25 Ways To Use iPads In The Classroom by Degree of Difficulty In case you haven’t heard the news, we’re putting out a special mini-issue early next week. It’ll be available in the Edudemic Magazine iPad app and, best of all, FREE to subscribers! If you’re not (yet) a subscriber, it’ll be just $0.99. The following is an excerpt from just one of the articles in the mini-issue. So you’ve got one or a few iPads that you want to use in the classroom. Fast Tracking a Ph.D. When I arrived at Pennsylvania State University’s College of Communications in the fall of 2001, I felt all of the sensations that accompany a fresh start: excitement, relief, uncertainty, trepidation, dread. The dread of living on a stipend that was less than half my former salary propelled me to wonder how quickly I could finish this degree and return to “real life.” At the college’s grad student orientation, we were told that the funding for Ph.D. students had recently been cut in order to admit more students: instead of a four-year teaching assistantship, we were assured three years. He cautioned us about losing our way; Ph.D. students took an average time of six years at the college to finish their degree. These words made me all the more anxious to plow through to the end. I devoured my college’s grad programs handbook and strategized. Truth be told, it’s even more amazing that I finished in that time since I am not a very ambitious or driven person.
10 Important Questions To Ask Before Using iPads in Class Digital Tools Teaching Strategies Lenny Gonzales By Terry Heick When it comes to deciding how or whether to use iPads, schools typically focus on budget issues, apps, networking logistics, check-in and check-out procedures, school and district tech-use policies, hardware precautions, and aspects of classroom management. But it’s also important to think about instructional use, and to that end, consider the following questions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Also worth considering: How can parents, families, and local businesses be involved in procuring, managing, or integrating iPads in the classroom? These kinds of questions can help you get the most out of the iPad’s use in your classroom. This post originally appeared on TeachThought, where Terry Heick is the director of curriculum. Related Explore: iPad, Mobile Learning
7 Great iPad Apps to Improve your Kids Critical Thinking Critical thinking is a skill much solicited in today's instruction. A general fallacy particularly among parents is that kids learn critical thinking when at school receiving formal and structured education, while in fact much of the thinking abilities are shaped first and foremost at home where the environment that surrounds kids play a decisive role in the development of their cognitive capacities. There are many games, brain teasers, and activities that we can employ with our children to help them develop the necessary sound skills that can be detrimental to their overall academic achievement once they join school. In this regard. These apps are for iPad users. 1- iCreate iCreate is a great iOS app that provides kids with tools to create anything. 2- iKids Puzzle This is an awesome app that offers several puzzles and games to develop your kids critical thinking. 3- KidMath KidMath helps your kids learn basics of Math from counting and sequence to the concept of addition and subraction.
The 2012 ADE Institute I've spent the past week at the 2012 Apple Distinguished Educator Institute in Cork. It's been a great week. The best thing I can say about it is that the Institute was run to the same quality and attention to detail that WWDC is. About 270 educators from all over the world got together at Fota Island hotel in Cork to spend the week networking, socialising and working together on various projects. In conversations, I started to get the sense of two early and new trends that I think are interesting. The first trend is that we, as a group, are starting to get into some of the second-order effects of 1:1 programs using iPad. Personally, I'm looking to iTunes U. The second trend I picked up on was the continuing shift towards total student autonomy in IT. The final step is to eliminate the network. In the UK, we are well positioned to take advantage of this. It will take leadership and it will take courage.
iPads in the Preschool Classroom Today I’m hosting Chapter 8 of Teaching in the Digital Age for our Summer Book Study. I was glad to see that Puerling did not talk about game-style apps for kids because those are not my favorite for the classroom. I think children get enough of that at home. I’ve read on other blogs or forums where teachers say it’s wrong to use iPads in a preschool classroom. Puerling discussed ways to introduce the iPad to young children. The main points from the chapter are in bold along with a few ideas I thought of while reading. Facilitate conversation while observing photos. Using photos with children was discussed in chapter 2, and the iPad is one way to share photos with children without the cost of printing them. Leafsnap HD is an app that could be used in the classroom or outdoors to identify leaves. If you frequently use video on the iPad, but would like to get still shots, I highly recommend an app called Video 2 Photo, which gives you each frame of the video. Engage with literature.
