Ipads in Education & The Internet & Website Development

This week in the lecture we discussed Ipads and how they are slowly replacing textbooks in the classroom. I found this to be an interesting subject as by replacing the textbook with an electronic copy is probably more convenient for the student. They no longer have to carry around heavy textbooks, they will never forget it as it is always with them; it is creating a more sustainable environment no using so much paper to print the text book and saving some children’s back from back problems. I found this article which talks about teaching the Ipad way. I found it to be very interesting as they talk about how Ipads will change the classroom, how convenient they are and how more and more publishers are turning their books in to eBooks to be uploaded to the Ipad. I found this to be helpful and relevant to my teaching career and what the future brings.

                                                Link to Article: Teaching the Ipad way

This Week I had my group presentation of the Subject ‘The internet and Website Development’. We were to give an overview of our subject and then teach a lesson to the class based on a topic within the option topic.

We decided to teach the class about the World Wide Web creating an activity were the students had to view a homepage of 3 different websites and answer a question sheet. I found this activity to be very successful In that the response that was given was that it was quite a fun lesson. I was interesting teaching the lesson to my fellow classmates as it was very different to a normal school environment. I found that the Prezi that we made was effective as it was not just a normal Power point presentation.

A back up plan that we had in case the computers or internet wasn’t working was that we have screen shotted the home page and printed it onto the back of the worksheet. This was very handy as we had sent the students an email via the intranet but the intra net was down. The students could simply turn the page over and use the screen shot. I feel that this kind of back up would almost be necessary within in a school setting because it is almost always were someone might have a problem getting onto the internet.

After the class had finished the activity we went through the answers just randomly asking students what answers they got. One point that my tutor mention was that we could have placed the different websites up on the smart board as the students were talking about them. This was because not everyone had the same one so when we were talking about a website they didn’t have everyone could not contribute as they could not view the website.

Overall the lesson was a great learning experience and fantastic resource builder.

References:

Glance, D. (2012, January 24). Teaching the Ipad way. Retrieved March 2012, from Technology Spectator: http://technologyspectator.com.au/industry/education/teaching-ipad-way
Titus, A. (Director). (2009). How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes [Motion Picture]. Retrieved From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LPdttKXPc&feature=BFa&list=PLDA2D657B13B7DF85&lf=results_video