I found these posts on the Linked in Technology-Using Professor’s discussion. (EK)
5 Mistakes re. iPads in Classrooms
100 Ways to use iPad in Your Classroom
How Students Can Create their own Textbooks with iPads
These posts and other interesting info re. edtech are at http://edudemic.com
Seton Hill University has a set of short videos about how faculty and students are using iPads in the classroom in different disciplines.
A group of English department faculty at Penn State did a pilot study last spring, using iPads in several writing courses (mostly upper level and grad). A lot of material about their courses can be found on their iPad Project blog and they’ve posted a set of slides with an overview of what they learned. (EK)
One Penn State instructor’s account of her process of grading and responding to student work using using SugarSync and iAnnotate.
Here are some resources, apps and articles that I have been collecting over the past few years. You can subscribe to this site and receive a notice when I add new content. (JD)
October 4, 2012 at 1:00 pm
The article 5 Mistakes re: iPads in the classroom is definitely worth reading. My guess is that most of us will find that what is described matches some of our experience — in good and bad ways! Now, the question is how can I remedy or address some of the mistakes I am already making. I would love to hear from others. I have not made the mistake of looking for discipline specific apps as the article describes but have focused on process or methods apps. However, I think one of the poster’s ideas about using the nomenclature (create, curate, etc.) of the device would help me get out of the box of only thinking of the device as way to extend current practices rather than as a way to transform my teaching and making it more about what students are doing or can do. The one problem I see with implementing some of the suggestions in the article is that we don’t have a 1:1 ratio of devices to students which the article deems crucial..
October 4, 2012 at 1:11 pm
I firmly believe you can not focus on apps that are content specific, while working with David Patterson and his Music Theory class we have been using Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia to show students how to use web based resources to extend what they are reading in their text books. Both of those resources are iPad apps, but are also available online and allow the students to not only visually see different music scales, but also listen and interact with them.
The only app specific to music theory that we are using is a basic piano that will allow students to play notes and scales in the classroom, allowing students to compose a song using the scale they are focusing on this week. One side of the room plays one part; the other side plays the other part. This is also helping them understand rhythm and keeping time, which is a nice bonus. The students see this as a game, and therefor are very eager to play along. One issue is that students have to pair up and take turns using the device since there are not enough of them for every student. I agree that having that 1:1 ratio and student’s being able to hold onto the device for the entire semester would allow for them to use it to it’s full potential. I have found several apps which would allow music students to compose audio files to share with other students and the professor via the cloud, but that is not something they would be able to achieve in a 50min class.
October 4, 2012 at 1:06 pm
Btw, I can’t see the slides on my iPad of the article (which are a big part of the article) 100 Ways to USe iPads in Your Classroom
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October 8, 2012 at 9:36 pm
Not sure where to post this question but we were using the ipads to access youtube for an indigenous languages exercise and noticed that subtitles visible on the laptop are invisible on the ipad (these are subtitles or captions that people – probably not the original posters – add to videos; they usually appear as word bubbles.
We thought we might try accessing the videos through the youtube app, which i thought came with all ipads (it was on mine) but it wasn’t on the student ipads. i didn’t know if it was okay to have the students add apps so didn’t but it would be nice to have it and see how it works.
October 9, 2012 at 5:35 pm
It seems the latest version of the iPads operating system has removed the YouTube app (which, you’re correct, had been there by default previously). Google has released an updated version (which is improved too). I will have it added to all ipads.
The iPads are locked so students can not install new apps themselves.
October 9, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Thanks John!
October 9, 2012 at 6:20 pm
I can only find an iPhone version of YouTube since the new operating system was released. I find it cumbersome for the iPad as you cannot search in landscape view with this app. You need to have the iPad in portrait view in order to search for videos. Is there an iPad version of the app that I’m just not finding?
October 8, 2012 at 9:41 pm
I agree most with this mistake: “iPads were designed as a single-user device and not meant to be shared via carts. Financial constraints have forced many schools to abandon 1:1 aspirations, but sharing them separates the functionality from the user. Carts that rotate through several classrooms force teachers to take time away from learning, create a nightmare of student accounts, and often focus attention on workflow systems rather than learning.”
But where does the funding come from?
October 10, 2012 at 10:03 am
Thanks for adding a link to your resources, Jessica.