IPad+Applications+Ally-Eric



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Proposed Thesis: What is the purpose for using I-pad apps in the classroom? How can I-pad apps be beneficial to both teachers and students? How do we evaluate an apps effectiveness, and if it serves the purpose of helping students learn core subjects? Are the apps user friendly and how can the teacher use them to fulfill their course objectives in their daily lessons?

Developer Description: “Fly around the planet with a swipe of your finger with Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Explore distant lands or reacquaint yourself with your childhood home. Search for cities, places, and businesses. Browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more. Visit the Earth Gallery to find exciting maps such as real-time earthquakes, planes in flight, hiking trails, city tours, and more.” Developer Description: “…explore more than 750 Science, Math, Social Studies, English, Engineering & Tech, Arts & Music, and Health subjects right on their mobile devices. All movies are close captioned, so it’s easy for them to read along.” For students who are away on sporting events, and in South East Alaska, one match can make the students missing for days or weeks. Developer Description: “This app is a fun way for parents, teachers, librarians, and readers to get more information about top rated books at the fifth and sixth grade level. Tag a book as “I want this” or “I’ve read this” to add it to your list. You can email your list out for an easy way to show which books you’re interested in getting and which books you’ve already completed.” Developer Description: “A growing library of over 80 hands-on Science lessons that are great for home and the classroom. These short videos demonstrate inexpensive and easy to recreate experiments that are designed to inspire and excite kids of all ages.” Students can use this app to research and brainstorm for their science experiements. 5eveloper Description: “Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders–and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.” This is a great app for teachers, and also for older students, middle to high school age, to help them practice being organized for when they go to college and/or get a job. It can be a part of their daily high school life, and a way for teachers and students to interact and connect on students progress. Developer Description: See.Touch.Learn. to build custom picture card lessons and automatically track their child’s responses. Includes a starter set of stunning, high-quality images and 60 exercises created by a certified assistant behavior analyst! This would be a great app for special education, to track student’s progress in their cognitive skills. Developer Description: “This app helps students learn sight words, the most common words in children’s literature. It covers a few words from both the Fry’s and Dolch lists. Words are presented in context in fun videos. This helps learners understand the meaning of the words, which aids in reading comprehension.” Developer Description: “At Cambridge University Press, we know that Phrasal verbs are complicated for non-native English speakers to learn and use. We also know that it’s essential to use them if we want our writing and speaking to sound natural. However, studying unending lists doesn’t seem to be the best way to learn and use them efficiently. Phrasal verbs are, more than anything, action. And action must be visual. The more visually stimulating the learning, the better we will understand and assimilate the phrasal verbs.” This app would be good for English reading and writing, and can go along-side phonics activities. Developer Description: “The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a easy-to-use interface. This can allow students to read anywhere and everywhere, while not having to carry around all their textbooks, or worry about turning library books in all the time. : Great for letter recognition practice for pre-school and Kindergarten. Developer Description: “Four math games allow children to experience math concepts through manipulation. Rods is an addition/subtraction game that uses different sized rods side by side to show how two numbers make up another one. The child selects the rod that makes up the missing piece.” Developer Description: “View the Common Core State Standards in one convenient FREE app! A great reference for students, parents, and teachers to easily read and understand the core standards. Quickly find standards by subject, grade, and subject category (domain/cluster). This app includes Math standards K-12 and Language Arts standards K-12. Math standards include both traditional and integrated pathways (as outlined in Appendix A of the common core) and synthesizes Language Arts standards with the Corresponding College and Career Readiness Standards (CCR’s).” Developer Description: “History Line is a collaborative learning game for the iPad focusing on US History. The game can be played by 1-6 players. As a single player game, a series of historical events are presented on the screen and the goal of the game is to place the events onto a timeline at the bottom of the screen in the correct sequence. When the event placed on the line is correct the date appears below.” Developer Description: “This app will help your child learn the sounds of the letters of the alphabet, which are necessary for reading. Learning the sounds of the letters gives your child the tools for reading and helps them become better readers. A matching phonetic photo image is matched with each letter to help your child learn the sound of each letter.” Allows students and teachers to easily access information quickly. Developer Description: “Motion Math Zoom’s zoomable, stretchable number line is missing some numbers – it’s up to the child to put the numbers back where they belong. The new game uses concrete objects to represent abstract numbers: from dinosaurs in the thousands down to amoebas in the thousandths. Fun animal animations and sound effects help elementary school children master the number line.” Developer Description: TeacherKit is a personal organizer for the teacher. It enables the teacher to organize classes, and students. Its simple and intuitive interface enables teachers to track the attendance, grades and behavior of students.
 * http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/the-55-best-best-free-education-apps-for-ipad/ **
 * The 17 Best Free Education Apps For iPad **
 * 1. Google Earth **
 * 2. BrainPOP Featured Movie **
 * 3. ** **Best Books for Tweens**
 * 4. Video Science **
 * 6. Evernote **
 * 6 See.Touch. Learn. **
 * 7. Sight Words for Reading HD **
 * 8. Phrasal Verb Machine **
 * 9. Kindle **
 * 10. Alphabet Projector **
 * 11. Fill The Cup **
 * 12. Common Core Standards **
 * 13. ** **History Line**
 * 14. ABS Magic Phonics **
 * 15. ** **Google Search**
 * 16. Motion Math Zoom **
 * 17. TeacherKit **

