Showing posts with label ipad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ipad. Show all posts
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Is the iPad still a thing for teaching and learning?

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  Produced by Chatgpt The iPad was set to reshape the landscape of personal computing when it was first introduced by Apple on January 27, 2...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Reading on Devices- Three Rules

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 Monday morning, I was making breakfast when my son asked: "Dad can I read?". "Sure?" I answered quizzically. "No...
Friday, July 10, 2015

iOS, Cognition, and the Ghost of Steve Jobs

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Despite my best efforts, Steve Jobs' ghost does not actually come and visit me. I never met Steve Jobs nor do I know what he would thi...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Sleepless with my Chromebook

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About two months ago I ordered a Chromebook. It was mostly because many schools around the nation are making this choice including the dis...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Four things we already know about PD (but need a reminder)

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I just finished a week with a fantastic group of educators. Laurie Friedrich, Alison Preston and I ran our fourth iPads in the Classroom w...
Friday, May 8, 2015

Apple's Folly (in Education)

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The news from LAUSD (see here ) who is suing Apple and Pearson has made the news and is probably hurting the chances of a large district b...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Fear Factor (iPad edition)

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I see this in many districts I work with. As new devices are brought in, someone has the "talk". Do not break them, if you take ...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Reflections on China Tour II- When the Stakes are High

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Here in the US we often talk about High Stakes tests and their impact for example the work by Berliner and colleagues. In China the conver...
Monday, December 29, 2014

The Top Ten most watched videos on the Tech EDGE Channel

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A quick look at our most popular videos for 2014 shows that the topics of Apps for English learners is consistently at the top of the list ...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Why my new Apple TV will not matter (much) for learning and Why it will!

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I caved in and got an Apple TV. I spent a few minutes setting it up and enjoyed the way all my work looked on the large screen. And then I...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

Telling Stories

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This week we held our annual iPads in the Classroom workshop. Laurie and I used last year's work as a foundation but added many new co...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

iPads in China- Excerpts from the Chinese media (loosely translated)

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Working in China exposes the cultural differences AND the similarities of concerns. Despite all the concerns and challenges our project jus...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

iPads in Chengdu China

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This spring I have sent Ji Guo to Chengdu to collaborate with the iPad classroom in a first grade. His report seems to indicate that tea...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Five things I Learned at EdCampOmaha

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I just came back from EdCampOmaha and I am still  processing. EdCamp is an unconference without a program, fees or a hierarchy. You just sh...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

EdTech and Gender in 4 Scenes

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This post started out as a post about getting large systems to move forward with EdTech and notions of frontier. The more I thought about ...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Room to Play

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I wanted to write about so many things this week. It was so hard to decide that it stopped me from actually sitting down and committing to...