This document discusses resources for using iPads in a 1-to-1 classroom for VCE Psychology at Sacre Coeur school. It includes a description of the school's iPad program and infrastructure. Several apps and tools are proposed for creating interactive eBooks, facilitating flipped learning, conducting experiments, creating flashcards, presentations, and sharing files between students and teachers. The goal is to foster a more visual and participatory approach to learning that extends beyond the classroom.

1. Resources for the 1-to-1 classroom
Andrew Scott
Sacre Coeur
See my website for a variety
of eresources for the VCE
Psychology classroom
www.ePsychVCE.com

2. Preamble
• Sacre Coeur – is located in Glen Iris
• We have @ 500 students in our senior school
• In 2013: Year 9 & 10 are 1-to-1 iPads (purchased out of DER funding)
• All staff who teach year 9 or 10 have school provided iPads
• We have 8 Apple TV’s connected to either data projectors of big screen tv’s
• Year 11 – have notebooks (purchased in 2010 from DER funding)
• 2014: tbc – based largely on anecdotal evidence provided by key stakeholders,
particularly given our DER funds have dried up
• BYOD is under discussion

3. My angle/ my vision
• No Unit ½ textbook this year! (30% of Unit 1 students are Year 10 with iPads)
• No Unit ¾ textbook next year (I will create a book using iBooks Author)
• Currently ¾ of my classes are in a room with an apple TV
• Thus I teach exclusive with my iPad in these rooms regularly using half a dozen
app’s + a few occasional’s
• This fosters a more visual and participative approach to classes
• I use the school LMS (Learning Management System) for document storage and
social media (closed group) for flipped learning & discussion
• My aim is to nurture a culture where student learning is done both at home and in
the classroom, thus freeing up time to act as a facilitator in the classroom, enabling
more discussion, 1 on 1 engagement and a deep consolictiaton of concepts.

4. Apple TV
• Enables user to wireless connect to plasma screen
or data projector
• Great for either the mobile teacher or for student
presentations of work created on the iPad.

5. Rationale for 1:1

6. The flipped classroom

9. The flipped classroom

10. The flipped classroom

11. Resources for the flipped classroom
Podcast c/o iTunes

12. Resources for the flipped classroom
YouTube
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13. Resources for the flipped classroom
Zite app: up-to-date Psych articles

14. Rationale for Social media
• Students are already connected,
hence communication flows more
rapidly
• User can post links to web
resources such as YouTube clips or
podcasts – with a brief comment.
Students can access web content
at their convenience on their
device at home thus freeing up
class time
• Enables and fosters student
discussion on course contents thus
leading to a deeper understanding
for the parties involved.
• Models appropriate use of social
media e.g. Facebook, twitter.

15. Mistakes made with iPads in the classroom
• Focussing on content apps (what about apps for creativity e.g.
iMovie)
• Lack of teacher preparation in classroom management
• Treating iPad like a computer and expecting it to function like a
laptop
• Failure to communicate to stakeholders ‘why iPads’
• http://edudemic.com/2012/09/5-critical-mistakes-schools-ipads-and-
correct-them/

16. How can the iPad value-add in the
VCE Psychology classroom
•

17. eBook
• Benefits include
(apart from ease
of access)
• Search function
• Screen capture
• Pinch & zoom

18. Alternatives to Textbooks
• A static resources vs. a
dynamic resource!
• IBooks Author, enables
you to create an
interactive book with
weblinks, embedded
YouTubes, ppt’s &
images that the user can
manipulate, virtual tests
& more

19. Safari for web-search

20. Or use web resources such as testmoz

21. Camera app
• Students can take a
photo of board work
• Take a screen dump of
webpage, image, page
of their textbook
• Plus take standard
photo’s, movie

22. Apps for experiments e.g. Stroop app
• This 99c app a
great for
conducting an ERA

23. Tactile apps for Psych
• 3D brain

24. Drawing apps – e.g. Whiteboard

25. Apps for annotating files (e.g. pdf’s)
such as Notetaker

26. Or Upad
Annotate visual aspects of the course on a data projector
whilst the students label and annotated their images
MAKE LEARNING – ‘HANDS ON’

27. Quiz apps
• E.g. Socrative app (a freebie)
• or eclicker app (free for
students) @ $11 for host.
• Provides – instant feedback to
both user and teacher
• Great for Multi-choice
practice

28. Flashcard apps
• E.g. cram app, gflash+, etc.
• Students can create or source
sets from quizlet.com

29. Showme app
Students narrate
an animation to
demonstrate
their
understanding
of content.

30. Mindmapping apps e.g. ithoughtshd

31. Or popplet

32. File-sharing – Dropbox: use on the web & iPad

33. iMovie

34. iMovie

35. Make sure you give students a criteria sheet that
assesses the content (not the technology)

36. Presentation apps (for creating or editing)

37. keynote
Share files via dropbox, students can
annote slides using annotating apps

38. File Sharing - options
• email (for documents)
• iTunes (for user to have access from multiple devices)
• Dropbox (enables user to share files with invited guests
• YouTube (for large video files, student can put video on private
setting and invite up to 50 views via email)

40. Evernote – use it on the web or iPad to -