Brad Flickinger has a wonderful reflection about iPad vs laptop. I think many of us are struggling with with this idea too. Like Brad, I could give up my laptop and do all my work from my iPad. I am not sure I can do that yet becasue there is one huge thing stopping me. I do not have iPads to use in my classes, Anout 51% of my students have a Mac laptop and I have a cart of MacBook Pros, which are excellent. At this point, I only have a few students in each class with an iPad, but not nearly enough yet to only teach with my ipad at this point 
. Frankly, if the College of Education would make having and iPad a requirement, I would be super happy!. Such is life.
Anyway take a look at Brads thoughts, very insightful!!
I shared a Google Document that allowed students to summarize a section of a book. Students contributed to the summary by including all thoughts on one document.
Some people have said that Google Docs do not work well with the iPad. I had absolutely no problems today while using this!
The Reading (Found on Internet for Free); The Google Document
Mark Gleeson. 2012 marks my 25th year as a Primary School teacher. His blog, Mr. G Online, has a excellent post this week.
“The challenge then with the iPad is like anything else computer related. Can we get the teachers on board? Regardless of Apple’s PR machine telling us how magical and simple it is, despite the fact a toddler can pick one up and play games without batting their cute little eyelids, the fact remains there are still many teachers who haven’t embraced laptops after 15 years of exposure let alone a completely different system present in the iPad.”
by Jenny Luca
I work in an Independent School in Melbourne, Australia, and this year we have made a commitment to help our students (grades 7-12) create ePortfolios, using an Edublogs campus as the platform. Here are 5 reasons why we are making student blogging and portfolio development a high priority.
Jenny Luca is a Teacher-Librarian from Melbourne, Australia who is passionate about exploring the potential of new technologies in educational settings. She writes the blog Lucacept – Intercepting the Web and has presented at conferences in Australia and internationally. Follow Jenny on Twitter @jennyluca. Meet the rest of our Voices.
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Since I am on holiday, I have time to sit down and really read the blog posts of our students at Anastasis Academy…all 500 of them! I am so proud of what our students do and the ways that their teachers challenge them to think and reflect. As I was reading, I kept sending out tweets with links to the posts…I forgot that to read an Edu 2.0 blog post, you have to be registered on Edu 2.0. Oops! I thought I would share some favorites here. None of them have been re-touched or edited.
These are from an intermediate class who started with the prompt: “I used to believe, now I know.”
Post 1
I used to think the traditional way of school was the only, iPads are a new way to learn.and best way to learn. Now I think using IPads, sitting around the room, and being creative is a great way to take advantage of the generations…….
Read the all the posts, CLICK HERE