Ipad Education
Everyone learns differently. With just a few taps, you can customize your students’ iPad with materials that fit their level and learning style. Say you’re teaching a physics lesson on inertia. For your students who learn best by listening, download a podcast from iTunes U on Newton’s laws of motion. And for those who learn through tactile interaction, find an app that lets students shoot arrows at a target. The wide range of content across subjects and grades also makes it easy to tailor iPad for students at a variety of learning levels. With iPad, you can teach all your students the same lesson — in different ways.

Give your students more opportunities to learn through creative expression with [|iLife] apps (sold separately). Have them use the built-in camera and the iMovie app to shoot and edit their own HD video about geometric shapes in everyday objects. Or create a visual journal of a class trip to Washington, D.C., with iPhoto. Your class can even produce their own radio show with GarageBand. With iLife apps, your students don’t just consume content — they create it. And they come away with a better grasp of the material, because they find their own way to engage with it.

Designed for iPad, the [|iWork] apps (sold separately) make it easy for your students to do the schoolwork they need to do. On a device they love to use. Keynote gives them the ability to produce presentations that spring to life with stunning transitions and effects. With Pages, students can choose from a variety of templates to write reports that go beyond words with photos, videos, and graphics. And for data-rich projects, they can use Numbers to express their ideas in tables, charts, and graphs.

Using the free iBooks Author app, you can easily create custom Multi-Touch learning material for iPad that suits the particular needs of your students or fills a gap in your existing course materials. And iBooks Author isn’t just for classroom materials. Design an interactive report card. Or have your students use it to create portfolios, class newsletters, or yearbooks. A Multi-Touch book for iPad takes reading beyond the page. You can tell a story with video, audio, scrolling sidebars, even 3D objects — and a tap or swipe brings them all to life. Create your own Multi-Touch book with iBooks Author. Get started with beautiful built-in templates, then customize content by dragging and dropping. Include a video on origami or an audio clip of someone pronouncing a word in Mandarin. And just like that, your custom book is ready for class.



TENTATIVE ROUGH DRAFT!!! Don't feel like all this stuff has to be on the VT. These are the notes and rough outline of things I've gathered.

Eric, I just summarized the information you put here, and added some of mine. this might be what we actually say in the voice thread. I don't mind doing the talking, going off this information. I have made an account on voice thread to do so. What do you think?

Slide 1 (a) Introduction Hi, and welcome to Eric and Ally's voice thread, "Learning and thinking about ipad apps in the classroom." This voice thread will present information about how an I-pad is used in a classroom, and what apps are highly recommended for teachers and students in the classroom. The voice thread will present the case for how I-pads are useful for constructive learning. The Video will also take ask thought provoking questions, such as, "What is the purpose for using I-pad apps in the classroom? How can I-pad apps be beneficial to both teachers and students? How do we evaluate an apps effectiveness, and if it serves the purpose of helping students learn core subjects? Are the apps user friendly? How can the teacher use them to fulfill their course objectives in their daily lessons?" Intrigued? Sit back, relax, take some notes, and get ready for this short journey about use of I-pad applications for teachers.

