The National Teachers Alliance is a non-partisan network of school teachers who believe that our classroom experience makes us uniquely qualified to communicate what is working in education.
We aim to share best resources, practical advice, and informed educational product reviews to help each other and to best serve our students.
In 1996, school leaders from Cincinnati Country Day traveled to Microsoft's headquarters to learn about 1:1 Computing. Nearly twelve years to the day, another generation of Country Day leaders returned to Seattle to meet with other innovative educators to discuss the powers of Tablet PCs in altering the education landscape in the United States and around the globe.
A class set of 30 iPads has a huge setup cost that has to be paid before they're ever used. Even if I only take 5 minutes to set up each one, I'm looking at around 2.5 hours. Anyone that's ever taught knows that any free time is hard to come by, and an unallocated 2.5 hours is next to impossible to come across. I knew I had to start somewhere, so I