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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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Nov 14

Technology as a Tool

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Class News, Ed News
November 14, 2010

After seven weeks (28 actual class days) of working with iPads, netbooks and desktop computers in the classroom in a 1:1 environment, my students have settled into a pretty swell routine. The apps most used by students to get their work done are Safari for Internet research, and Office2 HD for creating documents and/or adding …

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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 …