5. Hook it to an interactive whiteboard.
“The one app that would absolutely make my day, as well as that of all educators, would be a Promethean app that would enable interactive function of the iPad with the Promethean board—i.e., turn the Promethean board into a giant iPad. That way, I, or any teacher, could work from the board to do iPad stuff.” —Linda Waskow, MLIS, Ed.D., media technology specialist, Beaufort Elementary School, Beaufort, South Carolina
6. Get it in the gym.
“I teach middle school physical education and sports to very active and computer-savvy kids and would personally love an app or program that teaches the intrinsic, step-by-step movements associated with the various sporting skills. This goes for all kinds of sporting activity, from swimming [and] track & field to all ball games. I would love my kids to study and analyze these movements, practice them, do peer teaching based on the various steps associated with each skill, analyze their peers’ movements, look at rate of success in each skill executed, mistakes/faults, and how to correct these mistakes. … This could be extended to research work on body types, muscle ratios, adaptability, and fitness levels as related to sports, including how games are played, their basic rules and regulations, and do’s and don’ts of games.
“Finally, I would love my kids to be able to video tape their colleagues performing a skill—be it the butterfly stroke in swimming or doing the Fosbury Flop high jump—and super-impose the recorded movement on a perfectly executed display of the skill, where they can analyze both movements, prescribe actions to correct mistakes of their peers, etc.” —Woenya Kofi Agbo, Summer Camp Director, MYP Physical Education, Lincoln Community School
7. Instructions would be nice.
“One feature needed on the iPad is a tutorial of how to use the iPad, of course. The manufacturer leaves you pretty much in the dark with how to get started with the thing, other than how to turn it off and on. But finding apps, opening and closing them, saving simple documents, using eMail, deleting unwanted apps? You’re on your own, bud. They seem to think it’s all intuitive, but it’s not for us PC users. You can find tutorials by others out there on the web, if you hunt for them, but why doesn’t the manufacturer do this?” —John S., University of Illinois
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