On our second full day of iPad inquiry, we’re going local. What’s up in the community of Chico that’s interesting enough to conduct an inquiry? Good question. These links may help us figure that out before we head out the door and do some digging ourselves.

• Local Inquiry: Chico (a prezi document)
• Local Inquiry: Chico (an iBooks document) (try here if the other gives you trouble)
• Local Inquiry: Chico (a PDF in case the iBooks  doc crashes or otherwise misbehaves–not that such a thing ever happens when using new technology!)

The Northern California Writing Project is hosting a year-long inquiry group focused on using iPads to teach the new Common Core standards in literacy (get the whole standards document, including appendices, in a single PDF file). Approximately 20 teachers, from primary grades through college, will be collaborating, cooperating, playing, testing, reading, thinking, and otherwise engaging in the kinds of work that generally goes along with inquiry. In preparation for our first meeting (here’s the agenda for our first day), I’ve compiled a list of some online resources where people are thinking and writing about the place of iPads in schools. In no particular order:

• Readings
• iPads in the Classroom are Changing the Face of Education
• iPads in the Classroom
• Teaching and Learing: Using iPads in the Classroom
• Educators Evaluate Learning Benefits of iPad
• New Study Finds iPads in the Classroom Boost Test Scores
• Ushering iPad into the Classroom
• iPad in Schools
• A Day in the Life of the iPad Classroom
• Resources
• 50 Resources for iPad Use in the Classroom
• Quick list of iPad resources for the classroom
• iPads for Learning (Victoria, Australia)
• Kathy Schrock’s Guide to iPads in the Classroom
• Surprisingly Educational Apps
• Digital Storytelling
• Mobile Digital Storytelling with StoryKit, Storyrobe, and SonicPics
• Apps for Digital Storytelling
• Comic Life in the Classroom

We’re hopeful that all of the participants, armed with iPads, will get some good composition hacking done in the 2012-13 school year!

Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering why we’d need to do this in the first place, this video may have something to do with it: