Sunday, March 22, 2015

How will I use I-Pads in my teaching?


How will I use I-Pads in my teaching?  I am a work in progress!  I feel as though I am still at a very primitive stage in my technology skills and integration of technology in my teaching.  Thus far, I have used the i-pad to take pictures of students in programs and on field trips to share with parents in weekly communications.  In fact, the technology has already changed the way that I teach not by implementing the I-pads (yet) but by forcing me to better organize my thinking.  I have used ExplainEverything to make an appeal for greater funding for tech in our school. I have used Popplet to create a web of ideas and to find the connections, and to differentiate between the big ideas and the examples.  I can also imagine that it could be a tool for curriculum mapping or even for making family trees. Doodle is fun way for students learning the aleph-bet to practice writing.  I have also noticed that by using apps, I am learning to better use the Internet.   Becoming familiar with the I-pad, has also given me the courage to use Internet sites that I knew about but had not used such as making source sheets on Sepharia.org (my students were very impressed!) rather than cutting and pasting from Mellel.  I have been thinking about the interface between the Torah and Technology: Becoming a Digital Mensch.  I have researched and collected materials, brainstormed ideas, talked to people and created both a Popplet and an ExplainEverything on this subject.  Is it meant to be a lesson, a course, a curriculum?  And in our final session, exploring the Animator app, it occurred to me, that students could use Animator to demonstrate some of the texts in the Digital Mensch lesson such as teachings from Pirkei Avot, "If I am not for myself, who will be for me?" or "Your friend's property should be as precious to you as your own." Indeed, I am a work in progress!

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