62 interesting ways to integrate iPad in your classroom
iPad is making huge inroads in education with more and more school districts embracing it as a learning and teaching device, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning reports.
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10 tips for a smarter iPad-based classroom
There are some pluses and minuses in offering to be in the early curve of total tech immersion, reports TeachThought.
7 great iPad apps to create digital portfolios
Digital portofolios have become potent alternatives to the traditional portfolios, EducatorsTechnology reports.
EdTechTeacher’s iPad as…
iPads have exploded throughout schools and classrooms, EdTechTeacher reports.
iPads hold a staggering 94% of the education market for tablets
Apple says it had its best quarter ever in education sales, selling more than $1 billion worth of products, Mashable reports.
School iPads to cost nearly $100 more each, revised budget shows
Providing Apple iPads to Los Angeles students will cost nearly $100 more apiece — or $770 per tablet, a new school district budget shows, according to the Los…
LAUSD superintendent wants iPad plan postponed
An ambitious plan to equip every student in the Los Angeles Unified School District with an iPad may be postponed, KABC-TV reports.
23 iPad alternatives to the book report
Upon hearing that they will have to read another book students usually roll their eyes and moan in disagreement. So to make the reading process more fun for…
The inside story on LA schools’ iPad rollout: “a colossal disaster”
Scarcely a month ago, on August 27, the Los Angeles County Unified School District placed the first iPads in students’ hands at the outset of a $1 billion…
Students are ‘hacking’ their school-issued iPads: Good for them
Almost immediately after receiving their new school-issued iPads this fall, students in Indiana and in California (and probably elsewhere) managed to bypass the security on the devices, “hacking”…
RIM readies its answer to iPad
The Wall Street Journal reports that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. could unveil its new tablet computer—as well as the operating system that will power it—as early…
The school that gives kids their own iPads
A private school in Scotland has given sleek new iPads to every single one of its pupils to use in class this year and to even take home,…
Samsung takes on Apple with iPad rival
Samsung on Sept. 2 unveiled what the South Korean electronics giant hopes will be a major rival to Apple's highly successful iPad tablet computer, AFP reports.
Supporters of eBooks say they make readers less isolated, more social
Volumes have been written about technology's ability to connect people. But burying one's nose in a book has always been somewhat isolating, reports the Seattle Times—so what about…
How schools are putting the iPad to work
When Apple’s iPad tablet went on sale to the public last spring, David Woodbury ordered 30 for the libraries at North Carolina State University to be available for…
eTextbooks: Never mind iPad and eReaders, PCs still dominant
There are many benefits to students accessing their textbooks electronically, such as shared highlights and search capabilities. Surprisingly, though, it's not the iPad and other eReaders that are…
Do kids learn as well on iPads, eBooks?
Compared with traditional textbooks, the iPad and other devices for reading digital books have the potential to save on textbook costs in the long term, provide students with…
Flash for iPhone now available, thanks to jailbreak
Adobe's Flash technology is now available for iOS devices, thanks to a new application for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, PC World reports. Coming from Comex, the same man…
Why the iPad is not ready for college this fall
School is starting in late August, and already a few universities are touting their decision to make the iPad a part of the classroom. But these universities might…
Flipboard’s iPad web-zine flops under weight of its own hype
A nifty new iPad application called Flipboard has gone from fascination to mockery at startup speed, reports the Washington Post. This free program, which lets you read web…
Students take photos of Earth’s curvature with help from iPad
At the Potomac School in McLean, Va., this past school year, 13 seventh- and eighth-graders signed up for a biweekly science elective that proposed this challenge, reports the…
Study: eBooks take longer to read than print
In a recent usability survey, Jakob Nielsen of product development consultancy Nielsen Norman Group discovered that it takes longer to read books on a Kindle or an iPad…
Feds: Make eReaders accessible to all students
The federal government will help schools and colleges using eReaders such as the Amazon Kindle to comply with laws giving students with disabilities equal access to emerging education…
It’s Apple vs. Google in the battle over the future of computing
When Steve Jobs took the stage for his keynote address at Apple’s annual developers conference last week, he had plenty to say about the new iPhone 4, calling…
Are standalone eBook readers doomed?
New research suggests that devices like the iPad, which let you read books and much more, are likely to dominate the market so fully that standalone eBook readers…
Time Warner, Universal push back at iPad
Time Warner and NBC Universal have told Apple they won't spend the time and money to rework their Flash-friendly video libraries to make them compatible with the iPad,…
Developers seek to link iPad with education
Technology experts say Apple's latest gizmo, the iPad, won't replace students' laptops, but a menu of applications could help teach the periodic table, a range of languages, and…
Looking at the iPad from two angles
Apple’s iPad seems to be hated by techies and loved by everyone else—so New York Times technology columnist David Pogue has written separate reviews for the two audiences.
eBook sellers face a battle to win iPad customers
When it comes to buying and selling books on the iPad, we’re about to witness a strange dance between those who make or sell electronic books and those…
Math of publishing meets the eBook
In the emerging world of e-books, many consumers assume it is only logical that publishers are saving vast amounts by not having to print or distribute paper books,…
College newspaper warms up its digital iPad press
The student newspaper at Abilene Christian University (ACU) isn't waiting for iPads to hit the shelves before seizing on the opportunity the device holds for print publications, reports…
An iPad for the preschool set
The Fisher-Price iXL Learning System isn’t even on sale yet, and already it’s being hailed as an iPad for pre-schoolers, reports the New York Times.
Publishers win a bout in eBook Price Fight
With the impending arrival of digital books on the Apple iPad and feverish negotiations with Amazon.com over e-book prices, publishers have managed to take some control--at least temporarily--of…
Apple iPad Price Cut: Blunder or Brilliance?
If Apple is really considering price cuts on its just-introduced iPad, the best advice is to make them before launch, not after, according to PC World.
Textbook firms ink e-deals for iPad
Major textbook publishers have struck deals with software company ScrollMotion Inc. to adapt their textbooks for the electronic page, as the industry embraces a hope that digital devices…
Kindles, iPads could be textbooks in new Georgia state bill
Could Kindles, iPads, and other reading devices soon be as common in Georgia schools as textbooks? Maybe, if a bill passed by the state Senate is approved in…
Apple’s approach to eBooks could be problematic
Even as Apple's iPad is poised energize electronic reading, the new device is undermining a painstakingly constructed effort by the publishing industry to make it possible to move…
Future of eReading might not be iPad, but Blio
Despite all the buzz about Apple’s iPad tablet and how it could be useful for reading electronic textbooks, a new software program on the way might hold even…