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 * 1) How will the iPad Change Education
 * 2) Measuring the iPad's Potential for Education
 * 3) University Education Researcher Trying iPad in K-8 Classrooms
 * 4) 5 iPad Applications I Can't Live Without (and Why)
 * 5) Reading in a Whole New Way
 * 6) IPad Gets The University Treatment This Fall
 * 7) The iPad Project: Day Three - End of an Era, and DRM Hell

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1. How will the iPad change education?
Currently some of our curriculum is dependent on materials from text book companies. These materials can often times be dated before they actually reach the hands of students and it is not how students currently are engaged in learning. The use of iPads or E-Readers will allow school to rent a book that can be updated instantaneously when there are changes. This will reduce our footprint on the environment by not having to physically print books. The reduce cost for books can be a savings for a school district in today's economically challenged times. The change to an electronic device will also allow students to feel engage in learning by using tools that they enjoy using. Having students more engaged in classes will help increase their education success.

Reynolds, R. (2010, January 27). //How will the Ipad change education//. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/teacherline/blog/2010/01/how-will-the-ipad-change-education/

2. Measuring the iPad's Potential for Education
The iPad's attraction to education is the lower cost than a laptop but more access than some netbooks. Using it to replace standard textbooks will allow the use of embedded video/audio which is currently just in the hands of the teacher. Giving students the full interactive textbook will engage them and empower them to learn about subject matter. Gerry Purdy stated "We'll no longer be thinking in terms of static publications and will instead be using dynamic content with animation, movies, video, and other multimedia built into it," Purdy predicted. "We'll go from trying to feed PDF textbooks into portable devices to building interactive, dynamic applications that students can carry around with them."(McCrea, 2010)

McCrea, B. (2010, January 27). //Measuring the ipad's potential for education//. Retrieved from http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/01/27/measuring-the-ipads-potential-for-education.aspx

3. University Education Researcher Trying iPad in K-8 Classrooms
In Utah there will be 35 iPads given to elementary science and math teachers as part of a research project at the University of Cincinnati. This project was created to reduce the amount of paperwork created in the classroom, the data collected will be shared electronically using iForm from iFormBuilder for the forms development and administration. Data will be exported into Microsoft Excel and then analyzed in IBM's SPSS software. Previously the time to enter the data collected and then analyzed would be months, they are hoping that it be reduced to days wih the use of the iPad. The iPads will be used in science classes to collect pre- and post-science knowledge assessments. Carla Johnson, an associate professor of science education at the University of Cincinnati is looking at incorporating iPads into the curriculum for teaching science teachers. Johnson stated "I hope that the future teachers who experience my course will learn how to engage students in experiences that will enable them to be more successful in the 21st century and beyond."

Schaffhauser, D. (2010, August 5). //University education researcher trying ipad in k-8 classrooms//. Retrieved from http://thejournal.com/Articles/2010/08/03/U-Cincinnati-Education-Researcher-Trying-iPad-in-Multiple-Classrooms.aspx?Page=1

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===4. 5 iPad Applications I Can't Live Without (and Why)=== Ethan Watrall describes some the applications that he finds useful after owning an iPad for two months. The type of applications that he choose were production applications, not any gaming or social apps. The list of applications he choose were:
 * 1) Penultimate: an application that allows you to take notes from handwritten form. Ethan uses a stylus with the app for increased productivity.
 * 2) GoodReader: an application that allows you to view different file formats on the iPad. Can open email attachments, word, pdf and it handles large file types as well.
 * 3) Things: an application that help to manage tasks. It is an Mac only application, so if you use a mac as a desktop or laptop this will help to coordinate tasks and projects.
 * 4) Pulse News Reader: an RSS application. It allows you to read and mange your RSS feeds
 * 5) Backgrounder: can not be downloaded from iTunes, can only be used on a jailbroken iPad. It is a program that allows you to run multiple applications at the same time. Ethan did create another post about jailbreaking an iPad

Ethan Watrall, August 4, 2010, 5 iPad Applications I Can't Live Without (and Why), @http://chronicle.com/blogPost/5-iPad-Applications-I-Cant/25907/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=www.mindassist.nl

5. Reading in a Whole New Way
How has the printed word change over time? This article talks about how words were originally written without spaces and the actual number of words had increases over time. But how has technology changed how people view the written word? "Today some 4.5 billion digital screens illuminate our lives." (Kelly, 2010) By adding television to household the amount of reading decreased in people's lives. Since 1980 the amount of time people spend reading has almost tripled. This is due to the increased use of the internet, by "2008 more than a trillion pages were added to the World Wide Web, and that total grows by several billion a day." (Kelly, 2010) The change of reading from printed word to screen ready has changed how people purchase goods, research and process data. Being able to quickly search a thought and idea seen on the Internet is equipping readers with the ability to deal with new thoughts and ideas expressed daily.

Kelly, K. (2010, August). //Reading in a whole new way//. Retrieved from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/40th-anniversary/Reading-in-a-Whole-New-Way.html

6. IPad Gets The University Treatment This Fall
Starting in the Fall Oklahoma State University is using iPad in courses offered by the School of Media and Strategic Communications and Spears Schools of Business. Through the use of iPad in courses the University will be looking at how mobile devices can integrated into the workplace. In contrast to the small roll out of iPads Illinois Institute of Technology is going to be giving all incoming Freshman (around 550) an iPad as a technological enhancement to the curriculum. Last school year several Universities implemented an eReader program. Students at Reed College complained of the slow refresh rate of e-Ink displays, problematic input, inability to load PDFs over the network, and inability to view more than one text at a time as major sticking points. Reed faculty found converting documents to work well on the Kindle to be particularly difficult in most cases. (Forseman, 2010). Darden School of Business implemented an eReader program have now had legal issues because of the accessibility problems for students with visual disabilities.   Forseman, C. (2010, July 24). //Ipad gets the university treatment this fall//. Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/ipad-goes-under-the-gauntlet-at-universities-this-fall/2/

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7. The iPad Project: Day Three - End of an Era, and DRM Hell This blog post discusses the issues of replacing a lap of computer with handing out iPad's to students. With the transition to everyone having a iPad, no longer will students have to travel to a computer lab for their time online. Now students can be online and interacting everywhere. But the problem lies in how to get the apps to the individual iPads. Fraser go through what he says are his 5 solutions to syncing a purchasing apps. He goes through was are solutions for primary grades, but will be obstacles in the post secondary. The solution that he sees working is one app store account for primary, another for secondary. Apps would be purchased on one mini-mac and then iTunes Sharing would be turned on to share apps to be sync'd.

Speirs, F. (2010, August 9). //The Ipad project: day three-end of an era, and DRM hell//. Retrieved from http://speirs.org/blog/2010/8/9/the-ipad-project-day-three-end-of-an-era-and-drm-hell.html

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