Group items tagged

There is a shift in how people get jobs, how companies advertise, how new ventures present themselves, how corporations gain business, how students learn, how everything works. More ways why students need 21st-century skills:

SIG 1 Context: K-12 setting

"If you are planning on buying multiple iPads for your school you need to do a bit of planning around the management, administration and pedagogical integration of the iPad in your classroom. There are also important issues around licencing of apps." This blog also includes links other valuable sites providing information on iPads in the classroom, iPads today, iPads in education, app reviews, apps outlined by curriculum. This is a wonderful resource for any school or educator thinking about getting "on board" and integrating iPads into the curriculum. The most valuable resource here was the spreadsheet outlining apps by grade, age, cost, and curricular area. SIG1Context: mobility, iPads, apps, cross curricular,

A fantastic free Google product that gives you direct access to real world statistics. It plots graphs of the data for you and even animates the graphs to show how they change through time.

Squidoo makes it easy to build your personal interest graph of the things you know and love On Squidoo, you can write a page. A single webpage, focused on a single topic. > After more investation Blogger seems a better deal.

SIG 1 Context: Connection

Dawn I think this will help you

Thank you. 65+ iPad apps for the elementary broken down by subject area with brief overview. Excellent resource for the elementary teacher looking for quality apps. SIG 1Context: apps, cross curricular, iPad

This is a very brief blog post on flipped classrooms, mostly useful for its links to other posts, videos, a webinar, and other flipped resources. Sig 1 Context: Flipped

This sounds interesting Jon. :)

This link is another possible way to use QR code in the classroom: Scanning the code will take you through to the URL which links with a student's wiki page dedicated to their adopted team providing all sorts of wonderful information about their adopted team and country.

SIG 1 Context: QR Codes

This video also shares why we need to know more about Social Media. Use as part of the looking forward to what our kids will need to do.

This is an excellent 3 minute video that shows HOW augmented reality engages students through MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE addressing pedagogy. This is valuable as a visual aide to the different ways augmented reality can be used across the curriculum. SIG1 Context: augmented reality, in the classroom, exploration, connection, cross curricular

This you tube video gives a short overview of the augmented reality "school in the park" project which utilizes mobile devices and augmented reality to provide students with real world experiences across the curriculum. What a fabulous idea and project. This is valuable to any educator as an example of pushing the boundries of learning to meet the needs of diverse learners. SIG1 Context: mobile devices, outdoor learning, real world connection, cross curricular, smart phones, AR

This teacher blog categorizes apps for the iPad by subject area in the elementary school. SIG 1 context: mobile devices, iPad and apps for exploration/ creation ***Rachel you might want to view her listing of apps for creation****

This teacher blog reviews 47 apps for for math at the elementary level. Great resource for locating apps. SIG 1 Context: apps, mobile devices, iPads

This article describes the use of iPads in the elementary school to increase student engagement. Teacher discusses the pilot program which was started in an LD classroom and then expanded. She warns that you have to do your "homework" and analyze apps prior to handing an iPad to a student. SIG 1 context: mobile devices, apps, iPad, pilot programs,

A blog that reviews apps and more importantly gives ideas for actual integration and implementation. On the right side bar, notice that you can search for blog posts based on Bloom's Taxonomy, device type, and subject. We can particularly use the Create, Apply, and Analyze sections of Bloom's for the "creation" and "exploration" pieces of our presentation.

This is an excellent site which allows you to search by topic, Bloom's Taxonomy, grade level, price, subject, and even type of mobile device to locate relevant apps.

This site shares ideas on how you can intergrate apps into the classroom. Most of them are Free.

SIG 1 Context: K-12 setting

This website is great for background information to mobile devices. It is a PDF file "Now, as a growing number of students carry smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices that can connect to the internet wirelessly through a cellular as well as a Wi-Fi connection, the definition of ―mobile learning‖ is expanding-and with it, the possibilities inherent in the term.

SIG 1 Context: K-12 setting

This site shares ideas on how you can intergrate technology into the classroom. http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/technology.shtml also can use these ideas

SIG 1 Context: K-12 setting

This blog post has brief explanations, links to and pictures of the tools about technology integration

SIG 1 Context: K-12 setting

This is turning out be a great blog! You may want to add this one to your reader

Pretty lengthy article on mobile learning, and you have to register (free) to read the whole thing. Touches on the inevitability of byod, the digital divide questions that brings up, the hidden cost of broadband access. This article is a great overview of the whole situation. Sig 1 Context: General info, byod, divide