Pedagogical use

of iPads

James Little | SDDU

Aims for today:• Why iPads?• Productivity / Study Skills• Research – finding, collating and sharing• Teaching• Creating Content• Turnitin• Collaboration• Evaluating our practice• Conclusion

Why iPads?

• Changes how, where and when

• Easy to use, reliable, instant

• Apps

• Connects us to wider world

• Tool for consumption, discovery, creation, communication and collaboration

Toolkit

CompassRulerGPSCalculatorCameraVideo cameraVideo playerKindleInternetEmailPhoto / video editorCalendarTask listReference bookReference managerGame console

Voice recorderRadioMP3 playerAtlasAddress bookNews standTelevisionNotebookClockPhoto albumFile storagePortable computerMind mapPen and paperCommunications tool

What are you hoping to achieve?

Discuss:

• What area of your teaching or students’ learning would you like to improve?

• Do you want to change your practice and /or that of your students?

Develop graduate

digital skills

Promote student

engagement

Assist collaborative

work

Improve student

communications

Make lectures

more interactive

Share resources

Innovate assessment

Change in time or place

What are you hoping to achieve?

Discuss:

• In pairs (where possible) film each other’s responses to the questions:

Develop graduate

digital skills

Promote student

engagement

Assist collaborative

work

Improve student

communications

Make lectures

more interactive

Share resources

Innovate assessment

Change in time or place

What are you hoping to achieve?

Productivity / Study Skills

Demo DropBox / GoodReaderWorkflows: Sharing and Reviewing

iAnnotate

Share

iBooks

Share

DropBox orGoogleDrive

DropBox orGoogleDrive

Demo DropBox / GoodReaderWorkflows: Sharing and Reviewing

iAnnotate

Research

Research

• Find and collect

– Searching

– Annotating

– Bespoke apps

– Data collection

Research

“iPads reduce the journey time to information”James Clay, ALTC 2012

Research

• News feeds / reading lists

– Example http://padlet.com/wall/c0x9s80867

Research

My iPad

News papers

Videos

Twitter feeds

Blogs

Podcasts

Images

Research

Teach

Teach

• One App / Can be web-based

• Can take existing PowerPoints / PDFs

Teach – NearPod

Teach

• Thought for the break:How could students make use of this?

Teach – NearPod

Break

Teach

• Thinking about all class activities

• Or set individual and small group tasks

Teach – Socrative

Teach

• Student and Teacher Apps and web-based:

• Demo

Teach – Socrative

Capture and Create

Capture and create

• Light, camera, action

• Recording notes

• Screencasting – multimedia presentations

Capture and Create

• Evernote – notetaking ++

• Skitch – annotate images, screenshots etc

• Explain Everything – whiteboard and screencasting with ability to import and annotate just about anything

• Annotate student work and record voice at same time

• Create teaching materials for students to review in own time

• Student presentation

• Students record group work processes

Capture and Create

Activities

Use Explain Everything to create an animation of what you have learned so far today. Include:

• Screenshots

• Video recorded earlier today

• A web search

• … your own ideas

Turnitin

Collaborate

Collaborate

• Great opportunity to collaborate as you will all have access to the same options

• Many collaboration apps and services have iPad-specific applications:

– Adobe Connect (writing whilst videoconferencing)

– Google Docs/Drive (writing)

– BaiBoardHD (whiteboard ideas-generating)

Collaborate

BaiBoardHDBaiBoardHD

Collaborate Activities

• How would you go about evaluating the use of apps, or issues to identify, when using for teaching, research or administrative activities?

• What potential and idea do you have in using the iPad for your and student's work?

Moving forward…

Collaborate Activities

Join the BaiBoardHD session and think about your planned use of iPads.

1. How do you think you might use iPad in your teaching?

2. What would you like to evaluate? How might you do it?

Activity

Collaborate Activities

• Lots of possibilities. Can be overwhelming.

• Focus on what you want to achieve. Then find apps / use.

• iPad seems to encourage interaction rather than passive situations.

• Can enhance or transform activity

• Some apps are counterparts/companions to web-based services.

• A great opportunity for staff and students.

Conclusion