Connecting with Other Issues in Educational Technology
Literacy, Math, and Other Subjects will Be Helped
Through this proposal, students will be able to work on their literacy skills. They will be able to email me (their teacher), look up how to spell words, look up definitions of words, have words read to them, etc. There are an uncountable number of ways literacy will be used with iPhones in the classroom, because it is only limited by the teacher and students’ imaginations. The iPhone can be used to help in any subject. Math can easily be assisted using the calculator, compass, level, etc. Watching videos would be a great way to get students to better understand a science experiment. Many of the teachers already use videos to assist their teaching, so providing the link to their video would allow the student to watch the video multiple times, pause, rewind, and remember the most important parts. When working with recorders in music, students could download an application to show them the positioning over the holes in the recorder for each note. Then they could listen to how each note is supposed to sound. In Spanish class, Spanish words could easily be translated on the iPhone to help assist with words that aren’t known yet by the students to. When learning dates in social studies, the students could easily find what happened on each day in history doing a simple timeline search. There are many uses for an iPhone in the classroom, easily assisting students and making them more independent.
Social and Ethical Uses of iPhones to Encourage Creativity
When teaching and using iPhones in the classroom, many parents, educators, and administrators might be scared putting these devices into the hands of children. However, my students will be taught how to properly use the iPhones within the school setting. They will not be allowed to communicate with other students between classrooms. The students will leave the iPhones at school at all times, so that the phone portions of the iPhone will not become tempting to the students. The Journey Room will have bi-weekly lessons to keep students up-to-date on the applications offered by apple.com. We will also check in to see how students are using the iPhones, and what new ideas they might have come up with. Students will be encouraged to think of new ways to use their iPhones in the general education and special education classrooms. They might think of new ways to relax themselves when becoming frustrated or angry. Keeping communication lines open between the students and teachers is the most important part of new technology.
Sharing My Ideas with Others
Through getting the iPhones, I hope to be able to share with others how beneficial iPhones are in the classroom. I would love to see each student having an iPhone in every classroom, or at least have a small set that they could work in groups with them or have them available if they needed to look something up, communicate with the teacher, geocache, or relax with the many features the iPhone has to offer. I would love to help other teachers (both general educators and special educators) think of more ideas to use iPhones in the classroom.
Through this proposal, students will be able to work on their literacy skills. They will be able to email me (their teacher), look up how to spell words, look up definitions of words, have words read to them, etc. There are an uncountable number of ways literacy will be used with iPhones in the classroom, because it is only limited by the teacher and students’ imaginations. The iPhone can be used to help in any subject. Math can easily be assisted using the calculator, compass, level, etc. Watching videos would be a great way to get students to better understand a science experiment. Many of the teachers already use videos to assist their teaching, so providing the link to their video would allow the student to watch the video multiple times, pause, rewind, and remember the most important parts. When working with recorders in music, students could download an application to show them the positioning over the holes in the recorder for each note. Then they could listen to how each note is supposed to sound. In Spanish class, Spanish words could easily be translated on the iPhone to help assist with words that aren’t known yet by the students to. When learning dates in social studies, the students could easily find what happened on each day in history doing a simple timeline search. There are many uses for an iPhone in the classroom, easily assisting students and making them more independent.
Social and Ethical Uses of iPhones to Encourage Creativity
When teaching and using iPhones in the classroom, many parents, educators, and administrators might be scared putting these devices into the hands of children. However, my students will be taught how to properly use the iPhones within the school setting. They will not be allowed to communicate with other students between classrooms. The students will leave the iPhones at school at all times, so that the phone portions of the iPhone will not become tempting to the students. The Journey Room will have bi-weekly lessons to keep students up-to-date on the applications offered by apple.com. We will also check in to see how students are using the iPhones, and what new ideas they might have come up with. Students will be encouraged to think of new ways to use their iPhones in the general education and special education classrooms. They might think of new ways to relax themselves when becoming frustrated or angry. Keeping communication lines open between the students and teachers is the most important part of new technology.
Sharing My Ideas with Others
Through getting the iPhones, I hope to be able to share with others how beneficial iPhones are in the classroom. I would love to see each student having an iPhone in every classroom, or at least have a small set that they could work in groups with them or have them available if they needed to look something up, communicate with the teacher, geocache, or relax with the many features the iPhone has to offer. I would love to help other teachers (both general educators and special educators) think of more ideas to use iPhones in the classroom.