Why DLS is using iPads in school.

1. iPads at DLS
DLS 2012+

2. A New Approach
• This is a growing wave in
educational conversations.
• Numerous schools
recognizing the potential for
improved instructional
techniques and dynamic
learning.
? • Apple recently began to
focus on creating high school
textbooks for download.

3. Education Decisions
• Every DLS student will be
issued at iPad as part of
their learning tools.
• Students will be issued a
certain set of educational
apps but will also be able
to personalize it with
additional other appropriate
apps, etc.

4. Why the iPad vs laptop, etc?
1. Engages Students
Students respond well to it,
helps create an interactive
learning environment.
2. Easy to Use (battery life,
size, boot time, intuitive, etc)

5. Specific Topic Apps
The iPad offers teachers
specialized apps for
dynamic lessons on certain
units or content areas.
With it, students can access
information more easily
and more graphically than
before. For example…

6. Interactive Maps for Geography

7. Anatomy/Biology Diagrams

8. Music Theory

9. Historical Information

10. Explanations of Literature

11. Combine/Replace Technology
The iPad also takes existing
technology and combines it
into one device for easier access
and smoother integration.
•Laptops •Clickers
•Student Slates •Cameras
•Interactive •TV/Monitors
White Boards •Books
•Flashcards •Calculators

12. Presentations/Video Projects
• Creating daily access to tools such
as iMovie and Keynote for every
student to use in class presentations.

13. Graphing Software
• Replacing graphing calculators in
math classes with larger screen devices

14. Downloadable Literature
Online literature
books etc,
beginning to
remove the
need to carry a
large load of
books back and
forth, making
backpacks lighter
for students.

15. Downloadable Textbooks
Textbooks with interactive
graphics, diagrams, hyperlinks, and
pop out dictionary definitions, etc.

16. Annotate Text
Ability for students to take notes
directly in their textbooks.

17. iBooks Author
• Teachers able to create their own
textbooks that match their instruction.

18. White Board Projection
• Teacher able to project their
screen to projector, or to show it
on every student iPad.

19. Record/Share Presentations
• Teachers able to record their
voice and interactive
whiteboard-like presentations
for upload for students to watch
again later.

20. Student Response Slates
• Students can respond to teacher by
showing their work or
collaborating on solutions within a
class period.

21. Student Note Taking
• Students able to take notes
including diagrams. Handwriting
recognition software offers easy
conversion possibilities.

22. Place Pictures Within Notes
• Students can place pictures
within their notes and annotate.
These pictures could be of a class
handout, or something done in
class that day.

23. Camera/Microphone
• Use the camera to take
pictures of the notes on the
board or a copy of a friends
notes if absent.
• Microphone used to record
voice in Spanish or music
class and submit online.
• Use Dragon Dictation to
help write papers with less
typing.

24. Student Response Systems
• Teachers able to use interactive
polling software during class to
test how well students are
mastering a concept.

25. Productivity + Communication
• In addition to classroom
applications, iPads offer a
different way of moving
and sharing information .

26. School Data Systems
• Portable administrative access to
relevant school data.

27. Cloud Data
• Student data stored in accounts
accessible both at school and at
home.
• Makes it harder to “forget your
homework at home.”

28. Face Communication
• Work collaboratively with other using
the camera to talk face to face or
show what you are discussing.

29. Assistance Opportunities
• iPads offer organizational
aids like: alarms, calendars,
organizational apps.
• Students with vision or
hearing issues can change
the font or picture size as
well as have text read aloud
in low light situations (like
riding back from a game.)

30. Electronic Submission
• A class worksheet can be
distributed electronically,
filled out by hand (or by
stylus) on the ipad screen,
handwriting can be
converted to type, and
assignments submitted
online (from home) with a
time stamp of when they
were received.

31. Questions?
• We know that new tech
possibilities create
numerous questions.
• The answers we do have
will be shared in the
coming months.
• The answers we do not
have we are excited to
learn together.

32. iPads at DLS
DLS 2012+