Enhancing Educational Opportunities with iPads
iPads can be the keystone in a shift to a digital, student-centric classroom. The opportunities presented with the introduction of iPads into the classroom, allow a deeper learning environment. Students are able to direct their own learning, and teachers are able to encourage transformative thoughts and greater cognitive development. The following resources layout a plan and research to address how teachers can use the iPads in the classroom for teaching and management to increase the educational opportunities for their students and themselves.
Years of research has been done, looking into how introduction of iPads affect the learning environment. Read a review of the literature about the implementation and benefits of iPads in the classroom. Read about the research that has been done about iPads enhancing the learning opportunities of students, increasing effectiveness of teacher time and allowing accessibility to all learners.
The following implementation timeline shows the steps to implement a successful support structure for educators. This support is essential in gaining benefits that an iPad will bring to the classroom, which ultimately will bring success to the classroom. This timeline is an adaptable plan based on data and research.
The best plans are flexible and living. As more research and innovative practices are found, the plan will develop. This section is how the plan will harness additional resources and leverage them to increase iPad integration.
"Collaborate, Learn, Change” is a look at the current need for change to how education is done. Collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking are skills employers are looking for in new hires. A call to action is made for students to stop being passive consumers, but producers and developers of their own learning. Showing in video and images students experiencing this type of learning on the iPad. The short-film calls educators to join in this transformation, to collaborate, to learn, to change.
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