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Tyler Schaben

A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom | Edutopia - 4 views

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  • 12 Ways Teachers are Using Social Media in the Classroom Right Now Tweet or post status updates as a class. Teacher Karen Lirenman lets students propose nuggets of learning that are posted for parents to read. Write blog posts about what students are learning. Teacher Kevin Jarrett blogs reflections about his Elementary STEM lab for parents to read each week. Let your students write for the world. Linda Yollis' students reflect about learning and classroom happenings. Connect to other classrooms through social media. Joli Barker is fearlessly connecting her classroom through a variety of media. Use Facebook to get feedback for your students' online science fair projects. Teacher Jamie Ewing is doing this now, as he shared recently. Use YouTube for your students to host a show or a podcast. Don Wettrick's students hosted the Focus Show online and now share their work on a podcast. Create Twitter accounts for a special interest projects. My student Morgan spent two years testing and researching the best apps for kids with autism (with the help of three "recruits"), and her work just won her an NCWIT Award for the State of Georgia.
  • Ask questions to engage your students in authentic learning. Tom Barrett did this when his class studied probability by asking about the weather in various locations. Communicate with other classrooms. The Global Read Aloud, Global Classroom Project and Physics of the Future are three examples of how teachers use social media to connect their students as they collaborate and communicate. Create projects with other teachers. (Full disclosure: I co-created Physics of the Future with Aaron Maurer, a fellow educator I first met on Twitter.) Share your learning with the world. My students are creating an Encyclopedia of Learning Games with Dr. Lee Graham's grad students at the University of Alaska Southeast. The educators are testing the games, and the students are testing them, too. Further a cause that you care about. Mrs. Stadler's classes are working to save the rhinos in South Africa, and Angela Maiers has thousands of kids choosing to matter.
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  • The myth about social media in the classroom is that if you use it, kids will be Tweeting, Facebooking and Snapchat
  • If you're going to ignore social media in the classroom, then throw out the ISTE Standards for Students and stop pretending that you're 21st century.
  • Tweet or post status updates as a class. Teacher Karen Lirenman lets students propose nuggets of learning that are posted for parents to read.
  • Further a cause that you care about. Mrs. Stadler's classes are working to save the rhinos in South Africa, and Angela Maiers has thousands of kids choosing to matter.
  • Communicate with other classrooms. The Global Read Aloud, Global Classroom Project and Physics of the Future are three examples of how teachers use social media to connect their students as they collaborate and communicate.
  • Create projects with other teachers. (Full disclosure: I co-created Physics of the Future with Aaron Maurer, a fellow educator I first met on Twitter.)
  • Use YouTube for your students to host a show or a podcast. Don Wettrick's students hosted the Focus Show online and now share their work on a podcast.
  • Surely students will post thousands of status updates, pictures, and blogs in their lifetime.
  • If you're going to ignore social media in the classroom, then throw out the ISTE Standards for Students and stop pretending that you're 21st century. Stop pretending that you're helping low-income children overcome the digital divide if you aren't going to teach them how to communicate online.
  • Don't mistake social media for socializing. They're different -- just as kids talking as they work in groups or talking while hanging out are different.
  • Fictional twitter accounts! I just wanted to share something that I have really gotten a kick out of recently. I started a Twitter account for Holden Caulfield @_therealholden_ and "Holden" tweets updates that center on our reading of The Catcher in the Rye. Students can interact and the whole thing has been a lot of fun.
  • Lacie Heiserman on 08 Oct 14
     
    This is a great article about integrating social media into the classroom. It offers a short quiz at the beginning of the article.
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  • Krista Garvin on 11 Oct 14
     
    A teachers how to incorporate social media in their classroom.
  • Krista Garvin on 11 Oct 14
     
    A teachers how to incorporate social media in their classroom.
  • Anne Pudenz on 08 Oct 15
     
    This site offers 12 ways teachers are using social media in their classrooms.  It provides links to classroom examples and other teachers.  
  • Nicole Heinrichs on 08 Oct 15
     
    This article talks about the use of social media in the classroom.  This resource is helpful for wanting to know pointers for using social media in the classroom.
  • Laura H. on 08 Oct 15
     
