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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3. The teacher is the most important part of student academic success!

5. My Wife

6. I am a teacher

7. Our son is a teacher

8. Our daughter and son-in-law are teachers

9. Our daughter-in-law is a teacher

10. If you want to feel better about K-12 public education follow...

12. Stop NCLB

13. Charter Schools Do Not Work

14. Privatizing public Education Will Not Work Not Work

15. Leaders need to take into account poverty, parental support, and other factors when rating teachers and schools

17. 2011 Gallop Poll On Education

21. What is the best way to improve K-12 public education? Quality teachers/better educated/more involvement/caring Quality teachers/better educated/more involvement/caring Quality teachers/better educated/more involvement/caring Quality teachers/better educated/more involvement/caring

22. What do you remember about your favorite teacher?

23. What do you remember about your favorite “fellow” teacher?

24. Relationships

25. Relevance

26. Rigor

27. Student Engagement

28. Application

29. My visions of the future

38. Web 1.0

39. Websites contained "read-only" material

41. Web 2.0

42. Personal created websites with interaction such as...

51. Save in the cloud

53. Web 3.0

54. The final disappearance of the boundary between "life online" and "real life."

55. Did social media cause the recent Arab uprisings?

56. Is the web distracting us from living?

57. Are online friendships as rich as those offline?

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.

59. Today’s Students Are Wired Differently

76. Guess what?

77. Education is changing ...

78. Engage Students

79. Dr. Michael Wesch From Knowledgeable to Knowledge Able From Knowledgeable to Knowledge Able

83. Textbooks Online

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

92. My favorite tech device

94. Polleverywhere.com

96. KINEO

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.

103. Education in Illinois needs to change due to state financial condition.

104. $15B deficit

105. 2% Income Tax Increase does NOT solve all the problems

106. Public Reaction

109. Change is coming!

112. http://www.khanacademy.org /

113. How about apps for special education?

114. Every Special Education Teacher and Student Needs an iPad

115. Proloque2go

117. FirstWords

118. IWriteWords

119. Stories2Learn

120. Free Applications

126. Use Twitter to Communicate to Parents, Students, Community

128. Prezi

130. Use Podcasting

131. Students

132. Morning announcements with iPod touch

136. audioboo.fm

140. Screencasting

141. jingproject.com

142. Use your computer screen and microphone to teach others

144. Mathtrain-1.TV Probability with Ben and Jerry

146. Amazon Kindle

148. Google

150. Apps for Students

151. Star Walk

153. Kahn Academy

155. Speak It

157. momwithapps.com

159. Goldybear and the Three Locks

161. 3D Brain

163. WebReader

165. Pocket Heart

167. Disney Toy Story Toy Story

170. Frog Dissection