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= = =A Practical Guide for Teachers who just got iPads =


 * The Most Common Mistake Teachers make when integrating iPads- **

"It’s a limiting and narrow vision that blinds many educators to a broader and more powerful truth: With iPads, students can create just about anything, anywhere, at any time. The creative learning possibilities for student demonstrations of knowledge and understanding are limited only by the imagination. Instead of trying to find an app to teach every curriculum topic (an impossible feat and a waste of time), educators instead can integrate Evergreen Apps, along with perhaps a few select content apps, to foster student creativity and innovation." -Tom Daccord, The ‘Evergreen’ iPad: Why all your apps should fit on one screen
 * Believing the iPad is fundamentally a vehicle for teaching content with apps. **


 * Believing the iPad is a Computer **

The purpose of an ipad is to be a creation device, it is NOT a small laptop. If you like having a keyboard – that is great, so do I – but chances are your students don’t care as much. Don't treat it like a computer and expect it to be a laptop.

(Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition)
the stages of technology adoption in education


 * Evergreen Apps ** are non-subject apps useful throughout the year for speaking, writing, listening, drawing, annotating, curating, collaborating, sharing, and more, such as // iMovie, Garage Band, Explain Everything, Paper53, Inspiration, Animoto, VoiceThread, and Doodlecast— //

=** Follow the 4Cs **= Using a broad spectrum of apps that help students consume, curate, create, and collaborate on the iPad, educators have more than enough firepower to develop creative and purposeful activities. These activities not only extend the entire academic year, but also help generate what author and Harvard professor Tony Wagner terms “a culture of innovation”—Daccord. Maximize the benefits of using the iPad to consume information related to content curriculum available en masse and make it more accessible to students using the native functionality of the iPad such as speak to text functions. Socrative is an app to collect information on what students know, understand, and believe instantaneously. Socrative enables teachers (and students) to create a poll, survey, or true-false and open-response questions and see immediate, live responses, an incredible tool to assess student thinking and use that information to improve teaching. The ability to collect, organize, and annotate materials. Aurasma, (Augmented Reality tutorials in education)Notability, Evernote, Flip Board, LiveBinders and Microsoft One Note are several apps which allow students to write notes (on a PDF article, for example), type notes, highlight specific passages, or insert a picture, drawing, graph, chart, or sticky note. Scoop it! is an app which allows you to organize, publish and share ideas that matter. Curate topics of interest into your own online magazine.
 * ** Consumption: **
 * ** Curate: **

Nurturing a culture of innovation is the most important goal, teachers who integrate apps like //Explain Everything, DemiBooks Composer Doodle Buddy, Animoto, iMovie, Garage Band, Voice Thread, Doodle cast,// paper by 53 Prezi, StoryRobe, Touchcast  Yapp and others can generate untold possibilities for student creation of educational content. They can create just about anything and do it easily. Thus, the real challenge is not the content in the app itself, but rather the act of brainstorming ways of putting students at the center of the content creation process.
 * ** Create **

To become true 21st-century learners, students must learn how to share and collaborate both digitally and physically. Dealing with Workflow on devices is a critical element in their effective use, especially when they are shared by students. Educators and students must rely on cloud computing since apps are not designed for separate accounts. Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive,(watch tutorial for Google drive) Paper Port Note Quick office SkyDrive and Web Dav Navigator //(server address =https://portal.graniteschools.org/webDrive; use AD username and password to connect to shared drives and M: drive folders)// can all enable students and teachers to access and share content in their own cloud storage. The Subtext app allows students to i nteract collaboratively with the reading, ask comprehension questions and add additional visual information to expand student comprehension of reading material and address all learning styles. For more on Subtext, **5 Reasons Why I Love The Subtext App **
 * ** Connection **
 * // A Relevant iPad Classroom //**

If educators keep these 4Cs in mind, they can tap into the creative potential of the device and not see it as a gadget or something to perpetuate teacher-centric instruction through new mediums, but rather as a device with the power to shape students into active and adaptive thinkers. Teachers need to put students into authentic, relevant, and creative learning environments. Students must pursue learning and solutions their whole lives. They also must be inventors. We educators must shift this generation from being consumers to being creators.

Technology is everywhere: not just in every classroom or in every school, and it is college prep, vocational and life skills all rolled into one. Educators must make time for inventing/creating and using technology and allow students to create individual expressions of their learning.

=Teacher Presentation & Productivity Tools for the Classroom=

AirDisplay Doceri DocScan HD ePub Converter tools (if you have DOC, PDF, HTML or some other format eBooks, you can convert them into ePub to be read on mobile devices with a reading app like iBooks, Stanza, Kobo) Reflector Stage Interactive Whiteboard and Document Camera Splashtop Whiteboard Splashtop downloads

Destiny Quest Mackin Via Overdrive Media Console
 * Library and eBook Apps **

Additional Resources

Teach with your iPad Wikispace

iTunes U Podcasts and Tutorials for the Beginner using iPads in Education

iPad Academy app list

iPads in Schools Live Binder

Apps Gone Free

TED TALKS

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education ... If we are to develop our students' sense of curiosity, we must be mindful to carve out time to allow our students to inquire and explore." -- Albert Einstein = [|5 things educators can learn from J.J. Abrams’s TED Talk] =

**5. You don’t need the greatest technology to make things work.**
=Four Ted Talks to Help You Innovate Your Instruction =