Patrick Larkin

I have a network of amazing educators at my fingertips that never cease to amaze me. Being a "Connected Educator" is awesome!

Being a "Connected Educator" is awesome!

For the second year in a row, the United States Department of Education has made October Connected Educator Month.

Here is a partial list of some of the things our students have done due to their experiences as students in a school where everyone has access to iPads

I spent three days last week at a workshop on the new Massachusetts Framework for Educator Evaluation.

I first noticed the power of following a conference hashtag two summers ago during the Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston.

The New Media Consortium (NMC) has just released its fifth Horizon Report for K-12 education.

What’s a personal learning network and why should educators be connected?

What about looking at iPad (or another technological resources) as the problem? How can this help us?

The bottom line is that we don't need any new devices in our schools; what we really need is new thinking in regards to our purpose for having schools.

As we make the transition away from textbooks as the primary resource for teachers and classrooms, it is understandable that so many people are looking for THE ANSWER

The video above first appeared in a Huffington Post article last week titled "The Independent Project - High School Allows Teens To Decide Their Own Curriculum."

The School, Essa Academy, has been making some news for its use of iPads and was recently featured on the BBC.

The most common question we get regarding our 1:1 initiative with iPads is - What apps do you recommend?

"For about three thousand years or more all that was needed for learning and writing was some sort of pencil. Plato never wrote his master piece The Republic on an iPAD."

I have seen a few posts lately on the topic of which device is the best device for a school looking to go 1:1 and put a web-enabled device in the hands of each student.

One of the positive things about our iPad initiative has been the positive recognition that our school has received due to the efforts of our staff in undertaking this exciting work.

One of the big questions that is asked about our iPad initiative at BHS is - What are the goals of the initiative and how do you know if it is successful or not?

As I reflect on our first year as a 1:1 school, I am overwhelmed by the insights that we gained after distributing over 1,000 mobile devices to our students in grades 9-12.