Managing the Laptop or Tablet Classroom to Get Results:
Effective Pedagogy
Many schools have underfunded professional development to support teachers as they consider the best ways to use new technologies with students. The PD they do offer is usually about driving the software and equipment rather than effective instruction. In this session, Jamie outlines many of the moves, tactics, tricks and strategies required to win attention and student success in iPad classrooms. He argues that pedagogy does matter and that PD should focus on how to manage such learning environments.
A successful lesson results from mindful devotion to the following elements, each of which will be in this presentation:
1. Lesson objectives, content and design
2. Classroom landscape
3. Classroom culture
4. Teaching moves, strategies, tactics and procedures
5. Equipment
6. Assessment procedures
An effective teacher knows how to orchestrate these elements to match the characteristics of the students, adapting to each group as the lesson proceeds.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch on your own in the neighborhood
1:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Power Reading with eBooks
Thanks to digital text and readers, the electronic book is finally coming of age. After many false starts, reading a book on a laptop, a Kindle, an iPad type device, or a smart phone offers some great advantages.
In this session, Jamie will introduce the group to reading strategies that will enhance the comprehension of students, taking advantage of the highlighting, note-adding and linking capacities of eBooks.
Studying Complex Concepts such as Beauty, Truth and Courage in Depth
Students are rarely challenged to dig down deep in order to create rich definitions of complex ideas. In this session Jamie shows how teachers can use a series of digital explorations to deepen and extend students' understanding of such concepts. Students learn that dictionaries usually pay short shrift to complex ideas, and they even learn to improve the definitions they encounter.