The article, “Virginia using iPads to teach Social Studies” by Meris Stansbury was very interesting. The article detailed Virginia’s Board of Education idea to try using digital textbooks, iPads, to teach social studies curriculum to fourth, seventh and ninth grade students in selected districts. The publishing firm, Pearson, has geared its curriculum to Virginia state standards. “The iPad program includes three components: An app with interactive learning games that introduce concepts to students through puzzles and fast-action challenges; eText on an iPad, where students access the social studies curriculum and create their won individualized texts; and a personalized assessment with remediation app for students to review and self-test.” (Stansbury p.3) The program will look at how effective this method of teaching is in terms of student engagement and how “…the use of digital textbooks affects teaching and learning.” (Stansbury p.2)
I think this program sounds very exciting. I was very impressed with the examples on Pearson’s website. They had examples of interactive games that focused identifying people in history and vocabulary. There was also a vocabulary part in the assessment section. In this section students could have vocabulary read to them, look at bulleted outlines of text and take a multiple choice test review to test knowledge. I would like to investigate the program further and see what we could bring from it into my school. Our school has a social studies theme each year that we incorporate into our units at each grade level. We then have a family night in March to display our projects to parents. I think we could really build on what we have already been doing using digital texts. I was curious when I read the article about their mention of students creating “multimedia projects on their iPads using content from the digital library…” (Stansbury p. 2) I would be interested in learning about some specific examples of what is created and how those projects were carried out in the classroom. I am looking forward to discovering more about this program.
I read the many articles on incorporating iPads into the classroom. It sound like the book publisher Pearson has created an iPad version of the same support they offer with text. This incombination with the number of other apps availble and pointed out in the Hudsonville presentations sounds like a great plan. One on One computing really sounds like the future. It will be interesting over the next few years how the availability and viability of the products really effect teaching and learning. The fact that some of this work and analysis is being done not just in Virginia, but also right in our backyard is interesting.
Insightful, as we know that 20 iPad look a likes are already on their way to market. Instead of coming up with an app for each, they could develop a mobile web site that all devices could access.
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The article, “Virginia using iPads to teach Social Studies” by Meris Stansbury was very interesting. The article detailed Virginia’s Board of Education idea to try using digital textbooks, iPads, to teach social studies curriculum to fourth, seventh and ninth grade students in selected districts. The publishing firm, Pearson, has geared its curriculum to Virginia state standards. “The iPad program includes three components: An app with interactive learning games that introduce concepts to students through puzzles and fast-action challenges; eText on an iPad, where students access the social studies curriculum and create their won individualized texts; and a personalized assessment with remediation app for students to review and self-test.” (Stansbury p.3) The program will look at how effective this method of teaching is in terms of student engagement and how “…the use of digital textbooks affects teaching and learning.” (Stansbury p.2)
I think this program sounds very exciting. I was very impressed with the examples on Pearson’s website. They had examples of interactive games that focused identifying people in history and vocabulary. There was also a vocabulary part in the assessment section. In this section students could have vocabulary read to them, look at bulleted outlines of text and take a multiple choice test review to test knowledge. I would like to investigate the program further and see what we could bring from it into my school. Our school has a social studies theme each year that we incorporate into our units at each grade level. We then have a family night in March to display our projects to parents. I think we could really build on what we have already been doing using digital texts. I was curious when I read the article about their mention of students creating “multimedia projects on their iPads using content from the digital library…” (Stansbury p. 2) I would be interested in learning about some specific examples of what is created and how those projects were carried out in the classroom. I am looking forward to discovering more about this program.
I read the many articles on incorporating iPads into the classroom. It sound like the book publisher Pearson has created an iPad version of the same support they offer with text. This incombination with the number of other apps availble and pointed out in the Hudsonville presentations sounds like a great plan. One on One computing really sounds like the future. It will be interesting over the next few years how the availability and viability of the products really effect teaching and learning. The fact that some of this work and analysis is being done not just in Virginia, but also right in our backyard is interesting.
Insightful, as we know that 20 iPad look a likes are already on their way to market. Instead of coming up with an app for each, they could develop a mobile web site that all devices could access.
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