Assignment+1

Article Review

**//Required Article #1//** "How Will the iPad Change Education?" []

After reading this article, I am excited about the endless possibilities iPads and other tablets can bring to the classroom setting. I feel tablets will engage students more in their learning. Instead of being tied down to textbooks, that go out of date the moment they run off the press, students will have up-to-date information to guide their learning. In addition, everywhere you look people are trying to find ways to be more environmentally friendly. Let's face it, schools are the furthest thing from environmentally friendly. By incorporating tablets in school, it is more realistic to go paper free. However there would be draw backs. Like it or not, technology does cause problems which in turn will cause frustrations. Secondly, there will be educators, administrators, and boards that are not onboard with this revolution and that will inpede the progress of eager educators that want to move forward with this new way of learning.

**//Required Article #2//** "Measuring the iPad's Potential for Education" [] ===**I feel this article demonstrates the potential for iPads in the classroom is limitless. However, this article demonstates how technology is a fast and furious beast that is always changing. The article was written in January 2010 and in little over a year, we now have a slimmer iPad 2, with a camera, and﻿ 3G capabilities. **=== In addition to demonstrating how fast technology changes, this article also shows the wide gap in how technology is used in school and how children use it outside of school. Many districts are under budget constraints, apprehension for change, and fear of the unknown which is causing what is best for students and most educators reality. On the other hand, many children have access to the variety of apple products, cell phones, tablets, etc and are asked not to bring them to school for a variety of reasons including safety.

//**New Article #1 "Technology Teacher"**// []

This article lists 10 ways in which teachers and students can use the iPad in the classroom to enhance learning.

**//New Article #2//** "What do Students Think of Using iPads in Class? Pilot Survey Results" []

This article shares pilot survey results of 126 high school students regarding their usage of iPads in the classroom. The district was not financailly capable of going 1:1 with the iPads in the district so students rotated in order for all students to have the opportunity to experience learning through and iPad verses laptops (which they already had in school)

**//New Article #3 "//**Local kindergarten students using iPads in the classroom" []

This article is from a news broadcast about how a local kindergarten in Paducah Kentucky regularly uses iPads in the classroom. The teacher states that she believes children should be technologically literate regardless if they are 5 or 15. The news broadcasters also joke lightly about how the iPad technology is second nature for the five and six year olds, but the teachers are probably the ones having more of a difficulty with the advancements.

**//New Article #4 "//**Math That Moves: Schools Embrace the iPad" []

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This article provides supporting and opposing view points of using an iPad in the classroom. The opponents discuss how there have been many technological fads in the education system in the recent past, and none of them have been proven, with a research base, to increase student learning. This passage was taken from the article, “there is very little evidence that kids learn more, faster or better by using these machines,” said Larry Cuban, a professor emeritus of education at [|Stanford University], who believes that the money would be better spent to recruit, train and retain teachers. “IPads are marvelous tools to engage kids, but then the novelty wears off and you get into hard-core issues of teaching and learning.” <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">However, there were many supporters of using the iPad in the classroom. Some of the supporting arguments include opening the learning environment beyond the four walls of the classroom, cost effectiveness in the long run, students able to create a digital portfolio, interactive learning, and so much more. It also talks about different school disctricts that through federal grant money have purchased iPads to use in the classroom.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">//**New Article #5**// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">How valuable are iPads in the classroom? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This article walks the reader through how Hopkins Public School District approched determining if iPads would be the best route for their district to move in to provide their students with a better learning environment. The district asked the instructors a list of 12 questions to provide more information about how the iPad would be used and how it would enhance learning.

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