iPads in the Classroom – Innovate and Integrate
Offered:
Summer Session I: May 25 – June 22, 2012
Summer Session II: June 22 – July 20, 2012
Summer Session III: July 20 – August 17, 2012
Prerequisite: Course participants must have sustained access to an iPad with the ability to add applications to it throughout the course
$427.50 for participants from member or affiliate schools
$475 for all other participants
Educators around the world are gravitating to using iPads in the classroom. More than any other computing device, iPads hold the promise of offering students and faculty powerful tools that are truly mobile and easy to use. In this course, faculty will be introduced to the ways that iPads can be used in the classroom to enhance and invigorate the classroom experience.
Week 1: Models of Mobile Learning
Making the transition to mobile learning requires a paradigm shift in pedagogy and thinking. Gone are the days when learning must take place in the classroom. The whole world now in your classroom!
Week 2: Integrating the iPad into Your Curriculum
Now that you have – we hope – made the paradigm shift to anytime, anywhere learning, you must now select age-appropriate, pedagogically-sound Applications (Apps) for your classroom.
Week 3: Kinesthetic and Spatial Use of the iPad
One benefit of the iPad is its flexibility. Unlike a desktop or laptop, the iPad can be moved around, rearranged and sequenced during activities. These types of activities help develop students’ kinesthetic and spatial skills.
Week 4: Developing an Apptivity
An Apptivity, as coined by Apple, is a model for successful instructional practices with mobile devices. Essentially, it is the overarching plan for using an app within the curriculum. For our final week, participants will develop their own Apptivity.
