Why not include the CDL EdTech toolbox or Blended Learning Framework in your goals for next year?
Welcome to the CDL Educational Technology Toolbox. This is a collection of websites and apps 'endorsed' by your colleagues.
Before teachers even pick up an iPad or MacBook, they should determine students’ learning needs. We decide what we want to ‘see’ students doing in the classroom. Only after this can we determine the right edtech tool based on the targeted student behaviours. When these aspects are taken into careful consideration, this will lead to students increasing particular skills. These three aspects can then be used to create a Technology Integration Guiding Statement. We can then share our curricular aims of using technology with students, parents, peers and school leaders. Planning and sharing how we use technology creates a purpose for learning that the entire CDL community can understand.
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Blended Learning Framework
This framework is designed to guide best practice in Blended Learning. Teachers/departments should use the BL levels to guide the planning of lessons and teaching units as required.
Blended Learning refers to student learning that takes place both at school and through online delivery with student control over 1) time, 2) place, 3) path, and/or 4) pace. Christensen Institute |
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What would your advice be for a teacher who is new to a 1:1 iPad school?
Quel conseil donneriez-vous à un professeur enseignant pour la 1ère fois dans une classe avec un iPad par élève ?
CDL Teachers - EdTech Roundup Survey - June 2016
- Use Showbie and NearPod first as you can see what students are doing. Progressively build up to more apps.
- Give clear guidelines on your usage expectations
- try each app first and see what works for you and your students
- Ask students to keep the iPad out of sight until instructed. Or else!!!
- Training and use them ASAP in class
- Create good habits with iPads - they are very useful when you want students to use them, but can be harmful to your lesson when they are not supposed to be used.
- De bien surveiller l'utilisation du I-Pad
- It's a very helpful tool for revision, research and reinforcing lessons taught.
- Get your training done asap!
- Don't waste too much time looking for subject-specific apps
- be creative and don't be afraid to attempt new things.
- SHOWBIE
- c'est un bon outil
- get good training from the experts as part time users don't always know the best actions
- Choose one LMS only. Trust the students they know how to use the apps
- Go to observe a lesson with a different LMS each time
- Set strict rules for use at the beginning of the year. 'Unless you're instructed to use it, I don't want to see it on the desk'
- To be patient with the wi-fi connection in the classrooms and labs.
- start using showbie first, then depending on the subject you teach start choosing one app after another...
- Start with the basics.
- Follow the regulations guidelines published by the school.
- Talk to the rest of us.
- observe other teachers and ask kids.
- Don't be afraid to try stuff out
- go with whatever works best for you- but be open to new ideas
- Ne laisser les élèves sortir l'iPad de leurs sacs que lorsque le professeur dit qu'ils en ont besoin, sans quoi le risque est grand qu'ils jouent ou fassent autre chose
- Collaborate with colleagues and ask for student feedback
- Don't let students get out their iPads unless specifically instructed. They should not even be allowed to use them to "take notes".
- make clear to students when they are allowed to use the Ipad or not
- go to training sessions, ask a colleague to show you what works
- learn the tech, use the apps, see what works best for you as a teacher and for yoru capacity.
- Be clear about the use, be strict about the use, have a routine about the apps used
- 1) Use the technology; don't let it use you. Don't be intimidated by it. 2) Students are techno-savvy; empower them to take on leadership roles: assisting you and their fellow students. 3) Practice using the iPad with thIngs that you care about. Learn by making mistakes.
- My advice to a teacher would be to reflect on what the iPad can and cannot do to ensure that it is being used to make the lesson better. If it is, then it is certainly a way that will have success with students and they should develop their lessons using iPads. I would advise them to talk to the many teachers who use them to see what their experiences are. I would also advise them to ensure that the students should not have an open iPad as a matter of course in their classes, as this leads to the students being constantly distracted with their own messages, websites and so on. They will not be privately checking something on the Encyclopaedia Britannica online, I can guarantee that.
- Discipline rules from the beginning....
- Get to know the app because the students are used to using them. Don't use too many, find your favourite
- Always have a back up plan, in case IT fails
- Test
- Patience
- Start with showbie to share resources with your students
- Beware of abusive use
- make clear that student has the ipad to learn/study, not to play games
- establish good student discipline / self-discipline in the classroom
- No iPads on the desk unless they are being utilised for an exercise or research.
- Make sure the iPad serves your learning objectives and not the other way round.
- Control the use as tightly as possible - establish rules immediately and enforce them strictly!
- try it as soon as possible to get used to it
- find simple ways to introduce work unless you are personally very familiar with ipad.
- It takes a lot of trying and failing to get it right. Most of the time less is more.
- Use it when the students needs to be engaged differently
- IPad in class requires good management
- Train and learn by doing in implementing straight away on strategy at a time. Gain confidence with easier classes and build up.
- Embrace technology. Don't be afraid.
- Keep them in the backpack by default, then ask them to take it when needed.
- controlling how you allow your students is key to them working for you and not becoming a distraction.
- Choose 1-2 platforms and learn those well instead of trying to use all the ones that are on offer
- Keep trying things out!
- de choisir peu d'applications au début.
- the app store is your best friend
- Ask students to project their own work and display it to the class so that others can feedback on it.
- Play with the iPad until you get used to it before using in class.
- To keep with a few number of apps that you find the most useful for your teaching and not to loose time and energy in too many directions, too many apps that nor you nor the students will know very well.