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20 ways to use a tablet in the classroom. Whatever model of Android or iOS tablet you have available, it’s a hugely versatile tool when it comes to educating and entertaining children.

20 ways to use a tablet in the classroom

Here are some of the best apps and features you can make use of in the classroom – some of which you have to pay for and others that are free. 1 Dive into 360-degree videos This is the most basic form of virtual reality, a full sphere of video centred on the spectator who can view an environment in any direction. The content works with VR headsets but is also available through browsers and mobile devices. Launch a 360-degree video in the Facebook or YouTube apps and children can tilt it around to change the view as the clip plays (a simple search should turn up some 360-degree content that will be clearly labelled). 2 Get creative with photo taking The Android and iOS camera apps are simple enough to use and can be deployed to record anything from a field trip diary to the results of a science experiment or a class art show.

20 ways to use a tablet in the classroom. 3 apps para gestionar sentimientos. Five iPad Apps That Help Students Start Creative Stories. In the year that I taught language arts before moving into the social studies department one of the challenges that my students faced in writing short stories was coming up with ideas to get started.

Five iPad Apps That Help Students Start Creative Stories

I held a lot of brainstorming sessions with those students. Today, there are lots of apps that can help students generate creative story ideas. Here are five worth taking a look at. Things to Think About is a free iPad app that offers 100 writing prompts created by students for students. The prompts were created by 2nd through 5th grade students in Jackson County, Michigan. Write About This is an iPad app (free and paid versions available) containing visual, text, voice writing prompts for students. 5 Fantastic Apps for Digital Storytelling on iPads. This is a guest post from Samantha Morra of EdTechTeacher.org Computers, and the digital tools on those computers, brought video editing to the classroom years ago.

5 Fantastic Apps for Digital Storytelling on iPads

As those tools became easier to use, more and more students were given opportunities to share and demonstrate knowledge using video. iPad continues to transform the process by integrating the key elements of digital storytelling - capturing photos, videos, and audio - all in one mobile device. Through apps, iPad provides a variety of options for how to compose or combine those key elements to create an effective demonstration of learning. Digital storytelling is a powerful tool in the classroom. It is engaging for students and teachers of all grade levels and can be used across the curriculum. 50 Of The Best Resources For iPads In Education.

El instituto en la tableta. 12 Ways To Integrate (Not Just Use) Technology In Education. 17 propuestas para el Día del Libro. El iPad como herramienta para trabajar la competencia lingüística. Mariví Casado - Dedos. El iPad, sin duda alguna, se está convirtiendo en una herramienta muy potente en el ámbito educativo, y digo que se está convirtiendo, ya que todavía no está tan presente en las aulas como un ordenador.

El iPad como herramienta para trabajar la competencia lingüística. Mariví Casado - Dedos

Como profesora de lengua, la mayoría de las actividades que realizo con la tablet están planificadas para la mejora y desarrollo de la competencia lingüística de mis alumnos.Es importante señalar que la utilización del iPad proporciona algo importante para el éxito de una actividad lectiva: la motivación. Cualquier actividad que se plantee a los alumnos en la que intervenga el dispositivo va a contar, para empezar, con la motivación que produce el uso de la tableta, aunque simplemente sea una actividad de lectura. Hay muchísimas aplicaciones para iPad, pero al final, por experiencia, se acaban utilizando sólo algunas, aquellas con las que tanto alumnos como profesores se encuentran más cómodos y tienen un mayor dominio. iPad y Realidad Aumentada uso en el aula. Easy iPad Projects for Elementary Students.

6 Examples Of Successful Classroom Tablet Integration. In an unplanned series of sorts, we’re showcasing a couple of posts about the 2013 NMC/EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Horizon Report for Higher Education . We’ve already talked about the key trends in the report and some challenges we face in implementing education technology , so we’re ready to take a look at the six technologies highlighted in the report as being game-changers for education. Ideas para un proyecto con tabletas. iPads in Education- Examples from the Classroom. De la Tableta al Tablet. Top 3 problems with tablets in the classroom. By Beth Bacon Educators—and students—are enthusiastic about tablets, but the new technology can be problematic.

Top 3 problems with tablets in the classroom

One million iPads. That’s the number of tablets Apple sold to schools and colleges in the year before the current school year. It’s roughly double the number sold in the education market during the previous year. In the same conference call where Apple announced the exponential growth of iPads, they also announced a decline in sales of Macintosh computers to schools and colleges. Education, traditionally slow to adopt new technology, is bucking tradition snapping up iPads faster than many people have expected. El iPad en manos de alumnos de parvulario. Using iPads In Scientific Fieldwork. In Earth Science, fieldwork represents a significant learning opportunity – it contextualises much of the theory taught in class, and engages students in the scientific processes of collecting and organising observational data.

Using iPads In Scientific Fieldwork

This year, the limitations of traditional methods – pencil, paper and digital camera – were removed through the use of iPads and the Numbers app. Traditionally, while engaging in fieldwork, students made handwritten notes and drawings. More recent classes have taken photos with cameras / phones and then, after the excursion, labelled these images in Word or something similar. The biggest drawbacks of these techniques have been illegible or poorly sequenced notes, and inaccuracies in image labels due to time delays between fieldwork and accessing a computer.

