DIGITALLY AIDED EDUCATIONUsing iPhones and iPads in the

classroom

Flávia Amorim Sperandio

flaviaamorim@yazigi.com

Karen Lynne DeJean

karendejean@yazigi.com

Other than having technology-centric

classrooms, the use of devices may work as an aid

to enhance learning “(…) the digital technology now coming, more or less rapidly, into our classrooms – if used

properly – can help make our student's learning real,

engaging, and useful for their future.” (Prensky, 2010)

“A teacher that can be replaced by

a machine should be”

SUGATA MITRA

Today‘s students want to learn differently than in the past. They want ways of learning that are meaningful to them, ways that make them see—immediately—that the time they are spending on their formal education is valuable, and ways that make good use of the technology they now is their birthright.

MARC PRENSKY

• Is it necessary to learn new languages at all? Maybe machines will translate…

• Why go to culinary school when you can watch a cooking video on YouTube?

• Is the absence of a teacher a pedagogic tool?

• Is education obsolete ?

Granny CloudThe Hole in the Wall

MITRA'S SELF ORGANIZED LEARNING

ENVIRONMENT

X

VIGOTSKY'S SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM

• Technology = scaffolding

scaffolding

PRENSKY• Digital Natives x Digital Immigrants• Partnering Pedagogy

“In a partnering pedagogy, using technology is the students‘ job. The teachers‘ job is to coach and guide the use of technology for effective learning.”

Bring your own Technology

BYOT

• Go to Socrative.com• Click Student’s Login• Classroom 414164• Answer the quiz

Name your top 5 APPs

Facebook Ted Kindle Estadao Oxford collectionWhatsapp Facebook Candy Crush Gmail ViberSkype, Facebook, viber instagram whatsappWhatsapp facebook, , games

Whatsapp Facebook Evernote Google agenda DictionaryFacebook Instagram Whatsapp Global news Radio

Whatsapp, Viber facebook tunein time magazine

Instagram, prezi dropbox Evernote The Phrasal verbs machine

Facebook Bbc Pintrest Whatsapp Radio

Facebook Instagram Memory Match Scan WhatsAppTeacher kit Facebook iCloud Whatsapp Dictionnaries Edmodo, moodle, Facebook, Skype, Maps

Digitally aided classroomWed, Jul 24 01:04 PMRoom: 414164Quiz Report

SocrativeToolBox

SIRI

Siri is the intelligent personal assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.

Share and

sync your

docs and

filesScan QR

codes

Ideas worth spreading1000+ talksMake and

share

presentat

ions

Create and conduct poles, quizzes and other

activities live and online

Organize groups,

hours, keep track of

students attendance

and performance

Organization• TeacherKit: a personal organizer for educators. It makes it simple to keep track of

classes and students, whether in class or on-the-go.• Evernote: With Evernote, teachers can easily save great ideas from the Web,

access them later, and even search through them to find what they need.• Pinterest: has become a great place for teachers to share and save ideas for the

classroom. Set up your own account and start networking with coworkers and other educators to find amazing lessons and resources that can improve your classes.

• Pick Me: Trying to keep who you call on in class fair and balanced? Use this app to choose and track things so that no students are left out.

Tracking• Attendance2: Track the daily attendance of all of your students using this

application.• School & Stuff, Grades and Timetables: This app makes it easy to input and monitor

the grades of junior high and high school students, as well as tracking other data.

Reference• Wikipedia: Just because you don’t allow students to use Wikipedia for research doesn’t mean

it isn’t a great tool for quickly looking up information.• TED: Hear from some of the best and brightest minds in education, science, psychology, and

more about innovative new ideas that might just change the world through the TED app.

Communication• Edublogs: Students and teachers can take advantage of the secure and education-focused

blogs offered through this site and its corresponding application.• Facebook: Facebook is a great place to connect with students, so stay current on what’s going

on and let them know about assignments and upcoming events through a shared page on the site, accessed right through your mobile device.

• Learnist: On Learnist, teachers can share what they know about education and find helpful videos and tutorials from other educators as well.

• Socrative: makes it possible to engage students through educational games and exercises in real time, provided you’ve got the setup. With this app, teachers who use Socrative can easily monitor performance and get students excited about learning.

• Twitter: No educator should be without a Twitter account these days. Download this app to keep up with industry professionals, students, and education news anywhere you are.

UtilitiesDropbox: With Dropbox, you can store documents, media, presentations, and more on the Web, so they’ll be at your fingertips even if you forget your flash drive.Google Drive: Store and share your documents, presentations, and spreadsheets using this free Gmail-integrated app.StoryKit: Create and illustrate stories for your class or just for fun when you use this innovative app.AirProjFree: share the screen of your iphone or ipad (pictures) with a computer through IP address.

TAF for YEP1BUnit 9 - Getting to know placesVocabulary Build-Up 1 / Task 2

• Objectives: Consolidate vocabulary used to ask for and give directions.• Input Data: Siri, Google Maps• Grouping: Whole group - open pairs - pairwork• Preparation: Show map of the area through Google Maps (visual aid) and elicit places of

interest. Model locations and directions using target language (e.g. “Is there a ____ next to ____?” and “How do I get to ____?”). Use SIRI to show the way. Perform in open pairs.

• Instructions: Ask students to choose a place on the map (it can be the one projected or on their own devices) and ask SIRI how to get there. They should give directions and location to their partner according to SIRI’s instructions.

• Performing: In pairs, students ask SIRI for directions to a selected place and give these directions to their partner. Exchange roles.

• Accountability: Report their findings and check with SIRI.• Related Homework: House of English > GETTING TO KNOW PLACES > FOCUS ON LANGUAGE

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Practicing our Principles

QR CODETutorial

Go to websiteGenerate a QR Code with Text or URL to any content you wish – a picture, video, audio, website, etc.Print the generated code and have fun!

Users must have a QR CODE READER in their smartphones or tablets to see its content.

In groups, select a task from Yázigi Material and prepare a TAF using the exposed tools

HANDS ON!

Sharing some ideas

• Use QR Codes as grouping arrangement• YTeen2 / Unit 1 – Students Bump pictures of

their vacation to interactive board• AIO / Law – Dictionary – students research

and explain definition of new vocabulary• YEP2 / Unit 1 – physical description – Google

images of celebrities• MYP4 / Unit 1 – Socrative (SOC

Send contributions toteachers@yazigi.com

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• Yteen 1 / Unit 5 – students use Google Maps to talk about their neighborhood.

• YEP1 / Unit 7 – TripAdvisor, Booking.com to make traveling plans.

• YEP2 / Unit 12 – allrecipes.com – use “Spinner” tool to shuffle ingredients and learn vocabulary

• LÉVY, Pierre; AUTHIER, Michel. As árvores de conhecimentos. 2. ed São Paulo:• Escuta, 2000.• PRENSKY, Marc. Teaching digital natives: partnering for real learning. Corwin, 2010.• VYGOTSKY, D. (1962). Thought and language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.• MITRA, Sugata. Beyond the hole in the wall. TED Conferences, 2012.• http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~ichen/ebook/et-it/social.htm• http://

civic.mit.edu/blog/natematias/is-education-obsolete-sugata-mitra-at-the-mit-media-lab• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/technology/in-some-schools-students-bring-their-o

wn-technology.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0• http

://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/mar/06/ipad-ipod-technology-primary-curriculum

• http://www.educationdive.com/news/17-ways-ipads-will-be-used-in-schools-in-2013/99550/

• http://oedb.org/library/features/top_50_iphones_for_educators• http://appadvice.com/applists/show/apps-for-teachers

References

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