iPads for Student-Centered Learning
Apple iPads -- with their low price points but extensive communication and collaboration capabilities -- are mushrooming throughout districts and schools across the globe. Discover the wide-ranging opportunities to integrate iPads, iTouches, and/or Mac Notebooks into your teaching and learning initiatives.
Education apps have been selected to get students connecting, communicating and creating. The apps are arranged into broad categories to provide a starting point for thinking about how they might be used by students, however many of the apps have multiple uses across a number of learning domains.
iPad/iTouch Connect and Share
- Objectives: To explore some of the content management apps and procedures regarding the iPad.
- Outcomes: Participants will be able to create and share music, documents and pictures using apps, a computer and a wireless network.
iPad/iTouch: Apps in Use
- Objectives: To explore and experiment with various iPad Apps within the context of a school environment. An activity will be modeled that highlights the strengths of various apps in achieving curriculum based outcomes.
- Outcomes: Participants will have gained sound working knowledge of various apps and the activities and units of study they can adapt and implement in their classroom practice.
iPad/iTouch: ePub
- Objectives: To detail the value of the ePub as a teacher-created resource that students can access from anywhere. Highlight the value, ease and simplicity of opening and working with the ePub format as well as other formats such as .pdf and .doc. The session will also include suggestions and examples of ways these documents can be shared and stored.
- Outcomes: All participants will create a media rich ePub that they can then open on their iPad. Participants will be able to create, transfer and then edit .pdf, .doc and ePub formats as well as be able to share and store the documents.
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"We literally went from a school with only a machine or two in various classrooms to a site that could support teacher and student usage across all grade levels. Our DSS consultant worked with us to develop a customized technology plan aligned with our school goals and learning standards. Through the guidance of DSS we are now prepared to move forward as 21st century learning community"
-Principal, New York City