iPedagogyTeaching (& other stuff)

with the iPad

Rebecca Frost DavisMay 30, 2012

What Will You Do with It?

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January 2010 iPad Announced

What Is It?

Over 200,000 Apps

What Uses Are Inherent?

• Affordance—a quality of an object, or an environment, which allows an individual to perform an action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance

What Are the Affordances of the iPad?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bNR-dpbpqClH0dGoOCPNIMro36W8iYMgnZJHrie2w-c/edit

Where and How to Use?

• Everywhere– Service– Teaching– Scholarship

• Productivity• Innovation• Change in practice, workflow, lifestyle

iPad at Gettysburg College

New Tools for Expert Users

“Replacing time-tested paper-and-pencil techniques for a digital 'drawing pad' is taking way more training time - and WAY more dead ends - than I anticipated.”

--Michael Olich, Theatre, Lewis & Clark College

http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/04/old-dog-still-looking-for-new-tricks.html

Challenges

• Overwhelming app selection but uneven software availability by discipline

• File management/workflow

• Input methods (stylus, keyboard)

• Projection• Content Creation• Differences from

Analog• Connectivity• Flexibility• Java & Flash issues

CASES FROM LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES

Pedagogy and Other Uses

From UK Open University

Outside of Class

• Productivity• Always available– Course materials– Accessible to students– Portable– Capacity & battery life

Class Preparation

• Ellen Seljan, Political Science, Lewis & Clark College

• Class Prep with GoodReader– Marked up course readings– Archived– Summary of comments

http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/03/more-accolades-for-goodreader.html

Annotated Reading• iAnnotate PDF• GoodReader• Highlighting• Sticky notes• Freehand writing

Modeling scholarly reading

• Daena Goldsmith, Rhetoric and Media Studies, Lewis and Clark College

• Sticky notes with questions & comments• Highlight key passages• http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/01/i

-plan-to-use-ipad-to-support-my.html

Grading

• Paperless• Archive of feedback• Legible• Portable & always available• Grading student writing with iAnnotate– Kristi Upson-Saia, Religious Studies, Occidental

College– Color-coded, custom stampshttps://college.oxy.edu/knowledgebase/2012/04/13/grading-student-writing-with-iannotate/

Interactive Presentation in the Classroom

• Mirroring display• Annotating and manipulating slides & images–Whiteboard HD, Air Display, and Air

Sketch at Reed College

• Annotating syllabus live with students– Ellen Seljan, Political Science, Lewis & Clark

College– http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/01/annotating-s

yllabus-live-in-class.html

Just in Time Learning

• Andrew Udit, Chemistry, Occidental College• Information & diagrams for chemistry lab

– https://college.oxy.edu/knowledgebase/2012/04/13/using-safari-for-mobile-web-access/

Just in Time Learning

• Modeling discovery with mobile devices– David Michelson, History, University of Alabama– http://www.as.ua.edu/ipad/dr-david-michelson-ipads-in-the-history-cl

assroom-limitations-and-opportunities

/ • Bird Field Guide– Ken Clifton, Biology, Lewis & Clark College– http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/01/talking-to-birds-with-ipad.html

Mobility

• While presenting• Science labs and dance studios at Reed

College– Dance Annotation app– Hannah Kosstrin, Dance

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/dance-notation-for-the-ipad-theres-an-app-for-that/32706

Differentiate Instruction

• Facilitates one-on-one work with students by circulating instructor

• Instructor can share notes, annotations, resources with student for later use

• Video and discuss student performances– Jonathan Whitaker, Music, University of Alabama– http://www.as.ua.edu/ipad/dr-jonathan-whitaker-

ipads-and-the-importance-of-immediate-feedback/

Discipline Specific Apps

• Stephen Tufte, Physics, Lewis & Clark College– Gravity Simulation App– Star Walk• Augmented reality star viewing

• http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/05/gravity-lab.html • http://lcipad.blogspot.com/2012/05/star-walk-rocks.html

Anatomy Lab

• Visible Body 3D Human Anatomy Atlas • Brain Pro • Heart Pro III • 3D Brain • modalityBODY• Occidental College• Daemen College• https://college.oxy.edu/knowledgebase/2012/04/16/ipad-app

s-in-the-anatomy-lab/

Greek

• Greek Reader – Intermediate

• Iliad (Venutus A)

Sharing with Students

• Interactive document creation• Groups reading around device• Easy Content Creation– Wendy Hsu, Ethnomusicology, Occidental College– “critical learning through making”– https://college.oxy.edu/knowledgebase/2012/04/

16/making-songs-to-learn-about-songs-mobile-music-making-with-ipad/

Small Group Work

• Margaret Peacock, History, University of Alabama

• Sharing different primary documents with each group via 5 iPads

• Active, Collaborative learning• http://www.as.ua.edu/ipad/dr-margaret-peac

ock-ipads-and-the-master-narrative/

Classroom Capture

• Assessment at Alabama– Group scribe takes notes in Evernote– Record class discussion in Evernote

• Haverford College– Instructors mirroring iPad with AirServer & Doceri– Panopto for lecture capture– Students & faculty can review class later

Flexible Tool for Active Learning

• Productivity & access out of classroom• Archived digital material & grading• Interactive• Just in time learning• Differentiated Instruction• Mobile, portable• Easy Creation• Content Capture