Goal 3 - Courses that Focus on Accessibility, Personalization, and Student Engagement
Courses Targeting Accessibility, Personalization, and Student Engagement
Personalize Your iPad
60 Creative Tasks
Accessibility Features
10 Minute Tryouts
Personalize Your iPad
Online Discussion Prompt - "Why will the options that you chose for Assistive Touch make your iPad easier to navigate and how this could be used for students in your classes?"
Online Discussion Prompts -
What changes did you make to the Accessibility Settings?
How can we change the Accessibility settings to help students with and without learning disabilities?
Online Discussion Prompt - "Briefly discuss when this could be useful in your classroom. Are some students more likely to benefit from this more than others?"
60 Creative Tasks
Online Discussion Prompt - "Describe the creative task that you chose and how it would work in your class."
Accessibility Features (iPad and Chromebook)
10 Minute Tryouts
Personalize Your iPad - 51 Total Participants
July, 2022 (Asynchronous) - 31 Attendees
July 13, 2022 - 20 Attendees
December 10, 2021 - 32 Attendees
60 Creative Tasks - 17 Total Participants
October 22, 2021 - 17 Attendees
Accessibility Features - 32 Total Participants
October 22, 2021 - 6 Attendees
December 10, 2021 - 26 Attendees
10 Minute Tryouts - 55 Total Participants
December 10, 2021 (Asynchronous) - 17 Attendees
December 10, 2021 (Face-to-Face) - 13 Attendees
March 18, 2022 - 25 Attendees
CORE Participant Survey Results
Grant Goal Three - Improve student achievement, engagement, and long-term success as a result of personalized learning experiences enhanced by educational technology.
Question Three - How will students benefit from what we learn at CORE?
Going forward, I am going to put more project-based learning and assessments in place in my class. Students are more willing to work and show what they know if they enjoy what they are creating.
Heightened engagement via being able to personalize how they experience course content.
Through what I’ve learned in CORE students are given the opportunity to use the various formats to create, produce, be assessed and collaborate more.
Students will be able to create their own projects that meet the needs of the lesson. They can use whatever app or not use apps, to complete their lessons. Hopefully, by setting the students free, they will take a more active role in their learning!!
There are different ways that will help students participate in a lesson that I never knew before. Also students will be able to demonstrate their learning in different ways that I did not know before taking part in CORE.
Kids LOVE technology. The more we can channel that love to create a learning environment that gets them excited for the context, the more growth we will see in our students (and our teaching!). Students will benefit from CORE because of the new avenues we are now prepared to travel together to create lessons that will fully engage their learning.
I have already used many of the ideas that I have learned throughout the course with my students. We have made Pages projects, Keynote projects, iMovies, and more.
Students will feel comfortable using technology now that their teachers will be using it the classroom. These are lifelong skills that all people need to have now.
Students will benefit from what we learn at CORE through the integration of technology into daily instruction. I have learned multiple new apps as well as how to incorporate these app to enhance daily lessons. This will allow me to foster increased student participation and learning through technology.
Now I can bring more technology into the classroom in a more meaningful way instead of just as way to “mix up” the usual lessons.
Things that we’ve learned at CORE will be a benefit to students in a multitude of ways. The biggest way that I feel like they’ll benefit it just by having so many different options and way to personalize their learning. If there is more than one way to do something, the iPad will more than likely have the options. It will allow students to totally take control of their learning and engage in ways that are maybe more meaningful to them.
Definitely engagement and ownership of learning.
Being able to create, synthesize, analyze, collaborate and demonstrate knowledge in interesting ways will help students stay engaged, think deeper, and therefore improve student achievement.
Learning about the different apps that kids can use has been really helpful. I learned ideas for studying, reviewing, and creating. Teaching kids with disabilities requires them to have many exposures to the same material in order to really learn it and then apply it. Having these apps at our fingertips to help with that will benefit our students, enabling them to learn the content in different ways.
Students will be able to move from passive learning in many classrooms to modified or re-defined learning outcomes by using the iPad apps. Students will be more actively engaged through the process of creating products about learned content.
Hopefully with more engaging lessons from here on out also provide more choice in what they produce. This has been a hard thing to plan and implement without the help of technology as it is time-consuming.
Since I am more knowledgeable with the different applications on the iPad i can create more engaging content and projects that my students can complete. I will also be able to assist them with their technology needs.
I intend on enhancing my current curriculum to include projects that can be completed using different iPad apps. This training has increased my confidence so that I am ABLE to explore options further and find ideas that best fit my students’ needs.
Students benefit from personalized learning opportunities and practice within 21st-century learning skills that are essential. Being able to incorporate creativity and expression into everyday learning will contribute to student engagement and success.
As kindergartners, they are inquisitive but not always able to write. This allows them to communicate learning by using talk-to-text in something like Keynote to share knowledge.
This generation of students are born into tech and have various skill sets and interests that tech integration can enhance. It allows them to feel like they aren’t “working” or “learning” but actually are and can demonstrate what they have learned in a way that may not easily translate on pencil and paper tests.
Technology has always been fascinating to students. Now students have the benefit to use technology to make projects come to life, add examples, speak without using text, and show without just drawing. Students can also share their work with teachers, peers, family, and the world as well. So students would want to try harder since it will not just be the teacher seeing their work.
I have been using my classes as guinea pigs to try a lot of these tools and project ideas. Keeping them engaged and building rather than consuming has been fun and I look forward to more of that in the future.
I’m excited to be able to implement some of these ideas. Usually, with so much curriculum crammed into one school year, I don’t have time for projects. Now, I have some ideas of what I can have students create that will engage them in the content along with developing an end product that will actually benefit that whole class. They will learn content to create tools that others can use to learn.
A universal goal that we have as educators is to prepare students for the world outside of our school walls. It is an ever-changing one that centers upon the advancement of technology and its use to solve problems and express oneself. By empowering our students and giving them ample opportunity to grow with the times, I’m confident that they’ll be ready to make their mark on the world.
The experiences learned from using the Apple Suite of apps is amazing. Having my kiddos walking around talking about what they did in their Keynotes was so impressive to me. I had other teachers asking me what they were doing, and I had the kids tell them what they had done and created. It was great!
Increased engagement and student choice. More in-depth and real-world ways to show content applied and or published. More individualized, project based and creative products.