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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Create Multimedia eBooks in a 1 iPad Classroom by Wesley Fryer Enhanced eBooks on iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches can include audio, video, and interactive animations in addition to digital text, images and links. Get introduced to practical pedagogical strategies for using iPads and Blogger with your students.

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Posthaven Vs. Class Locker: What Teachers, Parents, and Students Think

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Not long after my second-grade students started using iPads, it became apparent that I needed a way to share their digital work with parents. I found Posterous in 2011, and that blog platform worked well … until they closed in 2013. Here’s a brief comparison of these two platforms. What does the workflow look like?

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

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In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. Apple sold just 50 million iPads. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011.

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Understanding The Deep Fake: A Troubling Trend

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in Curriculum and Instruction from Texas Tech University in 2011. He leads 3 day iPad Media Camps, STEM camps for teachers and students, and digital oral history workshops with Storychasers. But we must discuss and help people understand what deep fake is and to be careful about what they believe. Wesley completed his Ph.D.

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Investigating Authentic Questions

Learning in Hand

Steve Morgan makes a brilliant comparison of students being spoon fed and feeding themselves in this PDF. In 2011 only 10% of U.S. On an iPad or iPhone it’s not intuitive. When they feed themselves, they are active and can decide when they have had enough. A student’s investigation may take her places you did not plan.

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The Business of Education Technology

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“The number of states planning to use the new tests dropped from 45 in 2011 to 20 in 2016,” Education Next observed this fall , and many states and districts have opted to use the SAT or ACT instead of those assessments created by the Common Core consortia, SBAC and PARCC. ” So congrats, ed-tech vendors.) Surprise, surprise.