By its very design, the iPad promotes consumption. Essentially
an interactive mobile screen, the combination of physical form
and supporting software-based user interface on Apple’s wunder-
tablet suggests watching and listening, enabling you to tear the
“monitor” off the desk and take it with you. By lacking a
keyboard, input and production aren’t quite as natural. That
isn’t necessarily because the iPad can’t accommodate such input,
but rather that the software–and our habits as users–haven’t
completely caught up with the not-insignificant shift in
interface. But it doesn’t have to be that way. One microcosm of
the potential of the iPad in learning is the concept of visual
recording. Visual recording is what it sounds like it’d be. As
opposed to recording audio, visual recording captures visuals,
though not necessarily in photographic form. The process of
visually capturing ideas with the iPad isn’t terribly complex in
concept. If you can think of concept-mapping, you’re halfway
there. But executing it in pr