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The document discusses using iPads in the classroom and provides tips and strategies for integrating them into lessons. It recommends several education apps, including Whiteboard Free for collaborative work, Super Why to teach letters and sounds, and Skype to allow students to communicate like walkie-talkies around the school. The document emphasizes using iPads to enhance student engagement, promote visual and social learning, and foster differentiated instruction through interactive activities.
I teach ilearn_math
- 1. Terri A. Stice, Director of Instructional Technology and Support Services Green River Regional Educational Cooperative
- 2. •Getting Past the un-deniable WOW Factor •Bloom’s and your iPad •Tips, Tricks, and Techniques to use with your iPad • Interactive learning for the Interactive generation
- 4. The iPad is a Learning Studio. It’s collaborative, compact and connects students to our “flat world”. It is also a different approach to computing and learning, one that doesn’t necessarily replicate how we’ve had students use computers in the past. If the expectation is that an iPad will be used as a computer replacement, then its potential hasn’t been tapped. An iPad used as a learning studio fosters a different kind of connection to information and learning. It provides immediate and quick access for classroom questions, or for teams of students to enter content, analyze data or interact with literature. It provides the basis for differentiated learning.
- 5. more than just easy storage and quick The long battery life, a combination of Apps, iTunes U and Internet access make it a good supplemental as well instrumental source of learning that is always on. Because of its size it can be a shared space for viewing and it is easy to transport. With wireless throughout the school it can be used indoors or out. Teachers can set up jigsaws, quests, listening & viewing stations, all with a differentiated focus - and better yet, so can students. It is an engaging companion that students can grab to direct their own learning. Each discipline can set up their own Learning Labs by folderizing Apps and sites. Explore and expand on some of
- 6. •Technologies can increase and enhance the use of effective instructional strategies • Teachers using technologies offer extensive testimonial evidence of positive effects in the classroom. • Our Challenge: A commitment to the Interactive Generation – we must use technologies to enhance and expand
- 7. •Physical interactions – Students using the technology - a good thing •Social interactions – Students using the technology to interact with peers, teachers, guests, and distance guests. • Cognitive interactions – The most important! Students are doing a great deal of the following: generating, asking, posing, analyzing, solving, deciding, clarifying, challenging, finding, understanding, proving, wondering, persuading, inferring,
- 8. •Visual literacy is becoming even more important. o Visual literacy is the ability to make meaning from images and to use images for communicating ideas. •Use images to enhance student learning . o A large body of research supports the instructional use of nonlinguistic representations.
- 9. • Engagement relies on students: attention, feelings, interest, perceptions of importance, sense of efficacy, emotion is the best way into the mind. • It is important to distinguish between compliant behavior and cognitive engagement. John Antonetti found....When • Effective teachers use good teaching strategies (Marzano) • Effective teachers think about the Bloom's Taxonomy level
- 10. John Antonetti
- 11. •Explicitly teach the importance of the learning goal(s). • Use activities that serve Learning Goals
- 12. •Home Button oPressing the Home button once displays the current page of apps oPressing the Home again displays the Spotlight, a search utility oDouble click the Home button to display the Multi-tasking bar containing recently accessed apps Check for understanding of other buttons: Sleep-Wake button, sound button, status
- 13. •Single Tap – on an app to launch the program, on a folder to open the folder, to display a photo • Double Tap – to zoom in on a photo or webpage, map • Tap and Hold – brings up copy, select, select all
- 17. •Safari (bookmarks vs. save to home screen) • Organizing Apps in folders • Screen Shots
- 19. Make Flash work on your iPad. A person interactive board.
- 20. 1 2 A number of iPad apps have email built in... i) You set up the kids' blogs on Posterous and add these to 3 4 Contacts on the iPad. ii) They use DrawingPad or similar authoring tool iii) They email the results to 5 6 their blog - no typing required and even pre-literate kids can usually spot their own name in Mark a list. Allen@edintheclouds
- 22. Install a painting app such as the free Doodle Buddy. Students can then use the iPad to draw their answers to questions as they would on a mini-whiteboard, but with less mess and no need for pens. The app can also be used (ESL) when doing description - iPad in pairs, one person describes hair and eyes in the target language, the other draws what they hear. Show # and let kids draw objects to match # (Show 3 and child draws 2 apples –
- 23. A few of my children have seen these two characters on iPhones at home, so it is great using a resource that parents have in the classroom. The characters listen to your voice and repeat what you say. You can 'film' the characters speaking and upload it to the internet. My Reception class has had a lot of fun learning how language works through this app. Most of the class was saying 'You're a silly cat' so that Talking Tom would repeat this, which they found hilarious. What surprised me was that one of my boys realized they should be saying 'I'm a silly cat' so that Talking Tom would repeat that phrase, and the joke had the desired effect.
- 24. @brandtschneider I made 15 skype accounts. I have a class set. Students can use the iPads as a walkie-talkie as they travel around the school. No video but all the other benefits of skype (free phone calls anywhere). You can also create a skype account to collect voice mails from students (oral reports, field
- 25. Whiteboard Free Whiteboard Free allows you to share iPad screens across a number of iPads. Once you open the app it asks if you want to 'share' your screen. Once you allow this it means that when 1 person write on their iPad it will be seen on the other iPads that it has been shared with. Great for sharing ideas and keywords during reading times. Also any other time where you want students to work collaboratively to write/share ideas! Free App!
- 26. Super Why This is an amazing app for teaching kids letters and letter sounds as well as spelling and speech sounds.
- 28. 1.Identify content specific Apps in iTunes Store. These apps should be of value to you and your students. 2.Evaluate the Apps and select the TOP 10 3.Note – the name of the APP and how you will use it in your educational setting. 4.What research based instructional strategy will you use?
- 29. •Each group member will present their list to the group. • After everyone has presented select your groups’ Top 10 Content Specific Apps, Top 2 Teacher Apps, and Top 3 Personal Apps • Each group will present their Top 10, 2, 3 list to whole group