Slide 1 (b) - Why the iPad?
iPad is better than the competitors (i.e. google's nexus) due to...quality trusted edu apps, quantity of these apps, availability, easy UI, security. With so many tablets available, why would someone choose an I-pad over a nook, Samsung galaxy tablet, or a kindle fire? The ipad has been recently incorporated into the classrooms of k-12 schools across the Nation. There are leading competitors, but the I-pad has risen above with it many trusted, high quality educational apps, made readily available to the consumer. Most of the apps for the I-pad are also free. The free Apps have ratings on their quality, and provide suggested uses for those interested in downloading them. Being so small, how can the I-pad be more useful than textbooks, laptops, or desktop computers? The answer is simple. Mobility. This little device can fit easily into a backback or purse, making a students learning mobile and accessible. Because the I-pad is a fun tool that engages students in a highly digital world, learning is made easy. Students are more motivated to learn from and interact this modern technology. The I-pad has text books, which can be accessed at any time on the lightweight device, so that backpacks are not weighing more than the elementary student. The I-pad features games, and has an expanding application market. Differentiated education Motivation Learn modern technology Text Books Price cut (instead of some textbooks or expensive desktops) Games Mobility Expanding App Market

Google’s education focus with the Nexus and the ecosystem wrapped around it is nowhere near Apple’s heavy education focus with the iPad and the ecosystem wrapped around it (Bretag, 2012)

(Narrative of some of the reasons for iPad + a quick summary of the whole presentation, Thesis)

Everyone learns differently. With just a few taps, you can customize your students’ iPad with materials that fit their level and learning style. Say you’re teaching a physics lesson on inertia. For your students who learn best by listening, download a podcast from iTunes U on Newton’s laws of motion. And for those who learn through tactile interaction, find an app that lets students shoot arrows at a target. The wide range of content across subjects and grades also makes it easy to tailor iPad for students at a variety of learning levels. With iPad, you can teach all your students the same lesson — in different ways.

Slide 2 - Purpose
Main purpose for iPad The main purpose for an i-pda in the classroom, is to provide interactive learning for students, and diverse tools for teachers. I-pads can allow an amazing platform for learning, collaboration, and communication. Specific reference and research applications allow students to explore topics and even take content quizzes. For students who learn through tactile interaction, i-pad apps make it easy to tailor to students at a variety of learning levels. With an iPad, a teacher can provide students the same lesson in different ways

This diagram is great, but probably too blurry for people to see. Any chance you can download one that is a bit clearer?



Slide 3 - Student Benefits
There are definitely a lot of other good benefits, just a start here.

Perhaps one of the biggest asses to the i-pad is communication. Students are able to record their ideas and save information through recorders, note takers, cloud products such as evernote to save data, pictures, and drawings. Students can save their information on the i-pad notepad and e-mail their work to their teacher, or post it on a blog for classroom discussion and debate. Students can also record their experiments with the video function, and present it on a podcast. For students with disabilities, they are able to communicate through voice translators, drawing pads, and feeling pictures to describe their thoughts and information. Additionally, students can apply content knowledge to current issues on their subject through the internet or various learning apps downloaded onto their i-pad.

