Nearpod for 1 to 1 Classrooms. 17 Ways Teachers Are Using iPhones In Education. Think iPhones don’t belong in the classroom? Well, think again. Technology in higher education is going mobile, and smartphones are becoming more and more ingrained in daily life for faculty and students alike. At Education Dive, we have already looked at the role of Apple’s iPad in schools , as well as some of the major app releases that educations should be paying attention to. We know know Android phones are useful and that some schools are looking at Windows phones . Nevertheless, Apple still has a formidable app store, and colleges and universities are finding some brilliant ways to work the devices into tech initiatives. 1. PROJECTION Using Epson’s iProjection App , instructors at Kirkwood Community College in Iowa are able to project content from iPhones, iPads or iPods through Epson3LCD PowerLite projectors via a wireless connection. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
Strategies for Taking Flight with BYOT. (Cross-posted at Bold Visions and BYOT Network and cowritten by Jill Hobson, Director of Instructional Technology – Forsyth County Schools) The Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified 4 critical areas of learning for students that include creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. In Forsyth County Schools, we’ve been working hard with parents, teachers and students to embrace learning with student-owned technologies; something we call Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT). What we know for sure is that BYOT is really more like Bring Your Own Learning because we’ve discovered that it is NOT about the technology – it IS about the learning. The video, Above and Beyond, by Peter H. Reynolds and produced for the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, is a wonderful illustration of what is possible when students are given the freedom to personalize the learning experience for themselves.
As you watch the video, you might consider the following questions: Like this: Bring Your Own Device Toolkit. Four Free Assessment Apps for 1:1 Classrooms. One-to-one technology can transform a classroom. When implemented correctly, students are engaged and excited to learn, and teachers can assess their progress in real-time. The amount of technology resources available for educators can be overwhelming. Whether your students regularly visit a computer lab, borrow a cart of laptops, or have access to a class set of iPads, there are a variety of assessment tools that are free and customizable. These online resources can be used before, during, and after a daily lesson or semester-long unit.
Here’s a list of free assessment tools that I love and use in my own classroom: Assessing Student Understanding: Create your own assessments using Socrative. Don’t worry about uploading class lists or creating individual accounts because students type in their names as the first question they answer. Assessing Student Work So much more than Facebook for your classroom, Edmodo is a fantastic tool for collecting student work and assigning quizzes. Project Copernicus - Mrs. Campea's Land of Language Arts. BYOT Information. The York County School Division is recognized as an international leader in the effective practice of BYOT, Bring Your Own Technology, which encourages students to bring their personal technology tools to school for learning.
YCSD was named a 2012-2013 Microsoft Innovative Pathfinder School District as a result of the division’s BYOT initiative. As students utilize their personal technology devices in school, they can learn new ways to use them for collaborating and interacting with their teachers and each other to research information, solve complex problems, create original products, and publish their work. BYOT was first introduced to secondary students at the start of the 2011-12 school year.
The program has now expanded to include an e-Reader program for students in grades 3-5. General Information. 6 pillars of a 1:1 initiative SmartBlogs. This past November I was offered the position of director of technology for the Greater Clark County School district in Jeffersonville, Ind. It’s a great honor and I’m excited about what the future holds for the community here!
Among many other things, I have been asked to look at starting a 1:1 initiative. So it got me thinking about what pillars I should be looking for and promoting in a 1:1 movement. Here is my list in no certain order: 1. Learning initiative A 1:1 movement cannot be about the device. 2. In my opinion, there can’t be enough professional development. 3. Like any great technological advancement, it doesn’t matter what it does if it doesn’t work. 4. How we conduct ourselves online and offline matters. 5. I can’t say that I’m a proponent of going bring-you-own-device only. 6. Moving from a traditional classroom to a 1:1 classroom takes time and patience. I’m interested to read your thoughts. Technology & Information Services / BYOT FAQ. How many schools are involved in your BYOT program? One hundred percent of schools in the district are now involved in the BYOT program. How many classrooms are involved in your BYOT program? On average, forty-six percent of classrooms in each school are fully engaged in using BYOT on a regular basis.
