5 iPad Apps Every Teacher Should Have. Just to wrap up our week of apps for teachers here are some favourites that will make your iPad a little more productive in the classroom. Enjoy iWork Until Microsoft release office for the iPad iWork offers the MS Works equivalent of a productivity suite for the iPad. Pages, Numbers and Keynote make for a fairly impressive productivity suite for $30, or $10 each. Teaching & Classroom Resources @ www.theteachinglab.com The Elements: A Visual Exploration: Sounds a bit pricey for a periodic table, but the vividly animated illustrations of every substance our world is made of more than make up for it. $14 Bento: Organize your Life Mobile Air Mouse: Do you use an Interactive whiteboard and have wireless keyboards and mice floating around the place that either don’t work or you have to actually sit in front of a computer to type something on your IWB.
DropBox: I own a laptop, 2 desktop PC’s at home, have files on the network at school and now have some stuff on my iPhone and an iPad. iPads in the Classroom.
Lessons for digital natives | Classroom innovation. Mount Everest has now got its own 3G mobile network, so the world of the digital native has just expanded. But what does it really mean? Ten years after Mark Prensky coined the phrase we still don't know what to make of our "digital natives". Yes, they are the people who have never seen a world without text, e-mail or Google. They are also the people who fill our classrooms, and increasingly our playgrounds to pick up their kids at the end of the day. But what to make of them? The digital native certainly isn't more digitally confident or competent than the rest of us. "Imagine you have been forced to leave your home and travel to another country. In fact, we probably make more of these moments than we think, and they often have greater impact than we imagine. We already know that pretty much any content that is not the pages of a text book or a summary of the learning objectives can be a catalyst for great learning.
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