by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Flipped Learning
Flipped learning is a big deal for classrooms today. Our digital students love the accessibility, freedom, and convenience of having open access to recorded lessons. It engages and rewards them on the levels they expect in their learning. With the technologies and... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Technology
via TeachThought Finding apps isn’t difficult. Finding education apps is only a bit more challenging. Finding free education apps is also possible. Finding free education apps worth downloading is a different story entirely. The following is our list for the 55 best... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | BYOD
Via eSchool News EdTechTeacher’s first iPad Summit was held in Boston in November 2012, and one of the first magazine articles that came out about our the event was: “The iPads in Education Conference That’s Not About iPads.” We loved the title. We will admit it; the... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | BYOD
Let’s say an administrator or a parent comes in to observe your class. You’ve adequately planned to use iPad as an instructional tool. Your district has forked out lots of money for the iPad program and your parents have reluctantly agreed to allow their students to... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Technology
via eSchool News Bloom’s Taxonomy, introduced in the 1950s as a system of organizing learning objectives into a pyramid, traditionally has started with creating at the top, followed by evaluating, analyzing, applying, understanding, and remembering. Some educators... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | BYOD
Via TeachThought So we thought we’d start an ongoing collection–that is, one that is updated to reflect trends and changes–of the best resources for teaching with the iPad. This will include resources from all of the best sources, from Apple’s own stuff to... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | BYOD
Via Stuff NZ Waikato research into how children think when they use iPads in learning is one of eight projects to get a share of $1.7 million in funding. Dr Garry Falloon, of University of Waikato, has a special interest in eLearning and has been working with iPads... 
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Teaching, Technology
We have come to a point in the education technology journey where it seems rather dull to still be asking if the iPad is the right device for the classroom. The answer, in case you’ve missed the last few years of debate is that it is a great option, but this is not... by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Collaboration Fluency, Leadership, Media Fluency, Teaching, Technology
via Edudemic If you’re rolling out iPads in the classroom, you need to lay down the law. As a connected educator, you need to come up with a set of guidelines, classroom iPad rules, as well as a way to manage all your new devices. Please please please don’t just hand... by Ross Crockett | Creativity Fluency, Media Fluency, Technology
via TeachThought Creating books on the iPad doesn’t seem like the first thing you might do with one of the popular little tablets, but it’s really quite capable of doing so provided you’re not trying to write the next great novel. We’ve written about 3 apps to reate...