The document discusses the integration of iPads in classrooms, emphasizing their academic benefits, deployment planning, and policy considerations. It highlights various educational technologies and apps that enhance learning, collaboration, and critical thinking, while addressing the need for digital citizenship and effective leadership in adopting these technologies. Furthermore, it outlines strategies for professional development, resource curation, and assessment in the context of a digitally enhanced educational environment.

1. Ipads in the Classroom
A Leadership Perspective
Looking at Academic Benefit and Technology Planning
Nancy Caramanico, Technology and Education Specialist

2. Leadership for Digital Learning
and Ipads
 Welcome
 Research and Educational Technology Trends
 Leadership Looks at the Academic Benefit
 Ipad Capabilities
 Examples of Use in Schools
 Technology Deployment Planning, Choosing Ipads and
Peripherals
 Policies and Ownership, Ipads vs. ‘Wepads’
 Assessing Progress for Students, School
 Next Steps for Your School

3. Broadband Adoption

4. ‘All Change is Sweet’
~Aristotle

5. Mobile Uses of Tech –
News and Information
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/2222/news-media-network-television-cable-audioo-radio-digital-
platforms-local-mobile-devices-tablets-smartphones-native-american-community-newspapers

6. Mobile Access to Information
ALL 3 -
SMARTPHONE, T COMPUTER, S
ABLET/IPAD MARTPHONE, T
COMPUTER, S ABLET/IPAD
MARTPHONE
COMPUTER
MOSTLY –
EXPLORING
TRADITIONAL – OPTIONS
RESEARCHING
OPTIONS

7. Looking at Ipads in the
Classroom
Nets Standards
 Nets A

8. Nets - A
Which of those standards do
you think presents a
particular challenge to
schools and school leaders
today?

9. I. Visionary Leadership
 Change is a Constant
 __How can we look out on
the ‘Horizon’?
 __How can we heed the
Research?
 __How does this apply to our
Mission, Vision?
 __How can this information
benefit your students, school?
 __How will you inspire and
lead others toward a shared
vision to support change?

10. Horizon Report 2012
 Mobile Apps - One Year or Less
 Tablet Computing - One Year or Less
 Game Based Learning - Two to Three Years
 Learning Analytics - Two to Three Years
 Gesture Based Computing – Four to Five Years
 Internet of Things – Four to Five Years
 TechConnects Blog – N Caramanico
 http://ncara.edublogs.org/2012/02/09/emergi
ng-technologies-to-watch-2012/

11. Horizon Report App
NMC Weekly News

12. II. Digital Learning
 __What instructional innovations are improving
learning today?
 __What supports are in place for all learners?
 __How can we foster effective practice in our
school?
 __How can we connect to digital learning ideas
and collaborate with other schools, educators?

13. Textbooks vs. Ebooks

14. K-12 and Higher Ed
 Article on Alternative
Textbooks
 http://news.temple.ed
u/news/temple-
faculty-experiment-
alt-textbooks

15. Ipads Use in Schools
http://mashable.com/2012/02/16/higher-education-
digital-infographic/

16. Ipad Basic Features
 User Friendly, Quick Learning Curve
 Search
 Buttons
 Wifi
 Settings Buffet
 Keyboard
 Downloading Apps via App Store
 Camera, Video Camera

17. Educational Uses

18. Tpack
 Study of Learning
Tpack and Ipads
 http://tips2012.edub
logs.org/

19. By Subject
 Math – Sketchitup, Khan Academy
 English – Ibooks, Essay Grader, Shakespeare
 Theology/Religion – Bible
Quiz, Blogger, Ibreviary, Trader Cards
 History – World Maps
 World Languages – Audioboo
 Science – Vernier Physics, Showme
 http://www.gmahs.org/news/item/index.aspx?linkid
=282&moduleid=82

21. App
Shake a Phrase
Vocabulary Review

22. Trader Cards – Read Write
Think

23. History Map

24. 21st Century Skills
 4 C’s 21st Century Learning www.p21.org
 Communication
 Creativity/Innovation
 Collaboration
 Critical Thinking

25. Communication
Apps
 Facetime
 Skype
 Oovoo
Online meetings
 Lesson Ideas:
 Connect with another classroom
 Connect with an author
 Skype in to professional development

26. Creativity
Apps
 Snapseed
 Skitch
 Blurb Mobile
 Showme
 Trading Cards -Read Write Think
 Editing Images, Digital Storytelling
 Saint Cards
 Lessons:
 Social Studies – Have students collect and edit images for use if a project
collage
 ILA – Have students create digital stories based on a writing projects
 Blurb Website http://www.blurb.com/mobile/home

27. Curation
 Ability to navigate and use  Create and Curate news and
information is critically important relevant articles
in today’s technology filled world.
 Lessons
Apps  Any subject area – Students
can collect and curate
 Flipboard resources such as for current
events. Use to discuss in real
 Scoop.it time.
 Sky Grid
 “Curation is the new search’
 Article on Curation . J Valenza

28. Collaboration
 Google Apps
 Create and share docs
 Presentations
 Forms and more
 Diigo Social Bookmarking
 Storage of all articles online, Add notations
 Highlight Important points
 Students can add and comment to shared group
 Access from Ipad or other devices

29. Critical Thinking
Flipped Class and Critical Thinking. Encourages
student independent learning. Become a true
guide on the slide.
ITUNES U
 Ipads, Iphones, Computers
 Sign Up https://eduapp.apple.com/
 Support Site http://www.apple.com/support/itunes-
u/using/
 Stanford on Itunes U 2010
 Lessons – Select modules you are interested in
 Digital Citizenship for Example
 Lectures on a specific historical event

30. Flipped Classroom
Apps
ItunesU
Khan Academy (Web and Ipad)
Poll Anywhere (Web Based)
 http://www.polleverywhere.com/#video
 Flipped Classroom http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2H4RkudFzlc#!

