YouTube is rolling out some big new ways to engage with the education community. Continuing with our look at how YouTube can aid teachers and students, it's probably a good idea to actually outline exactly how the video service can help in the classroom. Engage students by showing a video relevant to their lives.
a short 10 minute video displaying the capabilities of interactive epub files on the ipad.... imagine the possibilities when delivering content through such a dynamic and interactive text. video tutorials, audio clips specific to content, built in glossary, links to additional resources, personalized for your students, your class....say goodbye to 15 pound text books.
This is an interesting article that highlights 3 areas of how mobile devices will/can change how teaching and learning. 1. Inquiry based 2. Flipping classroom instruction 3 digital text books.
not a curriculum, but its interactive math demonstrations provide good raw material to explore with students and, potentially, to work into lesson plans.
Kodu is an icon-based development environment, requiring no programming skills but teaching some of the basics of computational thinking and used to build games for PC and Xbox
Father and husband to 3 awesome kids. Math teacher, soccer coach, techie wanna be. Working with our school to integrate 1:1 iPads in our district. Love kids, love people, love God.