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Wednesday, 10 April 2013
ipads in the classroom
iPads, ipods and iphones are very rapidly becoming a successfull and popular ICT tool for classrooms. Beyond the immediate benefit of engaging students, iPads can improve education efficiency and standards.
I believe, if iPads are used correctly in the classroom by teachers they can develop children's creativity. It is vital that teachers know what skills the iPad can be developed, otherwise it's use in the classroom could be wasted. Technology now needs to be central to children's learning in the classroom with creative well planned teaching. The list below explains some great ways the ipad is being used in schools today.
NURTURE CREATIVITY WITH STORYTELLING PLATFORMS
Educators at Ringwood North Primary School in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, created the Epic Citadel Challenge to foster storytelling, creative collaboration and individual initiative. Students used their experiences in the virtual landscape to tell a story in the medium of their choosing.
CONVERTS WORDS INTO RAPS
The Holy Family School in Ashland, Ky., is taking advantage of teacher and student-friendly apps that convert educational texts into engaging material for students. For example, AutoRap will take your words and turn them into a rap and Strip Designer enables the creation of comic strips.
GO PAPERLESS
Jackson Christian School in Jackson, Tenn., has virtually paperless classrooms. Students no longer carry binders and textbooks, while teachers administer tests on their iPads.
ENGAGE THE DISENGAGED
Educators at Manor Lakes P-12 Specialist School in Wyndham Vale, Victoria, Australia, found that the iPads were most effective in prompting their most disconnected students to interact in the classroom and have fun while learning. For example, the iBooks and Marvel Comics apps were used to engage students in reading.
ENHANCE PHYSICAL EDUCATION
SPARK, a health and physical education program, has an app for PE classes. PE teachers at Eastlake Middle School in Chula Vista, California use SPARK to record student’s physical activity and show them how to refine their movements.
GRAPH DATA
Julie Garcia, a teacher at Innovation Middle School in San Diego, California, uses the iPad to show students how to graph data and look for correlations.
TURN IN ASSIGNMENTS
Leslie Langham, a seventh-grade English teacher, uses Dropbox, a free file sharing app, to post homework assignments. Students turn them in using the app and she then grades and returns them all on Dropbox.
TAKE NOTES
Christina Weltmer, a science teacher at Garden City High School, was actually taught by one of her students on how to use Notability, the iPad app that enables the user to take notes, record lectures and annotate PDFs.
ASSIST SPECIAL NEEDS LEARNING
Warringa Park School, a special needs institution in Hopper’s Crossing, Victoria, Australia, has a list of apps which have been particularly successful in teaching students who have special learning needs. Proloquo2Go aids students who have trouble speaking. Mad Addition, Mad Subtraction and Mad Multiplication help students learn math and have fun while doing it. Red Fish 4 Kids assisted students in learning how to spell.
Similarly, First Words Animals aids with letter and word identification. Jack and the Beanstalk Children’s Interactive Storybook helps keep students engaged as they learn how to read. Whizzit 123 and Toddler Counting helped students with numeracy. Likewise, the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia allows teachers to maintain a group learning environment even with students who cannot leave their hospital beds and do not have fine motor skills.
DECREASE EXPENSES
While iPads are often seen as a luxury, a study by Oklahoma State University reported that iPad implementation actually decreased costs for students and schools because they reduced the need for physical textbooks.
D. Savenije, "18 Ways ipads are being used in the classromm right now" 2011 retieved from website
http://edudemic.com/2012/11/18-ways-ipads-are-being-used-in-classrooms-right-now/
I believe, if iPads are used correctly in the classroom by teachers they can develop children's creativity. It is vital that teachers know what skills the iPad can be developed, otherwise it's use in the classroom could be wasted. Technology now needs to be central to children's learning in the classroom with creative well planned teaching. The list below explains some great ways the ipad is being used in schools today.
NURTURE CREATIVITY WITH STORYTELLING PLATFORMS
Educators at Ringwood North Primary School in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, created the Epic Citadel Challenge to foster storytelling, creative collaboration and individual initiative. Students used their experiences in the virtual landscape to tell a story in the medium of their choosing.
CONVERTS WORDS INTO RAPS
The Holy Family School in Ashland, Ky., is taking advantage of teacher and student-friendly apps that convert educational texts into engaging material for students. For example, AutoRap will take your words and turn them into a rap and Strip Designer enables the creation of comic strips.
GO PAPERLESS
Jackson Christian School in Jackson, Tenn., has virtually paperless classrooms. Students no longer carry binders and textbooks, while teachers administer tests on their iPads.
ENGAGE THE DISENGAGED
Educators at Manor Lakes P-12 Specialist School in Wyndham Vale, Victoria, Australia, found that the iPads were most effective in prompting their most disconnected students to interact in the classroom and have fun while learning. For example, the iBooks and Marvel Comics apps were used to engage students in reading.
ENHANCE PHYSICAL EDUCATION
SPARK, a health and physical education program, has an app for PE classes. PE teachers at Eastlake Middle School in Chula Vista, California use SPARK to record student’s physical activity and show them how to refine their movements.
