So a couple of weeks into the research phase......
Apps that have caught my attention:
Showme - Allows students to record the steps they take when producing work, visual recording and verbal recording (potential use in my subject - Economics graphs, can students verbalise why the lines go where they do? At what point do wrong diagrams go wrong? What is the bit of the theory that the students do not understand?)
Paperby53 - Allows students to record a journal. (potential use in my subject - may use individual pages as individual whiteboards? May ask students to produce a journal as evidence of their revision of a topic?)
Youtube - I know, really simple, but I have often had students say that they have watched a video on youtube to help them understand an economic or accounting theory - why not bring this learning into the classroom to allow students to share their findings.
Keynote - Again a simple one, but students have been engaged by new 'oh that's a different design Sir' materials. What is really good about this is that it has allowed me to turn a normal whiteboard into an interactive whiteboard using a stylus on my iPad. I plan to get keynote on the student iPads to so that they can then be used as remote for my iPad and they can then show their understanding on their iPad and projet this onto the main screen.
Use of the iPads so far:
I have used my iPad to create lessons and deliver them through keynote - see above.
Students have used them to do some independent research in economics, allowed them to access information in the format that works well for them.
I gave students 20 mins in one lesson to access as many past papers and mark schemes as possible and tell me something they 'spotted' in terms of how exams are written. Some of their thoughts after 20 mins were really impressive "we spotted that every XX question requires you to....." and "we have looked at the end question, if it is written like xxx then you need to do..... however if it worded like xxxx you need to take this approach" - I can't help but feel if I had of given them 5 papers and 5 mark schemes they wouldn't have been so enthused.
I used 6 iPads alongside 6 Laptops with students working in pairs producing a survival guide for an exam paper of their choice. This worked really well as both students in the pair had something to do and there was much less 'Copy and Pasting', instead students were forced to discuss what had been found and then process it into their own words on a separate device.
Initial thoughts:
Even the most simple of uses seems to engage students more, they are using the sort of device they are used to and it makes a big difference - Will this continue or is it just due to the 'novelty factor'?
Students have played with Showme and Paperby53, they like them, but how do I get the work off of their student ipads for me to assess/review? In fact I can see that this will be an issue that needs addressing with a lot of things, how can the students use iPads and produce evidence of their learning or have something to refer back to in the future?
Next Steps:
Get my head around some more of the apps and how to use them in lesson over the xmas holdiays and hit the ground running in 2015 - want to try and use them with all of my groups (at least once) by February half term.
Apps that have caught my attention:
Showme - Allows students to record the steps they take when producing work, visual recording and verbal recording (potential use in my subject - Economics graphs, can students verbalise why the lines go where they do? At what point do wrong diagrams go wrong? What is the bit of the theory that the students do not understand?)
Paperby53 - Allows students to record a journal. (potential use in my subject - may use individual pages as individual whiteboards? May ask students to produce a journal as evidence of their revision of a topic?)
Youtube - I know, really simple, but I have often had students say that they have watched a video on youtube to help them understand an economic or accounting theory - why not bring this learning into the classroom to allow students to share their findings.
Keynote - Again a simple one, but students have been engaged by new 'oh that's a different design Sir' materials. What is really good about this is that it has allowed me to turn a normal whiteboard into an interactive whiteboard using a stylus on my iPad. I plan to get keynote on the student iPads to so that they can then be used as remote for my iPad and they can then show their understanding on their iPad and projet this onto the main screen.
Use of the iPads so far:
I have used my iPad to create lessons and deliver them through keynote - see above.
Students have used them to do some independent research in economics, allowed them to access information in the format that works well for them.
I gave students 20 mins in one lesson to access as many past papers and mark schemes as possible and tell me something they 'spotted' in terms of how exams are written. Some of their thoughts after 20 mins were really impressive "we spotted that every XX question requires you to....." and "we have looked at the end question, if it is written like xxx then you need to do..... however if it worded like xxxx you need to take this approach" - I can't help but feel if I had of given them 5 papers and 5 mark schemes they wouldn't have been so enthused.
I used 6 iPads alongside 6 Laptops with students working in pairs producing a survival guide for an exam paper of their choice. This worked really well as both students in the pair had something to do and there was much less 'Copy and Pasting', instead students were forced to discuss what had been found and then process it into their own words on a separate device.
Initial thoughts:
Even the most simple of uses seems to engage students more, they are using the sort of device they are used to and it makes a big difference - Will this continue or is it just due to the 'novelty factor'?
Students have played with Showme and Paperby53, they like them, but how do I get the work off of their student ipads for me to assess/review? In fact I can see that this will be an issue that needs addressing with a lot of things, how can the students use iPads and produce evidence of their learning or have something to refer back to in the future?
Next Steps:
Get my head around some more of the apps and how to use them in lesson over the xmas holdiays and hit the ground running in 2015 - want to try and use them with all of my groups (at least once) by February half term.
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