I've have been increasing the amount of time I have the students on the iPads this week. After the warmup, I send the students to a website to do something such as read or do practice problems. They are much quieter than when I try to officially teach a lesson and they are more focused. I feel they get even more work done. I also show a video or two during the week instead of lecturing and they seem to pay more attention to the video than a lecture. I still assign the study notes worksheet so they read the section but I first assign four reading for meaning statements so they preread the section. I do not actually assign the study notes until mid week when they have had a chance to build a foundation.
The correction is that at cool math, not all lessons show up on the iPad, only some of them. It turns out the lesson on the sieve of Eratosthenes works on coolmath.com but the one on algebraic fractions does not. So I need to check ahead of time.
The announcement is I published a short e-book on Amazon titled "Teaching math using the iPad". It has general suggestions or types of programs, specific recommendations for how to use those apps and recommendations or suggestions for apps themselves. I give reasons for many of the recommendations.
I will be choosing one day to offer it for free in the very near future. I will post the date here so you all may take advantage of it being free as a thank you for reading my blog.
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