Great iPad Apps to Organize, Grade, and Assess Students Learning Gone are the days when teachers used to entirely depend on the use of traditional grading books to keep their students grades and manage rating systems.Now technology has made it way easier for any teacher to have an electronic gradebook with more features than the traditional one and above all accessible anywhere with internet connection. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has already reviewed some web tools that allows users to create and manage their gradebooks.Today, however, we are going to provide you with some iPad apps that can do almost the same job. With these apps you can : grade your students papers on the go organize your classes document student learning report to parents calculate percentages for assessmentsmake spreadsheets and charts and many more.. Check out this list and share with us your suggestions or further recommendations : 1- Teacher Kit " TeacherKit is a personal organizer for the teacher. 5- Grade It " Grade It! 6- Teacher Tool One
Project Based Learning and iPads/iPods Introducing an irresistible project at the beginning of a unit of study can give students a clear and meaningful reason for learning. Plus, they end up with a product or result that could possibility make a difference in the world! In project based learning students are driven to learn content and skills for an authentic purpose. PBL involves students in explaining their answers to real-life questions, problems, or challenges. It starts with a driving question that leads to inquiry and investigation. Students work to create a product or presentation as their response to the driving question. Technology can be helpful throughout a project, whether students use iPads, Chromebooks, Android tablets, laptops, or desktops.
The 88 Best iOS Apps For Mobile Learning Mobile learning is here to stay. Students and teachers alike can build entire libraries of apps and web tools that let them learn and do, well, anything. We’ve covered this just about every day and love finding new resources to share. So, if you haven’t yet, follow @edudemic on Twitter ! Our friends at Online Universities took a recent list of top iOS apps that ran on Edudemic and turned it into a handy visualization that any teacher could refer back to in a time of need. Brain Exercises Take advantage of these games, puzzles, and other brain teasers to build general cognitive skills needed to process and retain necessary information. Brain Blast – Flex Your Brain Muscle : Engage with some fun little brain teasers — mostly math-related — to keep the memory hot and the cognitive process chugging along. Quizzes and Flashcards Math Overcome math anxiety — or indulge the love — through some of the iPhone’s diverse selection of tools to help that mind crunch some tasty, tasty numbers. Science
bloomsapps Using Blooms Taxonomy in education is a highly effective way to scaffold learning for the students. With the recent popularity and pervasive nature of iOS devices in school districts it is essential for educators to understand how to implement Blooms in the classroom using the apps that are available. While this list is by no means fully comprehensive, it will assist educators in getting started when implementing iOS devices in the classroom. This site will change almost daily as it will be updated with new and exciting apps! If you find any that you have worked with in your classroom please email dmileham@e1b.org or tweet @bloomsapps or @dmileham75 with your suggestions. Two Links to some iTunesU courses relating to iOS Integration: 1 iPad by Erie 1 Boards of Cooperative Educational Services ( Movie Making\Digital Storytelling Camera to PDF Free - cool little app that turns your device into a scanner. LiveBinders: I would be remiss if I didn't post this.
Retail careers can be made by playing the numbers Ken Kuschei has always loved numbers. But when he took on a job in retail analytics with Longo's two years ago, he raised his skills to a whole new level. 'I'm the one who gets to go through all the data Longo's collects, then I analyze it, and pull out patterns and opportunities to serve customers,' says the director of consumer insights for the Vaughan, Ont.-based grocery retailer. Having previously worked as a business analyst and then with a loyalty program provider, he considers his jump to retail to be a lucky career break. 'I've always had a natural curiosity for numbers and reports and seeing how things are doing. But when Kuschei looks for new people to join his team, there's more on his wish list than an affinity for numbers. 'One of the beauties of this field is that there are a lot of different skills that add value. The Queen's School of Business in Kingston for example, is launching a 10-month master of management analytics program next summer.
7 Great iPad Writing apps Writing is the backbone skill in literacy learning0 There are actually several free web tools that teachers can use to easily develop and boost their students writing capabilities. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has already reviewed many of them but today we are going to explore those web apps that we can use on iPad for the same purposes : developing writing skills. As you know, we give priority to free technology be it apps, web tools or anything else that can be of some benefit to teachers but sometimes we run out of options and are left only with paid apps such as the case with the list below. We tried hard to look for free apps that corresponds with today's topic but in vain. Anyway, here is the list of the some of the best writing apps for iPad , check them out . 1- Pages Pages is the most beautiful word processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. 2- My Writing Spot 3- Clean Writer 4- Writers App You're writing a new novel? 5- Chronicle for iPad Chronicle is simple.
