“Using Apple TV in a lesson is FANTASIC!” Simon Haughton, a primary school ICT manager in the UK, blogs.
“Having read about it online I sort of knew what to expect but it was only when I actually tried it out in a lesson did I realise the huge impact that it has on teaching and learning:,” Haughton writes. “When I used it in Year 4 on Friday, the children were that impressed by the whole setup that they even asked me to mirror the iPad screen of one of the more confident children for a short while so that they could watch the process they did to create such super work.”
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