The document discusses how iPads can be used in the classroom to help teach 21st century skills as outlined by the Core Standards. It states that iPads allow teachers to design higher-order thinking lessons, enable multi-disciplinary tasks, and make assessment and sharing student work easy. Using iPads also provides opportunities for students to research, organize their work, evaluate their work, and communicate what they've learned, motivating them and helping them become self-directed lifelong learners prepared for the future.

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3. • The Core Standards should
be the guide for teaching &
lesson planning.
• As the teacher you need to
understand that the
Standards’ main premise is
to require students to gain
cognitive and social skills
that will foster success in the
21st Century.

4. • The Core Standards main
focus is on career and
college readiness.
• Assessment is a huge focus
for teachers as they become
more mindful of what they
are teaching and how they
deliver their lessons.

5. • Another huge focus is that the
Standards addresses both the
core academic knowledge and
complex and higher order
thinking skills that reflect 21st
Century themes.

6. Technology and the use of iPads in
particular in the classroom is a
massive leap into the 21st Century
as they are so revolutionary in the
way they can be utilized both by the
teacher and student.

7. • Using applications and the iPad
enables the teacher to design
lessons that require higher thinking
skills.
• The iPad provides opportunities for
multi-disciplinary performance tasks.
• Assessment is extremely easy and
easily accessed from the iPad.
• Teachers can collect and share
exemplary student work.

8. • In the 21st Century we live in a technology
and media-suffused environment –
technology is used everywhere.
• There is not a job anywhere where you do
not need the least basic computer skills;
and I’ve noticed lately iPads are
everywhere.
• Instruction using the iPad not only reflects
the Standards but also provides students
for the future.

9. • Using the iPad in the classroom
provides opportunities for students to
research, organize their
work, evaluate their work and
communicate what they have learned.
• Students have never been more
motivated to learn using the iPad.
• These tools give the students future
skills that makes them into a 21st
Century Learner.
• Most importantly, students become
self-directed learners, so that they
demonstrate a commitment to
learning as a lifelong process.

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