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Why Your School Needs to Buy iPads for the Classroom – 16 iPad apps to help improve reading literacy

July 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · (94% - 95%) Dragon Naturally Speaking Accuracy, iPad in the Classroom, Literacy, This Post was written using Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 Premium Wireless

Your school needs to invest in a class set of iPads that teachers can sign out to use with their students. Some schools and school boards are already starting to deploy iPads in the classroom. Yes, there are some reasons why you wouldn’t want to buy iPads for the classroom But, there are lots of [...]

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Professional Learning Communities – Setting Common Literacy Goals to align subject-specific classes

July 30th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Literacy

Many Intermediate classrooms (Gr 7-8) operate under a rotary timetable where students move to different teachers for different classes. Often times, each teacher operates their classroom as an island. Professional Learning Communities can help a fragmented Intermediate division to align themselves with respect to school and board literacy goals. The Ontario Language curriculum compliments the [...]

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