Countless uses and apps: listening to classics, reinforcing the alphabet and rhyming words, spelling ... while the teacher is working with a reading group- even taking dictation and reading text. It isn’t a magic bullet. Laptops, desktops, iPads- better yet “Touchfire Keyboard,” Tablets with their countless apps can not take the place of a teacher nor the importance of interacting with fellow students.
2 yr. old Matias knows how to find his programs on Grandpa’s iPad. He is like Pooh Bear and his honey. You can’t hide the iPad from Matias; he smells where it is hidden. If he wants to know what something looks like he will says, “Grandpa, let’s Google it.”
4/4/13 After Thomas the Magic Railroad was read to the now three year old Matias, we tapped into Google’s viaduct images. Many images appeared. Matias, on his own, found the image that looked most like the viaduct in the story book and compared the two.
The image of the viaduct in the story book was too vague; it didn’t relate a clear picture but with the few details shown, Matias pointed out the viaduct that Thomas the Train Engine must have been traveling on.
What is so great is that the images can be enlarged just by moving two fingers over the image.
If 2 & 3 year olds can manipulate the iPad for sure older children.
Empowerment
Everyone wants some control over their lives- some power. So do little three year olds. The iPads with their apps gives it to them.
Teachers and caregivers must be observant and empowering- empower with freedom and honest praise which encourages them to want to learn more. When the child finds an app he likes he will play it over and over. Unlike Sesame St. which keeps moving on to a new concept or activity, the app allows a child to repeat it as often as he wants.
Beware: Preview each app first. Some deranged characters take innocent titles and inject obscene and vulgar language into their take on a story such as what has creeped into some Thomas the Train Engine videos.
Kindergarten children can record their stories while the iPad does the typing; however, because of the program being used, children’s hesitations, homophones, accents etc. it may not be appropriate for the very young. For older children it would encourage good diction.
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★iPad 3 children can dictate a story and the iPad will translate it to text. Amazing! However, you get what you pay for. A $2 Ap is not going to give the precision and clarity a $300 program will give.
I Pad
Apps - fantastic programs for the iPad providing some free programs and others must be purchased for a minimal fee.
The iPad runs on batteries for 10 hours and can hold up to 64 gigabytes. It can be connected to the classroom projector. It is small enough to keep at one’s finger tips. It can sync with your desk top or lap top computer; read and send e-mail; provides map and dictionary service -a whole realm of Google services. If a teacher should be asked a question he/she can’t answer, the teacher can quickly Google for the answer.
The iPad can be taken outside - quick access for dismissal info and can be taken on field trips for access on all pertinent info. in case of emergencies. It can be taken to the reading center with to keep notes on progress and needs of each student. The teacher can move around reading groups with the iPad in hand to quickly record observations. Develop a code so that only a letter or two need to be typed in. It is the next best thing to sliced bread.
You can even print from your iPad.
Some iPads need a “hot spot” to connect to phone service and to connect to the Internet. 3G uses cellular signals — the same signals your cell phone uses — to connect to the Internet.
The following program is available only on iPad and iPhone.
At three, Luca could turn on the iPad, find the apps he
wanted to view and click on them. For sure kindergarten and first graders could use this tool independently. Repetition is the mother of a lot of learning; the iPad captures their attention and provides the needed repetition
Baby Claire, 1 yr. enjoying stories on the iPad
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★ 50 Things to do with Apple iPad -UTube- illustrate a story and read a book ..
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★The Tech EdVocate’s 2018 List of 116 of th eBest Teaching and Learning APPS
Matias, at 2 yrs.of age found videos on UTube without a problem.
At 4 yrs. he tells his grandpa, “Google it.”
when he wanted to know what a tarantula looks like.
At the age of seven Matias constructed this project and his father posted it on You Tube
2 yr. old Keanu
At the age of six, Luca texts his grandfather to tell him about his day at school. He wanted to know the sound a giraffe makes so he Googled for the information.
Protect Your iPad
Use a case cover
Note his red, sweaty face. After playing and racing around outside Paul concedes that he is tired and goes in to rest a bit.
At 2.1 yrs. Luca has a great repertoire of U Tube and App stories - alphabet stories and classics.
Stories on the iPad captivate 21 mon. old Matias - including Peter and the Wolf.
2 yr. old Luca and 4 yr. old Gwyneth viewing stories and playing games on the iPad.
Demonstrations on drawing with the iPad:
Programs to purchase:
This activity is a blank canvas for drawing with the finger. You can choose from a palette of 8 colors.
