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**iPad Report**
==== The history of the iPad is not a long one. The iPad project began in 1993 when Phil Becker created the Becker Box. This developed into the iPad two years later. Apple stopped the production of the iPad in 1998 though. After the iPhone apple decided that there was a market for the iPad and released the first iPad in 2009. Steve jobs introduced the iPad at a conference in January of 2010 in San Francisco. When the iPad was introduced it was the fastesr consumer product to reach sales of 51 billion ever. Since the iPad has been introduced schools have begun to use it as an educational device. The iPad provides many things that the traditional textbook does not. The iPad is very light and not bulky and heavy like textbooks. This makes the iPad much more portable than a textbook. In a textbook you are limited to the information that is in the textbook but with an iPad you can gain a much broader knowledge of what you are trying to learn. Students today are growing up with this technology and are very comfortable with it and enjoy using it. Some people might say that iPads are too expensive but when you consider that you are saving money on paper and will not have to replace them like outdated or damaged textboooks the cost starts to equal out. ==== ==== The iPad has many features on it that can be very useful in the classroom. Students always have to use old textbooks in schools and carry many heavy books at once from class to class. With the iPad you can eliminate this problem. You can purchase new textbooks on it for students to use and can carry all books with them at once on it. This prevents carrying multiple heavy books during school, to school, and from school. The iPad has plenty of apps that you can use in your classroom to help teach students several different subjects at many different age levels. There are apps for teaching different languages, mathematics, sciences, art, music, and even language arts. There are also apps that are games, which help teach students the subject area in a fun way. You can communicate with each other on the iPad so it makes communication between students and teachers outside of the classroom easier (Apple in education,2012). With the iPad you are teaching students how to use technology and the subject area at the same time. Using the iPad in the classroom would be very beneficial and make learning more fun for students. ==== ==== According to an article by Jessica Mulholland, the iPad can and is being used in many school systems to heighten student learning and it’s also being used at all grade levels. Special education students are able to “speak” to grocery store employees on field trips; physics students are able to “build” roller coasters on the iPad to understand motion and energy, or to conduct daily formative assessments to improve performance (Mulholland, 2011). First-grade students have used apps like Pages, Simplenote and smartNote to help with basic word processing, also, with another assignment students copied a picture of a totem pole from the internet and pasted it on the app and wrote about the meaning of the totem pole (Mulholland, 2011). “For infants, the school uses the likes of wood-puzzle-style apps to develop motor skiils, abc PocketPhonics for tracing letters, and Math Bingo for basic maths” (Swanson, 2011). Older students are using iBooks, which is starting to replace the class’s paperback books with eBooks. Plus, homework is sent and received through email, eliminating more excuses and reducing the amount of incomplete homework (Swanson, 2011). ====

==== “Over the last several years, many colleges, universities and K-12 school districts, not to mention local and state agencies, have incorporated emerging technology like Apple iPhones and Amazon Kindles into their daily lives. Adding the iPad is just an extension of this” (Mulholland, 2011). Schools are also currently exploring options to take yet another leap on how lessons and curriculums are taught in schools. (iPad in the Classroom Transforms the Learning Process, 2011). “The Apple tablet is found to be very helpful with augmenting the teaching ways and standards of teachers” (iPad in the Classroom Transforms the Learning Process, 2011). ====

References:
//Apple in education//. (2012). Retrieved from []

//ipad in the classroom transforms the learning process//. (2011, December 17). Retrieved from []

Mulholland, J. (2011, March 29). IPads in the Classroom. //Government Technology: State & Local Government News Articles//. Retrieved January 30, 2012, from []

Swanson, G. (2011, February 20). How iPads have transformed the classroom [Web log post]. Retrieved January 30, 2012, from []

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HU, W. (2011, January 4). Math that moves: Schools embrace the ipad. //New York Times//. Retrieved from []

(2011). A brief history of the ipad. //Web Design Core//, Retrieved from []

Mac Kim


 * David and Mac: Here is the paper, I just pretty much compiled everything. If you want to add something, go ahead.**
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David Hobel's Notes: The iPad has many features on it that can be very useful in the classroom. Students always have to use old textbooks in schools and carry many heavy books at once from class to class. With the iPad you can eliminate this problem. You can purchase new textbooks on it for students to use and can carry all books with them at once on it. This prevents carrying multiple heavy books during school, to school, and from school. The iPad has plenty of apps that you can use in your classroom to help teach students several different subjects at many different age levels. There are apps for teaching different languages, mathematics, sciences, art, music, and even language arts. There are also apps that are games, which help teach students the subject area in a fun way. You can communicate with each other on the iPad so it makes communication between students and teachers outside of the classroom easier (www.apple.com). With the iPad you are teaching students how to use technology and the subject area at the same time. Using the iPad in the classroom would be very beneficial and make learning more fun for students.
 * Assignment 3: Apps and Features on the iPad**

