1. January 3rd, 2013 Published by: daabraham
Ways to Use iPads in the
Classroom – Part 4
Ways to use iPads in the
Classroom – Part 4
By Denise & Lal on January 3rd, 2013
Ways to use iPads in the
Classroom – Part 4
All of this means that the iPad engages students in ways that no
School districts all over the USA have adopted iPads in the
piece of school or classroom technology has ever done before.
classroom. iTunes U supports the K-12 clsssroom, with tools
and apps. Educators can create their own text books using Electronic, Open Source, and Custom
iBook Author and iTunes U. Soon electronic text books will be
textbooks
the rule and not the exception.
Electronic text books is transforming education. Textbooks
can now be multi media and interactive books, which support
the most updated information of the day. No longer will there
be an excuse for using text books which might be outdated.
Students can highlight and annotate in the margins of the
ebook, they can search the web for additional information.
And, an iPad is much less heavy than text books, in addition to
the green aspect of using iPads in the classroom.
Custom text books are being created by the most ambitious
The San Diego Unified School District invested $15 million of teachers. This allows teachers to individualize the learning
in purchasing 26,000 iPads for students. Massive iPad experience for their classes. iBooks Author is the method being
deployment has created a whole new industry and new used to create custom text books for iPads in the classroom. All
employment opportunities as well. The evolution of the in all, the iPad hasn’t completely revolutionized textbooks, but
technology being used in today’s classrooms is taking place it certainly has the potential to do so over the next few years.
as such a pace that teachers who graduated just 6 or 7 years
ago from university are faced with newness unlike anytime Electronic Note Taking on iPads in the
in the past 50 years. Older teachers are no doubt feeling classroom
overwhelmed and left behind. But, iPads in the classroom Electronic note taking being done on iPads isn’t only for the
are changing the way teachers are learning and teachers are use on electronic text books. Many apps are available for either
teaching. typing on the iPad or for using a stylus of finger for writing
notes. Students can organize and share their notes with other
iPads in the Classroom are students and with teachers. Notes need not be handwritten
Engaging and Exciting Students or typed, they can be in the form of photos taken or video
The use of iPads in the classroom is engaging students in ways of a classroom experiment. Students can pull other bits from
that couldnt have been anticipated 10 years ago. Computers web resources to further enhance the learning experience.
in general have a way of engaging students, and thus the The learning becomes far more interactive and less being told
investment since the invention of the PC. iPads offer different “stuff” that you will be expected to remember. The student is
and unique ways to explore concepts and to make use of them an active participant rather than a passive listener.
as text books in a much more engaging way. Imagine opening Finding the Answer vs. Memorizing The
your “text book” iPad and being able to look at a photo of an
object – and be able to turn that object around, see what it Answer
looks like inside, map where it came from. Students can take Education today is about teaching children where
photos, write notes, do a pod cast, search the net, collaborate to find facts and how to distinguish solid and
with other students and write a report, all on the iPads in their academically sound information
classroom. There’s one aspect of learning that is significantly different for
today’s middle and high school students compared to middle
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and high school students from the baby boom and generation
X eras. Today’s youth has Google and the Internet as reference
tools instead of dusty well-used encyclopedias in the school
library. Rather than the push to memorize facts, education
today is about teaching children where to find facts and how
to distinguish solid and academically sound information from
opinion-based hyperbole and so-called facts that are just plain
wrong. That’s a massive change at the core of education.
While the iPad certainly didn’t start this transformation, it is
definitely accelerating it.
iPads in the classroom turning teachers in the facilitators
The teacher still remains the core educator, but more as a
knowledge facilitator than a lecturer. The student takes a far
more active role in their learning. This allows students to learn
in the way that suits them best as opposed to school being a
one size fits all. This new model molds to fit different learning
styles, and students will feel more in control of their pace and
more engaged in learning. Critical thinking develops more
easily and creativity is a natural outcome as well. iPads in the
classroom is a perfect vehicle in this new model of education.
In the end that iPad is transforming education. It’s doing it at
the same pace that it transforms industries and workplaces.
It’s also instilling a desire for lifelong learning by encouraging
students to learn more that just the narrow slice of information
needed to pass a test.
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