This year, each of my students took their iPad 2 into the field, using it as the main tool for collecting and organising observations. How A Classroom Of iPads Changed My Approach To Learning. Recently, my wife and I had the opportunity to take our kids on an overseas family holiday. About a third of the way through our trip as I tiredly walked to yet another airport terminal, I found myself thinking, “I know how check-in works. Someone at a counter will tell me what to do, so I can turn off and just go with it.” On entering the terminal, we found self check-in kiosks and one distinctly disinterested attendant hiding behind a counter at the far end of the hall. We struggled through the process – our first encounter with such a system – telling each other what to do, making a simple process much harder than it really needed to be. 25 Ways To Use Tablets In The Classroom. When I was a kid, I dreamt about our school desks as computer screens.

How cool would it have been to be able to draw, write, and learn directly onto my own computer? As the years went on, people theorized that laptops would take over the classroom, but the price of these devices was too high for a 1 to 1 ratio. It never quite caught on in lower grade schools. See Also: 25 Ways To Use iPads In The Classroom by Degree of Difficulty Now, it is the age of the tablet. Yet, some educators are still skeptical. 1. Tablets y Game-Based Learning: nuevas formas de aprender jugando. 21 Reasons To Use Tablets In The 21st Century Classroom. 21 Reasons To Use Tablets In The 21st Century Classroom by Julie DeNeen, opencolleges.edu.au When I was a kid, I dreamt about our school desks as computer screens.

How cool would it have been to be able to draw, write, and learn directly onto my own computer? As the years went on, people theorized that laptops would take over the classroom, but the price of these devices was too high for a 1 to 1 ratio. Apple & Educación. 9 Outstanding Apps to Teach Creative Writing. 10 i pad projects students will love. Pair Activities With the iPad. 6 Apps That Teach Math Concepts. For young learners, there are a plethora of apps out there to help learn how to count, and for older learners, often times a graphing calculator or scientific calculator app will do the trick.

6 Apps That Teach Math Concepts

But what about all of those students in between? You know, the ones who already know how to count, but have to learn a multitude of math concepts that most of their parents have long forgotten? We’re taking a look at 6 apps that are easy to use and teach more than just counting. Geometry Pattern Blocks This app allows you to create virtual geometrical shapes using a grid. Elementary Technology from Southfield Christian School. iPads in the classroom reinvigorate teachers. We often hear about the iPad's impact on students and their academic achievement, but a new article in Edudemic also discusses the effect iPads are having on teachers.

iPads in the classroom reinvigorate teachers

The report comes from Fred Sitkins, principal of Boyne City Elementary School in Boyne City, Mich., who writes "I've never observed anything else that has had the impact on teacher personal learning like the introduction of the iPad. " Teachers are invigorated by this new learning tool in their classroom and are changing their teaching style as a result of this technology. Rather than pushing rote knowledge, teachers are becoming "facilitators of student learning.

" They are helping their students learn how to process information, not just memorize it, and they are increasing their own skills as well. iPad in schools 102. iPad Published on November 17th, 2012 | by Mark Anderson I’m being asked over and over again at the moment about iPads and how they can be used in education.

iPad in schools 102

Here are some of the questions I’ve been asked lately. “My Head has given me 30 iPads and an Apple TV, what do I do?” Apps iPad Proyectos Multimedia Infantil y Primaria. 10 apps per a fer una radio a l'escola. iPads for Learning - Getting Started. 10 apps para producir una radio escolar. 12 Crucial Questions to Ask before Using iPad with your Students. 40 iPad Apps For Homeschooled Students. El iPad llega a la escuela. La mayoría de los institutos catalanes debate estos días si sigue con el portátil en las aulas.

El iPad llega a la escuela

Otros centros, mientras, han decidido dar un salto e ir más allá en la aplicación de las nuevas tecnologías en la educación. 8 ideas para usar el cómic en el aula y apps para crearlos en iPad y Android. La semana pasada me afrontaba al reto de inventar, junto con mi hijo, una historia en donde él fuera el protagonista e ilustrar el relato con fotografías, enganchando la creación final en un álbum de papel. iPads in Schools. How To Capture Ideas Visually With The iPad. By its very design, the iPad promotes consumption. Essentially an interactive mobile screen, the combination of physical form and supporting software-based user interface on Apple’s wunder-tablet suggests watching and listening, enabling you to tear the “monitor” off the desk and take it with you. By lacking a keyboard, input and production aren’t quite as natural. That isn’t necessarily because the iPad can’t accommodate such input, but rather that the software–and our habits as users–haven’t completely caught up with the not-insignificant shift in interface.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. One microcosm of the potential of the iPad in learning is the concept of visual recording. Visual recording is what it sounds like it’d be. iPad/iPod Resources. iPads and iPods in Education - @Ideas_Factory The blog of Julian S. Wood. 20 Awesome iPad Apps That Will Teach Your Kids to Read. Education Apps / List of Free Educational Apps. The Top 17 Free Digital Stotytelling Apps for The iPad. It's the Pedagogy, Stupid: Lessons from an iPad Lending Program. Códigos QR y uso del iPad en el aula. Del webquest a la appquest. iOS Education App Reviews and Web Sites.

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