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Getting Started with Apple iOS Devices
Why iPad, iPod touch, and iTunes for Education?
Innovative educators are using iOS devices and iTunes as powerful educational tools
to meet students’ academic needs and to help them achieve 21st century literacy. Here
are just some of the reasons:
• iPad and iPod touch, like Apple’s other iOS devices and computers, are familiar, easy
to use, and exciting for students. And the Multi-Touch screen means students can
read a book, explore an app, page through websites, and much more with just the
touch of a nger.
• Portability, instant on, and long battery life give students anytime access to learning
from any location.
• iPad and iPod touch can be personalized to support students’ individual learning
styles and needs with tools like customized playlists, built-in accessibility features,
support for more than 30 languages, and specic education apps. And students can
access content as many times as it takes them to master it.
• iOS devices engage students with their education—students actively participate in
and focus on the learning process, no matter what their learning style. They can also
use iOS devices to create their own content, such as movies and music compositions.
• iTunes U is the world’s largest online collection of free education content, including
complete courses, videos, podcasts, audiobooks, PDFs, and more. You can access it
all on iPad and iPod touch with the iTunes U app, available free from the App Store.
What’s more, the web-based tool iTunes U Course Manager oers an easy way to
create and publish your own course materials to distribute to your students and others.
• With a Wi-Fi connection, students have anytime access to the Internet as well as to
printers on the wireless network. And Bluetooth oers connection with a wealth of
other tools, such as digital microscopes, science probes, and keyboards.
• Education apps from the App Store oer limitless avenues for exploring new subjects,
reinforcing learning, expressing creativity, helping with organization, and much more.
• iPad and iPod touch give all types of learners versatile and amazing ways to read—
from reading Multi-Touch textbooks and other books with iBooks, which gives you
access to a dictionary and other tools with a tap of the nger, to a wealth of audio-
books and other interactive book apps.
• Students and educators have a valuable collection of productivity tools in just one
device—for taking notes, keeping track of dates, browsing the Internet, sending and
receiving email, and more.
• With built-in features and apps from the App Store, iPad and iPod touch oer a broad
range of accessibility tools to address students with special needs such as visual and
auditory impairments.
These are just a few of the reasons educators are nding iPad and iPod touch so
valuable for teaching and learning with today’s students. The rest of this guide oers
information and suggestions for using these amazing devices in your classroom.
iTunes at a Glance
iTunes is an application for organizing and playing digital audio and video content.
It has an easy-to-use interface for managing the content on iPad and iPod touch. You
can set up iTunes so that when an iPad or iPod touch is connected to a computer, the
iTunes library automatically syncs to that device.
iTunes is also used to connect to the iTunes Store for downloading free academic
content from iTunes U, apps from the App Store, podcasts, music from around the
world, audio and digital books, full-length movies and TV shows, speeches, and more.