iPads are used in classrooms these days almost each and every day. An iPad is essentially a tablet, which functions with the use of different applications.
What does it look like in your child's classroom? There are applications for almost any topic you can think of, and within our classroom we use many to address different learning needs. Some of these include Popplet, SimpleMind, Corkulous, Pixton, Comic Life, Photo Booth, Garage Band, iMovie, and many more!
Students use iPads to create comic strips, produce learning stories, brainstorm mindmaps for planning/research, develop pieces of music, record their thinking, keep record of their work and research areas of interest.
App Pedagogy Wheel - The Pedagogy Wheel below, adapted by Alan Carrington draws on Bloom's Taxonomy, which is broken down into categories/ways of thinking and learning which are Create, Evaluate, Analyse, Apply, Remember and Understand. The wheel demonstrates the transferability and value of apps within the classroom, providing learners with the apps that support different types of learning across Bloom's Taxonomy.