My school purchased 14 iPads. The principal asked via email that if anybody wanted to use them in their class, they just let him know how and what for. I strained my brain and couldn't think of what to do with one (aside from projectile motion analysis in angry birds -- thanks @fnoschese), so I didn't respond. You see, I am one of those rare individuals, that though I love technology, don't have a laptop or even a cellphone. Why? I am unfortunately one of those common individuals that is basically broke.
Now that it is summer, and I've been doing a lot of work trying to think of ways to get students to use a blog or multimedia for labs, and poll everywhere etc, I thought I'd ask people (I know I should use a poll actually), "How do you use iPads for education?"
I took two home for the summer and I have been fooling around with them, getting a feeling for their usefulness and capabilities. I love them, but I am just starting to see ways to incorporate their use in class, and to be truthful, it is in more of a novelty fashion than in a learning fashion. For instance, I have a digital periodic table app installed. I have some mind mapping software on there (as readers of my blog might have guessed I would), and some drawing apps that could replace (in some ways) a smart board. I've also installed some digital info banks on the solar system, the particle zoo, and things like that. I also have some digital textbooks installed in the ebook reader. Not much that is truly interactive.
I am very eager to learn how to use them and how you are using them. So please, respond and share this blog post with your friends so we can all help one another out!
Thanks.