    Defense of social media in the classroom and ideas for how to use it.
  • Katie Upah on 08 Oct 15
     
    This article asserts why it is important for teachers to address social media in the classroom and 12 ways teachers are using it.
  • Emma Folland on 10 Oct 15
     
    This is a great article that explains different ways to use social media in the classroom. One idea that I wanted to share, but it was not on there, was this idea about having a Twitter Debate. I heard about it in a webcast that I watched last week. I think this could also be a very effective tool for students who are trying to get their point across. They would have to find an article to support their point, and by using Twitter and limiting them to 140 characters, it would force them to make their point consice. I think this article could be helpful with teachers. Teachers can have a lot of different ideas to help students use social media in their classroom. I think that I could use different ideas for the library, specifically tweeting different things that are going on in the library.
  • Sarah Ebener on 10 Oct 15
     
    I really like the idea of connecting with other classrooms through social media. I think this could work for my writing classes as a very authentic way of getting an audience. Maybe "Share your journal entry on social media and see if you get responses from people other than me and the rest of the kids in this class"? Kids and teachers can take control over this and use it in so many ways: sharing their work, reaching out to other people and classes, connecting with each other outside of class, etc. Plus there are so many different platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest) that allow us to do a variety of things so that you don't have to stick with just one. Thanks for sharing!
  • Alexis Johns on 11 Oct 15
     
    This was a great article that gave a lot of diverse ideas for using social media in the classroom. One that I found I could use in my class would be a discussion forum for students who are in different periods, but taking the same/similar class, to communicate with each other on a variety of discussion topics. It could also be applied to allow my engineering students to communicate with the physics classroom. I believe this resource would most benefit teachers, administration, and technology integrationalist. It would be a great way to introduce the idea of incorporation social media into the classroom at a PD meeting.
  • Christa McCaulley on 11 Oct 15
     
    This was very informative on how to use social media in the classroom in a fun and appropriate way. There are so many platforms for students to seek or gain information, and I find that some teachers are afraid of allowing their students into the social media world in a classroom setting. Also, I would state that those teachers have not themselves explored social media in an educational format. This could be a great resource for many teachers.
  • Tyler Schaben on 11 Oct 15
     
    This whole website in general is really good. What I decided to focus on specifically was this article about good practices for social media in the classroom. If you have the time I would also check out the comments. There are educators that posted their own uses for social media in the classroom that were not mentioned in the article. This is a good read!
  • Erin Keiser on 11 Oct 15
     
    I think this is an awesome resource to give teachers ideas of how to integrate social media in the classroom more effectively. Edutopia always has lots of great, reliable information and resources. One of the things that I think is the most effective is how this article has links to other sites where specific real life teachers have used social media in the classroom effectively.
Laura H.

Resources for Flipped Classroom - 6 views

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  • Flipped Classroom Resources
  • The Journey to a Flipped Classroom 
  • The Flipped Classroom Model: A Full Picture « User Generated Education
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  • Flipping the classroom with iTunes U 
  • Digital Differentiation with Screencasting
  • Flipping the Classroom
  • Laura H. on 08 Oct 15
     
    Opening video is basic but resources at the bottom are quite helpful. Creates a useful list of resources for flipping a classroom.
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  • Ping Gao on 09 Oct 15
     
    I like this website, too. It is particularly useful for teachers.
  • Kelly Post on 09 Oct 15
     
    Great site giving proof that flipping the classroom works! This site is a great place to start because she did a lot of the research for you and gives a list of great sources to get you started.
  • Lisa Bindert on 10 Oct 15
     
    I liked this site. It gives webcasts and web pages that you can look at. A great place to look for ideas if beginning the process of flipping. I have saved it to my library and plan to dig deeper into the many resources the author shared.
Heather Davis

Technology & Classroom Management | The Cornerstone - 1 views

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  • Heather Davis on 10 Oct 14
     
    Offers ways to use technology to deal with behavior management in the classroom
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  • Heather Davis on 10 Oct 14
     
    Offers ways to use technology to deal with behavior management in the classroom
  • Heather Davis on 10 Oct 14
     
