What an amazing day in our classroom!!
Our school district recently acquired a mobile lab of 30 iPad 2's and today our classroom tested them out before they are released to the rest of the district. The technology director and I have been working on getting them set up and have put a few apps on them. We were testing them to see if we'd missed anything that teachers will need to know when we provide the professional development to them in a few weeks and to see how the students reacted to them. Were they more engaged than if they had done a traditional review and quiz? Would they rather create a product explaining the process or take the traditional quiz of 15 problems?
The excitement in the room was like nothing I've ever seen before. They knew they were going to be making a recording, but they didn't know we had the iPads. When they realized we had 30 iPads that they'll be able to use in any of their classes, they all seemed so genuinely excited that it got me all fired up too! I feel rejuvinated and empowered to keep including different types of technologies into the classroom. I felt like they honestly appreciate our efforts.
We didn't do anything really major on the iPads today, but the outcome was incredible and the students really impressed me with their efforts! The 8th graders in my algebra and math classes used Quick Voice to record their voices and emailed it to me. The high school students in my algebra classes used the video camera feature to record the introductory information about linear equations, direct variations, and rate of change and then messaged it to me. All of the classes made some type of recording where they were explaining the process of doing whatever topic we'd been discussing in their class instead of taking a traditional quiz.
Students, what did you think? Did you enjoy it? Would you rather create some kind of recording or do a traditional quiz? I'm interested in hearing your feedback and ideas. =)
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