48 iPad Apps That Teachers Love Apple’s iPad and other tablet computers have certainly been garnering ardent support from the edtech community. Gadget geek teachers love the thousands of apps available to give their courses a multimedia edge, and students love how so many reach out to different learning styles. For the connected classroom, the following stand out as either great supplements to various lessons or essential, time-saving streamlining strategies. Art and Music Language, Reading, and Writing Math and Science Organization, Productivity, and Learning Doing The Impossible: Helpful Tool Lets You Track And Assess Mobile Learning Figuring out how to manage mobile learning is hard. So we worked with the folks at Raptivity to see how they’re helping teachers tackle this Herculean task. Technology is ubiquitous and so is its phantom. It has become a major guiding force in the training and education field with the advent of E-Learning and Mobile Learning. Of course, the journey hasn’t been as smooth as we imagine it to be. It has evolved over a period of time and is still overcoming the road bumps. In fact, formal learning being the fundamental milestone for centuries, it has ingrained into our society. What Is Mobile Learning? To give you a better idea of what mobile learning actually is, it’s an implicit learning that can occur all the time without a conventional classroom. This type of learning involves dealing with intricate information in a supplementary and non-deliberate approach. So, here the learner is not dependent on a formal setting of a classroom and the teacher to learn using an iPad. The Future Is Here
Free printable preschool worksheets to help prepare your child for school. Our preschool worksheets are great for busy teachers, parents, and homeschoolers. Welcome to preschool at TLSBooks! The following pages offer a variety of free printable preschool worksheets promoting early childhood education. Teachers love using these fun preschool worksheets to supplement their early childhood education programs. Parents appreciate the easy access and variety of preschool materials available for helping their child practice basic skills. This ever-growing collection of fun, printable, preschool worksheets includes material which introduces various concepts, reinforces color recognition, improves fine motor skills, and introduces numbers and letters. All of these preschool worksheets are intended to enhance your child's skills and introduce new concepts in a fun, stress-free manner. Each child learns and develops according to their own timeline. You may print these preschool worksheets for your own personal (includes printing materials for your classroom), non-commercial use only. Find us on Google+ All worksheets created by Tracey Smith.
A Quick Guide on Blooms Taxonomy Apps for iPad iPad is a promising mobile gadget in education. It has already started revolutionizing the way instruction is delivered .Some schools, particularly in the United States and Canada,have taken the initiative and commenced to employ the iPad as a learning and teaching tool . Although it is too early to talk about any scientific studies confirming the educational usability of this tablet , yet it would be unfair to ignore its prevalent use among students and teachers. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is strongly committed to helping teachers and educators make the maximum benefit from iPad by providing reviews of free educational apps covering different areas such as : storytelling, video editing, professional development,, presentation apps and many more. Just a little reminder, Blooms HOTS ( higher order thinking skills ) are : Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating. Here are the apps according to the HOTS mentioned above : 1- Remembering
Part Two: Ten Steps… Transforming Past Lessons For the 21st Century Digital Classroom Welcome to Part Two of this four part series devoted to bringing curriculum to the digital era. In this series of posts I want to walk you through ten practical steps I have found helpful in transforming yesterday’s lessons into 21st century digital treasures! I even include some awesome links that you will find useful in the process! Before introducing this goldmine of resources… I want to thank you for continuing to return and for continuing to share this blog with others. If you haven’t subscribed, please take a moment to do so. You will be guaranteed future posts by subscribing by either RSS or email. Quick Note – I have been getting a lot of request asking if I will make a visit to your school, organization, or conference. Introduction In the last article I introduced the first three steps in this Ten Steps… Transforming Past Lessons for the 21st Century Classroom Series. Part Two: Steps Four and Five …. Step Five – Outline the Technology to Incorporate Bloomin with the Web 2.0