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Explore the tremendous opportunity that iPads present to help teachers rethink the design of learning environments to best suit the needs of their students. Transform schools and change students' lives with differentiated, purposeful learning that helps them develop the real-world skills they'll need for success in college and the global workplace.

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Ipads in the Classroom helped me imagine the possibilities for mobile, differentiated instruction for all of my students. It will be my new 'tool' as I attempt to integrate technology into my classroom. -- Wanda Lacy 2013 Tennessee Teacher of the Year Teachers who read iPads in the Classroom will find many new ways to view their role in a 21st century classroom and ready-to-try ideas waiting for them with each turn of the page. I could envision myself using the ideas in my own fifth-grade classroom. -- Anne E. Hasse 2014 Wisconsin Elementary Teacher of the Year iPads in the Classroom was not only convincing in expressing the wisdom and practicality of using iPads, but it also had me wanting to jump right in and try some of the strategies. -- James L. Smith 2003 New Mexico Teacher of the Year

iPads in the Classroom was not only convincing in expressing the wisdom and practicality of using iPads, but it also had me wanting to jump right in and try some of the strategies. -- James L. Smith 2003 New Mexico Teacher of the Year

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Tom Daccord is director and co-founder of EdTechTeacher. An educational technology speaker, instructor, and author, Daccord works with schools, districts, colleges and educational organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He has presented on educational technology topics at national and international conferences, including ISTE (U.S.), FETC (U.S.), ELMLE (Europe), ICTLT (Asia), and NESA (Asia), as well as organized a series of sold-out international iPad Summits in the United States. Tom has also produced a series of online courses on Web 2.0 and iPad integration, as well as 21st century school leadership and classroom assessment. Justin Reich is an educational researcher interested in the future of learning in a networked world. He is the executive director of the PK-12 Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research scientist in the MIT Office of Digital Learning, and a lecturer in the Scheller Teacher Education Program. He is also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the co-founder of EdTechTeacher, a professional learning consultancy devoted to helping teachers leverage technology to create student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments. He was previously the Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow, where he led the initiative to study large-scale open online learning through the HarvardX Initiative, and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He earned his doctorate from Harvard University, where he created the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities project, a Hewlett Foundation funded initiative to examine how social media are used in K-12 classrooms.

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