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Open a free account at TED-Ed. Once you have selected a video, it will publish to it's own unique URL. You can share the lesson with students and others via e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter. It will exist on its own unique page on TED-Ed, and you can decide who gets to see that page.

Introducing School-Wide Digital Citizenship Practices with iPads 8Share An elementary school in our district recently got 30 iPads and asked for some advice implementing them with students and teachers. In addition to suggesting some starter apps, I recommended that we have conversations with kids around the appropriate use of these devices. While almost every child has used an iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone, the exciting learning opportunities these mobile, Internet-connected, media creation devices create also open the door to new challenges. Cyberbullying or inappropriate web publishing happens more through the camera than regular computer use does; the mobility of the device combined with the reality that multiple users are using the device with no personalized, password-protected, network-tracked accounts makes it more challenging to keep track of who is doing what with the device or that the device itself is safe. R

Do the majority of your students complete their homework assignments on time on a consistent basis?

f you flip the classroom and students come to class having not watched the video lessons, how do you spend your classroom time the next day?

Do all of your students have access to the web at home?

Some of the Internet’s best resources dedicated exclusively to educational uses of the iPad.

put together links to apps grouped by Academic Subject.

published hundreds of helpful and insightful articles about iPad apps for teaching and learning

“The advantages of digital media now greatly outweigh the disadvantages and require that schools update their thinking and policies to provide guidance on the use of these tools to improve student learning and achievement,” the paper says.

“Digital responsibility is big.” Rankin said. “We’re teaching students how to operate in this new world. We wanted to change the wording in our guidelines because we don’t want students to accept them; we want students to be responsible for them.”

“The depth of thought and level of discourse gets much deeper when you add an online environment,” Wells said. The teacher can present information in class, and then the students are free to explore it online – they can look at other students’ work, or check out videos on YouTube. Time constraints are no longer a factor, the process becomes more individualized, and school becomes more relevant, Wells said.

This is an aggregate of blog posts written about integrating mobile learning into the classroom.

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a flipped classroom is a classroom where the instructional time and student activity time are reversed.

Teachers record their lesson or lecture and post their recording online for students to access for homework. As the student works through a video in their own time and in their own space, they can pause to think about what the teacher discussed, to take notes, or can replay a section they did not understand.

combine the best that elearning and face-to-face learning have to offer.

video shows the positive use of mobile devices in the classroom

created quiz apps

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ustom videos that run on all types of phones, and Augmented Reality apps on Layar and Android.

eachers who are using the service with their students feel more empowered than ever.

liberates the classroom,”

Students can access the content “when and how they want it.”

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respond in a variety of ways to questions posed during the course of a lecture or reading. How

collaborate and maintain documents online