There has been a lot of conversation and debate in multiple forums, both online and face-to-face, about schools adopting or already working in a 1:1 environment
providing our students with the best learning environment possible.
For teachers, some of which are just beginning to use tablets and mobile devices in class, these resources can be invaluable in promoting more interactive classrooms and understanding how best to use and control such products.
Gesture-based technology is on the rise; according to the latest NMC Horizon Report, gesture-based technological models will become more readily integrated as a method of learning within the next few years.
This is one of the most comprehensive lists I've seen of iPad resources for our classrooms. This article resonates with me because of it's compact list of links, categorized by topics. I am certain that I will be frequently referring back to this page.
good points in the comments, especially the one that points that a student may be so engaged and entertained with the iPad apps that would be unlikely for him to work on skills that are very important in their overall development, such as speech and oral communication vs pointing to items on an ipad care should be exerted
The challenge of providing aid in organization for some students with special needs can be ameliorated with just a few available tools. Google voice could be used to record up to 3 minutes of oral instructions given by the teacher that can be replied when needed. The possibility of sending assignment or test oral or printed reminders that can be listened to a whole group of students has great potential.
Authentic assessments can be imbedded into the content and I see this as the next component being added to apps and textbooks. The real beauty is that students can proceed in their own time frame and not everyone will be expected to be on page 39 at the same time.
Where are we going and what will the end results be? The
journey is never going to have an end,
Math classes almost always start with a "problem of the day." This would be a great way to do it!
Using Socrative, an app that shows real-time poll results for both multiple-choice and short-answer quizzes, he challenges his students at the end of class to answer specific questions in order to get a broad look at whether they understood the concepts discussed that day.
As soon as kids walk in, Musallam sends out a text blast through Remind101, asking them a challenge question that’s related to the day’s lesson.
The idea of mobile learning touches on just about every subject that any technology addresses: social media, digital citizenship, content-knowledge versus skill-building, internet filtering and safety laws, teaching techniques, bring-your-own-device policies, school budgets.
The tools I list below are free, and largely web-based. If you are familiar with Office and Adobe, you will be able to place them within their correct categories.
One method of getting kids to engage reading in different ways is through a tablet-based literature circle.
Don’t understand a word in the text? A single tap on the screen pulls up a dictionary that gives the definition, and another tap returns the reader to the page on which the word appears. If a student is reading about the Great Depression but ha
s no understanding of what that is, the tablet can help.
If you make it more memorable and you give them a variety of different systems to use to articulate--drawing, web clips--you’re using more aspects of the mind, which makes it a more memorable experience, and it’s more likely they’ll remember information.”
Algunos artículos interesantes sobre la aplicación de programas y apps que apoyan y dan respuesta a las necesidades de la educación en esta nueva era tecnológica y de información