The iPad has been available since 2010 and regularly receives hardware and software updates. It can be used for hands-on and creative learning in schools, though licensing costs and network integration present challenges. Teachers are finding the iPad useful for centers, reading, videos, interactive lessons, and pre-teaching or enriching concepts through educational apps. Resources for finding iPad apps targeted at preschoolers and keeping up with iPad news can be found online.

1. I Pad
Jennifer Lancianese
ICT Facilitator

2. History
• Original was out in April 2010, iPad 2 by
March 2011
• By March 2012 ipad 3 or the “New iPad”
• Features for education
-hands on learning
-creativity

3. Educational
• One of the struggles right now for school
systems: licensing 10 per network, can
use icloud etc for meeting places
• How they are bringing them on board.
• Future uses, ideas, and benefits

4. Teaching Ideas
• Centers
• E-reader individual, flex groups, whole
group
• Watch Videos
• Interactive Learning
• Apps
• Preteaching, Reteaching,and Enrichment

10. Resources
• www.apple.com/ipad
• www.engadget.com
• Ipad apps for preschoolers