With the Introduction of Tablets in Classrooms, E-Books are Just a Click Away
Before coming to the conclusion, let’s peep inside the classrooms and see what’s going on:
- Long Island University in New York has deployed at least 16,000 iPads for its students, with 3,000 more on the way, according to George Baroudi, CIO, vice president of IT and chief business process improvement officer at the school.
- Widhalm’s school recently received a $266,000 grant to purchase mini iPads for every student.
- The Los Angeles Unified School District—the second largest school district in the country recently spent $30 million to deploy 35,000 iPads to students.
- Smaller districts such as, Guilford County school district in North Carolina is also going the tech way, and, come fall, 20,000 tablets will be distributed to all middle school students.
- Many districts have begun the process of tablets replacing textbooks. Muller Road Middle School in South Carolina has already gone paperless. This fall, the Susquenita School District in Pennsylvania will replace textbooks with iPads for students in grades eight through ten, and may carry over to students in grades 10 and 11, if deemed successful. And schools like Burlington High School in Massachusetts have pledged to stop buying textbooks.
- The Jackson Christian School in Jackson, Tennessee have gone "virtually paperless" as a result of adopting iPads and digital textbooks.
- The Holy Family School in Ashland has begun using iPads to improve English by teaching children to rap, while the Eastlake Middle School in Chula Vista, California has combined the tablet with a specialized app to improve Physical Education.
The list doesn’t end here. This is just the beginning of a new tech-ed era, where tablets are replacing text-books and students as well as educational institutions are happily adopting the new transformations in the field of education.
Not only the schools and universities are desirous of adopting tablets for daily use in the classrooms, tech companies are also helping in pushing the technology in the classrooms. For instance, Microsoft, under its “Windows in the Classroom Surface Experience Project,” offered to give away Surface RTs to the first 10,000 registrants for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Antonio June 2013. In addition, the tech giant is now offering its Surface RT tablets for $199 to educational institutions in 25 countries.
Tablet Revolution in the Education World
The growth in the mobile devices market spurred a new way of learning. There are approximately 1.5-billion mobile devices, such as, smartphones, tablets and mini-tablets in existence today. And by 2018, the number is expected to explode to 7.5-billion screens, or more than one for every person on the planet.
It is estimated that mobile users worldwide will download 70 billion apps in 2013. And over 10% of all tablet apps are dedicated toward education and learning, including toddlers. With so many educational apps available on the app stores, learning has become fun in the classrooms. Students have access to thousands of educational apps such as, Mathematics, Science, History and Geography via App Stores. Major publishers, such as, Pearson, are also plunging in the edu-tech world and are helping in digitally delivering textbooks to iPads via apps.
Why Tablets will become the Future of Education?
1. HMH FUSE Algebra 1 - HMH Fuse Algebra 1 Common Core Edition gives every student a personalized learning experience using video tutorials, MathMotion step-by-step examples, homework help, quizzes, tips, hints, and many other integrated features to teach, review, and assess all concepts.
2. Oxford Picture Dictionary, Second Edition - The Oxford Picture Dictionary app provides instant access, anytime and anywhere, to the bestselling picture dictionary.
3. PBS Parents Play & Learn HD - PBS’ first app designed specifically for parents, PBS Parents Play & Learn provides more than a dozen games parents can play with their kids, each themed around a familiar location–including at the grocery store, at home, in the kitchen, and more. The bilingual (English/Spanish) app makes it easy for parents to seize upon those daily “teachable moments” through theme-based interactive games and simple hands-on activities that connect math and literacy skills to everyday experiences.
4. POETRY from the Poetry Foundation – The app allows users to take thousands of poems by classic and contemporary poets on the go. From William Shakespeare to César Vallejo to Heather McHugh, the Poetry Foundation’s app turns your phone, iPod Touch or iPad into a mobile poetry library. The app is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and requires iOS 4.3 or Android 1.6 and up.
