With DerManDar the students can take their own 360 degree pictures of places they visit. The App called TourWrist allows students 360 degree views - 'tours' of locations of interest throughout the world. The mathematics involved with trip planning and decision-making are brought to life with actual real-time photographs, maps, and weather data provided by the Google Earth app, Big Blue Marble HD, and many others. Students can use the included Map app to calculate the distances, compare routes, and actual speeds of the westbound and the eastbound trains common in word problems. In math class the GPS of the iPad establishes locale in ways that are profound. With the iPads in the same network but in different locations, using the Assemblee app, students can create a collaboration web to share findings and discuss conclusions about different perspectives of the same project. They can dictate to the iPad using the Dragon Dictation app and it will type their words. Students can also attach videos, and voice recordings to their field notes. These notes can be instantly shared, collaborated, and published in the field. An app called Field Notes LT not only allows students to take copious notes of their observations, it attaches the date, time, GPS location and photographs of what is observed. Imagine calculating angles and force and then shooting odd birds from a slingshot, destroying buildings and colliding with green pig heads (ever heard of Angry Birds?) Rubberized iPads and iPods in gym class can measure levels of exertion, balance, and repetitions.Īs a completely portable learning tool, the iPad camera allows documentation to be taken to a whole different level. Imagine taking the iPad with you on a roller coaster ride. With the internal accelerometers in the iPad, physics experiments of acceleration or change in force can be measured.

Students can use the Clineometer app for measuring the level of a wall, or surface, and also the precise angles of incline, or decline. The motion sensor allows students to use their hands in guiding the iPad to equilibrium, balance skills, or remote control of real or virtual robotics, hovercraft, or other vehicles. Most students today would be classified as bodily-kinesthetic learners. The motion sensor of the iPad has a number of intriguing applications to learning. The iPad has a number of unique features that provide for interesting possibilities in teaching and learning.

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