Has the school system upgraded your internet connections? During the summer of 2011, FCS upgraded Internet access to a total of 1.25 Mbps. For redundancy the district aggregates 3 circuits from different providers. How does the school system secure the network from viruses and other possible issues with users bringing in their own devices? The school system has two SSIDs that are accessible. Did the school system have to upgrade the wireless network? Through special purpose funding approved by the Forsyth County Voters, the district installed a wireless network in every school in 2007. What professional development did you provide your teachers? What hurdles have you faced since implementation? Byotnetwork - home.
50 Free Android Apps Being Used In Education Right Now. Added by Katie Lepi on 2012-10-10 I’ll admit it. I’m a fan of Apple products. But that doesn’t mean I don’t yearn for some of the fabulous features on Android phones too. Until the day when Apple and Google merge (ha!) , we’re left with a split marketplace of apps. Edudemic doesn’t cover Android as much as it deserves so this useful list should be a helpful start. I’ve searched around for each of these apps and found interesting stories on how most are being used in classrooms and education right now. Toddlers Kids Numbers and Math Lite : Educational game maker Intellijoy offers this free game to effectively teach preschoolers numbers, addition, subtraction, and more without sensory overload. Elementary and Middle School Brain Café – GeoQuiz : With a beautiful interface and strong database of questions, GeoQuiz is a great program for testing young learners’ knowledge of global geography. High school and College Class Help and Study Aids Andie Graph : Want to save $90?
Comments are closed. Evaluation Rubric for Educational Apps. Harry Walker is the principal of Sandy Plains Elementary School in Baltimore County, Maryland. Fourth and fifth graders at the school are piloting one-to-one computing with iPod touches. In addition, Harry is a doctoral student at John Hopkins University. He's investigating the impact of iPod touch on student achievement. One of his challenges is wading through the huge number apps available. He's crafted a rubric to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of an app in terms of how it may impact student achievement. His criteria include curriculum connection, authenticity, feedback, differentiation, user friendliness, and student motivation.
Click to view the PDF. Harry is looking for feedback about his rubric. Don't forget there's a great app review community at iear.org where educators review educational apps. The Biggest Problems (And Solutions) For Technology Integration In Classrooms. Mobile Learning: Resource Roundup. From smartphones and tablets, to MP3 players and e-readers, today's students have a variety of mobile technologies at their fingertips. Here's a look at some mobile learning resources from Edutopia and around the Web. Join the Conversation about Mobile Learning Mobile Devices for Learning: What You Need to Know Our newest classroom guide offers tips for getting kids engaged with learning, focused on working smarter, and ready for the future. This downloadable PDF can help you better understand how mobile gadgets -- cell phones, tablets, and smartphones -- can engage students and change their learning environment.
This Edutopia guide is sponsored by Google, provider of Google Apps for Education. Edutopia's Mobile Classroom Pinboard on Pinterest 50+ additional mobile resources -- what you need to know about BYOD, 1:1 programs, education apps, mobile devices and more. Mobile Learning Discussions in our Groups: Back to Top Cell Phones: Classroom Tool or Invasive Nuisance?
BYOD in 10 steps. Mobile learning lets pupils move toward personalised, anytime/anywhere learning, with access to the wealth of information and resources on the web at their fingertips. But budget concerns often leave schools without the ability to provide every student with their own device. And research increasingly shows that students already own those devices anyway. More and more schools are implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programmes, which allow students to bring their own SmartPhone, iPod touch, iPad, tablet or other device into school. An obvious benefit is the lower cost of implementing a mobile learning programme when compared to a traditional school-supplied device roll-out. Giving pupils the ability to choose and use the device they are most comfortable with also promotes personalised learning and problem-solving; it can create a multi-device classroom where students work collaboratively to choose the best device for a given task, often switching between devices.
