Teaching with iPads

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Permalink Reply by Juan Pablo Velez Barragan on May 18, 2010 at 8:41am

For teaching purposes, do you think there is a significant benefit over an IPod touch? Do you find that the "one application at a time" feature keeps students focused, or hinders multi-media work and multitasking?

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Permalink Reply by Doug Walker on May 18, 2010 at 1:15pm

i am very interested in having a discussion regarding this. I had our Apple reps here last week to demo the Ipad. I see a lot of great opportunities withe them. It seems like the most value is to have one in every kids hands as a replacement of textbooks. The interactivity of the text, access to the web and applications are very powerful.

My first question is apps management. If you have a cart of 20 or a 1to1 how do you purchase apps. I know you can sync them and push the apps. Do you purchase 1 app for each device? How do you pay for them. In Nj we must pay with purchase orders. We can't use a credit card in the app store?

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Permalink Reply by David Kapuler on May 18, 2010 at 2:20pm

The iPad is a great tool but right now I don't feel it is practical for education. Basically, everything you do on there is stuck unless you can get it to sync into iTunes.

At least there is a printing solution via Print Central although it still isn't ideal. I think by fall we should see something better for education.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/printcentral-for-ipad/id366020849?mt=8

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Permalink Reply by Larry Sandberg on May 20, 2010 at 4:29am

Maybe in High school Biology classes where the visual element is striking. Like a dissection maybe.

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