    Offers ways to use technology to deal with behavior management in the classroom
  • Lacie Heiserman on 12 Oct 14
     
    I feel like people are often so worried about integrating technology into the classroom that they often forget about how this is going to affect classroom management. As we implement technology into the classroom we are going to have to change other aspects of our classroom, and classroom management is going to be one of them. Great resource!
jared sunds

10 Specific Ideas To Gamify Your Classroom - - 2 views

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  • jared sunds on 20 Oct 14
     
    10 Specific Ideas To Gamify Your Classroom by Mike Acedo In today's classroom, educators are constantly required to mold their teaching methods to give students the best opportunity to succeed. It is not only imperative...
  • jared sunds on 20 Oct 14
     
    10 Specific Ideas To Gamify Your Classroom by Mike Acedo In today's classroom, educators are constantly required to mold their teaching methods to give students the best opportunity to succeed. It is not only imperative...
  • James Reinhard on 23 Oct 14
     
    Really enjoyed the article, from what else I've read on game design a lot of the same elements are present in this article. I find it intriguing how universal design is.
daubertt

100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom - OnlineUniversities.com - 1 views

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  • Heather Davis on 10 Oct 14
     
    100 different and unique ways to incorporate social media into the classroom
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  • Heather Davis on 10 Oct 14
     
    100 different and unique ways to incorporate social media into the classroom
  • Lacie Heiserman on 12 Oct 14
     
    I think this is a great resource for many different ways to integrate technology into the classroom. If one of these doesn't work another one could. There are so many ways on here that I had never even thought about!
  • daubertt on 11 Oct 15
     
    This will give me ideas to use social media in my classroom
Lisa Bindert

7 Ways That Social Networking Tools Can Enable Social Learning in the Classroom - Emerg... - 3 views

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  • Engagement:
  • Social Learning: 
  • Use time outside of class better, so you can use in-class time better
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  • It provides opportunities for writing and writing assessment:
  • Encourage dialogue, reach more students
  • Help students get ahead of the professional curve:
  • Build connections
  • Lisa Bindert on 07 Oct 15
     
    Engagement: Social Learning: Use time outside of class better, so you can use in-class time better It provides opportunities for writing and writing assessment: Encourage dialogue, reach more students Help students get ahead of the professional curve: Build connections
  • Katie Upah on 08 Oct 15
     
    I agree that I could efficiently use this resource in my future classroom to an extent. Because the article only outlines reasons why social media should be used in a classroom, there are no specific ways mentioned on how to integrate social media... there are only a list of benefits to using it. I believe this article could be intended for teacher or student use because it allows both teachers and students to understand the benefits and purposes of using social media in the classroom. One similar resource that could also be considered is "How to use Social Media as a Learning Tool": http://www.edudemic.com/how-to-use-social-media-as-a-learning-tool-in-the-classroom/. This site seems more beneficial to me because it specifically offers ways for teachers to implement social media in the classroom (rather than just stating advantages), such as a class Facebook group, Twitter feed, blog post, YouTube videos, and Instagram. Are you aware of any similar resources that should be considered? If so, what are those resources?
  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    You also have to keep in mind the overall purpose of social media being in the classroom.
Hannah Hacker

The Classroom Web Page: A Must-Have in 2008 | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • When hyperlinks on that page are connected to high-quality resources, the students quickly become used to getting to the classroom page and moving on to the resources.
  • Students gain access to many more curriculum resources.
  • ailing to establish a classroom component on the Web can marginalize the perceiv
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  • ed importance of school.
  • Through the inclusion of an email address, a contact form, or another communication tool, students and their families gain extended access to their teachers. The teacher is the most valuable resource in the classroom, so it only makes sense to provide greater access.
  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    This article talks about the positives of having classroom websites with student involvement.
bethanyluens

What Does a 21st Century Classroom Look Like: Technology Integration | Edutopia - 4 views

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  • bethanyluens on 13 Nov 17
     
    I enjoyed this article because it talks about the 10 signs of a 21st century classroom and how to work on achieving these goals.
  • hoffeuni on 15 Nov 17
     