Cover the whys. The 60-Second Guide To Teaching With Tablets. 5 Reasons We Use Social Media 9.58K Views 0 Likes There are many reasons we use social media. From the basic to the more advanced, the tool is simply ubiqutious and addictive. This infographic sheds some light for us all. Enriching literacy with cell phones? 3 ideas to get started SmartBlogs. September is National Literacy Month, and what better way to celebrate and promote literacy than focusing on the tools that students own and love: their cellphones! Using cellphones to enhance learning does not require that they be used in class. If you are in a school where cellphones are banned, the ideas shared here are also applicable outside of class. Cellphones are a great tool for enriching literacy instruction. Here are three ways innovative educators can use the tools in their students’ pockets for learning inside or outside the classroom. Texting drafts Students are reading and writing more than ever.
In the classroom: Texting has become the shorthand of the 21st century. Oral reports Google Voice is one of many tools that can capture students’ voices. In the classroom: Have students do their oral reports using Google Voice. Video Most cellphones today can shoot video. In the classroom: Have students record themselves acting out chapters of a book they are reading. BYOT.pdf (application/pdf Object) Levels of Use in BYOT – Transforming Learning Experiences. When students are encouraged to bring their own technology to school, this initiative has the potential to empower students and teachers in their learning experiences. We now have BYOT being implemented in all 35 schools in my district, and it is still gradually spreading from classroom to classroom. We have noticed varying levels of use of the technology devices that the students are bringing to school, yet our goal is to achieve the optimal potential of BYOT to impact student learning.
To describe the use of instructional technology in our classrooms, we use Bernajean Porter’s Grappling’s Technology and Learning Spectrum to differentiate between Literacy, Adapting, and Transforming uses of technology. In fact, this spectrum has been incorporated into the classroom observation of our teachers to help focus on areas of strength and potential areas for future growth. Literacy Uses Adapting Uses Transforming Uses The Next Steps… Please share your ideas for additional transforming uses of BYOT… 7 Myths About BYOD Debunked. BYOD | Viewpoint 7 Myths About BYOD Debunked Lisa Nielsen, the author of "Teaching Generation Text: Using Cell Phones to Enhance Learning" and "The Innovative Educator" blog, believes it is time to shatter a few myths about students bringing their own devices (BYOD) to school.
By Lisa Nielsen11/09/11 More than a decade into the 21st century and we are still keeping learners and teachers prisoners of the analog past by enforcing outdated mandates that ban and block them from using the digital resources of their world. Fortunately, today’s students are standing up, speaking out, and, in many cases, using the technology and websites they do not have access to in school to do so. It’s time to listen to the students (and many of their parents and teachers) and shed light on misconceptions by dispelling common myths about bringing your own device (BYOD) to school. Myth No. 1: BYOD deepens the digital divide. Myth No. 2: BYOD will result in lessons geared toward the weakest device. Bring Your Own Technology to School from NBC5. BYOD in the 21st Century. Learning@Lightspeed - The Lightspeed Systems Blog. Recently PTAC (Privacy Technical Assistance Center, U.S. Department of Education) released a new publication, Protecting Student Privacy While Using Online Educational Services: Requirements and Best Practices.
You can get the full publication here. FERPA (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) protects personally identifiable information (PII) from student records from unauthorized disclosure. But with new technologies and services, those guidelines have a lot of exceptions and nuances; this new report aims to clear up confusion and provide updated guidelines in the face of new tools. The report shares advice and information to help schools protect student privacy while using software, apps, and web-based tools. Lightspeed Systems solutions (including My Big Campus, Mobile Manager, and our Web Filter) are such technologies, classified by PTAC as Online Educational Services.
We stay on top of these issues, and the new report doesn’t require any changes in our policies. The 4 Big Reasons You Should Try Mobile Learning. Getting Parents On Board with Technology in the Classroom. 10 BYOT / BYOD Back to School Basics. Technology & Information Services / Tech Tours Jump Page. Teaching the 4 C’s in BYOT. BYOT/BYOD. Mobile Devices in Education. BYOT_Tour_flyer.pdf (application/pdf Object) BYOD Questions to Consider. Primary Pad · Superfunky Collaborative Writing For Schools. Intro to the First Week of BYOT. Technology & Information Services / BYOT Resources.