//ipad in the classroom transforms the learning process//. (2011, December 17). Retrieved from http://www.ipadshouse.com/ipad-in-the-classroom-transforms-the-learning-process/ Schools and learning institutions are currently exploring options to take another leap on how lessons and curriculums are taught in schools. The Apple tablet is found to be very helpful with augmenting the teaching ways and standards of teachers. Schools are also cutting cost on textbooks and paper materials with the using the iPad in the classroom. Studies show that the iTablet enhances learning since the students had to learn on their own using the apps installed in it.Using the said device also promotes independency since students can conveniently browse and study their lessons on their own.
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Dwyer, L. (2011, September 09). //Teacher's ipad experiment shows possibilities for classroom technology//. Retrieved from http://www.good.is/post/teacher-s-ipad- According to his experiment's end-of-year data, students with access to an iPad were more likely to pass both the reading and writing sections of the state standardized test. The teachers also reported that the devices made their lessons more engaging and helped them connect with students. They competed with the kids by playing fun vocabulary-building word apps and said that the iPads made it easier to give students "more frequent and timely feedback on writing."

//Apple in education//. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.apple.com/education/ipad/ They can flip through a book by sliding their finger along thumbnail images of the pages. If they don’t know the definition of a word, one tap takes them to a glossary or dictionary. Right now at the App Store, there are more than 20,000 educational apps for all kinds of learners, teaching them everything from science to sign language. Students can track their assignments, take notes, and study for finals. Teachers can give lessons, monitor progress, and stay organized. Budget constraints force schools to use the same books year after year, long after the content is out of date. But with textbooks on iPad, students can get a brand-new version each year — for a fraction of the price of a paper book.

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Kim's Notes:

====According to an article by Jessica Mulholland, the iPad can and is being used in many school systems to heighten student learning and it’s also being used at all grade levels. Special education students are able to “speak” to grocery store employees on field trips; physics students are able to “build” roller coasters on the iPad to understand motion and energy, or to conduct daily formative assessments to improve performance (Mulholland, 2011). First-grade students have used apps like Pages, Simplenote and smartNote to help with basic word processing, also, with another assignment students copied a picture of a totem pole from the internet and pasted it on the app and wrote about the meaning of the totem pole (Mulholland, 2011). “For infants, the school uses the likes of wood-puzzle-style apps to develop motor skiils, abc PocketPhonics for tracing letters, and Math Bingo for basic maths” (Swanson, 2011). Older students are using iBooks, which is starting to replace the class’s paperback books with eBooks. Plus, homework is sent and received through email, eliminating more excuses and reducing the amount of incomplete homework (Swanson, 2011).====

====“Over the last several years, many colleges, universities and K-12 school districts, not to mention local and state agencies, have incorporated emerging technology like Apple iPhones and Amazon Kindles into their daily lives. Adding the iPad is just an extension of this” (Mulholland, 2011). Schools are also currently exploring options to take yet another leap on how lessons and curriculums are taught in schools. (iPad in the Classroom Transforms the Learning Process, 2011). “The Apple tablet is found to be very helpful with augmenting the teaching ways and standards of teachers” (iPad in the Classroom Transforms the Learning Process, 2011).====

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Mulholland, J. (2011, March 29). IPads in the Classroom. //Government Technology: State & Local Government News Articles//. Retrieved January 30, 2012, from []


 * “What we’ve found with the iPads as we’ve rolled this out is that having kids with a device such as the iPad in the classroom — within the curriculum — is very powerful,” said CPS Technology Education Director John Connolly
 * At the Chicago High School for the Arts, physics students work in small groups to use the Coaster Physics app to create roller coasters while incorporating traditional learning methods
 * First-grade students have used apps like Pages, Simplenote and smartNote to help with basic word processing. For one assignment, the kids copied a photo of a totem pole from the Web, pasted it in the app and wrote a few sentences about the meaning of the totem pole, which shows honor when a tribe chief has died.
 * The second-graders in teacher Begoña Cowan’s class learn about spelling and pronunciation without having to share a pile of traditional magnetic letters. Instead, each student uses the ABC — Magnetic Alphabet app on his or her iPad to spell “-oom” and “-oop” words.

