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teacheratlarge
Joined: 17 Nov 2011
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Location: Japan
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 Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 8:00 am Post subject: Tablets in the classroom - what can you do with them? |
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I have a current extra job where the company is going digital soon (in September or October this year). What this means for the teachers is that we will no longer:
- use a regular text
- no longer write notes on note pads
We will have:
-web-links to related material
-access on the web to　images and real life examples for business students
Not sure if students will also soon be using digital texts as well (maybe longer range plan or some kind of rental arrangement).
But I am wondering, what do you think a company that offers digital lessons should be doing with tablets in the classroom? |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| The end of the book age has arrived. A relief to students in the Middle East - who never felt comfortable with the book ! |
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Sashadroogie
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Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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| Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:30 am Post subject: |
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Except the One True Book, surely.
As for tablets in the classroom, I find swallowing a half dozen aspirin helps me hang-over head settle.
Seriously, I just use one as a flash card to show learners images that I would have normally printed off in colour. |
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spiral78
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| I happen to be aware of one private language school in Canada that tried to make this their signature 'difference.' It's largely fallen flat after a two-year trial; the tablets tend to be more cumbersome than old-style paper/whiteboard in terms of time; also have heard teachers complain that it's more restrictive in that they can't react as often in real time to any useful diversion that arises. |
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CTravel32
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| they can't react as often in real time to any useful diversion that arises. |
Goformative is great for this and does not require much effort to set up for the class. Once you have signed up you can create your class, type in the roster (student user name and password, every password is the same for every student in my classes), an activity (essay, short essay and/or multiple choice, etc.) and give the students the class code. They go to the site, enter via student, are asked for the code and boom, they are greeted with all the activities you created.
Once they start working you see student progress updated in real time on the teacher dashboard. Plus you can see, rather easily and pretty quickly, if students are off task using the dashboard because no progress will be shown. You can project the dashboard onto a big screen if your class has one and point out anything you feel you need to as well or continue to keep things private by not projecting, up to you. |
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