Some of you may know that I am working on an iPad 1-to-1 pilot program for first and fifth grade students at the school where I teach. The program will study the effects of the mobile device on learning and achievement in the math and reading/language arts classroom. One of my PLN members, Jason Schmidt will be working with us as a part of his masters program. Additionally, Robert Marzano and Debra Pickering from the Marzano Research Institute, have agreed to partner with us in research if we can get the funding all settled. Which brings me to the point of this post. I still have to fund the thing! I am waiting to hear back on several leads but never the one to only have one marshmallow in the fire, I am looking at every method conceivable to find the money for this.
This morning my mom sent me a Kohls Cares for Schools contest email that is offering $500,000 to the 20 schools with the most votes by September 3. Of course I promptly signed up for it and am counting on all of you to help me out. You are given a total of 20 votes that you can use, but you can only use 5 votes per school. So I am asking for 5 of your votes to help fund the iPads in education study. It is simple and just takes a one time click to connect and then 5 clicks of the votes button. Easy right? So, would you give us a hand and help us put some research to the iPads in the classroom debate?
One of the fun outcomes of this little idea is the comments that students have started leaving about how they think that the iPad could be used in the classroom. Pretty fun to see from the students point of view 🙂
Two side notes:
1. I have an iLearn Technology fan page on Facebook, if you haven’t already become a fan and clicked “like” you can do that here.
2. If you have a contact that could help with funding, I would take that too 🙂
Thank you all for your help and support! If you are so inclined, you can also tweet about this post and ask others in your PLN to help vote.
I just learned I will have iPads for my honors Technolog for Teaching and Learning class of Pre-service teachers for fall. I am pretty excited, to say the least.
Would you be interested in having another partner in your project. My students are all future teachers. I only have 6 in this honors section. Each of them will get an iPad for the semester. Somehow if we could hook up and do sometype of project together, or……. anyway, let’s talk if you are interested. Putting future classroom teachers into your project could be quite powerful.
Will definitely help you out. A while back I remember you tweeting about this project. I was even telling a buddy about your idea during a round of golf a few days ago. I’ll be sure to pass it on.
I am starting an iPad project and we have run into some questions. I did not know if you had run in to the same questions. Are you only using free apps? If you are planning to use paid apps, are you using multiple accounts. Feel free to email, we can probably help each other.
Nathan
North Carolina State University
Yes, we have run into the same questions. We are getting differing answers depending who we talk to. Some are saying because it isn’t clearly spelled out, you can sync multiple devices with same app purchase. Being an app developer, I don’t like that answer. For auditing purposes we will probably go ahead and set up different accounts that belong to each application. For ease of use, we will just sync with one account. http://wiki.canby.k12.or.us/groups/ipodusergroup/ Has been really helpful with logistics of it all.
Thank you so much for the help! I appreciate all of you spreading the word!
Absolutely! If we find funding, I would love to work with you on this!
I tweeted your page on twitter!
Thank you Cindy!