The document discusses the importance of quality teachers in improving education and provides examples of how technology can be used to engage students and transform education. It mentions using iPads, apps, websites, and other technologies to improve instruction, access online textbooks and resources, facilitate communication, and make learning more interactive and personalized for students. It also notes that education in Illinois needs to change due to the state's financial condition.
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22. What do you remember about your favorite teacher?
23. What do you remember about your favorite “fellow” teacher?
58. A Google vice-president says that credit card companies can predict with 98% accuracy, two years in advance, when a couple is going to divorce, based on spending patterns alone.
90. The students never had a chance to tune her out – they were constantly being asked to participate one way or another, whether it was working out problems on the whiteboard (not interactive), watching instructional videos on the iPad, or working in groups
98. Pearson Education Inc. launched what it claims is the nation’s first-ever complete social studies curriculum for the iPad, in partnership with Virginia officials.
99. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. has also redesigned a classic textbook to take advantage of the iPad. Since early September, around 400 students in California have been learning algebra via a new iPad-only program.
100. “ From what I’ve seen, the iPad is going to be a transformational platform for textbooks,’’ said Anthony Jackson, superintendent of the Henry County Public Schools.
101. Pearson Education has already converted 3,000 of its textbooks to a proprietary e-book format, and has more than a hundred iPhone apps in the Apple Store, which it promotes as free, or inexpensive, supplements to its textbooks.