I’m so excited that the Learning Initiatives team has agreed to let me borrow 10 iPads for this week, as well as for a few weeks in February! The Learning Initiatives team is a group of enthusiastic teachers/ mentors who support professional development and collaboration within the Greater Victoria School District. I have been working with them on the provincial initiative, Changing Results 4 Young Readers, for almost three years now. I am a proponent of using technology in the classroom when, and if, it is purposeful, meaningful and enhances student thinking and engagement. This week I used the iPads as a way of documenting learning in our Geometry unit. We used the free app, Skitch, to snap pictures and label components. To introduce the students to the app, I snapped the picture above during centre time then demonstrated the app features with the whole group. The kids brainstormed what they saw occurring in the picture and I added arrows and words. I demonstrated how to change colour, increase text size and move elements around.
Next it was time for the kids to try it out with a partner. Some students built towers using geometric solids, took a picture, then labeled the picture with the names of the shapes. Other students sorted the shapes into groups and labeled their sorting rule. Check out the results here. Comments are closed.
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August 2019
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