Apple PD

Strategy

• List of lessons based on different pedagogies adopted by schools

Sample Lesson

• Outcomes
  • To have buy in on the reasons for adopting one to one mobile learning
  • To adopt a stand and be an active advocate for it (for or against it)
  • To grow a community of like minded people for support
  • To convince people not just based on personal experience or reason, but backed with good research and authoritative support
• Actions
  • Understanding the
    • Global and Singapore's need for technology adoption, education
    • Knowing one's stand on the scheme of things
    • Why apple and the ipad (Mobile Device)
    • Priorities when doing curriculum and lesson planning
    • Is it fair for us to teach according to our jobscope and job demands in our comfort zones, or to take up the accountability and responsibility of preparing our children for life in the 21st century?
  • Conducting Research
    • Approach NIE for assistance
    • Record Videos of students interview on their view on technology
• Outline
  • 21st century education from different perspectives
  • Singapore's stand in the world: Gap minder
  • The knowledge economy

Observation on Randy

• Introduction:
  • Pedagogy: Engaged learning by Assigning Roles for every member (giving colored stickers with expert status)
    • Sense of purpose and importance:Defining specialists, experts. (ensure no one does everything)
    • Every classroom management technique is done purposefully
  • Inquiry Based learning Activity
    • Orange people given task to hold lighted candle, and members discuss which is the hottest part of the flame and give reasons.
      • Driver, artistic, working out,
    • Commitment by making video: People are to make hypothesis and commit to their answers (part of science process for commitment to whatever they say.)
    • --> Stop to check understanding: Why are you recording statement before collecting data?
    • Yellow people to draw picture of how they are going to test the hypothesis
    • To realise not all answers are found on the internet --> Drivers to check answers on internet
    • Improving experimental design
    • Concept of Control and Is order important (which part of flame should we test first?)
    • Identify variables: New observations: Flickering flame, wind, relativive humidity:
• Ideas infused ad-hoc
  • Examples of Poor Teaching and learning situations: If everyone is given a role, then everyone is engaged
  • Misconceptions of Science
  • Making commitments to guesses to answers (commit to finding out their answers rather than to accept facts, which may lead to misunderstanding)
  • Continued efforts to improve experimental design

Day 2

• 4 Goals:
  • Be active, critical and responsible citizens in the digital age
  • Have purposful access to digital tools to enhance learning
  • to be more self-directed in learning, discoering and nurturing their talents in the process
  • participate in and build inclusive digital communities within and beyond the school
• Tools became infused in learning.

Apple Best Practices

• Use of photobooth to record video presentation with graph as background
• Use of tools
  • Earth Browser - Raw Data from scientists

Articles

• Educators evaluate Learning Benefits of iPad (Article) - edweek.org article
• Adapting Apple's Best Practices to Small Businesses (Article)
• Best Practices from the Classroom (Resources) - Tech & Learning Site

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