Goal 3 - Courses that Focus on Accessibility, Personalization, and Student Engagement
Courses Targeting Accessibility, Personalization, and Student Engagement
Help Students Customize the iPad
10 Minute Tryouts (Asynchronous and Face to Face)
Help Students Personalize their iPad
Accessibility for All - Accessibility Features Built into iPad
Personalized Learning (Course 1) - Reflection/Goal Setting and Targeted Instruction
Personalized Learning (Course 2) - Collaboration/Creativity and Flexible Path and Pace
Help Students Customize Their iPad
A course dedicated to educating teachers about how accessibility features can be used to make the iPad easier for students to use and thus a better tool for learning.
Assignment topics:
10-Minute Tryouts
The idea behind this course is to give teachers several new ideas to engage students by having them create short projects in just a few minutes.
All tutorials and course assignments can be found on the home page.
Individual assignments:
Help Students Personalize their iPad
Basically the same course as "Help Students Customize the iPad," this course walks teachers through ways to help students personalize their device so they can quickly get past learning how to use the iPad and instead, used the iPad for learning.
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?"
Accessibility for All - Accessibility Features Built into iPad
Another accessibility features class.
Course assignments are the same as above.
Personalized Learning (Course 1) - Reflection/Goal Setting and Targeted Instruction
This course was part of a monthly learning series on personalized learning. Each of the two courses was offered every other month beginning in January 2023 and continued through June.
In this course, we focused on how reflecting, goal-setting, and targeted instruction can help students take ownership of their learning.
Video resources from the course:
PDF Resources for the Course
Personalized Learning (Course 2) - Collaboration/Creativity and Flexible Path and Pace
This course ran every other month opposite to Course 1.
In this asynchronous course, we focused on how collaboration, creativity, and a flexible path and pace can help students take ownership of their learning.
Video resources from the course:
PDF Resources for the Course