Shelly Blake-Plock’s thoughts on the iPad2 and teaching
Picked up my own iPad2 about three weeks ago and, as an experiment, I have set my laptop aside and have used nothing but the Apple in the classroom ever since.
And I have found that there is nothing that I do in my normal activities as a teacher that I have done with a laptop or a tablet PC that I can not do with the iPad2.
YouTube links:
‘Peer to Peer Learning: Philipp Schmidt Talks About Socializing Open Education With P2PU’ by Megan Driscoll
The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the Internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables learning for everyone, by everyone about almost anything.
‘Summer Reading List for New Teachers’ by Hubert V. Yee
Summer is around the corner so we compiled a list of “summer reads” for teachers recommended by community members from a previous discussions here on Edutopia. What other “classic” educator books do you think should be a “must read”? What do you like about these and other recommended books?
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The only one in Flinders Library is Educating Esme, Central 372.11 C670.C