50 Apps That Represent 50 New Ways To Learn by TeachThought Staff Modern learning is in a state of flux as it struggles to find out what it wants to become. Schools continue to merely “add on” learning, while technology strongly suggests new possibilities for inside and beyond the classroom. From learning simulations and mobile…
5 Apps To Help Students Organize What They Learn contributed by Justin Boyle Most students need all the help they can get when it comes to planning big projects. Here’s a list of apps that can help them stay organized when they’re working on group presentations, research papers or other big tasks that might take…
Here are simple tools for teachers to create and publish apps for engaging students and inspiring them to learn necessary skills.
10 Tips For Smart iPad Security In Schools by PJ Gupta, CEO at amtelnet.com Tablet usage continues to expand in schools, colleges, libraries and universities. Students use tablets for taking notes in class, online learning, research and access to web based textbooks. Both students and teachers use tablets for collaborating on projects and distribution of content…
How To Create An iPad Workflow For Teachers, Students, And Parents Using tablets in the classroom–whether iPads, Androids, or surging Windows devices–is largely a matter of workflow. If you can forgive a mixed metaphor, the traditional classroom sees the teacher as the both the director and the bottleneck of all productivity. They create assignments, assess…
Drawing On A Napkin: Is This How iPads Function In A Traditional Classroom? by Terry Heick Sketched this out last week–not quite a napkin this time, but the back of a sheet of paper at a coffee shop–when thinking about how I most often see iPads used in the classroom. Thought I’d share it in…
The Necessity Of Something Other Than Apple In Education by Terry Heick This isn’t an anti-Apple piece; it’s about symmetry. The discussion about learning with tablets is a difficult one to push critically. Conversations here gradually trend toward apps, cost, equity, or even the consumption versus production argument. Rarely, however, do they extend fully to the…
Here are 10 tips to help you create a smarter iPad-based classroom. The goal is to support content so the iPad doesn’t become your content.
How To Turn Your iPad Into A Document Camera Document cameras are incredibly helpful devices in the classroom. While they seem like a comparatively dated technology in the midst of the smart apps and wearable technology we see today, document cameras remain sturdy, reliable, and useful technology pieces to use in a variety of ways….
St Oliver Plunkett Primary School has shared two images that can help you populate your iPad with apps that support inquiry-based learning.
In addition to creating fiction, storyboarding apps can also be used for sharing assignments, capturing research notes, and documenting PBL.
Recent studies show that non-cognitive skills might be as important – or more so – as cognitive skills in determining educational outcomes.
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