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Dec 12

Unstructured iPad Time

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News, Science, Tech Integration
December 12, 2011

We have a traditional bell schedule with six periods of classes a day for our students. Each class lasts about 50 minutes with four minutes of hall passing time to get to the next class. Most of our classes are close enough apart that kids can get to their next class rather quickly. So if …

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Sep 28

iPads in Science 2

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Class News, Ed News, Science, Tech Integration
September 28, 2011

Last year, around October 2010, I got 13 iPads for my Science students through a service-learning grant. This is the start of my second year using those iPads with my Science students. The summer before I got the iPads I was able to try one out myself and wrote about the possibilities here. I elaborated …

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Oct 01

Play First, Work Later

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Class News
October 1, 2010

When you bring out math manipulatives you let the kids play with them a bit so that later they can focus on the work of learning with the tool. That was my intent with our new iPads and netbooks. I have lots of ideas I want my students to try out but first I thought …