This academic year we embark on an exciting project with faculty who will integrate the iPad into their teaching, research and publication. There are ten professors across several disciplines, and thirteen courses involved in this pilot. We have planned a variety of training activities for faculty to maximize the use of this tool to enhance their teaching and have provided a mobile cart equipped with fourteen iPads for student use in the classroom. Over the course of this year we expect that faculty will share with one another, their experiences using the iPad to share with other professors interested in using this technology. We encourage every participant of the iPad in the Classroom project to contribute their observations and their student’s experiences by posting to this blog. There is a wiki companion to this blog which details the programatic scope of this project. We look forward to a very excited year
Mary Simone
Project Manager, iPad in the Classroom Program
September 11, 2012 at 2:18 pm
Today, September 11, 2012, the IT Division of Education Technology rolled out its initial run of iPad 2s for the first time on the University of Massachusetts Boston campus. Our first professor to receive an iPad 2 was Amy Todd, who teaches Anthropology 273 — People and Cultures of Mesoamericas. I was there, snapping photos of the fascinationed students who had never used any kind of tablet, including the original iPad. There was a brief tutorial, given by John Mazzarella, which he detailed the basic instructions of using an iPad 2, or any Apple product. They (Apple) are useful tools since their technology carries over from the very popular iPhone and iPod, which are both popular on many school campuses, making it far easier to grasp than anything other technogogical options. Prof. Todd was excited to be giving out the iPads to the students, and the students became quiet when the tutorial commenced and class began using the iPad.
October 22, 2012 at 9:23 am
Indeed, iPad has become more essential part of the educational process at all levels