(Lovegrove, 2013)
 * 1) Saving money by combining books, diaries, writing implements, calculators, word processors, etc. all in one media tablet.
 * 2) Allowing students to take control of their own learning.
 * 3) The touch-screen interface allows students to engage more interactively with content.
 * 4) Education programs can be tailor made for each student.
 * 5) Wi-Fi and 3/4G connectivity allow for almost instantaneous and continuous access of information. The ability to quickly switch between applications makes it easier for students to switch between different modes of learning (i.e. research and creation).
 * 6) Mobile data collection is generally streamlined and easy.
 * 7) The iPad easily integrates with existing IT systems. With cloud-based computing, students have connectivity anywhere within the school grounds. There is no need for schools to continue to allocate large budgets for computer power that is no longer necessary.
 * 8) School districts have been creative in finding ways to save money using the iPad. From digital textbooks, to tests and to homework, there’s the potential to save huge amounts of money through paperless innovation.
 * 9) iPads are accessible to students with disabilities. Apps are available for children with cognitive learning problems and there are also accessibility tools built into the latest iOS such as Speak Auto-Text, White on Black, VoiceOver and Siri, a voice recognition technology.
 * 10) The iPad can easily be positioned for comfortable use on your desk or lap. Students can also purchase cases and stands which allow devices to be propped up at an appropriate viewing and typing angle.
 * 11) The iPad can also be paired with an external keyboard to ease and speed up typing.
 * 12) There is no delay to boot up iPads like there is with netbooks or laptops, and no time lost figuring out complex software applications.
 * 13) The iPad’s intuitive design and easy-to-use interface makes it simple for even young children to navigate, thereby optimizing the learning experience of all students.
 * 14) The App Store/iTunes Store offers a vast amount of free or low cost apps, many of which are excellent for the classroom.
 * 15) Its light weight and portability means it can easily be carried from class to class without having to close and reopen the screen. Data can be accessed while standing and notes can be taken on the go, thus extending learning far beyond the classroom.
 * 16) It has far less of a strain on children’s backs since one iPad replaces a bag full of books.
 * 17) Children are eager to embrace new technology and many are able to troubleshoot computer issues and resolve them quicker than adults.

Slide 4 - Teacher Benefits
Increase productivity - How? With easier, more accessible notes, ability to take photos, to-do lists and reminders.

The i-pad can also be used for teachers to send students homework via the drop box, and send report cards to parents and students with detailed, interactive feedback with voice recordings. Teachers can provide quizzes for their students through the I-pad apps. This allows students to progress in their classrooms at an individual pace to achieve the needed skills. Students are able to receive immediate feedback on these content quizzes, to provide helpful strategies to provide a student centered focus on learning. Teachers may use a virtual quiz on their smartboard, and have the students use the clicker app on their i-pad to answer questions or take polls. Grading - Streamlined grading while tracking and analyzing student performance. Easily inform students and parents of progress and grades. Apple Grading Apps include Gradekeeper and EasyGradePro. There are iPad apps that help create, edit, and improve lesson plans for teachers, allowing them to make improvements and add new ideas to freshen up lessons. This is a great way to keep them all organized as well. this app is presented through the Apple lesson planning iPad apps: iLessonPlans, TeachersPlan, PlanBook, and TeacherStudio.

(Wainwright, 2012)

Slide 5 - Evaluating Effectiveness
Methods, ways to assess/rate applications, specialty or core application?

Slide 6- Necessities for Greatness
(As in the key components which an application must have in order for it to be extremely effective) functionality, user friendly, accurate up to date content

Slide 7 - The Most Effective Applications
I personally like Evernote. Never used it on an iPad before but this app looks more geared to Apple than Android.

Slide 8 - ???
Possibly have an image (no voice slide) with a question to get the audience thinking and or questioning the information that has been given so far. Image with words or just words that poses a question toward the audience so they can give their feedback.



Slide 9 - Summary/Recap
Answer the questions using information in the previous slides. What is the purpose for using I-pad apps in the classroom? How can I-pad apps be beneficial to both teachers and students? How do we evaluate an apps effectiveness, and if it serves the purpose of helping students learn core subjects? Are the apps user friendly and how can the teacher use them to fulfill their course objectives in their daily lessons? The i-pad allows us to integrate learning and critical thinking into students daily lives.

Slide 10 - Resources
Resources:

i-pads In the Classroom. Retrieved 10/25/2013 from, []

iPad in Education. Apple. Retrieved on 10/24/2013 from, http://www.apple.com/education/ipad/teaching-with-ipad/

Bretag, R (2012, July 17) Apple iPad vs Google Nexus in Education. Metanoia. Retrieved on 10/25/2013 from, []

Lovegrove, B (2013, March 27) Benefits of using iPads in the Classroom. Inkids. Retrieved on 10/25/2013 from, []

Wainwright, A (2012, November 08) iPads in the classroom: Teachers love them too!. Securedge. Retrieved on 10/25/2013 from, []