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Madison County Schools
Lended Learning
Learning with iPads
How do we harness motivation and engagement of our digital students? By blending the learning from the traditional setting to using anywhere/anytime devices. Ipads, cell phones, and other mobile devices are the ideal tools for the digital learners sitting in our traditional classrooms. Mobile devices that can be used for communication, notetaking, e-reading, web browsing, email, and construction of products that allow for their interpretation of their learning, this is what the digital nation sitting in our traditional classrooms need.
Basic iPad Information
iPad Tips and Tricks
Classroom Survival for iPads?
Teachers have two choices when it comes to iPads in the classroom, Run with it embracing the adventure, or forget that innovation is in your grasp and do the same old-school instruction that has taken place year after year. If you choose the latter choice, you will become a dinosaur and the word extinct comes to mind.
A digital shift is taking place in our world today, teachers are no longer the keepers of knowledge, their new role during instruction is the facilitators of learning. Mobile learning is kicking this move into high gear, students now possess a connection with more capablity of knowledge in their pockets then that of the first personal computers that were purchased.
Learn to celebrate the culture shift, mobile devices have brought to the realm of education. The iPad allows for instruction to focus on creativity, collaboration, compelling ways to engagement the digital learner sitting in each and every classroom.