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• Google Maps Mania: 10 Great Car Journeys in Street View

  Talk about virtual field trips. Here are 10 great Car trips that you can play right in your browser. Show your students!

  tags: GoogleEarth

• More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com

  • less costly options, like smartphones
  • paying for their iPads through federal and other grants,
  • “You can do everything that the iPad can with existing off-the-shelf technology and hardware for probably $300 to $400 less per device,
  • About 5,400 educational applications are available specifically for the iPad, of which nearly 1,000 can be downloaded free.
  • “It has brought individual technology into the classroom without changing the classroom atmosphere,”
  • “It’s not about a cool application,” Dr. Brenner said. “We are talking about changing the way we do business in the classroom.”

• More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com

  This REALLY upsets me. To me, it's clear that these folks should NOT be making decisions about what matters in education.

  tags: ipads

  • teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems.
  • The iPads cost $750 apiece
  • Educators, for instance, are still divided over whether initiatives to give every student a laptop have made a difference academically.
  • “IPads are marvelous tools to engage kids, but then the novelty wears off and you get into hard-core issues of teaching and learning.”
  • “If there isn’t an app that does something I need, there will be sooner or later,”
  • $56,250 for the initial 75
  • 32-gigabyte, with case and stylus
  • play math games, study world maps and read “Winnie the Pooh.”
  • “I think this could very well be the biggest thing to hit school technology since the overhead projector,
  • The New York City public schools have ordered more than 2,000 iPads, for $1.3 million
  • More than 200 Chicago public schools applied for 23 district-financed iPad grants totaling $450,000. The Virginia Department of Education is overseeing a $150,000 iPad initiative

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