I'm a bit behind. My laptop battery is having problems charging, so I've got lots of scribbles to type up, bI'll get there eventually.
I queued for 20 mins to be one of the 60 to get my hands on an iPad for an hour for a hands on session. I was the 59th person in the session and got my iPad. Unfortunately we only got to use the once to vote on whether we own an iPad or tablet :(
Millersville University had planned to present on different perspectives on using an ipad. From a teachers, student, research and admin perspective, however there were statistics which took up much of the presentation and the questions from the participants brought the presentation off track. There were discussions around how best to manage the loaning of equipment and who pays for the apps?
36% of students at the University have either an iphone, iPad or ipod. Students were asked would they be willing to buy an iPad if they were late able to download less expensive textbooks and 60% responded positively. Staff were asked if they would be in favour of a paperless office. That would be an office where there would be papers for committees, no print outs of assignments. 77% of staff were in favour of this. Imagine a world without committee papers ;)
There followed a discussion on the need to universalise equipment in order to promote its use. In Millersville current uses of the iPad in the University were to support students on placement and online annotations of assignments. Student said that one draw back was in trying to master the iPad keyboard. Students were asked would they be willing to buy an iPad if they were late able to download less expensive textbooks and 60% responded positively. Staff were asked if they would be in favour of a paperless office. That would be an office where there would be papers for committees, no print outs of assignments. 77% of staff were in favour of this. There followed a discussion on the need to universalise equipment in order to promote its use. In Millersville current uses of the iPad in the University were to support students on placement and online annotations of assignments. Student said that one drawback was in trying to master the iPad keyboard.
This presentation got me thinking about the iPad that we have in the office and to produce some guidance on how it could be used for teaching and learning and making it available for staff to borrow.
Olivia
Olivia - I am imaging a world without committee papers :)
ReplyDeleteWould be good to get the ipad out and about more. Is it about ipads though or more about this kind of tablet tech?
The focus of this presentation was very much on iPads. The questions they asked their students and staff focused on Mac products rather than tablets in general. The guys presenting said that without guidance on how to use the iPad effectively you will just end up with people saying ooh look at the whizzy thing that I can do on my iPad rather than using it as a learning/teaching tool.
ReplyDeleteBTW every second person here has one. I feel like the poor relation with my ancient Dell laptop!
Might be worth watinign to see what the next version of ipad includes. I like it but only for networking and not work as there is no usb port to copy files (although I can use dropbox but we need to avoid students having to sign up to 3rd parties who have no oblisged duty of care). Also in built phone, camara and video recording would be good. Oh and a hologaphic keyboard.
ReplyDeleteDell are getting into this market as well.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting post. Just to add - our mobile device survey so far shows that 11% of our students own an iPad, 30% own an iPhone and a staggering 48% own an iPod!
I really like the Office HD app on my iPad - I just discovered this app and it has helped out so much in terms of viewing and editing documents.
I'm also a huge fan of the Scrabble app on the iPad too!
On the scrabble comment Sian - the presenters all went into their biggest time waster app on the iPad aswell. Cut the rope seems to be v popular.
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