Arts. A look at teaching. Learning Initiative 7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs. iPads. Teacher's Pick for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store. iBuildApp - Create Android and iPhone App, Free, No Coding Required. 7 Time-Saving iPad Tips For Teachers. The iPad is a great tool for a classroom . It will soon be the case that any educator will feel as though the iPad is entirely necessary. One of the reasons for this is because it is a tool that quashes inequality in the classroom. Children with disabilities have been able to use iPads and work at the same speed as the other children. Another reason for the popularity of this machine is because it makes the educator’s job easier. They can teach better than ever before, but only if they know how to use it properly.
Use your thumbs If one splits the keyboard into two parts then they can easily type by using their thumbs. Definition The iPad has a built-in dictionary, and it is one that students can use themselves. Spoken word This is one of the features that help bring together a classroom of students with differing abilities. Mirroring An iPad can be connected to a screen or projector so that they mirror each other. Zooming This sounds a bit like an extreme sport, doesn’t it? iPad. Twitter Resources. Twitter. Allan's Blog.
Powered by Traduttore When I received the invitation from the new Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, I decided to completely upgrade two seminar workshops.
Dr Ian Green from the School of Education here at Adelaide and I have used Padagogy101 (introduction to iPad in HE) and Padagogy201 (more advanced use for L&T) to train over 600 faculty from universities in Australia. For Singapore, Ian wasn’t going to be with me and I was solo, as well I needed a better way to leave resources in place for people to revisit. However I was completely surprised at what else happened. It was a huge amount of work to meet the Singapore deadlines and involved quite a bit of lost sleep. With the action verbs. I have added 62 iPad apps to the wheel and put them where they could serve the pedagogy.
When I first posted this blog entry I had the files and resources for the presentations in my Public folder of my dropbox. Education. Bloom’s Taxonomy Paint Palette. Posted by admin | Posted in Anastasis Academy, Blooms Taxonomy, Grade Level, professional development, Teacher Resources | Posted on 18-07-2013 Tags: analyze, anastasis, apply, Art, artist, blend, blooms taxonomy, create, evaluate, graphic, kelly Tenkely, knowledge, learning, paint palette, painting, remember, understand An article I read this week had me thinking about Bloom’s Taxonomy and what learning really is.
It led to me coming up with a new graphic for Bloom’s Taxonomy, this one a Paint Palette. I like thinking about Bloom’s in the form of an artist paint palette because each color has equal importance. For an artist, the greatest beauty comes in the mixing of colors. At Anastasis, we encourage our students to look at learning through a variety of lenses and outcomes.