My Diigo 03/28/2011

• The iPad is the Bicycle of the Digital Age - Teach42
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    • I was watching my 2 year old daughter play with my a couple of nieces handheld play station. The apps they were drawn towards allowed them to create pictures and mess with what was on the screen. I think they had pictures in there too....
  • and its little brother, the new camera-equipped iPod Touch, as the bicycle of the digital age. These devices are at the center of a modern child’s play. They capture and manage information.
  • experiences that empower a child, promote active learning; and that have smart features, such as the ability to self-correct and auto level.”
  • are apps that I absolutely love and rely on daily.  But they’ve all become indispensable because I had a need first, and then the app fulfilled that need.
• iPad as an Interactive White Board for $5 or $10 « Moving at the Speed of Creativity
  Uses for an Ipad
  tags: ipad IWB whiteboard interactive education
  • I highly recommend reading disrupting class by Clayton Christensen.. It really helps to put these developments in context. - post by amw1296
    I would like to try this out with the "mini" grant $ that we were told would be available.
  • t misunderstand me: It definitely IS a big deal for a teacher and his/her students to have access to an LCD proj
  • students as well as teachers, in many of our schools today, is a capital outlay of at least $5000 for an interactive white board (IWB)
  • In the last two weeks, Tim Tyson has recorded and published (both to his blog and his YouTube channel) eight screencasts totaling 52 minutes and 37 seconds. The fi
  • • An iPad
    • A laptop or desktop computer (Apple is best, of course, but Windows computers can work as well since identified software is cross-platform)
    • A wifi network connection (configured with ports open to allow sharing/communication between the iPad and computer - this can be an ad-hoc network or a 'normal' wifi hotspot / network)
    • An LCD projector with screen or large format TV to serve as the external display
    • Software applications which support both remote control and remote mirrorin

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