    This is a good resource to use with administrators and school board members. I feel like sometimes we run into roadblocks because people just don't know what technology integration should look like. This resource could also be used with teachers to give them some ideas on how a technology integrationist could provide support to them in the classroom.
  • Ryan on 15 Nov 17
     
    This is a good article to look at. I feel that it would be good for a classroom because it is talking about how to transform a classroom into a 21st century classroom and what it should look like. This would definitely benefit both teacher and student. The teacher can use the technology to help teach while the students can use the technology to help learn and grow.
Keith Lacock

The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You - Edudemic - Edudemic - 2 views

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  • ryanandcala on 13 Oct 13
     
    Master list of Web 2.0 Tools
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  • Nichol Hebel on 13 Oct 13
     
    This list is a great resource and I believe I could use this in my future classroom. If I am in a classroom with technology readily available I think many of the web 2.0 tools listed in this article could be put to good use! I believe this resource is intended for teachers but will benefit students and teachers alike when these tools are implemented into the classroom. I found this article "The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You," http://www.edudemic.com/best-web-tools/. This list was published a year after the article you posted so you might want to check out this list as well! Thank you for your resource!
  • Keith Lacock on 14 Oct 13
     
    This quick article went through 35 web 2.0 tools. I like this list because it has some of the easier things to work with (Prezi, Twitter) to some more advanced things like Diigo and Wikispaces.
  • Colleen Griffith on 15 Oct 13
     
    I love lists like this because it is so much easier to rely on someone else's compilation as a starting point rather than gathering tools on your own.
Nichol Hebel

50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching - 4 views

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  • Nichol Hebel on 13 Oct 13
     
    Ideas related to how you can put wikis to work in your classroom! Categories: Resource Creation, Student Participation, Group Projects, Student Interaction For the Classroom Community, Other
  • ehrenhardr on 15 Oct 13
     
    I love how it´s broken up in different categories for using wikis. It makes it so easy to navigate through for teachers. There are many fun and easy ways on here that I will for sure use in my classroom someday. Thank you for sharing.
  • Ian Hubrig on 16 Oct 13
     
    While it definitely seems like a educator-specific resource, I love the categories. I especially like the collection of ideas for group projects, as it is always nice to have a pool of formats to pull from.
Colleen Griffith

The Connected Classroom - Classroom - 0 views

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  • Colleen Griffith on 15 Oct 13
     
    The Connected Classroom is a one stop shop for all your 21st Century learning tools. The page includes links to blogs, graphic organizers, podcasts, and much more. Teachers can use this sight to find popular web tools to use in the classroom. It is also helpful for learning about 21st Century skills and examples of them.
Megan Stewart

Learnist | Share what you know - 1 views

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  • Megan Stewart on 14 Oct 13
     
    This is an interactive website in which teachers share ideas that can be utilized within classrooms. It's great for first year teachers starting up there first classrooms. It can also be used in the classroom for students to research different content as there are resources on the website.
  • ehrenhardr on 15 Oct 13
     
    I love this website. It´s set up kind of like pinterest which I´m a big fan of. The layout is well organized, so it´s easy for teachers and students to navigate through. There are a lot of great ideas on it that I´m sure I could use in my classroom someday. Thank you for sharing.
bredvick

22 Effective Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom | Edudemic - 0 views

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  • bredvick on 13 Oct 14
     
    We all hear we should be using Twitter to enhance our classroom, but where do you start? I would like to incorporate Twitter into my classroom and I think this is a great resource to start up with. Please use this if you are looking to incorporate Twitter into your classroom!
Jared Kannenberg

How to Design a Classroom Built on Inquiry, Openness and Trust | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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  • Teachers who are interested in shifting their classrooms often don’t know where to start.
  • Sometimes you may not understand why certain things aren’t working. Ask your students. I’m often surprised by how much they know and how adept they are at articulating what they need.
  • Jared Kannenberg on 12 Oct 15
     
