I just got tweeted a nice diagram showing iPad applications against different levels of Bloom’s revised taxonomy. Its a good and well considered diagram and I like it. Some applications there that I haven’t seen yet and I will have to look up. The only thing I would say is that the applications are just [...]
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They are not fond of rules. And the have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About [...]
We currently have a lovely exchange student staying with us from Japan. She has a good but basic english vocabulary but often struggles composing sentences etc. This is not at all unexpected and she is doing a brilliant job. While communication can sometimes be difficult, some things she has completely mastered, the iPad for example. [...]
For the last year, Harry and I have been working on the ipad applications book for high schools. The Book is called Apps for learning, and is published as part of the 21st Century Fluency series with my Colleagues Harry Dickens, Lee Crockett and Ian Jukes. This book has been a huge amount of fun [...]
Curiousity has led me to compare prices between the New Zealand Apple Store and the US Store. The price difference is interesting. Conversion rates as per westpac bank at 15.20 28/7/11 These are the prices taken from mthe front page of both stores for the basic model computers. http://store.apple.com/nz http://store.apple.com/us Product NZ store (NZ$) US [...]
It has been quite interesting sitting on the sidelines watching the media publish apparent howls of rage over Orewa College’s announcement that iPads are required for 2012 – Letter_to_Year_8_parents_24_June I say apparent howl’s as I have spoken to staff at Orewa and there was an extensive discussion process in place. The Media has reported that [...]
A friend of mine in the UK just email me an interesting article on iPads in schools – http://www.metro.co.uk/news/869340-kent-school-gives-an-ipad-to-each-of-its-1-400-pupils This isn’t the first school I have heard of that has moved to using iPads. I have heard of schools who are replacing their textbooks with iPads for a similar cost. It makes sense when you [...]
I have been sent two article recently that have caught my attention. The first called Some startling statistics by Robyn Jackson – http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html looks at some statistics fro reading and they are worth considering: 1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. 42 percent of college graduates never [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of doing a podcast with Chris Betcher, Deon Scanlon, Allanah King and Amanda Marrinan. The topic of conversation was iOs applications and Education. It was a great deal of fun and I got some great applications to try out. Chris has done a great write up [...]
Well no not really, but this is a great alternative and its free. Its called Growly Notes and is made by Growly Bird Software – http://growlybird.com/GrowlyBird/Notes.html Growly Notes is an organisational note taking tool that allows you to create and organise your notes, containing text, images, web links, and video clips. You have the ability [...]
