HMH-Fuse Pilot Study
Learning Algebra with the iPad
“Is this the device or is this the first device? It’s hard to say. But what we can certainly say firmly is that it’s the best thing to have come along so far. The reason we did this test is to learn as a content provider, how do we take a really well-designed, high-functioning mobile [...]
Algebra, Meet the iPad: A Year-Long Study Explores Learning With the Tablet
Whether or not the iPad is the Holy Grail in education has yet to be determined. But when one of the biggest textbook publishers in the world invests in a pilot program specifically for the Apple tablet, it’s a good indication that, at the very least, it’s on the short list. Since last fall, 400 [...]
Algebra, Meet the iPad: Part II
The iPad’s impact on the role of the teacher, paid content versus free online and open-source content, and the learning process. Will eighth-graders who use the iPad to learn algebra do better than their textbook-using counterparts? That’s what publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Fuse pilot program will determine at the end of the school year. In [...]
A New Tool in the Classroom Grabs the Spotlight
It’s easy to figure out why a 13-year-old’s eyes would light up if you give her an iPad. Think of all the possibilities: YouTube! Movies! Music! Angry Birds! But what about algebra? Would she be as excited about learning the quadratic equation just because it’s presented on a shiny tablet? Turns out that — at [...]
A Day in the Life of the iPad Classroom
Lenny Gonzalez “This is not a magic wand. This just makes it more fun for them to learn.” Halfway through a year-long pilot study using iPads instead of textbooks, a San Francisco eighth-grade algebra class is showing signs of every teacher’s dream: the spark of engagement in her students’ eyes. Jeannetta Mitchell, a veteran teacher [...]
Teaching With a Tablet: One Educator’s Experience
For more detail about my visit to the Presidio Middle School’s iPad algebra class, here’s the complete Q&A with eighth-grade teacher Jeannetta Mitchell. She talks about the practicalities of forgoing the traditional textbook and seeing students find different ways of learning the material. Far from being afraid of the technology — or believing that it [...]
What Do Students Like About the iPad?
Eighth-grade students at the Presidio Middle School are trying out using the iPad instead of the textbook as part of a pilot study. Here’s what they have to say about it. Lenny Gonzalez KATE NAKATO You can watch videos and it explains stuff to you. The “view in motion” goes step by step with you [...]
Videos + Teacher in Class = Learning
Jeannetta Mitchell asks her students to watch videos in class. That may sound counter-intuitive — why have them watch a video when she’s right there? Because, as both she and her students put it, sometimes they understand on the third try, or when it’s explained differently. “There’s more than one way to solve something,” Mitchell [...]
Study Shows Algebra iPad App Improves Scores in One School
As Apple pushes out its new education products, new information about whether using the iPad gives students an advantage over using print books is starting to surface. Results from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s year-long study comparing students using the publisher’s iPad algebra app are in from Amelia Earhart school in Riverside, Calif., and it’s largely positive, [...]
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