Can students conduct a research process from beginning to end in a completely paperless environment using iPads? A resounding YES! Researching, planning, social bookmarking, tagging, collaborating, writing and publishing was all done using iPads by a 10th grade English class.
Today’s technologies allow teachers to create flexible, individualized, curricula that can scaffold as well as enrich. In this session we will explore how various technologies can facilitate differentiation, support diverse learners, and create rich learning environments that meet the needs of all students, special needs to gifted, in the classroom.
Watertown Middle School is Flipping their classroom. Teachers are turning classrooms from teacher centered to student centered and project based places. Humanities, World Language and Math classes will show lessons and methods for doing this. We are using various formats with iPads, wikis, and itslearning being a few.
Using a cohort of 20 freshmen we rolled out an iPad pilot to investigate how it could benefit the learning experience of our students. The goal of our pilot was to make a decision for the district for a 1-to-1 program based on device, learning outcomes, challenges and classroom experience.
This hands-on workshop will engage educators with many visual arts apps and great iPad resources to use in their classrooms, schools, or districts.
Have you “flipped” your classroom? Are you wondering about this new concept sweeping schools across the country? Come and see how the model has been implemented in both regular ed classrooms and a learning center model. We will share web 2.0 tools and platforms through which we delivered our lessons.
This workshop will take a global look at integrating student-centered work with interactive whiteboards across the middle school curriculum. The toolkit will include rubrics, sample student presentations created for different curriculum areas, and resources related to what students will need to learn to create collaborative and powerful student presentations.
Come learn how these two teachers have used blogging in their classrooms and what benefits there have been for both the students and the teachers. Learn about different blogging platforms, how to use blogs in all curriculum areas, and how blogs can be used to monitor student growth.
