Smartphones & Tablets

Why You Need to
Add Smartphones
and Tablets to Your
Learning
Environment

Aaron Puley
Parent and Student
Engagement Consultant
HWDSB

iTouch / iPhone / iPod /
Android

With more and more students
carrying iTouch, iPhone, and
Android devices, the question
often comes up…..

How can I use these devices to
benefit the student’s learning and
to accompany my program and
curriculum?

The iPod Classroom

News segment about an iPod touch
program in Fluvanna county, VA.

The iPod touch has a huge amount
of potential in the classroom to
revolutionize the way students learn
and teachers teach.

http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=16
472

The iPod Classroom

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http://ipodclassroom.wikispaces.com/

Productivity:
Notetaking, documenting, scrapbooking,
checklisting

Productivity:
Notetaking, documenting, scrapbooking, checklisti
ng

Egretlist:
To Do List, Checklists, Assignments

Documents To Go Premium

• Docs To Go is the only app with viewing and editing
capabilities for Word, Excel, & PowerPoint

iBlogging

• iPhone and Android
apps for bloggers are
carving out a niche in
the mainstream
blogging world. It's not
far when bloggers
would adopt to a new
vogue – iBlogging.

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Teachers Students
• Engage / stimulate • Can post blogs in a
students in creative variety of way
environment (audio, video, text, etc.)
• Facilitate learning in a • Opportunity to be
digital environment creative (customizable)
• Develop • Posting is seamless
oral, visual, and writing (bookmarklet allows
skills in one platform posts from websites)
• Online, paperless • Can use Smart Phone

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Lesson Ideas

• Field Trip / Scavenger
Hunt (document the
trip in words, images,
and video)
• Research – post links,
commentary, and ideas
• Journaling / Book +
Reading Logs
• Anything really!

30 Benefits of Ebooks
Ebooks… Pastore
Copyright © 2008 by Michael

1. Ebooks promote reading. People are
spending more time in front of screens and
less time in front of printed books.

2. Ebooks are good for the environment.
Ebooks save trees. Ebooks eliminate the
need for filling up landfills with old books.
Ebooks save transportation costs and the
pollution associated with shipping books

4. Ebooks, faster to produce than paper
Ebooks…
books, allow readers to read books about
current issues and events.
5. Ebooks are easily updateable, for correcting
errors and adding information.

6. Ebooks are searchable. Quickly you can find
anything inside the book. Ebooks are globally
searchable: you can find information in many
ebooks.

7. Ebooks are portable. You can carry an entire
library on one DVD.

10. Ebooks defy time: they can be delivered
Ebooks…
almost instantly. Ebooks are transported to
you faster than overnight shipping: in minutes
or in seconds.

11. Ebooks defy space: ebooks online can be
read simultaneously by thousands of people
at once.

12. Ebooks are cheaper to produce. Thus,
small presses can attempt to compete with
media giants.

13. Ebooks are cheaper to buy.

14. Ebooks are free. The magnificent work of
Ebooks… the classics at
Project Gutenberg, and other online public
libraries, allow readers to read
no cost.

15. Ebooks can be annotated without harming
the original work.

16. Ebooks make reading accessible to persons
with disabilities. Text can be re-sized for the
visually impaired. Screens can be lit for
reading in the dark.

17. Ebooks can be hyper-linked, for easier

21. Ebooks, with their capacity for
Ebooks…
storage, encourage the publishing of books
with many pages, books that might be too
expensive to produce (and purchase) in
paperback.

22. Ebooks -- without outrageous DRM
schemes -- are made for sharing. Ebooks can
be quickly duplicated, and then distributed to
strangers or given to your friends. Worry no
more about your loaned books that will never
be returned.

23. Ebooks empower individuals to write and

25. Ebooks posted online encourage
Ebooks… accuracy --
comments, corrections, and feedback -- which
eliminates mistakes and improves
especially important when dealing with
scientific and technological issues.

26. Ebooks allow publishers to publish (and
readers to read) works by a larger number of
authors, and works on a wider variety of
topics. Critics of traditional book publishing
(such as Jason Epstein and Andre Schriffin)
state that economic pressures have reduced
and limited the number of authors and topics
that traditional publishers will now produce.

28. Ebooks help paperbook publishers to sell
Ebooks… for free, has
paperbooks. Cory Doctorow has explained
that the giving away of ebooks,
helped to sell the paperback editions of his
stories and novels.

29. Ebooks are evolving. As technology
develops, ebooks may contain new features.
For example, a book of recipes may contain a
recipe calculator to figure how much maple
syrup is needed to bake 200 cookies. An
ebook that prepares you for the GRE could
include an interactive test. An ebook about
politics might allow you to click a link and

Some Sites to Check Out

• iPod touch. Touching student lives in the
classroom.
– http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?ite
mID=16472
• iPods in the Classroom.
– http://ipodclassroom.wikispaces.com/general
• The iSchool Initiative
– http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id
=104980&title=The_iSchool_Initiative

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