iPadagogy

=iPadagogy=

Dr Kay Carroll of the AIS NSW shared her thoughts about student centred learning activities using the iPad.


 * Thinking about using iPads helps to concentrate some of the richer ways in which we teach students and what and how they need to learn.
 * Primary school aged children can create all manner of wonderful things, teach their peers and sometimes even the older people around them.
 * iPads provide opportunity for creativity. Being creative means there are many teachable moments around other concepts we want our students to understand, such as ethics and privacy issues... "I'm making a blog post/wiki on my iPad, is it ok to publish photos of my friends on my webpage?
 * //Inquiry Learning// is driving learning according to current research.
 * Hattie's recent book on visible learning mentions the enquiry approach....I think, I look, I wonder.... (model of enquiry learning).
 * Because iPads allow students to be so connected, so creative and so ON we have a wonderful new opportunity for students to be creative. Creativity is an important commodity in preparing students for the future.
 * Problem based learning enables students to engage in divergent thinking. See article from Adelaide University
 * [|Leap into Problem-Based Learning article] from the Centre for Learning and Professional Learning from the University of Adelaide.
 * Recent [|2011 Horizon Report]provides information around emerging technologies. The recent edition talks a lot about how mobile devices such as iPad are going to impact on the ways students learn, create and connect.
 * [[image:Kay_carroll_tag_cloud.jpg width="383" height="351"]] || [[image:model_of_learning.jpg width="480" height="406"]] ||

Student Created Web Pages
Annetastic Cooking is an example of a wiki created by an eight year old to share her recipes.

What is a City Activity
Participants were asked to wander outside with their IPads and come back with some representation on their iPads of "what is a City?" Some people discussed the Apps that might apply to this activity such as .....GPark which gives you a map back to your car. One group used Evernote (you could also use Sound Note) to record a voice sketch of the city. Others made visual representations of the city .....

Sundry Notes App || A poster made with the cartoon strip making App Pow ||
 * [[image:what-makes-a-city-1.jpg width="320" height="431"]] || [[image:what-makes-a-city-2.jpg width="327" height="423"]] || [[image:what-makes-a-city-3.jpg width="320" height="428"]] ||
 * Photos with geotags done with
 * a camera phone
 * an online Instagram account
 * Instagram App on the iPad || A sound, image and text story made using the free

**Designing curriculum using iPadagogy**

 * 1) Go to NSW Board of Studies and select your syllabus or stage []
 * 2) Select relevant outcomes and define an ill-structured, relevant, real life problem.
 * 3) Students need to look at the problem and connect with others using web 2.0 and apps for information, images, data, sources and experiences.
 * 4) Try the Apps page.

Students should....
 * think about the possible solutions, responses, theories or applications to resolve the problem.
 * think about the possibilities. I wonder if.....
 * create and colloborate responses.
 * share, collaborate and communicate their responses using wikis, blogs, movies, podcasts, pages.
 * evaluate their contributions.