I spoke to the school board president this morning about math and the students and ways to help the students who are not college bound prepare for life after school. Since I am piloting the iPad program for our school, I told the president that it is a process of my learning how to use the iPad effectively during instruction while helping the kids learn to use it as a tool so that when they leave school, they can work in a technologically heavy world. He understands that to really integrate the iPads it will take more than one year because I am learning as I go.
Tomorrow I"ll show him some apps on my iPad for both elementary and high school so he has an idea of what can be accomplished especially with free apps for the iPads and mini iPads. The elementary school will be getting mini iPads and I will be overseeing that program.
I think for the younger elementary I'll be recommending Doodle Buddy for math and reading, the math app from SAS which has a variety of units that are great for K to about 3. I think the Doodle Buddy will be good for students learning letters, numbers, writing words, and sentences.
For the high school, I found a test making site with fewer bells and whistles to use on the ipads. I can design my own questions, decide the type (multiple choice, fill in the blank, true or false) and then get information on how the students did. I am trying a short 10 question true or false quiz for my 9th grade Algebra class as a way to see what they already know about scientific notation. Once done, they will go to a website to read up on the topic and take another short quiz that will give them instant feedback. I am going to try a fill in the blank exercise from the book with the questions spread around the room (perhaps done with QR codes) and they have to find the answer in the book.
I'll let everyone know how that goes.
The reason for the last activity is that my students do not want to read and they need to learn to read for comprehension.
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