EDC672 Mobile Devices in the Instructional Program

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.

The key ingredient in effective lessons isn't alignment, it's pizzazz: excitement, engagement, challenge.

using classroom management methods to get students to attend to boring lessons is shoveling against the tide.

the iPad as.... Reader Creator Student Response SystemClassroom Manager Study Tool Organizer Differentiator

In order to help educators integrate iPads effectively, we have compiled a list of apps focused on learning goals consistent with the CRCD framework.

The Age of Personalization

Yet when many of our students reach the schoolhouse door, it's like the Internet and social media don't exist

We tell students to turn off their cell phones and put away their tablets.

technology tools and a project-learning approach, students are more likely to stay engaged and on task, reducing behavioral problems in the classroom.

Google Docs

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

collaborate and maintain documents online

How do we make our rubrics less 20th Century and more 21st Century?  Focus on the evidence of learning and less on the product or the performance. Easily said, difficult to do. In fact, building a powerful 21st Century rubric to assess learning is an art. If made improperly, it could hinder the learner.

teacher needs to encourage a critical approach by walking the talk.

always ask "Why?".

They will start to ask themselves the “Why?” question and the “How do you know?” question

Technology has provided artists with new tools throughout history

rt educators will continually be confronted with the challenge of integrating new information and technology into their art curriculum.

software designed to mimic traditional painting

Whether they use video or artwork, they still manipulate the medium and create something that’s a story.

It doesn’t matter the age; these kids are so technology adept that all you have to do is show them the basics and they just take off," she said. "I think [technology] can replace some of the traditional forms of art instruction, but I think there’s a need for the tactile feel of clay and paint, and getting dirty–it’s a real need. Until some of the software has a more haptic feel to it, that need is going to continue to be there–and I can take clay and teach something that I can’t teach with a computer program.