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Galileo Educational Network Association - 1 views

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    Inquiry is a dynamic process of being open to wonder and puzzlement and coming to know and understand the world. As such, it is a stance that pervades all aspects of life and is essential to the way in which knowledge is created. Inquiry is based on the belief that understanding is constructed in the process of people working and conversing together as they pose and solve the problems, make discoveries and rigorously testing the discoveries that arise in the course of shared activity.
Janet Cerni

Librarian Serves up 'Appy Hour': Iowa educator Kathy Kaldenberg hosts a get-together wi... - 1 views

  • November Appy Hour did serve up a taste of applications that enable note taking, formatting citations, and streaming news
  • want to filter them out to the departments and people who might make the best use of them.”
  • collection of more than 150 apps culled from Diigo lists, curation sites such as Scoop.it, and Twitter, via #edapps and other hashtags. Her own favorite apps include FlipBoard, EasyBib, and Evernote [all cited in SLJ's productivity apps feature by Linda W. Braun].
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  • She recommends apps in a start-of-school orientation and encourages their use in the library,
  • attaching QR codes to books so students can scan a summary before they check out the title.
  • ProLoquo2go, is being used with a select number of students on the autism spectrum, allowing them to click on pictures and build a sentence.
  • app creation tool Demibooks to make ebooks that serve the specialized reading needs of her students.
  • we have the obligation to try and provide equal access in the school,”
  • starting with teachers and administrators, who can then seed their classes with the tools best suited for the learning needs of students.
  • She also passed out a spreadsheet with information on select apps, including the platforms on which they run. T
  • Now Kaldenberg plans to hold an app session, this one for high school students to get them testing and sharing, too.
diane darrow

IPAds-for-Learning-Getting-Started.pdf - Powered by Google Docs - 1 views

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    resource for starting an ipad program
diane darrow

iPad4Edu - 1 views

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    Place to ask questions about using the iPad. Social netwrok for educators with iPads
diane darrow

55 Interesting Ways* to use an iPad in the Classroom - 1 views

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    now 58 ways
diane darrow

Back to School: 40 Best Science iPad Apps for Students - Fun Educational Apps: Best App... - 1 views

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    science apps for middle school?
diane darrow

The Must-Have App Review Rubric | Edudemic - 2 views

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    edudemic app rubric. download free rucbric. great model
Janet Cerni

Education Week: Educators Evaluate Learning Benefits of iPad - 1 views

  • centerpiece of a social studies curriculum that blends online and face-to-face learning.
  • supplement
  • But such rapid adoption of a device with such a short history means that figuring out the best educational use can involve a lot of trial and erro
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  • “Is this the best use of our funds, or is it simply a tool to engage and motivate our students?”
  • “Of course, technology has that capability, but is that always the best angle?”
  • In September, Virginia announced the purchase of 350 iPads for 4th, 7th, and 9th graders in four counties to test the use of the device as a 1-to-1 computing tool in social studies classrooms.
  • th and 9th grade classes used gaming and assessment applications
  • Pearson
  • personalize reading assignments based on proficiency,
  • e-text feature
  • most teachers and students supported continuing the pilo
  • Pearson officials say their material would be more refined a second time around after learning their own lessons about designing content.
  • that can lead you to want to overload the presentation.”
  • Excluding the fad factor, experts say there are legitimate reasons for educational interest.
  • For this to work, really, next year, you need to have a team—one or two or three teachers—who will just sit down and go through this and put stuff on there that’s going to matter,” he says. “Trying to do it during the school year is just crazy.”
  • Teachers in the pilot also reported having to learn on the fly.
  • iPad to help highlight key vocabulary words
  • some apps to help students understand fractions and decimals
  • definitely a work in progress
  • The question may be whether the iPad is best suited as a 1-to-1 device or to be shared as part of a stable of digital classroom tools.
  • students can choose which device to use for an ongoing book-publishing project
  • students rotate between workstations
  • 34,000-student Irving Independent School District, where all high schools follow a 1-to-1 computing model, about 10 students and 20 administrators are testing an assortment of tablet-computing devices to see how they would meet their daily needs
  • administrators
  • tablets to access their calendars and email while on the run through campus, as well as how to use their touch-screen capabilities to check off rubrics for teacher evaluations like they would with an evaluation form.
  • RANDA Solutions,
diane darrow

The Beginner's Guide to 21st Century Teaching and Learning - 1 views

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    The Beginner's Guide to 21st Century Teaching and Learning, designed for the digital immigrant, will answer these and many more of your questions, hesitations and fears surrounding integrating the internet and technology into your curriculum. It serves as a technology handbook for teachers ready to harness technology as a teaching and learning tool.
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    for teacher professional development explaining 21st century learning and contains awesome simple and direct tips.
diane darrow

iPad Resources - 1 views

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    List of links on another school districts iPad Resources site. Similiar to CPS
diane darrow

Useful Bloom's Taxonomy Poster | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day… - 1 views

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    Poster for Bloom's Taxonomy
diane darrow

- Apps to Assist in the Writing Process by Vicki Windman - 0 views

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    As we begin the new school year we have an opportunity to start with a clean slate. Writing is a skill that many students struggle with, from grammar, idiom and spelling to punctuation and footnotes.
diane darrow

iPad-Space-Science - Pages and Files - 0 views

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    Lesson ideas and material to support iPad learning about sapce
diane darrow

iQ 16 SCB Sync Station™ | Lock n Charge - 0 views

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    sync station for 16
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Best iPad Apps - 0 views

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    On this page, you will find the best 102 iPad apps for all your needs. We've taken the effort to categorize the apps and picked only those we believe to be the best ones and which will most likely be useful to you.
diane darrow

Patriot's profile | Appolicious ™ iPhone and iPad App Directory - 0 views

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    list of apps from Charlene
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PLAY! New Media Literacies - PLAY! Framework - 0 views

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    5 characteristics of participatory Learning. Meaningful play and experimentation
diane darrow

iPads in Auburn, Maine's Kindergartens: A First Look at Their Effect on Learning - 0 views

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    Results from Ipad program in Auburn Maine
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iPad Applications - 0 views

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    more app lists has purpose and notes
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