Tips, lesson materials, stories, and other resources to help you get the most out of your Apple products and bring fresh ideas to your classroom.
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Saskatchewan Rivers School Division, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Indigenous peoples of Saskatchewan have rich traditions of oral and visual storytelling, and community involvement. However, when First Nations and Métis children came to school, existing assessment practices were often culturally biased and unable to identify their individual strengths, leading to inaccurate assessment results.
Rooted in Indigenous learning models, the Help Me Tell My Story assessment app for iPad provides a new way to measure early learning success. Students bond with Askî, the friendly turtle puppet, who guides them through an informal assessment survey with his touch sensitive nose on the Multi-Touch screen, and then encourages them to tell a story, recording their voice using the built-in microphone on the iPad.
Assessment data is collected from the child, teacher, Elder, and caregiver. The results are then linked to customized learning ideas that support academic development and influence lesson planning at school and activities at home and in the community.
This assessment is different from others because children like doing it. Askî combined with the iPad helps the students feel comfortable. It becomes a powerful communication tool that gives them a voice with value during and after the assessment.
Saskatchewan Rivers School Division, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Click on a menu item in the top navigation bar to reveal dropdown menu options. To the right of each option, you’ll find the keyboard shortcut for that option. Open, close, and save documents with just a quick keystroke.
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Watch Sophie Post use iPad to create custom learning materials that help her students interact with the Tudor family tree.
Seán Ó Grádaigh is helping his student teachers create digital curricula in their native Gaelic language.
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Taking a field trip somewhere new? Share your location in Maps. Tap a location address, then tap the Share button to send your whereabouts to colleagues and students via Messages or Mail.
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Watch design and innovation student Timm Nørgaard use apps on iPad at VUC Syd to express his learning visually.
Create resources for language lessons using international keyboards. Choose Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Add New Keyboard. Next choose the language you wish to add. When you are ready to type, simply touch and hold the Globe button and choose the new keyboard.
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Watch Jodie Deinhammer help her science students interact with the functions and anatomy of the human heart.
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Kansai University High School, Osaka, Japan.
iPad Air 2
Stop Motion Studio
Green Screen by Do Ink
The students in Yumiko Miyamoto’s biology class were memorizing facts to pass tests, but they weren’t truly understanding concepts. Using iPad, she makes abstract ideas relatable and exciting.
Students work together to illustrate the story of protein biosynthesis by creating step-by-step animations with the Stop Motion Studio app and the built-in camera on iPad. They move past memorizing terms from the textbook to exploring this fundamental biological process with a powerful hands-on exercise.
Students continue their studies using iMovie and the Green Screen app to explore climates, biomes, and ecosystems around the world. With iPad in their hands, they see themselves reporting on location and are inspired to dive deeper into the details to ensure that their film is accurate and authentic.
Biology lessons are so much fun. I’m engaged, my brain is bursting with ideas.
Kansai University High School, Osaka, Japan.
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Swipe up from the bottom of the screen and tap AirDrop. Then choose Contacts Only or Everyone to allow files to be sent to you by people you recognize or all people in range.
Watch Larry Reiff use iPad to help his students engage with Shakespeare’s play.
Watch Rhiannon Sparkes and iPad help students use film, music, and pictures to demonstrate their understanding of different settings in The Secret Garden.
Valencia Park Elementary, California, USA.
iPad Air 2
Sock Puppets Complete
Keynote
FaceTime
At Valencia Park Elementary, 62 percent of students are learning English as a second language. Using iPad, teachers are able to personalize lessons no matter where students are on their language development journeys.
Using the Sock Puppets Complete app and the built-in microphone on iPad, students bring virtual sock puppets to life by recording themselves reading aloud. It’s a fun way for them to see and hear their progress with pronunciation, speed, and accuracy.
As their literacy skills develop, students use iPad and apps to demonstrate their progress. They write original stories and film themselves with iMovie, practice speaking English and presentation skills with Keynote, and read aloud with book buddies in different schools using FaceTime.
The class collaborates on engaging projects that encourage reading, writing, and speaking. Literacy and fluency scores have vastly improved and attendance has skyrocketed.
Valencia Park Elementary, California, USA.
de Ferrers Academy, Staffordshire, UK.
iPad Air 2
bismarck bs-spectrum
Numbers
Pages
In Greg Hughes’s Physics class, many students needed a more tactile and visual way to experience the science of sound. Using iPad, they can see and measure the frequency and amplitude of vibrations, which helps them to develop a deeper understanding.
Students fill glasses with different amounts of water and run their fingers around the edges to generate vibrations and sound. Using the built-in microphone on iPad and the bismark bs-spectrum app, they measure the variance in sound waves and analyze how water levels affect pitch.
Students enter their collected data in Numbers to explore the results with charts and graphs. Then they create lab reports on their findings in Pages to show their grasp of key physics concepts.
Before iPad, there was no way to capture any actual measurements or data unless you spent several hundred pounds on a single set of data-logging equipment. With a low-cost sound app, Pages, Numbers, and the iPad camera, students can quickly collect their own data for a range of variables.
de Ferrers Academy, Staffordshire, UK.
To record in more detail, go to Settings Photos & Camera, then tap Record Video and select 1080p HD at 30 fps.
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Double-click the Home button and swipe left or right to select the app you want to use.
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Watch Rhiannon Sparkes’s student use iPad and his love of the Minecraft app to show what he’s learned in a whole new way.
When you receive Excel files from colleagues or students just right click on the file and select Open With, then choose Numbers from the application list to open it on your Mac.
A list of educational apps that help students report on just about any topic.
Open Contacts and tap your name. Then tap Edit, scroll down, and tap Add Address to enter your school’s details.
Watch Jodie Deinhammer explain how her science class was inspired to create their own lessons in iTunes U to help teach younger students all over the world.
Siri now works hands-free, so you can make requests without having to press the Home button. Simply go to Settings General Siri and turn on “Hey Siri.” Tap Set Up Now and repeat the phrases so Siri can recognize your voice.
Need Siri to understand and dictate words with a local accent? Change its voice by going to Settings General Siri. Then select Siri Voice and choose the accent and gender you want Siri to speak with.