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EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec and Beth Holland maintain a Diigo Group full of iPad resources. The list below represents their finds for the week of January 23, 2012. This week’s list features classroom examples, blog entries, and articles related to successful iPad integration into the curriculum. Transforming Classroom Practice with iPad Content Integration – YouTube This is a video of a webinar given at the Reform Symposium in July 2011. The speaker gives ideas about best practices for integrating iPads into the classroom Tags: ipad, education,
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Recently, EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec was quoted by both the Washington Post and the New York Times. In Teachers take to Twitter to improve craft and commiserate, Greg comments on the value of Twitter for promoting his own professional development. “I always tell people the the most valuable 15 minutes I spend, in terms of my professional growth, is when I jump on Twitter at night and see what’s going on.” The New York Times interviewed Greg about his involvement in creation #SSchat for Teachers Teaching Teachers, on Twitter: Q. and A. on ‘Edchats’. This question-and-answer session also included Thomas D. Whitby and Shelly Sanchez…
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Since the 25th of January, EdTechTeacher Co-Director, Justin Reich, has been working with school leaders and educators in Singapore. During this time, he has taught workshops on the use of technology in History classrooms, discussed training programs with the Educational Technology Division, presented on the use of social networking tools to facilitate collaboration, and visited schools. On his blog, EdTechResearcher, Justin has chronicled some of his lessons learned and observations. Singapore Education–Teachers Leading the Next Level of Work “So if you are one of the world’s best education systems, how do you keep getting better? In Singapore, the answer is…
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As mentioned earlier in the week, EdTechTeacher’s Tom Daccord and Justin Reich are currently in Singapore as part of the Educators in Residence Program. The slides below are from two of Justin’s most recent presentations. Next week, Tom will be leading workshops and giving presentations on Advanced Search Techniques, iPads in the Classroom, Leading Change, and Assessment 2.0. We will try to post some of his materials at that time. Changing Cultures: How U.S. School Leaders Support ICT Changing Cultures: Teaching and Learning with ICT
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EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec and Beth Holland maintain a Diigo Group full of iPad resources. The list below represents their finds for the week of January 30, 2012. This week’s list features classroom examples, blog entries, and articles related to successful iPad integration into the curriculum. The Nearpod Mobile Classroom This is an interesting program that combines student response system, content delivery system, and student monitoring all in one. Schools can apply for the new iPad pilot program for free (at the moment). Tags: iPad, apps, education, management, content delivery iPad deployment: First school iPad deployment with iOS 5 step by…
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At EdTechTeacher, we have been wrestling with four essential questions: Why Change? What Does Change Look Like? How Do You Lead Change? How Do You Assess Change? Last week, EdTechTeacher Co-Director Justin Reich touched on some of these questions on EdTechResearcher. In his post on February 13th, Which Facts Do We Need?, Justin wrote: “What kinds of knowledge do you have to have at your fingertips in order to create new knowledge?… This was a question that my 11.125 [MIT class] began the class wrestling with, as we read from John Bransford’s excellent (and free) How Students Learn. Bransford introduces three key…
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The iPad As… In addition to this annotated list of apps and ideas, EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec and Beth Holland have recently completed a new type of resource for teachers looking to integrate iPads into the their curricula. Check out The iPad As… for a list of their favorite apps organized by learning goal. They will continue to also maintain the Diigo Group as well as build on this new list. Learning Without Boundaries The Virginia Department of Education helped to create this list of apps for students. You can download them from the Apple App Store. Some of them include digital texts…
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At the annual National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference this fall, Greg Kulowiec presented with three colleagues on the topic of Video in the Classroom. Edutopia regularly features great examples of Project-Based Learning and Comprehensive Assessment, and the presentation that Greg and his colleagues delivered addresses both of those themes. In the article, Lights, Camera . . . Engagement! Three Great Tools for Classroom Video, Ron Peck presents the slides from NCSS as well as simple directions and classroom examples that leverage Animoto, Common Craft style, and Choose Your Own Adventure videos. Their Google Presentation is embedded below. What makes video a…
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In addition to this annotated list of apps and ideas, EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec and Beth Holland also maintain the iPad for ETT Diigo Group as well as The iPad As… page which groups apps and resources based on learning goals. iPad Apps to Meet 14 Learning Objectives Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers featured the new EdTechTeacher iPad As… page. His blog is full of great posts about how educators can integrate iPads into their curriculum. iPad Adventures at Lower School This is a great teacher blog from an educator at Sidwell Friends School, chronicling her use of iPads in the…
