Integrating with iPads
Learning Stations/Small Group Instruction
Objectives
- Review Tips and Tricks for the iPad
- Explore innovative ways to utilize iPads as instructional tools
- Focus on iPad use in centers and small group settings
- Utilize iPads with educational Apps to engage students, reinforce skills and accelerate learning
- Collaborate with others to discuss ways to use educational apps in the classroom
Tips, Tricks and Management
- Sharing projects through Airdrop, Google Drive or Gallery Walks
- Make a website appear as an app
- Organize on pages and in folders/searching
- Keyboard Tricks/lock screen
- Camera/screenshots
Ideas for Classroom Integration
- Critique or summarize a story
- Describe science experiments
- Give a weather forecast for the day
- Explain a math problem
- Create songs to teach routines and procedures, Ordinal numbers or Position words
- Science post lab reflection
- Explain a diagram
- Personification
- Reading books to students
- Students reading for fluency
- Counting by 5, 10, etc
- Practice reading sight words. When it plays back, highlight the words when you hear them.
- Take pictures that represent numbers and label
- Retell a story using different characters or setting
- Create a new story using reading strategies taught that week (cause and effect, problem/solution, etc)
- Students take pictures of parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives)-label-use in sentences
- Setting the stage for new units
- Social stories
- Sight words paired with text
students take a picture of themselves and then give a brief bio about themselves. Students take a gallery walk and learn about their classmates.
Scavenger hunts
Create a story using beginning, middle and end
Coding
Think your kids are too young to learn to code? Think again.
Coding (also called programming or developing) is telling a computer, app, phone or website what you want it to do. Some educators and experts are calling it the ‘new literacy’—a subject so important that every child needs to know the basics to excel in our rapidly changing world.
QR Codes
Print the QR Codes.
Hang them or have them available to scan.
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