Descubriendo las Inteligencias Múltiples El pasado 10 de mayo tuvimos el privilegio de asistir a la conferencia del Dr. Howard Gardner en el Palacio de Congresos de Cataluña, en Barcelona. La conferencia estaba enmarcada dentro de la jornada de Inauguración del nuevo espacio LEADERLAB del Col·legi Montserrat. Un centro de innovación y liderazgo educativo con vocación internacional que cuenta con el Dr. Howard Gardner como patrocinador. Rodeados de más de 3.000 docentes y familiares, pudimos escuchar la conferencia de unos de los 100 intelectuales más influyentes del momento y padre de la teoría de las Inteligencias Múltiples, con el título: Multiple Inteligencies: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. El Dr. Y, si nos preguntamos, quién fue más inteligente, Einstein o Picasso, Gardner opina que, seguramente, ninguno más que el otro, simplemente sus inteligencias eran diferentes. ¿Qué es la inteligencia? Capacidad de resolver problemas reales.Capacidad de crear productos efectivos.Potencial para encontrar o crear nuevos retos.
Top 25 Mobile Apps in Academia Everyone seems to talk endlessly about the role smartphones and other mobile technologies play in today’s classroom, especially when it comes to the best apps to get teachers organized and keep students learning. Higher ed has not inoculated itself against the spread, and ranks from the university president down to the lowliest of fresh meat tote around a smartphone or a tablet these days. Some, of course, benefit the faculty more than others, and the following prove pretty popular among professors these days. Dropbox:Thanks to the magic and wonder of cloud computing, professors on the go can access their files from other devices they’ve connected to their personal networks, meaning they never leave an important digital document at home!
Bloomin' Apps This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place.Each image has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and online tools and applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.I have created a page to allow you to share your favorite online tool, iOS, or Android app with others. Cogs of the Cognitive Processes I began to think about the triangular shape of Bloom's Taxonomy and realized I thought of it a bit differently.Since the cognitive processes are meant to be used when necessary, and any learner goes in and out of the each level as they acquire new content and turn it into knowledge, I created a different type of image that showcased my thoughts about Bloom's more meaningfully.Here is my visual which showcases the interlocking nature of the cognitive processes or, simply, the "Cogs of the Cognitive Processes". IPAD APPS TO SUPPORT BLOOM'S REVISED TAXONOMYassembled by Kathy Schrock Bloom's and SAMR: My thoughts
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Blackboard Mobile™ Learn PALETA DE INTELIGENCIAS MÚLTIPLES Desarrollada por nosotros A continuación os vamos a dejar este ejemplo de trabajo de Inteligencias múltiples mediante una paleta realizada por MI compañera Azucena Cepedello y Un servidor. Esta paleta puede ser trabajada en todos los niveles de secundaria y puede ser exportada fácilmente a primaria adaptandose a los temas que se tratan en esas etapa. PROYECTO paleta de inteligencias multiples Celula animal VS Celula vegetal CÉLULA ANIMAL vs CÉLULA VEGETAL Justificamos la paleta Dentro de nuestras escuelas nos enfrentamos a un gran reto en estos momentos y es dirigir el proceso enseñanza aprendizaje de nuestros alumnos de forma que el estudiante desarrolle un pensamiento reflexivo ycrítico para que desarrollen estrategias para aprender porsí mismos. Es por ello que, para lograr el objetivo de transformar la educación tradicional en una de Inteligencias Múltiples, hay que partir de un trabajo en equipo en el que intervengan los profesores, alumnos y nuestra propia institución. Objetivos por inteligencias
GoClass - Create and Deliver Lessons on iPads Last week I wrote about NearPod which is an iPad application for creating and delivering quizzes to students. This morning, through David Kapuler, I learned about a similar free iPad application called GoClass. GoClass is a free iPad application for creating short lessons and delivering them to your students. Applications for EducationGoClass is a promising iPad app for teachers who are working in 1:1 iPad environments.
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