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iTeach Session 2
- 1. iTeach Session 2 iPad as Organizer Foundation iTeach is possible thr ough a grant from the Augustine Educational
- 2. Housekeeping Connecting to theSHA Network Today’s Apps: QR Reader, Evernote, Skitch, Socrative
- 3. Purpose of iTeach Helpeducators use iPads in a more versatile & creative way Increase collaboration among all Catholic schools
- 4. Goals of Session2: iPad as Organizer Gain experience scanning, creating, and using QR Codes in the classroom Set up Evernote accounts & notebooks Understand basic features & functions of Evernote Gain “tips & tricks” of iPad use Revisit Socrative as a Substitution & Modification app as a formative assessment tool
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- 9. We are alltechnological tools. Tools available to integrate into student learning.
- 12. Thinking Technologically “Okay, here it is. How can I use it?” “How can I use this tool?” “I want to do X. What is the a tool that will help me do it?” Willingham, D. T. (2010). Have technology and multitasking rewired how students learn? American Educator, 34 (2), 2328.
- 13. Three Instructional Steps • Objectives ---> Activities ---> Assessment Use an existing, successful lesson.
- 14. The Integration Questions • Is there an iPad-based tool or feature (i.e. iMovie, Garage Band, iPad Camera) that students could use to develop or demonstrate their level of understanding of a previously stated objective?
- 15. The Integration Questions Isthere an iPad app that students could use to demonstrate mastery of a given objective?
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- 18. What is aQR Code? Quick Response 2 dimensional bar code Can be scanned by a mobile device with a camera & QR reader app Links to a website, video, image, or text
- 19. Where can Ifind QR Codes? • QR codes can be found in magazines, on products, on billboards, in stores, and even in schools!
- 20. QR Code Ideas Literacy:Link to an online version of a book for emerging readers Language: Create codes for classroom objects linking audio files that pronounce & define the word in another language
- 21. QR Code Ideas SocialStudies: Have students create QR codes on a map or globe with links to web pages with more information Math: Put QR codes on worksheets linking to videos showing how to solve a sample problem
- 22. QR Code Ideas School:Display QR codes on your classroom door during Open House School: Virtual tours that are linked to QR codes around your school
- 23. Let’s give ita try... Open the app --> it will either automatically activate your device’s camera or you may choose to scan Align the QR Code image in your camera’s window
- 24. Creating a QRCode There are several websites that will create QR codes The QR Reader app allows you to scan and create codes
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- 32. Give-One-Get-One Jot down 3ideas for using QR codes. Get up & find someone at another table. GIVE one idea from your list & GET one idea from someone. Move to a new partner & repeat to fill your grid. A full grid means you get to take a break!!
- 33. What is Evernote? Atit’s most basic, Evernote is a way to keep notes organized in notebooks You can share notebooks You can insert pictures in notes Free Account: 6o MB of data per month, 20,000 short notes or 400 pictures Premium Account: $45/month, 500 MB of data per month
- 34. Create an EvernoteAccount Email address Password
- 35. Creating a Note Text Voicerecording (Max size is 25 MB for free accounts and 50 MB for Premium account. If the audio file is greater than these limits, the note is not synched with the cloud. That’s about 90 minutes of record time.) Adding a picture
- 36. Organizing Yourself Notebooks Tags Searching &saving searches Emailing items to Evernote Finding your Evernote address Gives you the ability to email items from apps that don’t export to Evernote (i.e. from any app with an export option)
- 37. Sharing a Notebook Createa Public Link Invite Individuals Add email address View notes Add a message to verify identity
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- 39. iPad Tips What youmight already know: Speed up your sentences. Double-tapping the spacebar while typing a message will type a period and then a space. Virtual Keys. Tap and hold vowels, or C/S/N for displays of special characters used with foreign languages. Try the $, period, or dash.
- 40. More iPad Tips EvenI learned something new! Tap & hold the comma key and it will insert an apostrophe. Tap & hold the period key inserts a quotation mark. Tapping the space bar with two fingers makes indents two spaces. Go ahead, try it with three fingers... and four!
- 41. iPad Shortcuts Settings Keyboard--> Shortcut -. work1 -/.
- 42. Revisit Session 1 •Questions • Reflection • Socrative
- 43. r ano ther Than ks fo GREA T se ssion! Your feedback is requested! Scan the QR code to link to the Survey Monkey questionnaire.
Editor's Notes
- #7 There once was a day in education where pencils arrived at schools. Teachers & administrators were concerned about how they would be used in the classroom -- would there be enough paper, who will sharpen these tools?
- #8 But then another day came, when the truck arrived at the school with a box full of calculators. The question then came up, “ Is it permissible for our students to use calculators? ” “ Should we not require them to continue to use the technology of the pencil that we have so diligently integrated and used in the classrooms? ” And of course, we all said to our students, “ Well, are you going to carry a calculator around with you wherever you go... ”
- #9 Now there is the iPad. The question is before us. “ How will it be integrated into the classroom? ”
- #10 I make this comparison to emphasize that all three of these examples are all technological tools. At their core, they are just that. They are tools. And yet, for whatever reason, as educators, regardless of the new technology that comes our way, and that is available for us to integrate into student learning environments, we often feel the pressure to make the iPad, or make that technology, the central focus of the classroom. And yet, we know, at our core, that by doing so, we are...
- #11 ...attempting to put the cart before the horse. Because we really do know, that effective instruction, really is about ...
- #12 ... our students. And making sure that we are challenging them to think and use the resources available to them to under the content of our discipline
- #13 Daniel Willingham raised an excellent point related to this idea. He emphasizes that as technology comes into classrooms, often teachers initially ask the question in their own mind. How can I use this tool? Willingham emphasizes that these are not appropriate questions for educators to be asking. We should instead respond... I want to do “ X. ” What is the tool that will help me do it? We must realize that the “ X ” is about the objective. It is about the content we want our students to know. By doing so, we have a much more effective handle, and a much more effective question to contemplate as we move forward with the integration of technology.
- #14 Obviously, effective instruction includes these three components: Objectives, Activities, and Assessment. I raise them here, merely to emphasize that when considering effective technology integration, it must begin with effective objectives. Of course the reality of that is that trying to bring in technology into a newly created lesson can often be more difficult than integrating into an already successful lesson. The point I ’ d like to make is to examine and look at existing lessons. What is your favorite lesson? Use that as a starting point to integrate technology. Then consider the activities & assessment. Could technology be a meaningful component of the lesson?
- #15 A great questioning strategy would begin with an example question. Is there some way that we can use the functions and features of the iPad to help our students master the given objective?
- #16 Likewise... Something that will allow them to showcase and demonstrate, for assessment purposes, whether or not they fully understand the concepts of that given objective.
- #17 Returning to the SAMR Model from Session 1, we must step back from the technology and see the big picture as educators. From there, we begin to purposefully plan for effective integration of technology. When that happens, there is success, not just for the students, but for the teachers as well.