structures they create are both more resilient and more sophisticated. "Assemblance," says Usman Haque, one of the founders of Umbrellium, the London art collective that designed it, has a sand castle quality to it-like a rogue wave, one overly aggressive person can wreck everything.

Another favorite at "Digital Revolution" is an experience called "Petting Zoo." Instead of rubbing cute goats and furry rabbits, you get to cozy up to snake-like tubes hanging from the ceiling. Doesn't sound like fun? But wait, these are very responsive tubes, bending and moving and changing colors based on how they read your movements, sounds and touch. They might pull back shyly if they sense a large group approaching or get all cuddly if you're being affectionate. And if you're just standing there, they may act bored. The immersive artwork, developed by a design group called Minimaforms, is meant to provide a glimpse into the future, when robots or even artificial pets will be able to read our moods and react in kind.

If Rising Colorspace, an abstract artwork painted on the wall of a Berlin gallery, doesn't seem so fabulous at first glance, just give it a little time. Come back the next day and it will look at least a little different. That's because the painting is always changing, thanks to a wall-climbing robot called a Vertwalker armed with a paint pen and a software program instructing it to follow a certain pattern.

The creation of artists Julian Adenauer and Michael Haas, the Vertwalker-which looks like a flattened iRobot Roomba -is constantly overwriting its own work, cycling through eight colors as it glides up vertical walls for two to three hours at a time before it needs a battery change. "The process of creation is ideally endless," Haas explains.

Give Russian artist Dmitry Morozov some credit-he's devised a way to make pollution beautiful, even if his purpose is to make us aware of how much is out there. First, he built a device, complete with a little plastic nose, that uses sensors which can measure dust and other typical pollutants, including carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and methane. Then, he headed out to the streets of Moscow.

The sensors translate the data they gather into volts and a computing platform called Arduino translates those volts into shapes and colors, creating a movie of pollution. Morozov's device then grabs still images from the movie and prints them out. As irony would have it, the dirtier the air, the brighter the image. Exhaust smoke can look particularly vibrant.

Virginia Tech: Eric Standley

Eric Standley, a professor at Virginia Tech, is one artist who doesn't use technology to make the creation process simpler. Actually, it's just the reverse. He builds stained glass windows, only they're made from paper precisely cut by a laser. He starts by drawing an intricate design, then meticulously cuts out the many shapes that, when layered over one another, form a 3-D version of his drawing. One of his windows might comprise as many as 100 laser-cut sheets stacked together. Standley says the technology allows him to feel more, not less, connected to what he's creating. As he explains in the video above, "Every efficiency that I gain through technology, the void is immediately filled with the question, 'Can I make it more complex?'"

It's one thing to project laser light onto a stationary wall or into a dark sky, now pretty much standard fare at public outdoor celebrations. But in an art project titled "Light Echoes," digital media artist Aaron Koblin and interactive director Ben Tricklebank executed the concept on a much larger scale. One night last year, a laser they mounted on a crane atop a moving train projected images, topographical maps and even lines of poetry into the dark Southern California countryside. Those projections left visual "echoes" on the tracks and around the train, which they captured through long-exposure photography.

The Treachery of Sanctuary- Chris Milk - Creators Project 2012

Here's one last take from the "Digital Revolution" show. An art installation developed by video artist Chris Milk called "Treachery of the Sanctuary," it's meant to explore the creative process through interactions with digital birds. That's right, birds, and some are very angry. The installation is a giant triptych, and gallery visitors can stand in front of each of the screens. In the first, the person's shadow reflected on the screen disintegrates into a flock of birds. That, according to Milk, represents the moment of creative inspiration. In the second, the shadow is pecked away by virtual birds diving from above. That symbolizes critical response, he explains. In the third screen, things get better-you see how you'd look with a majestic set of giant wings that flap as you move. And that, says Milk, captures the instant when a creative thought transforms into something larger than the original idea.

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Technology is redefining art in strange, new ways. Works are created by people moving through laser beams or from data gathered on air pollution

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In the video Mr.David Lanuza said ----with access to technology,Learning do not stop at 3pm.It is now a continuous process.This made me feel incredible of how technology is impacting learning.

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Argyle Middle School

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The last teacher when he talked about his students being so inquisitive and coming to school with questions that they looked up and ways of doing things that they wanted to share with the class.

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How long is the grant for?  Why so heavy on restricted access for teachers?

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How to fully use this tool in an already technology driven classroom. I want to really explore the features of Apple Classroom as it relates to classroom management and instructional learning management systems.

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Why? Wrap Around Model: students are constantly learning. Students find themselves in interactive/differentiated instruction during school hours. The instruction is furthered at home ; students can utilize the iPad for enrichment, extension, additional support.

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A- Responsibility - students felt a sense of responsibility when given the iPad

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Giving students and families the opportunity to even the playing field.

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Students accessing the cloud through multiple devices. (Which is new to some)
Students fully engaging into the class concept that are being taught. Providing additional enrichment.
Technology that is increasing and stimulating student thought process.

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Students will have access to learning at all times.

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Students and staff members actively working to complete a task from any location.

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I am most looking forward to seeing students become more independent learners. VILS allows them to explore the things that interest them, try new things, communicate better, and think broader.

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VILS helps close the opportunity gap that exists for so many students.  It helps students prepare for the future and exposes them to technology, innovation, and creative opportunities they might not have had

Rachel Lyons
Argyle Middle School

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Powerful use of technology looks like an engaged, culturally proficient, UDL friendly, and students centered environment. The learning feels purposeful and rigorous.

