- Applications facilitate real student interaction with learning. For example, a geography teacher could use google earth on a smart board to illustrate various maps, landscapes, topography, population density, weather patterns, etc. Using iPads, students can follow along and engage in their own inquiry.
- Certain applications make excellent classroom management tools. Students will understand, in real time, how they are doing in the class in terms of behavior and participation.
- Students can take and submit quizzes using different applications. These are often time stamped to ensure students complete their work on time.
- Students can connect their tablets to the class smart board and write information on the board without coming to the front of the classroom. Likewise, the teacher can continue writing on the board while moving around the classroom to monitor behavior and make sure students are on task.
- Certain applications make it simple for parents to track their student's progress over the school year using nothing but an iPhone.
- Applications like Evernote allow students to take and access notes from anywhere. If little Jimmy heads to the Bahamas on family vacation for two weeks, he can easily access the notes from class.
- Applications like Skype are useful for connecting students from different parts of the country and world. For example, students in France studying English could connect in real time with students studying French in the United States.
- Students can use applications like dropbox to submit and share projects and assignments.
- Students can use mind mapping applications to work collaboratively on homework assignments.
- Students can use applications like Explain Everything (like iMovie only more simple) to make short videos of themselves explaining recently learned concepts so they don't forget.
Here is a review of a useful application called Grammar Up I wrote for my Technology & Education class:
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