    Designing a classroom for 21st century learning
  • Lorena Harger on 12 Oct 15
     
    This is a great resource to help teachers in the initiative of creating a leaner-centered classroom. The first week back to work, teachers and administrators in the district watched a video about the power of belief - mindset and success. This resource is mostly for teachers but it can positively affect students and their learning success. A similar resource that should be considered is the mindset works website: http://www.mindsetworks.com/. This site explains the science behind the concept of the growth mindset and explains the role of teachers, administrators, students and parents.
Katrina Lint

The Most Powerful Tool in the Classroom | Sarah Wike Loyola - 1 views

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  • Katrina Lint on 12 Oct 15
     
    Do you know what the most powerful tool is in the classroom?
  • Anna Kron on 12 Oct 15
     
    I agree, the most powerful tool in our classroom is the Internet (as long as you have tools in your classroom that can utilize it). I thought this post wonderfully and concisely explained the way teachers' roles need to change in the classroom. We are no longer the sole holders of knowledge; everyone has the capability to retrieve information, they just have to learn how to access and use it. I think this post would be useful to show to teachers who are stuck and do not want to give up control of their classroom to the "organized chaos" the article describes. The TED talk included at the end of the article was wonderful as well!
kstull

A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom | Edutopia - 3 views

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  • trina79 on 14 Nov 17
     
    This is a great article and after reading it, I realize even more why I need to teach digital citizenship lesson that include the use of social media to my students. There are some great ideas for using social media in the classroom that I want to try out. I want to try out having my students do a podcast at some point this year and I also want to have my students blog. I am going to share this with a colleague of mine that I know will love the information in this article and want to join me in bringing social media into our classrooms.
  • unipatricia on 14 Nov 17
     
    I really liked this website. It was actually one that I almost shared with this group because I liked it. I think it is important to know how to implement social media in the classroom because it is so prevalent in our society. I think this website will be used by teachers because they are the ones who will be deciding how they will bring social media in lessons. I have seen other websites that can help implement social media into the classroom. I have shared that website to this group.
  • Taylor Niewohner on 16 Nov 17
     
    This is a pretty great Edutopia article. I hope some of the information will help me when implementing social media in the classroom!
Austin Jacobson

Text message (SMS) polls and voting, audience response system | Poll Everywhere | Diigo - 1 views

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  • ryanandcala on 13 Oct 13
     
    I just used Poll Everywhere in a presentation on campus with pre-service teachers! It was a hit!! I've never seen a class so quiet and so focused with that many cellphones out!
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  • Nichol Hebel on 13 Oct 13
     
    Austin, I love classes that use Poll Everywhere! I think this is a great resource for my future classroom and would love to use it but I think I would need to adapt it depending on the grade level I teach. I believe Poll Everywhere is beneficial for student and teacher use because it promotes a safe classroom environment and student engagement. Teachers can use this resource as a formative assessment and feedback tool. On the flip side students will be able to use Poll Everywhere as a way to speak up in class when they may be too shy to do so in other ways.
  • Haylee Hanson on 13 Oct 13
     
    I also love using Poll Everywhere in classes. I agree 100% with everything Nichol said in her comment. I think that it is a great resource to use in any class setting and is a safe, fun way to boost student engagement. It keeps learners participating and provides the instructor with feedback.
  • Kim McCoy-Parker on 13 Oct 13
     
    Austin - This is a great app for teachers to use in their classroom to get everyone involved. It could also be used by students in upper elementary and above to gather information from classmates or involve them in presentations. This is such an easy tool to utilize in the classroom setting. Thanks for highlighting this resource!
  • Megan Stewart on 14 Oct 13
     
    I loved using Poll Everywhere! I think this a great interactive tool for teachers to get students involved into the classroom activity! It's very easy and is very fun for students to use in the classroom!
  • Jake Willis on 14 Oct 13
     
    I used Poll Everywhere for the first time last semester and it was a great idea. It was a really fun time interacting with the teacher in that way. It was very easy to set up and even if you don't have a smart phone you can still text in your response. We answered questions ranging from single answers all the way to little short sentences. I would definitely use this tool if I ever became a teacher because it allows students to be on their phone and contribute at the same time, instead of just being on their phones.
  • Keith Lacock on 14 Oct 13
     
