5 Tips for Classroom Management With Mobile Devices. When adopting technology in the classroom, one of the key concerns for teachers and administrators is classroom management. I am often asked if there is a way to “lock down an iPad screen” or “ensure students cannot go to inappropriate websites” (e.g. Social Media). In other words, how do we keep students on task and are not distracted by the novelty of gadgets or communicating with friends via texting or social media. Often, teachers will take up devices (such as mobile phones) to avoid the issue of students texting or checking Facebook on their phones (eliminating access to a powerful, pocket computer in the process). Classroom management is a challenging skill which I consistently strive to improve on a regular basis.
Establish Clear Expectations Just as I start out the school year with “Class Rules” that we make and agree to as a group, we also establish expectations for when we use technology. Let them “Get the Giggles Out” Engagement is Key Two Eyes, Two Feet. Twitter in the classroom. EdTech Published on September 9th, 2013 | by Mark Anderson 11inShare Many is the blog post which highlights the ways in which Twitter is the best staffroom in the world but I’ve not seen too many that highlight the ways in which we can use Twitter in the classroom. Many teachers love to use Twitter as a resource to share, explore, discuss and ‘magpie’ ideas from other teachers and as a vehicle to help develop their own ideas and their own practice too.
Do’s 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. With all these lesson ideas, and they are by no means exhaustive – there are some things that you really should make sure too that you do not do… Don’ts 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. I am sure that you can add your own ideas to these, please share them in the comments below. E is for Explore: discovery, science, math, art, literacy, social studies and more! Happy New Year!! I have to say, I wasn’t heart broken to see 2012 go and welcome a year of new beginnings. 2012 felt…hard. And uninspired. I think that is what happens when you see a dream realized and then comes the part where you are in the middle of it, making it work and doing the HARD work. 2012 wasn’t a year I felt particularly creative. I miss that, it is part of my essence. I’ve been so incredibly busy, just working to keep everything going, that I had nothing left over. What it is: I discovered a new blog that I am absolutely loving!
How to integrate E is for Explore into the classroom: E is for Explore is a great tool for unit, center, and inquiry planning. As I plan out inquiry units and gather resources, I am always on the lookout for activities that will encourage students to explore and spark new curiosities. Tips: My hope is that iLearn Technology does for you what E if for Explore did for me. One iPad in the Classroom? – Top 10 Apps | dedwards.me.
Using Twitter to provide some quick and interesting lesson starters. I am a big fan of using multimedia as a way of stimulating children in discussions and writing. As the saying goes, 'a picture is worth a thousand words,' and using pictures and videos can really help children develop ideas and give them a purpose and focus for their writing. One website which is great for providing videos, pictures and other media that can be used in Literacy is the Literacy Shed.
Started by @Redgierob, this amazing resource provides so many amazing resources to cover every aspect of the Literacy curriculum.Click here to read more about using videos and pictures in Literacy. Many teachers are now starting to realise the massive benefits of using twitter as a way of building a learning network, sharing ideas, connecting with other great teachers and learning how to improve as a teacher to enhance the learning in their classroom.
Most teachers will follow other educators however I want to share some other types of accounts which are great to use as a focus in class. Flipped Classroom. Flipped Learning. Ask3 – An iPad App for Creating Flipped Video Lessons Your Students Can Actually Respond To. Ask3 is a free iPad app from TechSmith. TechSmith is probably best known as being the company that produces Jing and Camtasia screen capture software. Ask3 is a tool that teachers can use to create short instructional videos that are shared directly to their students’ iPads. Students can use Ask3 to ask questions about the video, mark the video with drawing tools, and create their own audio comments about the video. You share Ask3 videos to your students through a virtual workspace room. When you register as a teacher you are given a room number to share with your students.
Students then open the Ask3 app on their iPads, enter their names, create a password for themselves, and enter the room number that you gave them. Students do not have to have email addresses to use Ask3. Ask3 could be a great app to use to develop and share short tutorials with your students. 17 iPad Apps We Explored Using With High School Post-Graduates May 22, 2013 In "College" iPad Activities- Globally Connected Learning Consulting. 10 Maths Apps for 2013. Here is a collection of the ten most popular and used Maths apps by myself , my boys and teachers at my school.
Therefore this is not just a copy and paste of details from the app store, these apps have been road tested in the home and/or the classroom. Little Digits – Cowley Owl – £1.49 An innovative way to aid children as they learn to count with their fingers. Quite simply, however many of your ten fingers you place on your iPad that is the number shown and spoken back to you. Charlie, who is 4 , used this with me and we found that we could collaborate with numbers over 5 by using some of his fingers and some of mine.
It was a lovely way to help him learn to count. Download it from here. What Time is it Mr Wolf? I have found children in Key Stage 1, Foundation Stage and older children enjoy this app. Children to read the time by matching words with clocks. Download it from here Number Bonds Pro – Frogmeleon – £0.69 blocks for tackling more complex computations. Download it from here. For Teachers / The Padagogy Wheel of iPad Educaiton Apps. iPad App Evaluation for the Classroom. 60 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom By Category. Social media offers some great opportunities for learning in the classroom, bringing together the ability to collaborate, access worldwide resources, and find new and interesting ways to communicate in one easily accessible place.
Teachers around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool (including TeachThought’s favorite), and we’ve shared many of these great ideas here with you. Read on, and we’ll explore 60 inspiring ways that teachers and students can put Twitter to work in the classroom. Communication Twitter makes staying in touch and sharing announcements super simple and even fun. These ideas offer a great way to put the tool to good use. Organization Twitter’s hashtags and other tools share a great way to organize information for your classroom.
Resources Use these ideas to take advantage of the vast resources that Twitter has to offer. Writing Skills. Simple ways to use iPads in lessons. So a few weeks back I blogged about a lesson we'd done using the iPads, and tried to give the impression it happened every lesson when clearly it doesn't! Fraud that I am, I got away with it, to the tune of nearly a thousand hits apparently. Next step: To set up my own religion. I got several nice comments, and realised that a few people were interpreting this as a failsafe lesson using iPads, which wasn't quite the way I'd intended it. It worked for those students at that time of day. My point about iPads is really that they enhance learning if used as a tool, and in the same way that there are thousands of ways to skin a cat (or eat a horse apparently!) When it comes to teaching a lesson, so the variety of ways in which an iPad can be used is likewise pretty much infinite. Today, I tried another way...
Stage One: Stage Two: Stage Three: Another random selection picked out the people to present their definitions to the class, and off they went. Stage Four: Socrative tutorial Popplet tutorial. iPads in the classroom: embedding technology in the primary curriculum | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional. Last year David Andrews wrote for us about how he was using one-to-one devices in the classroom in the hugely popular blog post: An Apple for the teacher: are iPads the future in class? Here, he updates us on his progress and shares some of his favourite technology-led learning ideas. Since the start of September 2012 myself and a colleague, Chris Williams, have been trying to maximise the use of handheld technology (iPads and iPods) in year 6 in all areas of the curriculum. The potential for enhancing teaching and learning through technology has been particularly interesting: we've developed a range of apps using both iPads and iPods to engage, motivate and inspire pupils' learning in the classroom.
The school's 'Apple journey' began in June 2012. Once the year 6 SATs were finished, we gave both our year 6 classes a two-week project to build a controllable vehicle. Allowing the children to work in this manner shifted the learning from teacher-centred to child-centred.