July 11th, NEKLS hosted the 2012 School Librarians Workshop. I presented “Exploring iPads in Education” to a great group of school librarians  from all over the northeast region. We explored how one device can have so many different uses in libraries and education. The original handout for the breakout session can be found here. As you can see from the handout we broke down iPad abilities by general curricular apps, apps that address specific subjects matters, and additional hardware that allows even more functionality. Under the first category are apps that could be used by educators and students for many different types of courses. Apps like Dragon Dictation that can allow thoughts to be turned into text five times faster… Read More »iPads in Education