Making Best Use of iPads, iPad Apps and Other Digital Tools to Enhance Instruction for ELL Students

Thank you so much for coming to my presentations this week. I hope you learned something and have some good ideas for ways you can use technology to better engage your students.

Before We Get Started

Jenny’s Number

Dragontape

Hello & Welcome!

Who am I?

Who are you? Let’s get some Face Time!

Introduction to the handbook and outsourced memory…

We will have midmorning – lunch – and afternoon breaks but…

Remember this is a two part experience…

Parking Thoughts in Parking Lots

Backchanneling

Today’s Meet

SpeakUp

Google Forms – Introduction Survey – Results

Questions – Concerns – Comments – Ideas

Jumping In

Douglas Adams – Rules for Innovation After 35!

Cold Calling, No Opt -Out & I don’t Know…YET!

Stick Pick & ESL Learners

Access and Community

Mark Prensky’s Digital Immigrants – All now naturalized citizens.

Digital Natives

14th Century Classroom

Today’s Classroom

Who are Sugata Mitra and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi?

Possible new perspectives on emotion, cognition, and attention

Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development – Soduku, Road signs & Junior Mentors

 FlowFiero and Naches

Questions – Concerns – Comments – Ideas

Putting Junior Mentors to work

Challenging them to build

Mincraft

Scratch

Chorewars 

Questions – Concerns – Comments – Ideas

Planning your PLN: Mavens, Connectors & Feeding

In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell describes three characters and you should do your best to identify at least two of them (Mavens and Connectors) and add them to your PLN. Here are some FEED ideas:

Twitter   Join Me

Pinterest

Facebook  – Writing with the Stars

ESL Links

Idea Feeds, Read Write Think,  SophiaIdea channelTEDVsaucesmarter every day,  edudemicmashabletechcrunchreadwritewebwiredtwitter, lifehacker21st century learningiTunes Uedutopiaclassroom 2.0iLearn TechnologyEdTechTalkinfinite Thinking MachineDangerously IrrelevantCirclesofinnovation.org, etc.

Feeding Trivia – How many apps in the app store? How many songs in iTunes?

Who is in your plan? How do you feed? Please share on my personal backchannel. 

BYOD

How many of you are Nomophobic?

Who said books will be obsolete in 10 years? 

Lesson Ideas

Words from letters

Prefix Suffix  COCA Corups

Trivia Challenge

 

Questions – Concerns – Comments – Ideas

Common placing in the 21st Century

How many of you are currently using Google Drive, Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote, Facebook, Pinterest? Then you are Common Placing!

The Power of Infographics

Go ahead, Google Infographic on Infographics!

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Going Walkabout

 

Best Uses For iPads in the Classroom

Things You Should Know about iPads But Might Not! For Example, split keyboard, jumping home, four finger swipes, & making an a page into an app.

Increasing Time on Task with Guided Access

A word or two on classroom management – crowdsourcing some rules

Quick Post Lunch Review

Enhanced Google Searching

Making the best use of browsers Rover & KidsRex

Best Practices for Youtube

prEmail   Handout

Dragontape – Jenny’s Number

Amara.org

Anotations

Reading

Screen-cast-omatic  

Karaoke

Dance Parties

PE & Exercise   Massive Multiplayer Fun

***Please remember that there are laws and rules governing the downloading and permanent copying of YouTube videos. Try to err on the side of Fair Use*** Clip Converter

Questions – Concerns – Comments – Idea

Writing in the Clouds

Kooshing the Envelope and Brick & Mortar Innovation

Google Drive, iCloud, Office 365

Letter to Learn By    Group Work Assignment

Enhanced feedback: Screen Casting & Pad Casting

Using Blogs  kidblog.org, blogger, wordpress.com, edublog, weebly.com

Classroom Clickers

Reflector App

Nearpod

Socrative

infuselearning

Final Countdown

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday we rob our children of tomorrow” John Dewey

Sock Puppets

ToonTastic

Go animate

Powtoon

iMovie

Readers Theatre

Read Write Think Trading Cards

TinyTap.it

Augmented Reality –Tagging Reality!

You are going to want to see this!

TED in the Classroom

Embedding, TEDed, Hosting TED events

 

Final Thoughts

Something you will start doing today – Text/email that to someone

Something you plan to learn to use this year

Something you are going to share with a friend back a school

Thank You

Happy Trails

 

 

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