Homework on the iPad
How to and What to
Giving Homework on the iPad
My Homework App
Teachers.io
The website for Teachers.io is https://teachers.io.
Reading Logs
Whichever one you choose, please be consistent through your grade level.
Reading Glue
Pros: Connects parents to reading, allows for data to be directly sent to the teacher, lets students track their reading
Cons: No actual stories or books available. This is just a place to log data, not access reading materials.
Storia by Scholastic
Storia will be discussed at the February 2nd staff meeting.
Pros: Teachers can assign books based on reading level, fiction and non fiction titles are available, over 2,000 titles, keeps track of student reading with a Record of Reading, graphs and charts
Cons: Must have Wifi to read at home - books are streaming only, will not be ready for students until mid February
TumbleBooks
Pros: students already know the program, lots of materials, will read to students
Cons: doesn't track student progress, needs Wifi to access content
Other Homework
Students will need an annotating app downloaded on their iPad. Skitch or neu.Annotate are the recommended apps. neu.Annotate is not currently in Self Service, but will hopefully be there soon.
You deliver the homework to the student via the chosen method (hopefully Schoology) and have the student download it by opening in another app (the Share button does this). If they open in Skitch or neu.Annotate, the document will simply sit there on the iPad to be worked on. It can be completed at home and then uploaded to the appropriate place once the student has come back to school the next day. (This could become part of your morning routine).
This is a learning curve....
Discipline and the iPad
Just as with everything, we will issues that need to be addressed with the iPads. iPads will not be taken for discipline issues.
Here's a guide:
Three blue forms before a red form.
The first form is a warning.
The second blue form - the teacher must call home.
The third blue form goes to the office with a red form.
Write ups should be specific about the incident that occurs and should be written up as an incident, not as technology.
Downloading from any source other than Self Service is an automatic write up.
The only thing that is automatically a red form is pornography.
Unapproved apps are a blue form. These apps may be on the iPad from outside sources.
For the rest of this year, use the Other box to write in the incident.