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. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has compiled a list of some awesome apps that seamlessly clicks in with the objective mentioned above. 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 3- KidMath 4- Simon Says Games Simon Says Games is a great classical game.
5 tips to grow your start-up using SWOT analysis Having a strength greater than your competitor is irrelevant unless it is an important factor in customer decision making. As a start-up, how do you pinpoint these strengths? What can you do about it? If you have many competitors, and they offer equally attractive products and services, then you are unlikely to have great traction with customers. The use of SWOT Analysis allows a start-up business to identify your strengths, minimise your weaknesses, take advantage of opportunities and overcome threats. YOUR STRENGTHS: What are your key advantages in relation to problems and opportunities as defined by your target customer segment? YOUR VALUE: How do you develop a value proposition such that your target customers easily recognise your strengths as directly relevant to solving their specific problems? YOUR DIFFERENCE: How do you differentiate from your competition to make it easier for your prospective new customers to select you? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. inShare77
The Top Educational iPad Apps Every Teacher and Student should Know about ( 100+) When it comes to searching for educational apps to install on your iPad it feels like you get drowned in an avalanche of apps and resources from which you emerge empty-handed. Everyday new apps go viral and to keep up with the updates in this field is really a daunting challenge. Thankfully, there are many trusted educational resources ( this blog is one of them ) where educators and teachers can get to discover and learn about new useful apps to use in education. Another trusted resource is Langwitches whose images I am sharing with you below. Langwitches has done a great job in coming up with a list of great educational iPad apps organized into categories with different headings. Five Tips for Securing Student Data in the Cloud There are a few absolutes when it comes to school. First, lunches will always be terrible. Second, your locker will be too small to fit your oversized textbooks. Finally, there's a high likelihood that some of your student data will be stored in the cloud . This student data includes demographic information, test results, transcripts, email exchanges, grades, attendance history, contact information and more. Keeping sensitive data firewalled in your on-premises data center doesn't eliminate the threat of exposure. Here are a few tips to help you secure student data in the cloud or your on-premises datacenter: - If you're storing data in the cloud, make sure you have a copy of the data stored locally or in another cloud. - While not an absolute failsafe, requiring an extra step in the authentication process is a good way to keep password theft from resulting in a full scale attack. Securing student data means adding multiple layers of protection.
Creative apps for digital storytelling Welcome to Creative apps for digital storytelling, Part 11 of “There’s A Special App For That” series on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps for students with special needs. Have a look at our others in the series: Digital storytelling – why we need to focus on creative apps In August 2010, iEAR (Education Apps review) published an article entitled, “What Do Teachers Really Want in An App?” Teachers want apps in which they can input their own “curriculum” in some fashion.The majority of apps are locked down with regard to content and they cannot be manipulated enough to meet the teacher’s specific needs.Educational apps in general are too focused on “drill and practice” and there needs to be a greater emphasis upon “constructivist” types of activities. There has been a lot of development since that time and we are seeing an increase in “constructivist” apps. What is digital storytelling? Edutopia, Digital Storytelling: Helping Students Find Their Voice Digital storytelling resources: 1. 2. 3.
edutopia In school, we learn about geniuses and their ideas, but how did they get those ideas? What are the mental processes, attitudes, work habits, behaviors, and beliefs that enable creative geniuses to view the same things as the rest of us, yet see something different? The following are seven principles that I've learned during my lifetime of work in the field of creative thinking -- things that I wish I'd been taught as a student. 1. Artists are not special, but each of us is a special kind of artist who enters the world as a creative and spontaneous thinker. 2. You must show passion and the determination to immerse yourself in the process of developing new and different ideas. 3. When producing ideas, you replenish neurotransmitters linked to genes that are being turned on and off in response to challenges. 4. Your brain is a dynamic system that evolves patterns of activity, rather than simply processing them like a computer. 5. Aristotle believed that things were either "A" or "not A."
iPad As.... iPads have exploded throughout schools and classrooms. Their flexibility, versatility, and mobility make them a phenomenal learning tool. As teachers seek ways to integrate these devices, we recommend focusing on specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and the creation of student-centric learning environments. In other words, begin with..... Futurist's Cheat Sheet: Human Augmentation As long as there have been humans, there have been dreams of super humans. Eyeglasses started sharpening vision in the 1200s, pacemakers have been implanted to extend lifespans since the late 1950s, and the first strength-amplifying robotic exoskeletons shipped earlier this year. But those innovations are only the beginning. With advances in technology, the ability to vastly enhance human capabilities is right around the corner. Here is an overview of current efforts and their potential. What Is It? Human augmentation is the ability to supplement human brains and bodies with technological improvements. But it's already well underway. How It Works There are many paths to human-machine augmentation: wearable technology such as Google Glasses, sensor implants, using DNA and chemical processes to enhance brain function and muscle functions, nanorobotics, performance enhancing surgery. Potential Impact The idea is to enhance the human notion of “normal.” The Challenge When Will It Be Ready?
Digital Art using the Art Set App For as long I've been teaching ICT, all of my painting lessons have involved children moving digital brushes around on a computer screen using the mouse. With younger children, I'm fond of the 2Paint Projects before I then introduce 2Paint a Picture as they get older. Today however, I tried something new - creating digital artwork using the touch screen on iPads - and it was very successful. There are wide variety of apps available that let you paint on an iPad but my app of choice today was Art Set because I felt that it offered the best balance between variety of tools and value for money. I began by asking the children to visit the Olympics website and to find a photograph of a sport that they are particularly interested in. I also showed them a few more 'advanced' tricks, including how to: Once they had created their picture, I then asked them to share their picture with me by sending it as an email attachment: Click here for more examples.
Critical Thinking Model 1 To Analyze Thinking We Must Identify and Question its Elemental Structures Standard: Clarityunderstandable, the meaning can be grasped Could you elaborate further? Could you give me an example? Could you illustrate what you mean? Standard: Accuracyfree from errors or distortions, true How could we check on that? Standard: Precisionexact to the necessary level of detail Could you be more specific? Standard: Relevancerelating to the matter at hand How does that relate to the problem? Standard: Depthcontaining complexities and multiple interrelationships What factors make this a difficult problem? Standard: Breadthencompassing multiple viewpoints Do we need to look at this from another perspective? Standard: Logicthe parts make sense together, no contradictions Does all this make sense together? Standard: Significancefocusing on the important, not trivial Is this the most important problem to consider? Standard: FairnessJustifiable, not self-serving or one-sided Think About... State the Question
A list of All The Best iPad Apps Teachers Need – School Leadership 2.0 School Leadership 2.0 A list of All The Best iPad Apps Teachers Need by Michael Keany Dec 27, 2012 A list of All The Best iPad Apps Teachers Need We have been doing a lot of reviews of educational mobile apps. 2 members like this