Presentation at Sustainable Mobile learning conference around the research and work being done at Catholic Education Diocese to support quality learning outcomes from the use of iPads in teaching and learning.
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Ipad use testing - Sustainable mobile learning
1. iPads in Schools
Use Testing
Sustaining Mobile Learning Workshop
UNSW 5-6 November 2012
2. Sustainability
• Australian Curriculum - Cross Curriculum
Priority
• “Sustainability is...meeting the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of the future generations to meet their
needs”
• Actions...are both individual and collective.
4. ISTE Student NETS
• Creativity & Innovation
• Communication & Collaboration
• Research & Information Fluency
• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving &
Decision Making
• Digital Citizenship
• Technology Operations & Concepts
5. ATC21s
Assessment & Teaching of 21st century skills
Ways of thinking
Creativity & Innovation
Critical thinking, problem solving, decision making
Learning to learn
Ways of working
Communication
Collaboration
Tools for working
http://atc21s.org/
Information literacy
ICT literacy
Living in the World
Citizenship - local and global
Life and career
Personal and social responsibility
9. eg. Use testing
• “...while they (iPads) are excellent for
reading and engaging children with games
and puzzles...we used it for recording music
for videos...(and)...writing scripts for our
school TV station...” (Year 3 teacher)
10. Conclusion
• “... iPad is a significant tool to support and
enhance student learning...depending on
the *people, processes and relationships in
play”
• *Rowan & Bigum (2004).
11. Sustainable mobile learning
Digital Professional
Citizenship TS4 Learning TS5
Pedagogy
Facilitate and Design/Develop/
inspire TS1 Modeling TS3 Evaluate TS2
Resources
12. What is
Effective iPad
use for
Learning?
Sustaining Mobile Learning Workshop
UNSW 5-6 November 2012
PL - Formal workshops, also school based designed to suit needs of school staff across Secondary and Primary.\n
Apple TV, teachers untethered, easier sharing of student work\nQR codes\n
Licensing - Story before bed, 1 App per iPad,\nVolume Licensing for education Purchase 20 - half price.\nCopyright in user created iBooks\nOHAS\n
Collaborate with students to create dynamic magazines, drawing in input from a range of sources and also from their own twitter feed discussion\nStudents use flipboard to research and communicate shared knowledge\n\n
create iBooks with iBooks author or Apps like Scribble Press/Creative Book Builder\nIn ibooks author incorporate quizzes, interact ive components etc.\n
Blog, App toolkits, research, lesson ideas, schools author on the blog\n
71 iPads, loan them in sets to schools for two weeks at a time. Load up a range of selected evaluated free Apps for the use they require (Primary, Secondary, special needs etc.\n
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Puppet Pals, Sock puppets, Garage Band, other music apps\nAugmented reality - connect the real with the virtual, explore how NASA discovery spacecraft Curiosity rover works by manipulating the object virtually on your desk via an App - make your won via aurasma\n\n\n
Apple TV to share work, contribute to projects across teams etc\nApps like Antartica where you can see in real time video cam of what is happening and communciate with scientists\nAccessibility to allow communciation and collaboration\nEducreations to publish and communicate their learning\n\n
Flipboard - locate, organize, analyze and evaluate from variety of sources\nQwiki - \nEvernote\n
Popplet, Vernier Video Physics\n\n
Camera, privacy, appropriate behaviour\nIn app purchases, Ads, requests for information\nTwitter\n