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★Drawing with Your iPad Appps Gone Free
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★Color and Draw for Kids Android Apps - many apps for only 99 cents
The iPad plus the LCD Projector and adaptor and your ready for your Language Arts Class
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Teaching and Learning: Using iPads in the Classroom
OCTOBER 31, 2011
Kinesthetic Learners
The iPad has a number of unique features that provide for interesting possibilities in teaching and learning. The motion sensor of the iPad has a number of intriguing applications to learning. Most students today would be classified as bodily-kinesthetic learners. The motion sensor allows students to use their hands in guiding the iPad to equilibrium, balance skills, or remote control of real or virtual robotics, hovercraft, or other vehicles. Students can use the Clineometer app for measuring the level of a wall, or surface, and also the precise angles of incline, or decline. With the internal accelerometers in the iPad, physics experiments of acceleration or change in force can be measured. Imagine taking the iPad with you on a roller coaster ride. Imagine calculating angles and force and then shooting odd birds from a slingshot, destroying buildings and colliding with green pig heads Rubberized iPads and iPods in gym class can measure levels of exertion, balance, and repetitions.
As a completely portable learning tool, the iPad camera allows documentation to be taken to a whole different level. An app called Field Notes LT not only allows students to take copious notes of their observations, it attaches the date, time, GPS location and photographs of what is observed. These notes can be instantly shared, collaborated, and published in the field.
Students can also attach videos, and voice recordings to their field notes. They can dictate to the iPad using the Dragon Dictation app and it will type their words. With the iPads in the same network but in different locations, using the Assemblee app, students can create a collaboration web to share findings and discuss conclusions about different perspectives of the same project.
In math class the GPS of the iPad establishes locale in ways that are profound. Students can use the included Map app to calculate the distances, compare routes, and actual speeds of the westbound and the eastbound trains common in word problems. The mathematics involved with trip planning and decision-making are brought to life with actual real-time photographs, maps, and weather data provided by the Google Earth app, Big Blue Marble HD, and many others. The App called TourWrist allows students 360 degree views -- "tours" of locations of interest throughout the world. With DerManDar the students can take their own 360 degree pictures of places they visit.
Connecting Beyond the Classroom
Of course, the mobility provided by the iPad's wireless telephone connection capability allows the unprecedented access to the Internet anywhere students are. This is truly information on demand. As questions arise, students can google for clues and insights to begin their studies. Even more powerfully though, through the iPad phone connection, students can have access to volumes of primary source documents and data to help in their investigations in or out of the classroom, on the bus, in a restaurant, or at the football game.
Because iPad's do not have USB ports, disk drives or CDROM/DVD capability, methods for sharing data with other computers and devices over the Internet or "cloud" have been developed. Drop box allows students set up a personal account in which they can store iPad created documents, photos, fieldnotes, etc. And they can access those documents from any other computer or Internet capable device. Evernote will help students keep track of their notes and Mendeley will organize their research documents and let them take their research done on their computers with them, wherever they are going. The Project Gutenburg allows students to download thousands of classic books to be read on any number of free book reader apps available. With the HMH Fuse app, students have at their fingertips the entire Houghton-Mifflin Algebra One book along with exercises and tools for learning algebra.
While walking around the classroom and interacting with students, teachers can control their computers from their iPad with the Remote Mouse app. With a simple cable, teachers can use their iPads to present their unique and creative Prezi presentation made on their computer by using the iPad application called Prezi Player. The teacher can control the document by simply pinching, twisting and sliding their fingers across the face of the iPad.
Aside from the gazillions of games, tutoring, and pointless apps available for free, a diligent teacher can find treasures of apps for their iPads that engage and challenge the student minds in creative ways. Some of my favorites are Lasers Free, Trainyard EX, Play Chess, Words with Friends, and Contre Jour (not free, but worth the $.99).
How do you use iPads in the classroom to help teaching and learning?”
Story Kit is the International Children's Digital Library App. It allows you to create your own stories, complete with pictures. Add text boxes, images and sound clips. Record sounds for your stories, and add, reorder or delete your pages. Add pictures by drawing on the screen, taking a picture of something, or drawing something on paper and taking a picture of it! There are lots of great creative options here to allow your students to create stories right on their iPod Touch/ and iPad.
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★ Story Kit “Create an electronic storybook.”
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★Digital Storytelling with iPad2s/U Tube
Writing Grant Proposals
Stylus for Kids - Works with Thousands of Apps (Toddlers fingers are good for drawing.)
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★Praises for the App Crayon - has a control tip, is compatible with over 300,000 apps. and helps young children hold their writing tools correctly with the training grip.
Apps for learning the alphabet, using the dictionary, reviewing grammar rules, and more.
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1.ABC Animals: Help young children learn the alphabet and phonics with this cute, illustrated app.
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2.Word Magic: Kids fill in the missing letter to form words, accompanied by bright pictures.
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3.Dictionary.com – Dictionary and Thesaurus: This easy-to-use app features a search bar, thesaurus, search history and word of the day.
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4.iWrite Words: Small children learn to write by tracing words with this game.
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5.Spell and Listen Cards: Kids rearrange letters to form basic words, improving their vocabulary and sight reading.
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6.Grammar Up: Help kids learn adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, infinitives, gerunds, conjunctions, and other grammar basics.
