Thursday, September 6, 2012

Hands-On Learning with iPad

carpentry. And the school is developing programs in emerging technologies such as mobile apps.

But two years ago, Northwest Kansas Tech was dying. After a decade of precipitous declines in enrollment, the school’s president, Dr. Guy E. Mills, knew he needed to make immediate changes to reverse the trend. In 2010, after consulting closely with staff and faculty, Mills decided to put iPad in the hands of every student, instructor, and administrator at the school. The idea was to build on the school’s tradition of hands-on instruction by using a device that was rewriting the rules for interactive learning.

iPad and AirPlay allow us to demonstrate a procedure just once, record it, and play it on the big screen for all the students to view and discuss.

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