Last month Apple announced their new slate-style computer, the iPad. With a nearly 10″ screen, multi-touch display and the ability to run applications like an iPhone, the iPad has potential to greatly impact teaching and learning. Do you have ideas about how the iPad could be used in your course? If so, CIT would like to talk with you and hear your thoughts. Drop us an email and let us know.
I think iPads will make it easier to take advantage of the many resources available through iTunes University. The size of the iPad is more conducive for use with younger students and for some of us teachers with aging eyes.
I also think that the book and magazine reader feature will be indispensable. Not only will it save a few trees but it will bring us closer to a wider acceptance of digital textbooks. When I began my teaching career in 1998, I really believed that we would have all college and high school textbooks on CD-ROM and the days of carrying a tome for every class would be over.
hi, i am a math teacher, hope the apps will have following function.
-edit/ Type equations (very important).(most apps in teaching are all not favorable to math teacher…..)
-easily draw coordinate, circle, triangle, ellipse, hyperbola, parabola….with different color.
-Can replace blackboard, that means i can draw and write in iPad, students can see what I wrote through projector connected with my iPad. and of course, i can upload what i wrote in that lesson to cloud for students to download.
-academic calendar, HW, Test reminder.