12 Of The Best Math iPad Apps Of 2012. 25 Ways To Use iPads In The Classroom by Degree of Difficulty. In case you haven’t heard the news, we’re putting out a special mini-issue early next week. It’ll be available in the Edudemic Magazine iPad app and, best of all, FREE to subscribers! If you’re not (yet) a subscriber, it’ll be just $0.99. The following is an excerpt from just one of the articles in the mini-issue. It’s all about iPads in education, Apple’s role in the future of learning, and much more than that. So you’ve got one or a few iPads that you want to use in the classroom. 5 Free iPad Apps I Love Using In My Classroom. My students love using their iPads for everything.
Sometimes it’s hard to determine how to create activities that are meaningful and fun. Students who are encouraged to be an active participant in their learning, retain more information and are more engaged in their learning process. Listed below are 5 of my favorite app-tivities to use in my class. They all are free and very easy to create. For printables and directions, visit me at: www.funintegratingtechnology.blogspot.com.
Wordsalad This app creates word clouds in a quick, fast, fun way! Corkulous This app is a sticky note app that allows the creater to create sticky notes on a cork style board. BingoBaker Create free printable Bingo Cards with Bingo Baker (www.bingobaker.com). Think – Pair – Share Students can use an app such as Corkulous or Notes to create their thoughts of a passage, problem, etc. JigSaw Many apps (Notes, KeyNotes, SonicPics, StoryKit, Sock Puppet etc.) will allow you use the JigSaw method in your class. K-5 iPad Apps According to Bloom's Taxonomy. An elementary library media specialist reviews iPad apps as they map to an updated version of Bloom's Taxonomy in this six-part series.
Diane Darrow is an artist, Reading Recovery teacher, and library media specialist at Bel Aire Elementary in Tiburon, CA. You can follow her on Twitter at @dianedarrow. In this six-part series, I will highlight apps useful for developing higher order thinking skills in grades K-5 classrooms. Each list will highlight a few apps that connect to the various stages on Bloom's continuum of learning. Given the size and current exponential growth of the app market, I will also assist educators in setting criteria necessary to identify apps that maintain the integrity of teaching for thinking.
Part One: K-5 iPad Apps for Remembering Part Two: K-5 iPad Apps for Understanding Part Three: K-5 iPad Apps for Applying Part Four: K-5 iPad Apps for Analyzing Part Five: K-5 iPad Apps for Evaluating Part Six: K-5 iPad Apps for Creating. Ipad1. iPad_Programme_Information_Booklet_2012. iPad fury: Parents furious after school tells them to buy tablet for children. Headteacher of Rossett School in Harrogate, North Yorks, causes anger with requestSome parents say they can't afford the £300 tablet and fear 'two-tier' inequality By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 12:37 GMT, 8 December 2012 | Updated: 12:37 GMT, 8 December 2012 Hard-up parents were left furious after a school asked them to fork out hundreds of pounds on iPads for lessons and homework.
Staff at Rossett School in Harrogate, North Yorkshire told children to ask their parents to buy them the £300 tablet for their work. But the request has infuriated parents, hundreds of whom attended a showdown meeting with the headteacher over the cost. A row has broken out at Rossett School in Harrogate, North Yorkshire after parents were asked to buy iPads for their children One parent at the 1,400-pupil co-educational, which has academy status, said: 'This could create a two tier system. 'We can probably afford one, but not everyone can, especially if you have more than one child. 5 Innovative Mind-Mapping Tools For Education. What do you do when you have an elaborate project, assignment, or paper that needs to be quickly organized? Do you fire up Microsoft Word and whip up an outline? Do you pull out a pen and paper and start sketching? What if you could have the best of both options with a free online tool?
It’s called ‘mind mapping’ (“Mind Map” is a trademark of the Buzan Organization .) and it’s basically a fun and intuitive way to visually organize your thoughts. Thanks to a recent article , I received an influx of mind-mapping web tools that I wanted to pass along to the Edudemic audience. Enjoy! XMind Definitely one of the easiest ways to embed a mind map into your blog or website. The biggest feature to me is the ‘Pro’ feature which lets you record what an audience (or your classroom) says directly into the mind map as an .mp3. MindMeister MindMeister is a powerful tool that is great for mind-mapping on the go. The killer tool is far and away the ability to collaborate, though. iMindMap SpiderScribe.net.