Eclectic Technology

While we’ve witnessed many effective approaches to incorporating iPads successfully in the classroom, we’re struck by the common mistakes many schools are making with iPads, mistakes that are in some cases crippling the success of these initiatives.

The five critical mistakes (and more information is in the post):

* Focusing on content apps.

* Lack of teacher preparation in classroom  management of iPads.

* Treating the iPad as a computer and expecting it to serve as a laptop.

* Treating iPads like multi-user devices.

* Failure to communicate a compelling answer to "Why iPads?"

Are you looking for a directory on educational apps? Edudemic and FindTheBest have collaborated and created a list that allows you to search and find educational apps. You may narrow results by age and content rating, sort by product (iDevices and Android), adjust based on price, filter by size of download and more. To go directly to the the Compare Education Apps site (which also includes a buying guide): 

http://apps.edudemic.com/#.

"So you’ve got one or a few iPads that you want to use in the classroom. You could visit the Apple App Store’s education section and peruse the many offerings… do some Google searches to figure out what’s good… or just use this print-friendly image below to get started! Following on the heels of our wildly popular Twitter Spectrum, we wanted to build an ‘iPad Spectrum’ for all our wonderful readers out there."