by Terry Heick iPad sales are giving up some ground to Android-powered tablets. According to market research[i], Apple’s market share of the tablet market was down 14% in the 3Q of 2012, with 55% of…
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3 Hurtful Trends In Educational Technology–And How To Mitigate Their Effects
Let’s play word association for a moment. When you read the word teacher, what’s the first image that pops in your head? How about school? What about technology? For me, technology is all about change. (I know that’s not really…
The Importance Of Branding Your Classroom
The Importance Of Branding Your Classroom Branding was one of the most important developments in business history. As the business landscape grew increasingly crowded, standing out—and reinforcing what makes you stand out in brief, emotional…
Why Apple Is In Trouble
Why Apple Is In Trouble by Terry Heick While it will be years before the long-term effects to its elegant product and billion-dollar brand are known, it’s clear that with the death of Steve Jobs,…
7 Pros And Cons Of Using Siri For Learning
At the time of its release with the iPhone 4S on Oct. 4, 2011, the personal assistant software known as Siri was touted as AI without compare in consumer electronics. It was going to revolutionize computing just as…
Five Ways Students Use Technology In The Classroom
The term “technology” is vague. In the right context, an arrowhead on the edge of a spear is technology. How learners view technology is often very different than how educators see it–the former often seeing…
10 Things The iPhone 5 Tells Us About The Mobile Future
With the release of iOS 6 and the imminent release of the iPhone 5, Apple has tipped its hand about our collective mobile future–and there might be some lessons educators can glean from it all….
5 Big Ideas Of The Google Chromebook
Google Chromebook’s have been out a while now, and haven’t received nearly the accolades as those heaped on products from Apple. While the reason why is more complicated than it seems, it also has something…
50 Apps For Recreational Learning
“There’s an app for that” might seem something of a cliche now, but it’s managed to swell into quite the digital age truism. Critics may dismiss mobile entertainment, education, and organization as The End Of…
TeachThought’s 10 Most Popular Posts On iPad Integration
TeachThought is officially ten weeks old (yay us!), and to celebrate that incredible milestone (which is also the same as the gestation period of the North American Box Turtle), we’re putting together posts that reflect…
Transformative Uses Of The iPad In The Classroom
Though embarrassingly popular, the iPad is in its relative infancy in terms of classroom application. Worldwide, educators are bringing Apple’s tablet into their learning environments and experimenting, establishing workflows (something we continue to explore) Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (of…
What The iPad’s Popularity Says About Education
Whether you find the iPad’s success energizing, interesting, or repulsive (we’ve seen all three reactions recently across our social media channels), there’s no denying its presence. The little glass rectangle from Cupertino has left a…















