iPad Teacher Guide sur Twitter : "#iPadEd Keyboard Trick, add ➗symbol using the iOS 8 Emoji keyboard. iPad Teachers - iPad Teacher Guide. Mark Anderson's Blog | education, learning & technology. 9 Tips For Teachers Who Just Got iPads. I’m often amazed by the power of the web. From Twitter’s role in shaping professional development to what a simple post on a site like Edudemic can do. This post is one such example . Holly Clark ( of EdTech Diva fame ) posted an article on Edudemic that caught the eye of Richard Wells in New Zealand ( of ipad4schools fame ). Richard whipped up a fabulous visual that you see below. It’s a visual interpretation of Holly’s article and I’m totally blown away by the whole set of events. It shows you just how powerful technology is. The iPad is being handed out to hundreds of thousands of students at a time . If you just got an iPad then congratulations!
The below tips are just the, um, tip of the iceberg. Note: You’ll probably want to click the image to enlarge it. iPad Research in Schools. Last updated on 2/5/2014 Print this page1 The Technology Enhanced Learning Research group, led by Kevin Burden (Principal Investigator) based in the Faculty of Education, has completed the first national evaluation to investigate the use and impact of tablet technologies (in this case the iPad), across schools and homes in Scotland. The study was based in eight schools and six local authorities across Scotland where iPad devices were being piloted to investigate a range of issues associated with the deployment of personal mobile devices as tools for teaching and learning.
This follows the announcement and launch in May 2012 by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning in Scotland (Mr. Michael Russell) of a series of pilots6 to assess the issues associated with personal ownership of technologies for learning. Findings and further details The study focused on four principal themes related to the use of mobile devices as personal tools for teaching and learning. iPad Apps for School | The Best iOS Apps for Students and Teachers. Global Tagging and Evidence of School Improvement. I was first introduced to global tagging by John Sutton about 6 months ago and thought this was worth sharing. A really detailed blog post by John (certainly worth reading) can be viewed here. If you have a Multi Site blog, with class blogs set up, you have some additional power that you might not have come across.
You probably know about tagging, but if you don’t, tagging posts is one of the most useful things you can do to blog posts. Not only do Search Engines use Tags to find and list your blog posts, tagging posts also make it much easier to find blog posts. However, there is a powerful plugin out there – WordPress Multi Site Global Site Tags. One thing I have tried to do with my blogs over the last 4 years of blogging is to take as many pictures as possible of children showing the characteristics of effective learning. Once you have the global Site Plugin installed, head to your widgets section on your homepage dashboard, locate the plugin as shown in the picture here: