What a day! From the opening keynote with Angela Maiers to Greg Kulowiec’s What is the Answer with iPads? to the final sessions, some amazing learning, sharing, communicating, and collaborating occurred during Day 1 of the Atlanta iPad Summit. All of the presentations that we can find are published on the iPad Summit web site. Before going […]
Jen Carey is LIVE blogging for us from the EdTechTeacher iPad Summit USA. You can also find these posts on her site – indianajen.com. Concurrent Session #3: The iPad as a Leadership Tool with Patrick Larkin I saw Patrick Larkin first speak at the iPad Summit last Fall. If you would like to read about that, see […]
A few weeks ago, Shawn McCusker wrote The Textbook is Dead, Long Live the Textbook! – From Shawn McCusker. This week, EdTechTeacher Senior Associate, Patrick Larkin, discusses his district’s move away from the traditional textbook and towards teacher curated content. As we make the transition away from textbooks as the primary resource for teachers and […]
At EdTechTeacher, we are privileged to work with a host of talented educators from across the country including Shawn McCusker (@ShawnMcCusker) co-leader of #sschat, creator of #1to1techat, and organizer of both EdCampChicago and EdCampSocialStudies. In addition to being one of our featured instructors for the iPad Summit and our EdTechTeacher Summer Workshops, this year, he […]
At EdTechTeacher, with regard to iPads, we started last spring with Why? – as in Why iPad? and Why Mobile Device? We looked at the pathway from Consumption to Creation to Curation and, more recently, to Connection. All the Good Apps Fit on One Screen Last week, Co-Founder Justin Reich wrote, all the good apps fit on one screen. […]
Lately, in addition to researching iPads, we have been exploring other tools such Google Apps, Chrome Books, and Android Tablets, as well as broader pedagogical topics like collaboration, reflection, and the impact of technology on the Common Core. This summer, we will be offering a host of workshops on these topics, and more, in Atlanta, […]
These days I find myself searching for ways that allow for collaboration with iPads. In a recent piece I wrote for Edudemic I outlined 6 ways that students can currently collaborate using iPads and this afternoon another possibly crossed my mind. TimelineJS is a web based timeline creator, that in my opinion is the best […]
We had a busy week. First, Director Tom Daccord presented Leadership & School Cultures that Effectively Support 21st Century Learning with Patrick Larkin at EduCon 2.5. During this session, they discussed how effective leaders nurture school cultures that promote and exercise a vision for conscientious innovation with new learning technologies. The conversation addressed how to […]
For the past few days, I’ve been playing with a Chromebook. Though I have been an advocate of Google’s myriad web products since the beta-test Gmail account that I was invited to open over 10 years ago, I had not previously put my hands on one of these devices. I may be in love. This […]
This is officially our last post for 2012, and, looking back, we realize that 2012 was certainly the Year of the iPad. Over the past 12 months, we have hosted workshops, webinars, and our inaugural iPad Summit, with the goal of helping educators to transform their classrooms with these devices. Where We’ve Been…. Last January, in his […]
