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10 Steps to a Successful School iPad Program

Portions excerpted from new book, "iPad in Education for Dummies" by Sam Gliksman iPads have certainly become a highly desired commodity in education. Apple is reporting that schools are purchasing iPads by a ratio of 2:1 over MacBooks. Stated simply, technology alone doesn’t have the capacity to improve education. Well-planned technology deployments have the potential to have a remarkably transformative impact on schools and students. 1. Do you have adequate incoming Internet bandwidth to connect all the devices and use them at the same time? 2. Can you explain why you have decided to purchase iPads? It’s the question that’s rarely discussed before the decision is made to rush out and purchase new technology. 3. "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. " --Albert Einstein There’s a natural inclination to stay in your comfort zone. 4. 5. It’s important to remember that iPads are not laptops. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A list of All The Best iPad Apps Teachers Need Coming to you from the Canadian Maritimes ( Halifax), Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is an educational blog dedicated to curating, reviewing and sharing EdTech tools and mobile apps. The purpose is to help teachers and educators effectively integrate digital technologies into their day-to-day teaching, learning and professional development. For any questions regarding our website or the content we publish, please contact EdTech admin, editor and blog owner, Med Kharbach at: info@educatorstechnology.com. Med Kharbach is a doctoral researcher and a former teacher with 10 years of classroom teaching experience. Med's research interests include: language learning, linguistics, Internet linguistics, critical linguistics, discourse analysis, new (emerging) literacies, and educational technology. Kharbach, M. Example: Kharbach, M. (2016, December 30). 9 Fundamental digital skills for 21st century teachers [Blog post].

Elimäen lukio - iPad opetuksessa Ohjeita ja apua iPadien käyttöön Kuuden lukion - Voionmaa (Jyväskylä), Muuramen, Elimäen (Kouvola), Kauhavan, Otavan Nettilukio ja Kuopion Klassillinen lukio - hanke Mobiluck - mobiiliopetusteknologia lukiolaisen arjessa ja oppimisessa testaa iPadien käyttöä lukiolaisten arjessa, tiimioppimisessa ja yrittäjyyskasvatuksessa, ilmiöpohjaisessa oppimisessa sekä luokkaopetuksessa. Twitterissä hanke käyttää hashtagia #mobiluck ja #iFinnPad. Hankkeen Hankkeen tavoitteet: Urheilulukion opiskelijoiden opiskelun tukemista mobiiliteknologian keinoin. Näytä Mobiluck Finland suuremmalla kartalla Muita linkkejä ja linkkejä iPadien käyttöön: Muutama lisälinkki LyseoPad - Jyväskylän lyseon blogi iPadeista iPad opetuksessa (IlonaIT) IPads in Education “News, reviews, resources and more on the use of iPads in the learning environment” curated by John Evans Ohjelmia eli appseja eri käyttöön Apps in Education. Applen omat ohjeet: Muuta aihetta sivuavaa: Sivun ylläpitäjä rehtori Kari Rajala.

100 Apps for Tech-Savvy Teachers Are you a teacher now or studying to become one in the future? Have you been looking for a handy list of digital apps that will help you organize your life inside and outside the classroom? Well, you have come to the right place. With the world around us becoming more technologically advanced every day, developers are creating apps designed specifically to make your life as an educator easier. Check out our 100 helpful apps below! If you’re pressed for time or you simply don’t want to scroll through them all, click on the category you are looking to skip ahead to: Classroom Learning Communication Tools Personal Organization Reference Teaching Tools Classroom Learning 1. 4 Dice: Fraction Games “The goal of the game is to hit the target by working backwards Jeopardy style by giving the answer first. - Justin Holladay, math teacher and game developer. Download: iOS 2. 5 Dice: Order of Operations - Justin Holladay Download: iOS 3. Download: iOS 4. “Allows kids to practice math facts in an engaging way. 5.

iPads in Education Multiple Intelligences Apps for The iPad Howard Gardner is an internationally recognized leader in the field of developmental psychology. He has prolifically authored several books and journal articles on the nature of intelligence. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences (Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice ). Gardner defines intelligence as the ability to solve problems in a given context. Consider a 12-year old Puluwat in the Caroline Islands, he says, who has been selected by his elders to learn how to become a master sailor " under the tutelage of master navigators he will learn how to combine knowledge of sailing stars and geography so as to find his way around hundreds of islands. Gardner argues that there are at least 6 kinds of intelligences : Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Musical, Linguistic, Mathematico Logical, Visual Spacial.

Pulpetista tabletille 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

Lemmikkikirja 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.

Blackboard Mobile™ Learn 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. The only thing that is missing in his work and which if he had paid attention to would have made his work even way greater is to make the app images clickable.

13 Free iPad Spelling Apps to Easily Teach Kids to Spell Correctly I don't know if you share the same view or not but many people say that using technology, word editors and other online writing platforms that provide automatic spelling correction weakens our spelling skills and increases the chances of making spelling mistakes once using a paper and pen more than ever before. Well at least from my own experience as a blogger and having to always write three articles per day I do depend a lot on auto-correction and still I would get emails from people saying there are some typing ( not spelling ) mistakes in my posts ( I am sorry about this but my time constraints do not permit me to scrutinize every word I type in and I am sure you understand it ). Just to make things clear , typing mistakes are different from spelling mistakes, the latter are linguistic kind of errors and are consciously done . To help you improve your students spelling capabilities, I compiled a list of some great iPad apps that can perfectly do the job .

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