We have received our 30 iPads (thanks to our district's educational foundation) and prepped them for the first introduction to staff. At 8:30 this morning, 16 teachers answered the call to come in, play around, and check one out. Not a great turnout in a school with 26 classrooms, plus a dozen or more support teaching staff. But it's been a hard fall, what with building wide renovations -- which ran way over schedule (what else is new) -- including new interactive whiteboards that have been a serious source of frustration. So we prefer to view 16 as a great turnout.
A number of these intrepid souls also participated in a brief pilot last spring, thus were already eager to get their hands back on the iPads. Last spring these tools proved very popular with our most struggling students. There will be some happy little guys in the building today.
Hot apps: Dragon Dictation (wow!), Tell Time, and Chicktionary.
As we keep telling the classroom teachers (who range from the happy adaptor to the technophobe): iPads are so high tech, they're low tech. One really doesn't need to teach a child how to use it.
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