    I feel like this would be a great tool if it's used in the right context. I don't necessarily think elementary would be the right place for it. For the students that actually have phones you don't know if the students have texting included in their plans. You might get them in trouble with their parents, hence you get in trouble for telling them to send a text. In older grades I could see this going over very well and I've seen it used in a college class before. It's a nice change of pace in that context.
  • Ian Hubrig on 16 Oct 13
     
    I actually used Poll Everywhere in my Level 1 Teaching Experience and loved it! The students got to see some results of our lessons, I got a quick formative assessment, and the data was nicely organized for graphing or applying to spreadsheets!
ehrenhardr

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  • ehrenhardr on 15 Oct 13
     
    Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education. It will make it incredibly easy to create a classroom workspace where me and my students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams. Rich assessment tools will give me the power to measure student contribution and engagement in real-time.
bredvick

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  • bredvick on 13 Oct 14
     
    This is a great resource to use in educating yourself on information about digital storytelling in the classroom. You can use this to learn information about it and why it should or should not be used in the classroom. It is a good idea to know the benefits and downsides to any resource we are using in the classroom
  • bredvick on 13 Oct 14
     
    The two extra resources I found were in correlation to my final topic I am writing about in this class, digital storytelling! If you have any resources related this topic, please share!
Ping Gao

5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make With iPads - 5 views

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  • Nichol Hebel on 13 Oct 13
     
    Helpful article. I thought it was interesting because my elementary school just switched to 1:1 with iPads this year.
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  • Erin Mulder on 13 Oct 13
     
    I thought this was a great article! It gives wonderful advice on how to correct the mistakes that are made with iPads in schools. This would definitely be a great resource for teachers to use to gauge how they are using iPads within their own classrooms and to remember how to keep iPad use effective and meaningful. Great find! :)
  • Jeremy Cooper on 13 Oct 13
     
    This is an excellent article to forward onto your administrators (as I just did!) so that they can understand the common pitfalls for technology use in the classroom. In my building, we have a classroom set of iPads that can be checked out and they have been used for all kinds of assignments and subject areas. As the kids will report, some teachers know how to use them effectively, and others are just using them for the sake of doing it. I've also read a couple of articles that I'll have to try and come back and link, but a few very large school districts have been in the news for the issues that they've been having with iPads in the classroom. The issue seemed to be that they scaled their programs way too quickly, did not train their educators properly, and did not look at the liability piece that comes along with giving students access to certain apps and features.
  • Paige Blocker on 13 Oct 13
     
    Nicole, this is an awesome article. I like how it shows the 5 mistakes and ways to correct those. I think this article would be great for teachers as some are unaware of how to use iPads or how to use them for the right reason. I feel like if you have the right apps on the iPad for the correct age group they can be very educational. Personally, young kids are learning to work this and enjoy doing this. I had a boy I nannied he loved playing on the iPad at age 4! He was allowed to play educational games and have books read to him, etc.
  • Austin Jacobson on 13 Oct 13
     
    Nichol, I definitely agree with the things this article is saying! I think the fact the lack of Teacher Preparation in Classroom Management of iPads is a big one. How are we suppose to be incorporating this technology when we don't even know how to use it ourselves? Many people assume it works like a laptop when it does not. I definitely think this is an article teachers should read before trying to bring ipads into the classroom! Great article!
  • James Reinhard on 23 Oct 14
     
    With so many articles on 'what you should do' it's a nice change of pace to see 'what your doing wrong' kind of article. I went into it thinking it was going show how students are misusing ipads, so I especially liked how it was aimed towards educators telling them how they are going to misuse them. I see a lot of what we've read for class already in this article, it helps reinforce the lessons.
  • akmuni on 07 Oct 15
     
    I agree with this article and its must be obvious to anyone who has used an iPad why this information is important. The iPad is a tool and is effective for certain types of task. It's not a replacement for a computer. Due to the low cost and ease of operation the wow factor could cause someone to lose sight of the purpose of application. This article is more important for the designer of curriculum and the teacher who have input. One recently large lawsuit resulted from a one billion dollar purchase of iPad for a California school district.
  • Ping Gao on 07 Oct 15
     
    This is a blog post about the 5 critical mistakes schools makes ith IPads.
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