Literature Review:
Using iPads to Enhance Teaching and Learning

Class Objectives met through this review:

1. Demonstrate the understanding of how technologies can effectively promote student le arning

2. Evaluate and use a variety of current technologies to enhance content instruction and to advance students’ technological literacy

5. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of safe, ethical, legal and moral practices related to digital information and technology.

In the Audio Recording, Using iPads to Enhance Teaching and Learning by Joe Dale, he discusses the question of Using iPads in education and comes to the conclusion that Using iPads does indeed have a place in today’s classroom.

iPads are great for personal use, but they can do so much more than that! Send your iPad to school with our favorite ways to use iPads in the classroom. I think if teachers use iPads correctly in the classroom they can develop children's creativity. It is imperative that teachers know what skills the iPad can be developed; otherwise its use in the classroom could be wasted. Technology now needs to be central to children's learning in the classroom with creative well-planned teaching.

The trend of iPads in the classroom is not going away. It's a great tool and an even better learning resource.  I believe that the most successful of the students we are educating today will be those that can find information the fastest and know best what to do with that information.  Also, Study Finds Benefits in Use of iPad as an Educational Tool.

In this link you will read about Educators Evaluate Learning Benefits of iPad.

Using iPads in the classroom effectively to be part of a research team to determine if the use of iPads in classrooms at school would enhance instruction and learning enough to warrant their purchase. There are tons of apps for practice and drill, plus there is also a lot out there that can be just as effective with net books or even pencil and paper. In this website you will know use ipad Effective Use in the Classroom.

Use the ipad in classroom is Ease and speed of use and accessibility: The touch interface and app system on the iPad makes it easy to access learning tools. On a laptop you have to open the lid, turn it on, wait for it to load, log in to your account and then wait for the operating system. Also, they help disorganized students by consolidating calendars, memos and notes all in one device and iPad can help student communicate, has a built in voice dictation.

I learned direct instruction is remarkably effective as a teaching strategy if it is done properly. One great advantage of direct instruction is that it conducive to development of strong interpersonal relationships between the teacher and the students. The downside of this, which the constructivist approach is quick to point out, is that it tends to create students who are cognitively dependent on the teacher. This makes more sense in the younger grades, but one would hope that as students move through into high school and post-secondary, if that is where they end up that students will have more exposure to teaching styles that encourage cognitive independence

In my opinion number of students who use iPods or similar devices as a way to block out distractions, especially the chatter of those who are not so concerned about working, while they are working.

I have to agree, an iPod in the classroom can help the student. They are distracted, but if you have a one ear open rule then the student still hears the teacher well enough, and they are paying more attention than they probably would normally. Also, the iPod can be used in the classroom for work, very easily. But some boards in some districts are too caught up in boring ways to teach, and therefore half the students are not doing their work and failing.