n a world of ubiquitous mobile devices, the iPad has become the dominant large-screen device. This popularity is reflected among both students and faculty on college and university campuses. Is the iPad just the latest tech gadget to capture the imagination of the education market or are there real educational gains to using it? How can iPads improve instruction both in and out of the classroom? How can they enable scholarship and improve productivity? By examining examples of how faculty in NITLE’s network of small liberal arts colleges and beyond have used the iPad, this talk will suggest ways faculty members can best engage the iPad for teaching and learning.

1. iPedagogy
Teaching (& other stuff)
with the iPad
Rebecca Frost Davis
May 30, 2012

2. What Will You Do with It?

3. The National Institute for Technology in Liberal
Education (NITLE) | www.nitle.org
NITLE helps liberal arts colleges integrate
inquiry, pedagogy, and technology.
Future of Liberal Education
• Digital Humanities
• Libraries and Scholarly Communications
• New Learning Resources

4. January 2010 iPad Announced

5. What Is It?

11. Over 200,000 Apps

12. What Uses Are Inherent?
• Affordance—a quality of an object, or an
environment, which allows an individual to
perform an action.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance

13. What Are the
Affordances of the iPad?
https://docs.google.com/document/
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14. Where and How to Use?
• Everywhere
– Service
– Teaching
– Scholarship
• Productivity
• Innovation iPad at Gettysburg College
• Change in practice, workflow, lifestyle

15. New Tools for Expert Users
“Replacing time-tested
paper-and-pencil
techniques for a digital
'drawing pad' is taking
way more training time -
and WAY more dead ends
- than I anticipated.”
--Michael Olich, Theatre,
Lewis & Clark College
http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/04/old-dog-still-
looking-for-new-tricks.html

16. Challenges
• Overwhelming app • Projection
selection but uneven • Content Creation
software availability • Differences from
by discipline Analog
• File • Connectivity
management/workfl
ow • Flexibility
• Input methods • Java & Flash issues
(stylus, keyboard)

17. Pedagogy and Other Uses
CASES FROM LIBERAL ARTS
COLLEGES

18. From UK Open University

20. Outside of Class
• Productivity
• Always available
– Course materials
– Accessible to students
– Portable
– Capacity & battery life

21. Class Preparation
• Ellen Seljan, Political Science, Lewis & Clark
College
• Class Prep with GoodReader
– Marked up course readings
– Archived
– Summary of comments
http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/03/more-accolades-for-
goodreader.html

22. Annotated
Reading
• iAnnotate PDF
• GoodReader
• Highlighting
• Sticky notes
• Freehand writing

23. Modeling scholarly reading
• Daena Goldsmith, Rhetoric and Media Studies,
Lewis and Clark College
• Sticky notes with questions & comments
• Highlight key passages
• http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-plan-to-
use-ipad-to-support-my.html

24. Grading
• Paperless
• Archive of feedback
• Legible
• Portable & always available
• Grading student writing with iAnnotate
– Kristi Upson-Saia, Religious Studies, Occidental
College
– Color-coded, custom stamps
https://college.oxy.edu/knowledgebase/2012/04/13/grading
-student-writing-with-iannotate/

26. Interactive Presentation in the Classroom
• Mirroring display
• Annotating and manipulating slides & images
– Whiteboard HD, Air Display, and Air Sketch at
Reed College
• Annotating syllabus live with students
– Ellen Seljan, Political Science, Lewis & Clark
College
– http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/01/annotating-
syllabus-live-in-class.html

27. Just in Time Learning
• Andrew Udit, Chemistry, Occidental College
• Information & diagrams for chemistry lab
– https://college.oxy.edu/knowledgebase/2012/04/13/using-safari-for-
mobile-web-access/

28. Just in Time Learning
• Modeling discovery with mobile devices
– David Michelson, History, University of Alabama
– http://www.as.ua.edu/ipad/dr-david-michelson-ipads-in-the-history-
classroom-limitations-and-opportunities/
• Bird Field Guide
– Ken Clifton, Biology, Lewis & Clark College
– http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/01/talking-to-birds-with-ipad.html

29. Mobility
• While presenting
• Science labs and dance studios at Reed
College
– Dance Annotation app
– Hannah Kosstrin, Dance
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampu
s/dance-notation-for-the-ipad-theres-
an-app-for-that/32706

30. Differentiate Instruction
• Facilitates one-on-one work with students by
circulating instructor
• Instructor can share notes, annotations,
resources with student for later use
• Video and discuss student performances
– Jonathan Whitaker, Music, University of Alabama
– http://www.as.ua.edu/ipad/dr-jonathan-whitaker-
ipads-and-the-importance-of-immediate-
feedback/

31. Discipline Specific Apps
• Stephen Tufte, Physics, Lewis & Clark College
– Gravity Simulation App
– Star Walk
• Augmented reality star viewing
• http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/05/gravity-lab.html
• http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/05/star-walk-rocks.html

32. Anatomy Lab
• Visible Body 3D Human Anatomy Atlas
• Brain Pro
• Heart Pro III
• 3D Brain
• modalityBODY
• Occidental College
• Daemen College
• https://college.oxy.edu/knowledgebase/2012/04/16/ipad-
apps-in-the-anatomy-lab/

33. Greek
• Greek Reader
– Intermediate
• Iliad (Venutus A)

35. Sharing with Students
• Interactive document creation
• Groups reading around device
• Easy Content Creation
– Wendy Hsu, Ethnomusicology, Occidental College
– “critical learning through making”
– https://college.oxy.edu/knowledgebase/2012/04/
16/making-songs-to-learn-about-songs-mobile-
music-making-with-ipad/

36. Small Group Work
• Margaret Peacock, History, University of
Alabama
• Sharing different primary documents with
each group via 5 iPads
• Active, Collaborative learning
• http://www.as.ua.edu/ipad/dr-margaret-
peacock-ipads-and-the-master-narrative/

37. Classroom Capture
• Assessment at Alabama
– Group scribe takes notes in Evernote
– Record class discussion in Evernote
• Haverford College
– Instructors mirroring iPad with AirServer & Doceri
– Panopto for lecture capture
– Students & faculty can review class later

38. Flexible Tool for Active Learning
• Productivity & access out of classroom
• Archived digital material & grading
• Interactive
• Just in time learning
• Differentiated Instruction
• Mobile, portable
• Easy Creation
• Content Capture