5. School Fuel – The app is a mobile learning platform that allows teachers and school leaders to connect with students in class and on the go. School Fuel App provide customized app libraries aligned to Common Core Standards helping schools deliver the right apps to the right students at the right time-on any device.
6. Wonders of the Universe - Take a mind-blowing 3D tour of the Universe with Professor Brian Cox as your guide. Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Oort Cloud to the Milky Way, past our local stars and out to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.
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- Long Island University in New York has deployed at least 16,000 iPads for its students, with 3,000 more on the way, according to George Baroudi, CIO, vice president of IT and chief business process improvement officer at the school.
- Widhalm’s school recently received a $266,000 grant to purchase mini iPads for every student.
- The Los Angeles Unified School District—the second largest school district in the country recently spent $30 million to deploy 35,000 iPads to students.
- Smaller districts such as, Guilford County school district in North Carolina is also going the tech way, and, come fall, 20,000 tablets will be distributed to all middle school students.
- Many districts have begun the process of tablets replacing textbooks. Muller Road Middle School in South Carolina has already gone paperless. This fall, the Susquenita School District in Pennsylvania will replace textbooks with iPads for students in grades eight through ten, and may carry over to students in grades 10 and 11, if deemed successful. And schools like Burlington High School in Massachusetts have pledged to stop buying textbooks.
- The Jackson Christian School in Jackson, Tennessee have gone "virtually paperless" as a result of adopting iPads and digital textbooks.
- The Holy Family School in Ashland has begun using iPads to improve English by teaching children to rap, while the Eastlake Middle School in Chula Vista, California has combined the tablet with a specialized app to improve Physical Education.
The list doesn’t end here. This is just the beginning of a new tech-ed era, where tablets are replacing text-books and students as well as educational institutions are happily adopting the new transformations in the field of education.
Not only the schools and universities are desirous of adopting tablets for daily use in the classrooms, tech companies are also helping in pushing the technology in the classrooms. For instance, Microsoft, under its “Windows in the Classroom Surface Experience Project,” offered to give away Surface RTs to the first 10,000 registrants for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Antonio June 2013. In addition, the tech giant is now offering its Surface RT tablets for $199 to educational institutions in 25 countries.
Tablet Revolution in the Education World
The growth in the mobile devices market spurred a new way of learning. There are approximately 1.5-billion mobile devices, such as, smartphones, tablets and mini-tablets in existence today. And by 2018, the number is expected to explode to 7.5-billion screens, or more than one for every person on the planet.
It is estimated that mobile users worldwide will download 70 billion apps in 2013. And over 10% of all tablet apps are dedicated toward education and learning, including toddlers. With so many educational apps available on the app stores, learning has become fun in the classrooms. Students have access to thousands of educational apps such as, Mathematics, Science, History and Geography via App Stores. Major publishers, such as, Pearson, are also plunging in the edu-tech world and are helping in digitally delivering textbooks to iPads via apps.
Why Tablets will become the Future of Education?
- Entertainment + Learning = Improved Learning – tablets help students in improved learning experience
- Interactive and Engaging – students can take polls, tweet questions, and look up information during the class
- Expandable Memory - students can keep hundreds of books at one place
- Affordable – tablets can diminish printing, data storage, and textbook costs by keeping the information in the cloud.
- Quick Access - Students have access to up-to-the-minute information on Tablets
- Apple’s iPad
- Amazon’s Kindle
- Google’s Nexus 7 and other Android tablets
- Microsoft Surface
- Barnes & Noble’s Nook
1. HMH FUSE Algebra 1 - HMH Fuse Algebra 1 Common Core Edition gives every student a personalized learning experience using video tutorials, MathMotion step-by-step examples, homework help, quizzes, tips, hints, and many other integrated features to teach, review, and assess all concepts.
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For more information on iPhone app developers and app marketing strategy send in your email to marketing@ymedialabs.com
You might also like:
Do you need a tablet app or mobile app for your business?
Tablets vs. Smartphones
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