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Woyke, E. (2011, January 21). Pros And Cons Of iPads In The Classroom - Forbes. //Information for the World's Business Leaders - Forbes.com//. Retrieved January 30, 2012, from []


 * The original idea was to use the iPads as e-readers, in place of traditional textbooks. But over the course of the semester, Angst found that the iPad was even more useful as an information aggregation tool. Groups working on projects could pull out their iPads to brainstorm and save their results on an online file storage site like [|Dropbox]. The next time they met, group members could easily access the saved files without emailing revisions back and forth. Since everyone had the same device, groups didn’t need to worry about technical issues or compatibility problems.
 * iPads encouraged exploration of additional course topics, helped them manage their time, provided new functions/tools for learning, increased their learning and made their courses more interesting.
 * In the study, more than half the students reported feeling frustrated when highlighting text and taking notes within e-books on the iPad. Another drawback was the fact that multiple “windows” or files couldn’t be kept open, side-by-side, on the iPad, unlike a full-fledged computer.
 * At first it didn't seem like it would be a useful source, but I think we can get something out of it.

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Swanson, G. (2011, February 20). How iPads have transformed the classroom [Web log post]. Retrieved January 30, 2012, from []


 * Even teachers who weren't confident with technology and didn't see a place for their laptops in school started bringing their iPads with them every day, and everyone found different ways for Apple's tablet to enhance their classes.
 * Older pupils are immersed in iBooks, which replaces the class's paper books with eBooks, and Keynote for presentations. And with any child aged 10 or older allowed to take their iPad home, homework is sent and received via email; this enables teachers to set more flexible tasks in sensible chunks, eliminates most excuses and has reduced the amount of incomplete homework.
 * The iPad also provides assistance regarding experimentation – pupils can use filters and effects to visualise how something would look in a different medium and then use real-world tools to mimic what they see on the screen.
 * Fraser says teachers throughout the school are finding that pupils now just get on with tasks, "because they have some way of working that's not just 'write it down on a piece of paper' – schooling has become more flexible and therefore more engaging and interesting."
 * Instead of thinking of the iPad as a digital textbook, it's become a research and creativity tool across all subjects; because of this, minds are being expanded and experiences broadened, not restricted.

In Class Assignment:

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Mac's Notes: Assignment 3:
 * || The history of the ipad is not a long one. The ipad project began in 1993 when Phil Becker created the Becker Box. This developed into the ipad two years later. Apple stopped the production of the ipad in 1998 though. After the iphone apple decided that there was a market for the ipad and released the first ipad in 2009. Steve jobs introduced the Ipad at a conference in January of 2010 in San Francisco. ||  ||

Article 1:Quillen, I. (2011, june 15). Educaters evaluate learning benefits of ipad. //Gadgets and Games//. Retrieved from []

Excluding the fad factor, experts say there are legitimate reasons for educational interest. With a battery life of eight to 10 hours and a weight of just over a pound, the iPad offers more portability and less startup time during the full school day than laptops or netbooks, while its screen size facilitates more flexibility using the Web and easier input than smartphones.

The iPad “beat every specification schools thought was important,” Thomas Greaves, the chairman of the Greaves Group, an education consulting firm based in Encinitas, Calif., says of the device, which now retails for about $400 in its first version—similar to the cost of a netbook.

Article 2: (2011). Why the ipad should be used in classrooms. Retrieved from []

Though tablets are a recent phenomenon, many students in high school and college have been using smartphones for years, and are already well-acquainted with touchscreen technology. Because they’ve become so accustomed to using these devices, students are increasingly expecting to use them in the classroom setting. When classrooms don’t implement what has now become “everyday” technology, we’re doing students a disservice.

Additionally, students — and consumers in general — are becoming more comfortable using tablets for advanced tasks. According to a new Nielsen survey, 35% of tablet owners said they used their desktop computers less often or not at all now, and 32% of laptop users said the same. Most tellingly, more than 75% of tablet owners said they used their tablet for tasks they once used their desktop or laptop for. While tablets can’t totally match laptops in terms of functionally (yet), they can get today’s students most of the way there. ("Why the ipad," 2011)

Article 3:

HU, W. (2011, January 4). Math that moves: Schools embrace the ipad. //New York Times//. Retrieved from []

But school leaders say the iPad is not just a cool new toy but rather a powerful and versatile tool with a multitude of applications, including thousands with educational uses.

“If there isn’t an app that does something I need, there will be sooner or later,” said Mr. Reiff, who said he now used an application that includes all of Shakespeare’s plays.

Educators also laud the iPad’s [|physical attributes], including its large touch screen (about 9.7 inches) and flat design, which allows students to maintain eye contact with their teachers. And students like its light weight, which offers a relief from the heavy books that weigh down their backpacks. (HU, 2011)

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