GRAPH DATA
Julie Garcia, a teacher at Innovation Middle School in San Diego, California, uses the iPad to show students how to graph data and look for correlations.
TURN IN ASSIGNMENTS
Leslie Langham, a seventh-grade English teacher, uses Dropbox, a free file sharing app, to post homework assignments. Students turn them in using the app and she then grades and returns them all on Dropbox.
TAKE NOTES
Christina Weltmer, a science teacher at Garden City High School, was actually taught by one of her students on how to use Notability, the iPad app that enables the user to take notes, record lectures and annotate PDFs.
ASSIST SPECIAL NEEDS LEARNING
Warringa Park School, a special needs institution in Hopper’s Crossing, Victoria, Australia, has a list of apps which have been particularly successful in teaching students who have special learning needs. Proloquo2Go aids students who have trouble speaking. Mad Addition, Mad Subtraction and Mad Multiplication help students learn math and have fun while doing it. Red Fish 4 Kids assisted students in learning how to spell.
Similarly, First Words Animals aids with letter and word identification. Jack and the Beanstalk Children’s Interactive Storybook helps keep students engaged as they learn how to read. Whizzit 123 and Toddler Counting helped students with numeracy. Likewise, the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia allows teachers to maintain a group learning environment even with students who cannot leave their hospital beds and do not have fine motor skills.
DECREASE EXPENSES
While iPads are often seen as a luxury, a study by Oklahoma State University reported that iPad implementation actually decreased costs for students and schools because they reduced the need for physical textbooks.
References
D. Savenije, "18 Ways ipads are being used in the classromm right now" 2011 retieved from website
http://edudemic.com/2012/11/18-ways-ipads-are-being-used-in-classrooms-right-now/
Monday, 8 April 2013
Group 4 Technologies Reflection
Museumbox
SWOT Analysis|
Strengths
·
Easy to learn
and navigate
·
Bright and colourful
·
Allows you to
add links, images, video’s and text
·
Searchable
database of images and sounds
|
Weaknesses
·
Found that pictures,
video’s and file must be uploaded, they can’t simply be linked.
·
It would not
let me access the program without paying a subscription fee
|
|
Opportunities
·
Would
be a great tool if it was free
·
Can
be used for research and it would be great for your visual and auditory
learners.
|
Threats
Time consuming
|
Google Earth
SWOT Analysis|
Strengths
·
Google Earth
is completely free to download and use.
·
Google Earth
allows a user to zoom and see images of the planet in great detail.
·
Numerous
layers of data are available to enhance the Google Earth experience.
·
Google Earth
is updated on an ongoing basis over the Internet, so it is generally up to
date information
·
The Google
Earth community is constantly adding fascinating new and free content to
Google Earth.
|
Weaknesses
·
Google Earth
has so much data, you need a high speed Internet connection to use it
effectively.
·
If you view
many layers at once on Google Earth, your view as you zoom may be jumbled.
·
The side bar
has many choices and can be somewhat cumbersome to use.
|
|
Opportunities
·
One
of the main features I liked from Google earth was its ability to bring
places and things in text books alive, and make them real to my students.
·
The
program is capable of covering a fast array of topics for your students and
many great lesson plans can be found online.
·
Helps
to create global citizenship amongst your learners
|
Threats
·
Some of the
user-added Google Earth points of interest are useless or incorrect.
·
Some areas of
the planet are not available on Google Earth in high resolution or high
detail.
·
If
appropriate scaffolding is not used, I feel that students may get lost and
too time consumed with other great features of this program.
|
Online Concept Mapping
Concept maps can also be used to make student thinking visible. When students construct and submit their understanding of key concepts and their linkages through a concept map, it becomes clear whether in fact the students understand the conceptual framework around a topic of study.SWOT Analysis
|
Strengths
Concept maps help students focus on the "big picture",
enabling them to devote more of their time to conceptual understanding rather
than rote learning
Concept maps encourage students to make valid connections among
concepts
They enable students to represent graphically their knowledge, and to
share it with the teacher and other students
They shift the emphasis from isolated facts to theoretical frameworks
of related concepts
|
Weaknesses
Comparisons among students are more difficult because concept maps
tend to reveal the idiosyncratic way that students view a scientific
explanation, as a result...
Evaluation can become more time-consuming for the instructor,
especially in large classes, unless some variation (such as Select &
Fill-in) is adopted
If you score maps, you must use a consistent (and tested) scheme
|
|
Opportunities
In addition to their role as assessment tools, concept maps offer a
useful way to help students "learn how to learn"; they also serve as
useful vehicles for course development and as graphic organisers.
|
Threats
Students who have developed a strong facility for rote learning of
verbal knowledge sometimes find concept maps intimidating
Constructing concept maps is a demanding cognitive task that requires
training
|
This is my unfinished (purposely unfinished for my students to expand on) Bubbl.us concept map.
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