Having iPads in class provides a unique ability to have students create content in a mobile environment. While creating content is not unique to an iPad, it provides unique capabilities that otherwise would be extremely challenging or nearly impossible to achieve in a traditional classroom setting without these devices. Using an iPad, students can create podcasts and video by recording, editing and publishing to the web or portfolio.
In the video below, students are working on creating screencasts to demonstrate their understanding of a mathematical word problem. They are then able to publish them and save them into their math files on Google Drive.
Active engagement with motivational tools increases hands-on work in the classroom. Lego Robotics have given students a fun way to experience simple engineering science. It has been proven that the more actively a person engages with the material that they’re learning, the better the retention and ability to apply that knowledge or that skill is. In the following video, students are building alligators with Lego building blocks and then programming them to open and close it’s mouth. They then take their iPads to incorporate their robot into an instructional math tutorial of ‘greater than and less than’ using the explain Everything App.