One-to-One iPad Adoptions: Exploring New Pedagogical Designs



One-to-One iPad Adoptions: Exploring New Pedagogical Designs

Today's K-12 students are very different from even their recently graduated peers. These students are digital natives, a term attributed to futurist Marc Prensky to distinguish between those who have grown up with technology and those who have adapted to it [Prensky, 2001]. They live in a world in which digital technology is part of the texture of their daily lives. They have never known a world without technology. Technology is their native language and they expect to use technology in school.

After the introduction of Apple Inc's. iPhone and iPod Touch, Apple has created a familiar platform with multi-touch support, finger gestures and a built-in accelerometer that introduced new features that people grew to love very quickly. Developers are constantly finding new ways of exploring and utilizing this new technology introduced, with more creative games and other sorts of applications that can push the user experience to new levels of interaction.

The iPad is built on the exact same platform as the iPhone and iPod Touch, so users can take their applications they know how to use from before and use them directly on the iPad. Lately, the educational sector has laid their eyes on the iPad and other tablets and experimented with these with educational purposes in mind. Through Apple's websites in the edu Today's K-12 students are very different from even their recently graduated peers. These students are digital natives, a term attributed to futurist Marc Prensky to distinguish between those who have grown up with technology and those who have adapted to it [Prensky, 2001]. They live in a world in which digital technology is part of the texture of their daily lives. They have never known a world without technology. Technology is their native language and they expect to use technology in school.

After the introduction of Apple Inc's. iPhone and iPod Touch, Apple has created a familiar platform with multi-touch support, finger gestures and a built-in accelerometer that introduced new features that people grew to love very quickly. Developers are constantly finding new ways of exploring and utilizing this new technology introduced, with more creative games and other sorts of applications that can push the user experience to new levels of interaction.

The iPad is built on the exact same platform as the iPhone and iPod Touch, so users can take their applications they know how to use from before and use them directly on the iPad. Lately, the educational sector has laid their eyes on the iPad and other tablets and experimented with these with educational purposes in mind. Through Apple's websites in the edu cational category, Apple touts the iPad as “the perfect learning companion” [Apple, 2010b]. The iPad offers an interesting alternative from textbooks and also offers other ways of learning and interacting with each other in a new way that challenges the old, traditional way of learning. How well does it perform in the classroom for note taking, ...