Up dated 9/7/2019
The Marvels of the Apple iPad
ITechnology changes so rapidly.
For anyone who has to be on any kind of hall duty be it directing new kindergarten children to their classroom or being on any kind of audience control, here is what this great tool can do:
The ipad allows the person in authority to tap into the main data base which can bring up a student’s picture, history: emergency phones, such as parents’ and doctor’s, schedules stating where the students are suppose to be, etc. no calling an office for the info.
if a student is wandering the halls, parking lot, locker area etc. and you want to make sure you get true information, you need only type in the student's name and all the information that is on the school data base comes up on the iPad Names of student
Picture !!!
Schedule
Homeroom Teacher
Discipline history
Attendance
Grades
Parking information
Locker information - number and code
Contact information ( Gym teachers and umpires can call immediately for help and contact emergency numbers without having to call into the office first.)
Anything that is pertinent to keeping tabs on each student can be put into the data base.
Countless times I have been on duty to welcome kindergarten children and even though the parents were ask to pin vital information to the clothes of the student, students still arrive not remembering which color balloon they are suppose to go to much less the teacher's name. The same problem goes for meeting the correct bus after school. Type in the student's name and you will know what bus the student takes.
How many times does a dean of discipline find a student in an area he/she doesn't belong? With a quick type of a name, all pertinent info is in the palm of your hand. You have a picture for verification.
Specials; e.g., reading teachers who have a pull-out program; they need not use the intercom system disturbing a class but just type in the name to see if the student is absent. In setting up schedules, the iiPad can tell one immediately the students' schedule instead of searching a schedule that has been run off. The master schedule does not have children's names attending special classes. You have to meet with the speech teacher, esl teacher etc. but not with the iPad.
What ever information you have on your data base in your computer to share with your colleagues can be brought up on your iPad. So while you are instructing a group and want a quick check on his last test, reading level, strengths and weaknesses or what ever, you need only type in the student's name into the IiPad instead of having to go to the computer.
You can download an entire book and read it while waiting in line or at a useless meeting. Uses are endless.
You can download any video you created on you home computer and bring it in on the iPad and connect it to the computer projector to flash on the screen. It is far more versatile than the Flash Card.
If it is stolen, it can be shut down immediately if you have a pass word on it.
6 Year Old Presses Mike on the iPad to go to Google for Information
Grandpa gave his six year old grandson his old iPad. When Grandpa baby sits they use it look up information via Google. Recently they were talking about the sequence of the Star War movies. (There were six.)They were wondering which one came first. Without prompting his grandson automatically pressed the mic on the iPad and asked, Which Star War movie was made first.?” In a matter of seconds they received their answer!!!!! Even his grandfather was amazed that his 6- year-old grandson remembered how to activate the mic and formulate his question so concisely.
Oh the possibilities for the mic and iPad are endless.
Most of the applications for the iPads have the mic for note taking. As children speak, their words are simultaneously typed on the screen. Instantly they see their verbal statements in print.
Everything in moderation. Dictation should be a source of reinforcement- not the initial stage of reading and writing.
IPad- a great tool for primary grades including kindergarten-
With some books, as the children are reading a story on the iPad and come across a word they do not know, the iPad will pronounce it and give a definition by just high lighting the word or tapping on the typed word. If it is a name of a country, e.g., it will open up a map to show where it is located.
The student can read and record himself or listen to someone reading the story to her/him. The iPad has unlimited possibilities.
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★20 iPad Apps To Teach Elementary Reading up dated 7/3018
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★50 Great Leaning Apps for Kids- 7/27’11iPhone. App Store
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★Best of Children's Book iPad Apps 2010 - From the Kirkus Reviews.
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★52 of the Best Apps for Your Classroom in 2015/Teach Thought
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★Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom Apps Mind /Shift by Katrina Schwartz 7/29/15
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★iTeach with iPads/Innovation Learning and Literacy with iPads in K 7/9/19 DR. KRISTI MEEUWSE
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★List of iPad Apps Unsed for Instructional Activity MindShift
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★Resources for Using iPads in Grade K-2.edutopiiaUpdated 2/29/16
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★Language Arts/English best apps for kids
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★Alphabet Tracing – A fun series of animations to help children learn to form letter
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★5-Minute Film Festival: Getting Started With Classroom Apps
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★Storybots development of phonics
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★“People, even infants, learn better through social cues. We most readily learn and re-enact an event when it is produced by a person...The young learn best from people in human social interaction”
9/13/16 from Diane Ravitch’s blog
”Technology might help the homebound student or the student in rural areas, but this is an alternative. It can also provide review for students who need it, or advanced information for students who want it, but it is not as good as brick-and-mortar schooling.
"It is also troubling to hear repeated claims that computers will individualize schooling which we will hear about in this program. They might give students lessons at their level of understanding, but truly personalized learning involves real teachers and students with which to connect. The human element is critical.
