The mlearning meeting and workshop teachers handout
Andrew scott cdes
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.
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
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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
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
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
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)