12 Characteristics Of An iPad-friendly Classroom Implementing iPads isn’t exactly a just-add-water proposition. While they’re wondrous little devices capable of enchanting learners for hours, to get the learning results you’re likely after will take planning, design, and reflection. It can help to start out by asking yourself some important questions, such as “What can the iPad do that is not possible without it? But the learning environment you’re starting with can make a big difference as well. Below are 4 distinct areas of instruction and instructional design that can help frame the concept of iPad integration. There is more to the conversation, but rather than overwhelm you (not that you couldn’t handle it), it seemed better to simply start your thinker.
102 Interesting Ways to use iPads in the Classroom Fantastic resource from Tom Barret on interesting ways to use iPads in the classroom. You can view the presentation through Google Docs. Check out Tom’s Blog for more great posts. apps, ipads Mobile Learning: Resource Roundup From smartphones and tablets, to MP3 players and e-readers, today's students have a variety of mobile technologies at their fingertips. Here's a look at some mobile learning resources from Edutopia and around the Web. Join the Conversation about Mobile Learning Mobile Devices for Learning: What You Need to Know Our newest classroom guide offers tips for getting kids engaged with learning, focused on working smarter, and ready for the future. This Edutopia guide is sponsored by Google, provider of Google Apps for Education. Edutopia's Mobile Classroom Pinboard on Pinterest 50+ additional mobile resources -- what you need to know about BYOD, 1:1 programs, education apps, mobile devices and more. Mobile Learning Discussions in our Groups: Back to Top Cell Phones: Classroom Tool or Invasive Nuisance? Is the Cell Phone the New Pencil? Books of the Future -- Kindles, Nooks and other E-Readers Swipe, Tap, Flick and . . . Bringing iPads and Apps into Lesson Plans Using MP3 Players to Engage Students
iPad Curriculum What Students Can Actually DO With An iPad Online, in workshops, and even with friends, I frequently get asked What can the iPad actually do? as a sort of challenge to the worth of the device. I would rather that they ask, What can you actually do with an iPad? So last week, in preparing for the New England Reading Association Conference and the NYSCATE Mobile Learning Summit , I decided to change my approach. Rather than structure my presentations by tool, or by app, or even by project, I organized myself around desired student outcomes – aka. what students can actually do. However, before addressing that question, I asked not only WHY iPads but WHY Technology ? I want my students to communicate in complex and modern ways. What does this tangibly look like in the classroom? I want my students to demonstrate their knowledge of the parts of a story. Learning Objectives: In addition to learning the story elements, students learn… Project: Book Posters – students create a movie-style poster to advertise their book.
1:1 iPads in Elementary Part 2 – Setting up the Carts My, how things have changed. Last year, it took me weeks to push 60 iPads out to my building. This year, it took me less than a week to push out 140 iPads! That was also a week where I was teaching and working on other things in the building. If i dedicated time exclusively to the task, I’m sure it would take even less. All of this is thanks to my new best friend for getting things set up, Configurator. While I could use Configurator to manage and supervise every single thing on all of the iPads, I didn’t particularly want to. First up, here’s the steps for how we got the apps on teacher laptops ready to go: Spend the summer examining apps we’d used in the past, thinking about what we’d want to do with our students, and refining a list of apps to put on the iPads.Help teachers set up iTunes on their computers and create their own school-based iTunes accounts. Device Prep: I received mostly used iPads, so they all needed to be reset to base model. Like this: Like Loading...
The iPad – What it should and shouldn’t be for Education This blog originally started as a reflection journal as I begun a pilot program for using iPads at my school. My early posts ( check January and February posts ) were discussions of the pros and cons of iPads. As the year has gone by and I have more time to research, read other iPad articles and experiment more with apps and with the students using them more frequently, I’ve had time to reflect on what iPads are offering schools. What you should use iPads for in schools Multimedia content creation I am so sick of the tech press misrepresenting the iPad purely as a content consumption device and complaining that it is not for content creation. What the iPad offers to children is the ability to capture, develop and publish their learning in the creative, engaging, multimedia way they experience the world. Portable, anywhere, interactive collaborative learning The beauty of the iPad is its portability and use anywhere capability. Other What you shouldn’t use iPads for in schools
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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
Converting YouTube to iPad Video If you need to convert a YouTube file to an iPad Video you can embed in Keynote, one of the best options is the app iCab Mobile, which is an alternative browser to Safari. By pressing and holding while a YouTube video is playing, you can download it, and the you can later save it to your photo roll. Remember that videos for Keynote for the iPad have to come out of your Photo Roll. Yes, this makes no sense (shouldn't movies come from Movies?), and I've shared this with the head of iOS app development at Apple directly. Still…if you want to add a movie to Keynote, as of November 2012…it comes out of the Photo Roll. Strictly speaking, taking video off of YouTube is illegal, but if you want to have a file for times when you do not have the Internet present (many schools), it is a logical solution (It also works well if a TV series is on YouTube and you want that series on your son's iPod Touch for a long car ride–just saying).
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