tac ipad intermediate

TAC iPad Intermediate

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“The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners that are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of the world. Education is about teaching students, not subjects.” – Dave Truss

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Factory Model of Education

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Standardized

Compartmentalization

Batch Processing

Are we preparing our students for the future or the past?

Knowledge

Wisdom

Transformation

Knowing that

Knowing how

Knowing why

Declarative

Procedural

Critical

Cognition

Application

Analysis Evaluatio

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2012 Survey

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Apple Apps

• View video downloaded from iTunes, including free education movies in iTunes U, video podcasts, and instructional media.

• Integrates seamlessly with iMovie on the Mac and movies created with the iMovie app on iPad, so student productions can be viewed on the go.

Apple Apps

• You can email photos or video taken with Camera right from the app.

• Sync photos and videos to a Mac for students to use in projects they create on the computer, such as podcasts, movies, presentations, documents, or photo books.

Apple Apps

• With Safari and a Wi-Fi connection, you and your students can browse websites and search for information on the Internet, including Google searches.

• For example, you can use the Safari app to readily access the wealth of resources available from the Discovery Education website (www.discoveryeducation.com).

• Can do research both in and out of the classroom and download and view PDF files.

Apple Apps

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• If the device is set up for email, you can also email notes that you’ve created. Notes can be synced with the Mail application on a Mac.

• Notes have many uses, such as meeting summaries of students’ collaborative projects, taking notes during a presentation, capturing learnings from a field trip, and more.

• You can copy text from a web page or an email and add it to a note, or copy text in a note and add it to a Pages document.

Apple Apps

• Maps shows you street maps, satellite photos, and street views of locations in many of the world’s countries and regions.

• For example, students can view the actual terrain of the Oregon Trail or the Egyptian pyramids.

• You can also get detailed traffic information as well as driving, public transit, and walking directions to specific locations.

Apple Apps

• You and your students can use the Clock app to see what time it is in other parts of the world, set repeating or one-time alarms, and use a stopwatch and timer.

• In the Clock app, tap World Clock, Alarm, Stopwatch, or Timer to use that feature.

Apple Apps

• To keep track of important dates or school schedules, you and your students can use the Calendar app.

• Students can use Calendar as an organizational tool as well, for example, by setting a time to work on a project with an alert to remind them to get started.

• You can also create calendars using Calendar, Outlook, or Google calendar such as a class calendar with due dates for projects, holidays, field trips, and other school activities, and then sync the calendar to iPad or iPod touch to share with the class.

Apple Apps

• With Reminders, you and your students can note to-do items in a list or by date.

• You can set up a date to be reminded about each item and also assign it a priority level. Check off each item as it’s completed.

• This is a great way for students to keep track of homework and other class assignments.

Apple Apps

Evernote

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Keeping Student on App

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Keeping Student on App

Evaluation Rubric for Apps

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Apps to Learn About

Developing a Learning Experience

• Project based learning goes by many names, such as Challenge Based Learning, Problem Based Learning, and Project Learning.

• Each have a slightly different approach, but all immerse students into a topic.

• Start by planning an anchor video or activity.

• A short podcast or video can give enough information to spark interest in and questions about the topic.

• The entire class may view the same video or videos for each driving question or groups of students.

Planning-Teacher


• Mind mapping apps can help in planning projects and guiding research.

• Also help in outlining scripts.

• Mindmeister is free and makes it easy to connect ideas. You can toggle between map view and outline view.

• There are many mind mapping apps.

Planning-Student


• Handhelds can definitely play a a role in investigating and researching the driving question.

• Safari and Diigo

• Students will take notes in apps like Notes or or Evernote.

• Side by Side is another option.

Research


• Researching might not use the web.

• Students looking into the topic of homelessness may record interviews at a local shelter.

• Or student may be investigating how to convince shoppers to return their carts to the proper locations.

• Gather data using a spreadsheet app and take photos and video in a local grocery store parking lot.

Research


• The whole point of creating a project is to go public with what's learned.

• Presentation of the answer to the driving question doesn't have to be standing up in front of the class with a slide show.

• Presentations can be narrated slideshows.

• Use VoiceThread or SonicPics app to record a voiceover to a series of images. Storykit is another option. Images are likely to be important in most any project.

Presentation


• Projects are designed to be shared with others.

• Important that students have permission to use the photos they take from the web.

• A public domain or Creative Commons license images gives the public the freedom to use it in projects.

• Google Advanced Search is another option.

Presentation


• Slideshows, comics, animations, storybooks, and movies are just a few of the many ways students can present their projects.

• Students should always consider their audience. Clearly identifying an audience for the presentation will help students communicate with them.

• Is the project for fellow class members?

• Are fifth graders presenting to their second grade partner class?

• Are MS/HS students presenting their research and solutions to a scientist, professor, politician, etc.

Presentation


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