This document outlines an agenda for an iPad workshop for educators. It includes introductions, discussions of appropriate iPad usage, demonstrations of apps that can be used in classrooms, and time for educators to collaborate on designing iPad-supported lessons to help struggling learners. The goal is to increase educator comfort with the iPad and identify apps that can be integrated into lessons to enhance engagement, collaboration, and personalize learning. Educators will share out lessons they designed using specific apps to support struggling students.
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iPad Workshop Feb. 8, 2013, Whistler Secondary
Supporting All Learners
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2. Introductions
• Who are we?
• Who are you?
• Elem? Middle or Secondary? Zones?
• Out of district?
• “I want my iPad!”
• #sd48ipads is our new Twitter hashtag
3. What the Morning Looks Like
• Introductions and agenda
• The bandwidth thing
• The “should nots and shoulds” of technology
• Some apps to get us started
• Rubrics and checklists for app selection
• Break “ticket” - “Stickies” for interest areas
• Sharing time in small groups
• Practical questions in the parking lot
• Lunch
4. What the Afternoon Looks Like
• Reconvene for some practical answers
• Apple TV demo
• Lesson Design Framing
• Time to build lessons
• Break
• Time to finish and test
• A brief sharing out with the group
6. iPad Qualifying
• Application process
• Hints for success
• Likely dates for arrival
• Future workshops
7. Keep it Clean!
• Use only a soft, lint-free cloth. Abrasive cloths,
towels, paper towels, and similar items may cause
damage to the item.
• Disconnect your Apple product from any external
power sources.
• Disconnect any external devices and other cabling
from the product.
• Keep liquids away from the product.
• Don’t get moisture into any openings, and don't use
aerosol sprays, solvents, or abrasives.
• Do not spray cleaners directly onto the item.
8. Learning Intentions for Today
1. My comfort with the iPad has increased
2. I am aware of several more apps I can use
in my classroom with some preparation
3. I have at least one tech-rich lesson that is
ready to go that will help a struggling
learner be more successful
9. Bandwidth: A Cautionary Tale
• iPads don’t want to connect to a wifi under
0.5mg/s (WSS “limiter” set at 512k)
• Elementary schools have “up to” 10mg/s
• Secondary schools have “up to” 30mg/s
• Access points usually have “up to” 6-7 mg/s
• 360p Video (med res.)
• Bits Per Second (down): 900Kbps - 1.1Mbps
• Bits Per Second (up): 15-20 Kbps
• Data used per 5 minute video: 13.333MB
10. Other Uses (rates are varied):
-Email - Text Only 0.005 MB
-Web Page - Average 0.150 MB
-Word-processing Document 0.04 MB
-Music File (4 minutes) 5.0 MB
-Movie trailer (3 minutes) 30 MB
-Online Games 33 MB per hour
-Streaming Audio (128k) 60 MB per hour
-Streaming Video (300k) 140 MB per hour
-Digital images 0.2 MB
11. Do you have enough bandwidth?
Pre-lesson testing is not a bad idea!
• Speedtest X
13. Technology should not be:
just a distraction
just a reward
seen as a frivolity or a status symbol
a way to make adult lives easier without
clear benefit to learning
another way to do the same thing (meaning
a way to add cost without adding clear
benefit)
14. Technology should be:
a means to develop critical thinking through
unlimited access to information
a way to increase collaborative learning peer
to peer, class to class, school to school, and
beyond
a way to enhance engagement and blur the
line between traditional learning time and
non-learning time
a way to personalize learning and add
unlimited flexibility around student interest,
and ability
15. Technology could also …
be a means to scaffold assignments and
projects for struggling learners
add ways we can assess our students
quickly, give more FEEDBACK, and adapt
our instruction
give students new avenues to create and
present content
Help level the playing field for our boys!
19. DRAFT Competencies for SD No.48
LEARN (Self / Disciplined Mind)
•Core and technical skills – responding to information and building on it
•Self regulating, personally responsible, mindful
•Resilient, adaptable, intuitive, confident
•Ready and willing
CREATE and INNOVATE (Physical / Creative Mind)
•Demonstrates curiosity and imagination
•Conceives new ideas
•Invents something new or adapts/develops the existing
THINK CRITICALLY (Intellectual / Synthesizing Mind)
•Synthesizing, analyzing, inquiring, connecting, deep thinking and questioning
•Displaying curiosity
•Applying knowledge and information to ethical decision making
CONTRIBUTE (Spiritual / Ethical)
•Personal character development
•Social conscience
•Leadership toward action
COLLABORATE (Emotional / Respectful)
•Interpersonal skills (respectful interactions with others)
•Flexibility
•Cooperation and team work
20. Some Apps to Get Us Started
• Edmodo
• Google Drive
• Educreations
• Playtube
• Tubeplayer
• Socractive
• VoiceThread
• iBooks
24. Small Group Sharing Time
• Please sit with your curricular groups, share
apps that you like, and collaborate about
possible ways to integrate them into your
classrooms to improve learning
28. iPad Lesson Design
Some guiding questions:
1.What are your learning intentions?
2.Which students are you most concerned about?
3.How can the apps support and scaffold learning for
these students?
4.How can the apps extend everyone’s learning?
31. Sharing Out:
1. Which app were you working with today?
2. How will it help your struggling learners?
3. Ticket out the door:
One more sticky filling in the blank – “I need
more ______________ .”