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For Immediate Release from EdTechTeacher Co-Director, Justin Reich (also at http://www.edtechresearcher.com/2012/02/the-state-of-wiki-usage-in-u-s-k-12-schools/) I’m very pleased to announce that the first report from my research project, the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities project, is published in this month’s issue of Educational Researcher, the flagship journal of the American Educational Research Association. The article can be found through this direct link or at this landing page and is titled, “The State of Wiki Usage in U.S. K-12 Schools: Leveraging Web 2.0 Data Warehouses to Assess Quality and Equality in U.S. K-12 Schools.” I’m very grateful to the Hewlett Foundation’s Open Educational Resources initiative for financial support, and to my co-authors Richard…
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Tom, myself, and our colleagues at EdTechTeacher have worked hard over the last year to put together a fabulous program for our first ever Winter Conference on the theme of Leading Change in Changing Times. Our theme is not simply a slogan; we have designed our conference very deliberately to address three essential questions facing school and district leaders: Why change? How do we build stakeholder support for new learning initiatives? How do we foster change? What does technology-rich, 21st century learning look like in classrooms? What can leaders do to promote that kind of learning? How do we assess change?…
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In addition to this annotated list of apps and ideas, EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec and Beth Holland also maintain the iPad for ETT Diigo Group as well as The iPad As… page which groups apps and resources based on learning goals. iStudiez Pro for your Mac, iPhone, iPad This is an interesting app for students looking to get rid of their paper planner. It works on an iPad, iPhone, or as a Mac App. For $2.99, students can track assignments, schedules, and projects. Tags: app, ipad, education, organization The Apple iPad in Education Workshop & Course | John Larkin “The aim of this…
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After two weeks of setting his school up with two new iPad carts, Greg posted iPad Cart & App Selection to his blog, chronicling some of the decision making process that he employed in setting up two carts of 30 iPads for his school. Rather than focusing first on the apps, Greg took a goal-based approach, much like the one implemented in the design of the EdTechTeacher iPad As… page, where apps are suggested based on how they help teachers and students achieve specified learning objectives. “I am in the process of setting up an iPad cart at my…
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In addition to this annotated list of apps and ideas, EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec and Beth Holland also maintain the iPad for ETT Diigo Group as well as The iPad As… page which groups apps and resources based on learning goals. Best content in ISTE Mobile Learning | Diigo – Groups This Diigo group posts links not only about the iPad, but about mobile learning in general. It is sponsored by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Tags: ipad, apps, education, technology, ISTE, SIGML SIGML & ISTE Mobile Learning Wiki “SIGML is the ISTE special interest group that is an advocate…
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For the past several weeks, Greg has been working to set up two iPad carts in his school (we posted iPad Cart & App Selection last week). Now that everything is up and running, he has embarked on a completely paperless research process with colleague @katrinakennett and her 10th grade English class. This will be a three week process, throughout which, Greg is going to blog his observations. Here is the beginning from Greg: “Before we start the process, we had a conversation about the goals of this research process and why iPads would be a good fit. I think it is critical…
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In addition to this annotated list of apps and ideas, EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec and Beth Holland also maintain the iPad for ETT Diigo Group as well as The iPad As… page which groups apps and resources based on learning goals. The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English Though this is not necessarily a post specific to the iPad, many of the suggested resources either have apps or can be used on the iPad via a web browser. There are some interesting concepts for ELL/ESL or even foreign language learning. Tags: audio, resources, esl, pronunciation, ipad, apps, english, foreign language Online converter –…
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I followed with keen interest Monday’s #beyondthetextbook Twitter chat stemming from an onsite roundtable discussion at Discovery Communication headquarters. Not only is the future of textbooks a pertinent educational topic, but this particular event (online and onsite) brought together some of the country’s leading edtech integrationists – David Warlick, Wes Freyer, and Angela Maiers, just to name of few. While many tweeted gleefully and expectantly about a textbook-free age and transformations wrought by “open” resources, I was struck by the lack of scrutiny of the educational textbook industry. Some might be surprised by what my colleagues and I have learned about industry efforts to leverage the affordances…
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In addition to this annotated list of apps and ideas, EdTechTeacher’s Greg Kulowiec and Beth Holland also maintain the iPad for ETT Diigo Group as well as The iPad As… page which groups apps and resources based on learning goals. Noteshelf This note taking app includes multiple pen and highlighter tools and functions much like a paper notebook. For $5.99, it offers a lot of organizational and editing tools. Additionally, Noteshelf exports notes as PDF or image files to either Evernote or Dropbox. Tags: ipad, apps, technology, notetaking iPad Insight | iPad blog for app reviews, news, tips,how-tos Another great source for…