31. Productivity and Collaboration
 Notepad  Numbers
 Pages  Keynote
 Standard + -
 Evernote
Calculator
 Notability  Filemaker Pro
 Apple TV – Print
anywhere

32. Question: What is your favorite
productivity app for Ipad?
 Notability
 Pages
 Evernote
 Google Apps
 Other?

33. Creating and Using Ebooks
 I Books – Video http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-
textbooks/
 Pearson, McGraw Hill Samples
http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-
textbooks/publishers.html
 Ibooks Author
 http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/
 Anthologize
 Sigil
 Pandoc

34. Creating Content,
Video
Apps
 Screen Casting, Educreations, Blurb Mobile
 Video Speak from Ipad
 Preso App
 Show Me
 Blurb Mobile
 Lessons:
 Create instructional videos
 Have students create videos

35. III. Systemic Improvement
 __What changes to policy do you need?
 __What changes to classroom procedures will be
necessary?
 __What additional information literacy skills will
students require?
 __ What Online Safety and Digital Citizenship
resources can be used to enhance knowledge
and practice?

36. Make a Plan, Create Smart
Goals
• Technology
Plan
• Make a
Difference for
Learning
• Smart Goals

38. Deployment Planning
 Beginning to Go Digital
 __Mission and vision correlations?
 __Academic correlations?
 __Standards correlations? Common Core, Other
 __Buy-in from faculty?
 __Professional Development Tie ins?
 __Buy in from School
Community, Parents, Stakeholders?

39. Deployment Planning
 Beginning to Go Digital Checklist
 Network Readiness
 __Are you wireless?
 __Other network upgrades needed?
 __What about printing?
 __Display options?

40. Deployment Planning
 Pilots
 __Who will pilot?
 __What will they use? Tools? Pedagogy?
 __How will you evaluate?
 __What worked? Benefits
 __What did not? Challenges, Needs
 __How will you refine this?
 __How will you communicate results of pilot?
 Plan Next Round of Implementation

41. Deployment Planning
 IpadModels
http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/
 Peripherals
 Apple TV
 Printing
 Smartboard and Display Apps
 Volume Purchasing
 Choosing Apps and Installation

42. Pilots
 How have you piloted Ipads?
 What successes can you share?

43. Ownership Models
 School Owned Sets – Gwynedd
 School Owned One to One – Roman Catholic
 BYOD – Bring Your Own Device – New Canaan
 Student Owned and Purchased – St. Hubert’s
 Insurance

44. IV. Digital Citizenship
 __What changes to policy do you need?
 __What changes to classroom procedures will be
necessary?
 __What additional information literacy skills will
students require?
 __ What Online Safety and Digital Citizenship
resources can be used to enhance knowledge
and practice?

45. Policies and Procedures
 AUP – Acceptable Use
Policies
 Classroom Guidelines
 Parent Communications
 Insurance Info/Guidelines

46. Policies and Procedures
 Communication is Key
 How has your school communicated
the interest in 21st Century Change?
 What student and parent
communications on Ipad policies and
procedures did you find helpful?

47. V. Professional Practice
 __How can teachers and administrators learn
using today’s technologies?
 __What professional development can be
accessed? Both formal and informal?
 __How can leaders use technology in their
professional practice?
 __What digital communications tools are being
effectively used today for staying in touch
w/staff, families and the broader school
community?

48. Apps for School Leaders
 Evernote – Notetaking
 Google Forms for
Walkthroughs, Surveys, More
 Horizon Report App
 Common Core Standards App
 Dropbox – File storage, access
 Flipboard, Zite – News
 Facebook, Twitter, Blogger
 Skype – Video Calls
 Feedler – Read RSS feeds, blogs
 Diigo Bookmarks - Access saved
sites, bookmarks, annotations
 Itues U, Ibooks

49. What Apps Support Your
Professional Practice as a
School Leader, Instructional
Leader?

50. Online Collaboration –Social
Web
 http://catholicedchat.blogspot.com/
 Saturday morning twitter chat for
Catholic educators. Share ideas and
resources. Connect with Catholic
educators from all over the world.

51. Assessment and Apps
 Assess Teacher and Student Progress
 Assess Apps
 NETS

52. Technology in the Classroom
 Objectives
 Activities
 Assessment
 What are effective lessons?
 How can technology be a meaningful component?
 What features of the tool can help students to
demonstrate or enhance understanding?
 What apps should I look at which will help students to
showcase mastery or enhance learning?

53. Evaluation Criteria
Content and Components
Langwiches Blog
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9498
0508/iPad-App-Evaluation-for-the-
Classroom

54. Evaluation Criteria
Evidence of Learning
Langwiches Blog
Activity
Choose an App to Evaluate
Based on this Criteria

55. Apps Indexes
 Bloom’s Taxonomy Apps, Kathy Schrock
http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html
Search Engine for Apps
https://www.quixey.com/

56. Next Steps
 How will you proceed?
 What information do you need to gather?

57. Images/Resources
 http://blog.proqc.com/s-m-a-r-t-quality-
planning-goal-setting/
 www.mashable.com
 www.Fasticon.com

58. Thank You
Nancy Caramanico, Instructional
Technology and Learning
Specialist
www.caratechnology.net
Education Blog
http://ncara.edublogs.org
Nancy@caratechnology.net
Twitter @ncara