In this update of on the wire I have a couple of interesting articles and the odd infographic to share 1. BBC Future – Why your brain loves to get feedback – http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130226-why-your-brain-loves-feedback An interesting article on the importance of feedback. This supports the research from Professor John Hattie in his book Visual Learning about [...]
One of the reasons why iPads and android tablets have flourished is the ease of access to applications. Whether you go to the App store or the App marketplace (https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/?pli=1) you have access to a huge range of applications at a reasonable cost. One of the advantages that I see with Apple’s model, is the [...]
This is a very useful site with a great list of different iPad applications sorted by subject areas and then these are broken down in to different categories. The applications are both free and paid subscription/purchase. For Example – Language Arts apps has sub categories for literacy reading practice hand writing spelling grammar graphical organisers [...]
For the last year, Harry and I have been working on the ipad applications book for high schools. The Book is called Apps for learning, and is published as part of the 21st Century Fluency series with my Colleagues Harry Dickens, Lee Crockett and Ian Jukes. This book has been a huge amount of fun [...]
This update is a mixed bag with some interesting stuff for the iPad, video resources (ideal for media studies and English teachers) and some good stuff for IT students (and teachers) for developing web pages. 1. Best ads http://www.bestadsontv.com/ This website hosts examples of the best advertisements from a variety of medias. The advertisements range [...]
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of doing a podcast with Chris Betcher, Deon Scanlon, Allanah King and Amanda Marrinan. The topic of conversation was iOs applications and Education. It was a great deal of fun and I got some great applications to try out. Chris has done a great write up [...]
I love my iPad and one of the current projects that we have on is writing a book about the iPad and education. My focus is the middle and senior school end of the education spectrum. What make sit more challenging is writing the book about the iPad on the iPad. When I first set [...]
1. Educause – 7 things you should know about QR codes – http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutQRCod/163728 This is another excellent resource from the educause team. This looks at QR codes – what are QR codes, they are an information rich form of barcodes. The QR codes can be text, URLs, email etc. You use a genrator to create [...]
Well, the iPad is a success. The 3 kids (10, 8 & 4) are cue to play on it and I am having to schedule times to let them play. The thing that is really nice is how easily the picked up the navigation. Mr 8 saw me showing him the iPad on Skype and [...]