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Why? To empower students to have more control over their learning and deeper engagement with content, and to put all students on a level playing field where they all have access to exactly the same advanced technology for their schoolwork.
Jackie Suzich, Argyle MS

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E - emotion - stressed? Concerned?  One teacher talked about students coming up with their own lessons while he was teaching.  While in some respects, this is awesome, it could also be a distraction if students aren’t focused on the lesson the teacher is teaching.
Jackie Suzich, Argyle Middle School

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Students are wondering about damage to the iPad and what happens if they were to lose it, damage it? That is their biggest fear in owning this new iPad. 

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Students are wondering about damage to the iPad and what happens if they were to lose it, damage it? That is their biggest fear in owning this new iPad. 

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I: Students can create lessons on their own via lessons being currently demonstrated and taught. They can take what is happening in real time and adapt it and create new lessons/work right there in real time based on what they just saw or practiced. 

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I: Students can create lessons on their own via lessons being currently demonstrated and taught. They can take what is happening in real time and adapt it and create new lessons/work right there in real time based on what they just saw or practiced. 

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Sharon Bubis
Forest Oak MS
Special Ed Math teacher

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Having students be the center of focus where they are leading and collaborating with others. Collaboration, teamwork, being able to problem solve are all necessities in life as well as in the classroom. Bring students more ownership of their own learning via varying modalities. 

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Having students be the center of focus where they are leading and collaborating with others. Collaboration, teamwork, being able to problem solve are all necessities in life as well as in the classroom. Bring students more ownership of their own learning via varying modalities. 

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Sharon Bubis
Special Ed Math teacher
Forest Oak MS

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To bring access to all students and to make all students aware of endless possibilities in the future in a new digital world. 

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To bring access to all students and to make all students aware of endless possibilities in the future in a new digital world. 

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Sharon Bubis
Special Ed Math teacher
Forest Oak MS

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I am excited for this new initiative being brought to our classrooms! Having differentiation would be great as not every student learns the same, and having various means of technology at our disposal will allow us to differentiate via different softwares and tools. I look forward to professional development on this topic. I hope to see the iPads be used differently than how we use the chrome books, in that students can use the iPads to do more hands on applicable learning via the touch screen. I am eager to get started!

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I am excited for this new initiative being brought to our classrooms! Having differentiation would be great as not every student learns the same, and having various means of technology at our disposal will allow us to differentiate via different softwares and tools. I look forward to professional development on this topic. I hope to see the iPads be used differently than how we use the chrome books, in that students can use the iPads to do more hands on applicable learning via the touch screen. I am eager to get started!

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Sharon Bubis
Special Ed Math teacher
Forest Oak MS

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Feeling Positive and Optimistic for both teachers and students. Something that struck me from the video is when the teacher said “it is ok to feel vulnerable in front of your students.”

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Feeling Positive and Optimistic for both teachers and students. Something that struck me from the video is when the teacher said “it is ok to feel vulnerable in front of your students.”

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Prachi Mehta
Math-6
Forest Oak Middle

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I feel so excited and positive about the program, for both teachers and students. Learning opportunities are limitless! I would like to see more more differentiated content ready for Teachers to use. Have professional development throughout the school year especially during pre-service week.

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Engaged, Empowered, Collaborative and Self-paced classroom where teacher is a facilitator and not a lecturer!
Mehta & Stief
Forest Oak Middle School

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My students have expressed concerns about the weight of the responsibility of "owning" their iPad. They are nervous and scared about being responsible for such a costly device. I would like more info on the student and parent rollout process and procedures for students and families while the device is in their possession for the year.

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I am looking forward to brining some level / amount of excitement back into the classroom for students (and teachers). I taught elementary for a long time, and when I came to middle school, I felt like the zest and joy for learning was absent. I think getting creative and being innovative will help increase the fun in learning at the secondary level. 

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I am looking forward to brining some level / amount of excitement back into the classroom for students (and teachers). I taught elementary for a long time, and when I came to middle school, I felt like the zest and joy for learning was absent. I think getting creative and being innovative will help increase the fun in learning at the secondary level. 

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An innovative way to level the playing field for all learners in this constantly upgrading digital world. 

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An innovative way to level the playing field for all learners in this constantly upgrading digital world. 

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I feel really EMPOWERED (to lead a future generation of tech savvy learners in our ever changing world)! I kept hearing "always access" and "responsibility." I most connected with the teacher who described how this technology was literally putting the teaching and learning in his students' hands.

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One powerful way to begin to close the Opportunity Gap.

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Empowering Everyone

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Collaboration, Discussion, Engagement, Creation

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I felt a flicker of joy when the last science teacher talked about becoming a better teacher as students came to school with different/better ideas of how to approach a problem. The idea that as teachers we will need to release some control and welcome student inquiry, brilliance, and leadership of their own learning, excites me!

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I think teaching will be different because we can create more stations where students are able to choose their assignment or the assignment could be chosen for them based on difficulty level. In addition, many students prefer to work individually. They can have this option now that they will have resources to help themselves. I am also thinking negative behaviors will decrease since students will be working with the technology that is inherently engaging.

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Students currently may not be able to do their homework if it involves getting onto Google Classroom, Docs, etc. and they do not have internet access or a device at home. Therefore, improving access will also improve their grades. It will also increase their motivation to do the homework because they know they will have online resources to help if they get stuck.

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I am most excited to see how the students are able to use the iPads to approach assignments differently. My class really lends to technology use, but the use of iPads will really expand what I am able to do with the students every day.

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This program will expand access for students and increase their engagement in their learning.

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I was interested in the ideas expressed about students using the devices to help teach each other and expand on what I am teaching.

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I realized we may be able to take a video of ourselves modeling how to do something and have the students watch it at their seats. This way, they can fast forward or rewatch as needed, which will be inherent differentiation!