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iPad Use in the Elementary Schools: An Overview

Agenda • Overview of iPad use • Scheduling • Usage • Apps and classroom uses

iPads at Bear Tavern • Staff and students are using them for a variety of educational pursuits. • Our general education and special education populations are benefitting from the different apps and functionality of the iPad. • Research that used to require a trip to the lab or booting up 23 laptops is now conducted with the taps of buttons and swipes of fingers

iPads at Bear Tavern • The variety of apps allows all grade levels to utilize the tool. (Mr. Friedrich) • Our technology teacher Mrs. Perez utilizes a wonderful system for utilization of the iPads, the laptops, the lab, and her expertise. • She uses our First Class system to house calendars for each type of technology that can be signed out.

BT Technology Calendars

BT October iPad Calendar

BT November iPad Calendar

iPads at Bear Tavern • While our teachers are at different levels of expertise with the iPads. They are committed to making use of the technology at their disposal to promote student learning and increase student achievement.

iPads at Hopewell Elementary Fall 2012

Preschool Camera: Numbers and colors scavenger hunt

Kindergarten Little Matchups ABC - problem solving Sight Words: hear, write and record words and matching with playback

1st Grade Sentence Builder: create grammatically correct sentences

2nd Grade Splash Math: place value and number patterns

3rd Grade Spelling City: differentiated spelling and Unblock Me: build visual and spatial skills vocabulary words

4th Grade Socrative: smart student response system Accuweather: weather, precipitation, barometric pressure

5th Grade Merriam Webster: voice search to look up unknown words