iPads in Kindergarten

Karen Lirenman (@KLirenman) and Kristen Wideen (@mrswideen) have written the definitive guide on utilizing iPads within the elementary classroom,  Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning in the Classroom. (This episode is from our vault of hottest reveals of all time – and it was the primary present! Kristen and Karen share timeless ideas of fantastic educating with 1:1 and iPads within the kindergarten classroom. It deserves a relisten for everybody who hasn’t heard this present!)

The issue with iPads is there are such a lot of apps and so many decisions. It’s simple for lecturers to get overwhelmed and never know the place to begin. Even worse, some lecturers simply use them for “sport day” and miss the chance they must do assist college students study with them.

Right this moment’s present will assist settle the mud and convey readability to iPads within the elementary classroom.

On this podcast episode, we cowl so much in only a few brief minutes. We speak about favourite apps and largest errors with implementing iPads within the classroom. Matters embrace:

• Kristen and Karen’s favourite apps (that they use virtually day-after-day)
• The fundamental workflow of every of the apps with their college students
• Classes realized from their first few years of utilizing iPads with youngsters
• Errors that lecturers do not need to make once they get began!

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This present initially aired as present #1 and right here is the transcript! Observe that the giveaways within the unique present are usually not taking place now! TRANSCRIPT #01: Awesome Apps for iPads in the Elementary Classroom

Full Bios of our Visitors

Kristen Wideen

Kristen has spent her profession educating and fascinating main college youngsters in the USA and Canada.By means of her progressive, student-driven initiatives, she teaches lessons to take probabilities and develop the abilities vital to reach the twenty-first century. Kristen encourages her college students to create, collaborate, and be open to strive new issues in her classroom day-after-day. She earned her bachelor’s diploma in training by way of the College of Windsor, accomplished her grasp’s within the artwork of educating at Marygrove Faculty in Detroit, Michigan, and was acknowledged as an Apple Distinguished Educator. She regularly writes about her academic journey at www.mrswideen.com, and enjoys inspiring educators to make use of expertise in progressive methods by talking at conferences.

Karen Lirenman

Karen Lirenman is a multi-age Grade 1-3 instructor in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, who loves to offer her college students with selection in how they study, present, and share their data. She engages them globally by way of video conferencing, Twitter, and running a blog and makes use of expertise as seamlessly as probably to make this all occur. http://www.klirenman.com/