Another iPhone Teacher Education Idea
The power of the iPhone is its portability and connectivity. The way I imagine this working to support teacher education is prospective teachers are in a classroom to do observations in order to understand inquiry science pedagogy. The teacher is doing a lab with students working in groups. Prospective teachers with an iphone would be asked to follow different student groups and collect videotape of how those students were engaged in the activity. When class is over, all students can then transfer their video to the instructors’ laptop. Then the class can analyze the lesson looking not just at the teacher or one group, but at any group in the class. You could, for example, ask prospective teachers to make hypothesis about student learning based on the video of one group and then “test” those hypotheses with video of other groups.
[...] McEducation proposes: “The power of the iPhone is its portability and connectivity. The way I imagine this working to support teacher education is prospective teachers are in a classroom to do observations in order to understand inquiry science pedagogy.” [...]
iPhones in education at Aus Mac Ed said this on March 9, 2007 at 10:34 pm |
Thanks for the encouragement. I need to get myself a little more regular.
There are not too many education apps built just for the iPhone. However, if you have an iPhone I would look at http://www.goplans.com.
This is a web-based lesson planning system for school districts. The cool thing is they now have built in support for iPhone monitoring. This means that principals or district administrators can walk into any classroom and pull up a teacher’s lesson plans. The interface is built just for iPhone rendering. You can touch a button and provide instant feedback to the teacher. And best of all the lesson plan system is very easy to use for the teacher (they use a web browser to add lesson plans). It has many built-in things that make lesson planning easy (standards, embedded curriculum guides, etc.).
Checkout their website for more info:
http://simplexlearning.com
[...] will support the many stages of ePortfolio development, including collection and reflection.” McEducation proposes: “The power of the iPhone is its portability and connectivity. The way I imagine [...]
iPhone in Education at iPhone in Education said this on March 23, 2008 at 8:26 am |
Here is an set of education apps built just for the iPhone: wordlist.tintash.com
How long before someone can create an app for the iPhone that allows educators to take attendance?
Your idea is quite interresting.. It can be implemented on any phone.
Regarding iphone:
As a law student I use memoreasy, it’s universal application that helps me memorizing things without watching at the screen. It’s something between a dictaphone and flashcards with memory spacing algorithm.
Simple educational apps like 24x7digital’s TimesTables can help augment classwork and speed retention by students:
http://www.24x7digital.com/timestables
[...] McEducation proposes: “The power of the iPhone is its portability and connectivity. The way I imagine this working to support teacher education is prospective teachers are in a classroom to do observations in order to understand inquiry science pedagogy.” [...]
iPhones in Education « Maya Han’s Blog said this on April 25, 2009 at 5:27 pm |
wow we nearly have the same site
like yours
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All in a day’s work « Bowllan's Blog said this on May 19, 2010 at 3:31 am |