This document discusses using iPads to improve student writing. It recommends installing free apps like KidBlog and AudioBoo to allow students to blog and record audio. It encourages teachers to have students openly share their work and expand how students demonstrate their knowledge through interactive writing projects, narrated art, and digital storytelling. The document advocates empowering students to discover their voice and the power of their words.
8. <1> Inspire
you to CREATE with your students
<2> Equip
you to start using interactive writing!
& narrated art projects with students
<3> Persuade
you to OPENLY SHARE student work
19. I know from watching and listening all over the country in schools
and in workshops, however, that many educators have become less
creative, more timid and unimaginative, and have indeed lost pride in
their work in the face of how heavy-handed the states have been in
promulgating this retro and harmful “accountability”. Why is not the
state responsible for ensuring that the incentives are right and the
resources are available to do the work well? States should have to be
accountable for how local leaders interpre their mandates. But states
wash their hands of the problem of change; they merely issue
mandates. So, teachers become brow-beaten by scores, encouraged
to do test prep, and in general, down the authority line, to teach
worse rather than better – somehow in the name of “standards.”
http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/standards-yes-current-implementation-no-how-we-have-re-invented-soviet-era-wheat-quotas/
20. too many people today believe
in the power of
TECHNOLOGY & TESTING
rather than the power of
WORDS & PASSIONATE
PEOPLE
www.flickr.com/photos/jemimus/4824411391
21. “If you just
buy this...”
“your test!
scores will!
look like this:”
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f8pXcUqZgA8/TG7TCB1j4cI/AAAAAAAAAos/nIbsPJ_g2ys/s1600/iwanttobelieveel4.jpg
46. Create ENHANCED eBooks on iOS
(record your voice)
Book Creator for iPad
www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/
Creative Book Builder
http://getcreativebookbuilder.blogspot.com
http://wfryer.com/ebooks