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iPad in Education: Stanford School of Medicine Giving iPads to Students
Stanford University’s School of Medicine has adopted the iPad. They’re going to provide an iPad for all incoming first year medical students and Master of Medicine students. The school offered four...
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iPad in Education: Art Authority for iPad Chosen for University’s Art History...
The iPad is going to be a big hit in the education arena – deservedly so in my view, not just for the magical device itself – but because of the wealth of great educational apps that are springing up...
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The University of Notre Dame‘s yearlong study of eReaders in academics is starting the school year with a bang — a course that will use the iPad as the only textbook students need. The course is...
View ArticleiPad in Education: Helping California Students Learn Algebra
Nice promo video for a very good looking new educational app for the iPad. It’s called HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 and it’s been developed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Four school districts in California...
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iPad in Education: With a Special Needs Child
I’ve posted before on the iPad helping children with autism. This week I spotted a video of the iPad in action helping a special needs student named Dennis Lamme Jr. Here’s the short Intro for it on...
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iPad in Education: Long Island University Deploys 6,000 iPads
If you were asked to guess which US university has made what is apparently the biggest deployment of iPads to students and faculty, which ones would you guess? Maybe my hometown’s University of Texas...
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iPad in Education: NYT Says Schools Are Embracing the iPad
We saw a number of stories of the iPad being adopted in educational institutions – from kindergartens to universities – during its debut year. This week The New York Times has an article that focuses...
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iPad in Education: Tennessee School Requiring All Students to Have iPads
Webb School, a private school in Knoxville, TN is requiring all fourth through 12th grade students to have an iPad for classes next year. “To be able to use that technology whenever they need it,...
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Just Another Awesome Story on the iPad Helping a Child with Autism, and His...
Photo Credit: FRED ZWICKY/JOURNAL STAR I’ve seen a number of stories over the last year about iPads being used to help children with autism. One I spotted today at TimesReporter.com – thanks to a...
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Why the iPad will change education as we know it
(image source: http://www.ninjamarketing.it) When I was in high school, we lugged really heavy and expensive textbooks around e.g. Gardner’s Art through the Ages (Amazon link), our backs bearing their...
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Review: ABC Magnetic Toys for Kids for iPad
Did you ever wish you could just rewind time to a place where building blocks and stacking towers was your only worry for the day? ABC Magnectic Toys for Kids for iPad lets you step right into that...
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Survey Says Schools Will Have More iPads Per Student than Computers in 5 Years
A new survey, reported on recently at Apple Insider, offers new evidence of the iPad’s growing momentum in education, and in particular in schools. A new survey of technology directors in U.S. school...
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iPads in Education: Wake up and Smell the Future
I love it how a few days after the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas ended, where people lustily obsessed over 55-inch wafer-thin screen TVs, Apple has got people talking arguing about...
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Study Shows iPads in Kindergarten Class Improve Literacy
Image Source: Inquisitr.com Initial results from a research study in Auburn, Maine show that kindergarten literacy scores increased in classrooms where iPads were used. Auburn is the first public...
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More Crazy iPad Numbers: K12 Customers Bought Twice as Many iPads as Macs...
There were a lot of crazy, impressive iPad numbers revealed in this week’s Apple Q2 financial results call – including 67 million iPads sold in two years. A recent report at Apple Insider highlights a...
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iPad in Education: Report Shows School Districts Doubling Down on Their iPad...
It looks like the iPad’s impact in the education arena in the US is continuing to grow. A recent report by Fox Business cites some of the impressive numbers for the iPad in the education market and...
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Learning with Lynda.com on iPad
Even if you have been following trends in online education only casually in recent years, you will have noted that the advent of the iPad (and rivals) has opened up many avenues towards new...
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Recommended: 10 reasons the iPad is an awesome tool for classrooms and education
I read a great article the other day on iPads in the classroom, over at iSource. The title, as mentioned above is ‘10 Reasons the iPad is an awesome tool for classrooms and education’. It’s written by...
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iPad in Education: 8 Million iPads Sold to Educational Institutions
Apple shared some impressive numbers today about iTunes U, which has passed the 1 billion downloads milestone. They also offered up some very impressive numbers relating to the iPad in the education...
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iPad in Education: at Burlington High School
Apple has a superb ‘Apple in Education’ profile video up – highlighting the great impact iPads are making at Burlington High School in Massachusetts. The school’s principal and teachers talk about how...
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