Our class will have a wonderful opportunity to pilot iPads during semester II. The cart is being prepared to contain 30 new iPads and we will be looking for ways to incorporate this new tool into our Reading and Language Arts classes each day. During semester I, we had 1 iPad for the entire class. This iPad has been used to teach, to time progress monitoring, to practice spelling, to record notes, to enter student submissions to our class wiki, to take notes, to view class Prezis, to improve reading fluency and reading rate, to connect with poets and writers, to check the weather, to build sentences, to practice following directions, to read classics, and to create music.Our list will surely grow with 30 more iPads! We welcome any suggestions you have for educational apps!
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How exciting to have such advanced technology available for your students! As a journalism instructor, I have been begging for iPads to train our student newspaper staff. Not only are there applications available to help students in the classrooms, I've found that my practicing journalism students can edit photos, write and upload stories, post to the web and investigate leads (not to mention get directions to where they need to go for a story). Please keep posting and let us know how your students are utilizing the best of this technology :)
Wow! That is really awesome that you have 30 iPads for your students. Did you receive them through a grant? I would love to have them in my science room. There are so many exciting apps to use. This is especially true when it comes to astronomy. I found some apps that you might like for your elementary classroom.
Let us know how the kids are doing with their awesome new technology.
I think it is great that you have the
availability of IPads for all of your students. That very issue was discussed at our last department meeting. (Special Education) Our supervisor is looking into getting IPads for our high school. The down fall is the expense of the additional apps that may be purchases. Teachers would have to ask permission for the additional apps and then the app would have to be added on to each IPad. I'm hoping that the IPads will be on next year's order!
Joy Grandi
It is great to get new technology in your classroom! I know we have one student using an iPad and one student using an iPod touch. They are both using them as communication devices using the program Proloquo2Go. I have not had the chance to see these students using these products and applications, but I am on the technology committee, so I have heard about the progress. It can be a challenge figuring out how to use new technology, though. It sounds like you are off to a good start since you had one iPad in the fall. I am getting a new piece of technology called the Tap-It in my classroom, so I will be figuring that out soon!
I am SO jealous. In my classroom, I have technology, but it lacks in so many ways. Currently, in my trapezoidal room, I have a smartboard, a laptop cart with only 16 computers in it (some work, some don't), and 6 desk top computers. Now, in some of my classes, I have had 30 students, so having 21 computers isn't really vaulable if you want each student to have a computer. I want to know the same thing as Trevar, where did you get them? - Jaclyn Cresswell
I-Pads are such a great resource to your classroom. Just recently at a meeting, the idea of using new technologies was brought up for discussion. The topic of discussion dealt with the questions of where we limit students use in technology in schools. Currently where I teach, students are not allowed to have electronical devices. We dicussed how school guidelines need to be changed in order for students to embrace technology in school. The use of I-Pads in the classroom is a great example of how electronical devices do work in education.
Trevar and Jaclyn, I, along with 6 other teachers in our district, was selected to pilot a classroom of iPads. 2 teachers at the High School, 2 teachers at Jr. High, and 1 in each of our 3 elementary buildings, were chosen by our principals because of how we integrate technology into our lessons. The iPads were purchased from Capital Projects Technology funds. This is a dream come true for me. I purchased my first classroom computer in 1989 with my own money. It was a MAC SE. Since that day, I have worked very hard at integrating technology and have been an advocate for Apple. I feel honored, thrilled, and a bit nervous about using these awesome tools.
I realize that this is an older post, but I was wondering how well the iPad implementation is going. I'm sure that the students love the iPads!
Have you found new ways to use the devices?
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