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By: Sean Junkins In my role as a Digital Integration Specialist for Horry County Schools, I work with quite a few schools across our rather large district. Even though we have had schools embracing mobile learning for a number of years, going to a 1:1 iPad model in our middle schools has been a relatively new endeavor. My primary role ...

By: Alex Fegely I work in a school where all our students are provided tablets by the district. This has forced my teaching to evolve into the realm of educational apps. However, although apps are engaging and offer compartmentalized learning opportunities, they are not standalone resources. Instead, I have come to understand that apps are even more powerful when packaged ...

I’ve been studying educational apps for years at this point, and one nagging thought I continually have is transfer. To me, transfer means that the skill(s) a student learned by using an app can then be applied, or transferred, from the tablet to authentic or paper-and-pencil tasks. When I first started thinking about this idea, I was reading a young ...

Odd as it may seem, my goal was never to become an “edupreneur” (a hybrid term: Education + Entrepreneur = Edupreneur). When we started App Ed Review, Corey and I thought we would make a free database of educational app reviews that included app descriptions, evaluations, and ideas for using apps in the classroom. My students were using iPads in ...

I think we’ve all been there. Our administrator proudly hands out a bunch of tablet devices or tells us that we can use a whole set of tablets in our classroom… and then the administrator leaves feeling that the job is done. What happens next, in my experience, is first I get excited about the possibilities represented by the tablets ...