Here are some pointers I've collected about using tablets in school education settings. Please send me more! (simon@peytonjones.org).
Major link: the Vital Tablet page is a terrific bibliography of links to tablet-related resources, not dissimilar to this one.
Experience reports
Caveat: these reports are often written by the outfits that are using the tablets, and hence have an interest in giving them a positive spin.
- The iBook experiment: using a tablet for a Year 7 English class. The article focuses on collaboration around a very small number of tablets.
- An Evaluation of iPad Implementation Across A Network of Primary Schools in Cardiff, undated but I'm guessing 2014
- Success stories collected by the eLearning Foundation
- iPads changing the game for learning at Longfield Academy, a 960-student non-selective state school in Kent, that adoped 1:1 iPads in September 2011.
- The iPad as a tool for education: a case study is a very interesting independent Naace report studyng the effect of iPads at the school. Caveat: the report was backed by 9Pine Consulting, who specialise in helping schools introduce tablets.
- IPads at Clevedon: the (comprehensive) parents information leaflet produced by Clevedon Schoool in Dec 2012
- Essa Academy in Boulton is a widely-reported success story. Profile in Apple magazine, and article in the Independent (March 2012), BBC News video (Jan 2013), BBC Radio (Dec 2013)
- Introducing the iPad in a Norwegian High School, Henrik Valstad, June 2011, MSc project thesis
- IPad study released by Oklahoma State University
- Report on University of Melbourne Trinity College "step forward" IPad project
- Maths program seeks to measure the iPad effect
Blog articles and experience reports
- The PC is dead; long live the iPad, Darren Evans, TES, 12 Oct 2012
- Daniel Edwards's blog looks very useful
- Frank Spiers is an innovative teacher at Cedars, an independet school in Greenock. His blog has lots of reflections on his use of iPads, including one on why he thinks Android doesn't cut it.
- Patrick Larkin, Head of Burlington High, speaks nationally in America about his schools programme and its impact. Becoming a 1-1 school
- http://paper.li/tag/mlearning General
Mobile Learning - very good for pedagogical info which will interest
you. It aggregates twitter hyperlinks from tweets with #mlearning
ignoring the general chatter
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http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/ This guy is very knowledgeable and posts a lot of research on innovative uses of mobile learning e.g.
http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/02/top-50-mobile-learning-resources/
- Edutech articles about iPads and other tablet devices
- Why use iPads in education
- Students want personalised learning and mobile technology. A report from the USA which, although the context differs, includes this interesting comment. "Almost two thirds of parents (62%) say that if their child’s
school allowed the use of mobile devices for instructional purposes, it is likely
that they would purchase such a device for their child to use at school. Additionally,
a majority of parents (52%) would also purchase a data plan for that device. This
view is not the universe of only a few, affluent suburban parents, however. Parents
from low‐income (Title 1) schools (61%) are just as likely to report that they
would purchase a mobile device for their child to use for academic reasons as parents
in non-Title 1 schools (63%)"
- Mind/Shift A USA-based site with strap-line "How we will learn". MindShift explores the future of learning in all its dimensions –
covering cultural and technology trends, groundbreaking research,
education policy and more. The site is curated by Tina Barseghian, a
journalist and the mother of a grade-schooler
Ideas for how to actually use tablets to enhance learning
- Freaked out: the bewildered teachers guide to digital learning, a book by Stephen Pridham. Reviews look positive.
- Tablets and apps: how to ensure impact on teaching and learning, Oxford University Press, 2014. Focuses mainly on primary.
- 39 sites for using iPads in the classroom, on A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet. Examples of the links: "A day in the life of an iPad classroom", "50 iPad links by a Geography teacher", "An incredible way to teach Music using iPads in the classroom", "Five ways readers are using iPads in the classroom", "iPad apps for Physical Education". "iPads in Science".
- Classroom ideas for learning with the iPad, Dept of Education, Victoria, Australia
- Edudemic articles
- A vogue term for a new approach enabled by tablets and other technology is the "flipped clasroom". Some links:
- Classroom iPads: Dos and Don'ts, on Tony Vincent's "Learning in Hand" site
- iPad apps for teachers
Web sites of relevant resources
And more general technology-in-education sites
Research papers on the impact of tablets in education:
- iPads in the classroom 2013, a report from the London Knowledge Lab, by Rose Luckin
- Young students using iPads: App design and content in?uences on their learning pathways Falloon, G, Computers & Education, 68, 505-521, 2013
- Digital Futures in Teacher Education: Exploring Open Approaches towards Digital Literacy, Gruszczynska, A., Merchant, G., & Pountney, R, Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 11(3), 193-206, 2013.
- iPad Scotland Evaluation: Burden, K., Hopkins, P., Male, T., Martin, S., & Trala, C, University of Hull, 2012
- iPad in Education: A case study of iPad adoption and use in a primary school Henderson, S., & Yeow, J, 45th Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences, Hawaii, 2012
- Embedding 1:1 computer provision six case studies in Wolverhampton 2008-9. Slightly dated technology-wise, but interesting comments from teachers and students.
- iPads improving learning – what the research tells us is a very useful collection of links
- IPad studies includes "IPad or IFad? The reality of a paperless classroom"
- 1:1 in education: Current practice, international comparative research evidence, and policy implications, Oscar Valiente, OECD Education Working Paper 44, 2010.
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Edsurge ("your best source for news and information on innovation in education technology") has a lot of research reports referenced
- Tablet PCs in schools, a review of literature and selected projects, BECTA, 2005. Rather old now, but still informative.
Online teaching materials
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