Lyn Lall - RSC East Midlands ILT advisor

Can tablets transform teaching learning and assessment?

Session overview

Opportunity to explore effective

use of technology to support

teaching, learning and assessment

Signpost to apps for particular activities and

show examples

Discuss how apps can be used to

enhance teaching and learning

Opportunities to share

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CIF Inspectors’ Handbook

Inspectors will look for

Effectiveness of learning outside

the classroom through

technology

Effective use of resources including

technology

Effective use of technology in

assessment

It’s not about the technology

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So which device to choose ?

Android

Apple Microsoft

Who will decide ?

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What are staff and students doing with a tablet ?

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What are staff and students doing with a tablet ?

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What are staff and students doing with a tablet ?

General use

E-mail Internet Evernote Dropbox accessibility Meeting notesReduce

printing costs

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What are staff and students doing with a tablet ?

Camera and Mic

videoconferencing skype facetimerecording

evidence and notes

creating resources

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What are staff and students doing with a tablet ?

Teaching and Learning

Resources

Flipped Learning

VLE

Youtube

Video

special apps

Desktop apps becoming mobile

apps and web apps

Collaboration

Teamworkconferencing with experts

Assessment

recording evidence

peer feedbackremote

assessors

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What are staff and students doing with a tablet ?

Lifestyle

Fitness Diet Hobbies Cooking Photography etc etc

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What are staff and students doing with a tablet ?

If you can think of it, there’s probably an app for it

Collaboration

Assessment

Creating resources

Using images, audio, video

Learner feedback

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Typical activities to engage learners

Collaboration tools

Google Drive

Dropbox

TitanPad

Onedrive

Padlet

Voicethread

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Padlet 16

Share any top tools you are using to engage your learners

Padlet http://tinyurl.com/emfectablet

or

scan this QR code

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Creating/editing tools

Educreations Skitch ShowmeExplain

Everything

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Activity

Skitch – take an image and annotate it e.g capture a health and safety issue and explain it

• Or

Use Educreations to take an image, annotate it and narrate over it, or e.g explain how to add fractions

• Or

Explain Everything

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Which assessment tools are you using and how?

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http://titanpad.com/assesstools

Polling tools

Mentimeter

Polleverywhere

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• Simple

• Anonymous (paid for version has tracking)

• Unlimited no. of questions

• Spontaneous or planned

Features

Mentimeter

Mentimeter

https://www.mentimeter.com

Vote at www.govote.at

and enter 62 04 66 to vote

or

Scan this QR code

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What is your favourite app and why?

Polleverywhere

http://www.polleverywhere.com/

• Anonymous

• Can add images

• M/C or free text responses

• Respond at PollEv.com/leic

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Assessment tools

Socrative

Nearpod

Infuselearning

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Socrative

Web address http://www.socrative.com/quizzes

• Spontaneous questions e.g via PowerPoint

• Quizzes

• MC, T/F, short answer

• Games option

• Tracking

• Exit ticket

Socrative

Student login http://m.socrative.com/student

Or via Student app

Room number to join trivia quiz: 23312

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If you want to adapt an existing Powerpoint make sure you save it as a pdf

Create presentation e.g. on PC/laptop or ipad

Add video, images, weblinks, questions

Finish with a non interactive slide

Publish

Share

Download nearpod app to your iPad and launch Students download Nearpod app and enter pin number

Nearpod

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Portfolio tools

Pinterest

Wordpress

Evernote

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Next steps

Resources and links to further resources on

RSC East Midlands Moodle

Evaluation

http://tinyurl.com/emfecjune or

Scan QR code

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Infuse learninghttp://www.infuselearning.com/

• Only works in Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari browsers

(not Internet Explorer)

• Push questions, weblinks, quizzes to students

• Answer in a variety of formats

•MC/True/False/free text/draw

• Accessibility options

»Multiple languages translation

»Audio narration of questions

• Can create and manage classes

Infuse learning

http://teacher.infuselearning.com/

http://student.infuselearning.com

room ID: 38602

Infuse learningChoose pen colour

Choose pen style

Add a picture

Download a picture

Teacher asks a question

Infuse learning

1. Draw a quadrilateral with 2 pairs of parallel sides

2. Draw a right angled triangle and label the hypotenuse

3. Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

4. The square root of 625 is 25 (True or false)?

5. Place these words in the order they would appear in a dictionary

A. Element

B. Sausage

C. Aardvark

D. Earwig

E. Fish