Amplify the Impact of Teaching with iPad

iPad is packed with features that help you focus on what’s most important: teaching and learning.

In our Apple Professional Learning Live session, we looked at effective strategies to support student learning through high impact, evidence-based teaching approaches with iPad.

Here’s a recap on each of the experiences and some resources for you to take your learning further.

Structuring Lessons with Freeform

You can use the Freeform app to create ‘Boards’ for brainstorming and collaborating. For example, structure and scaffold a lesson plan with a colleague, or share with students as a scaffold for a learning experience.

You can draw, add text, sticky notes, photos, videos and other types of files to make it a truly multi-modal resource that caters for multiple learner ‘entry levels’.

The canvas expands as you add content, so you’re never constrained by space limits or page formatting. Making use of the ‘Scenes’ feature in Freeform helps to focus on particular areas of the canvas as required.

Visit these links to learn more about some of the Freeform tools we demonstrated during the session:

• Create a Freeform board on iPad
• Add photos, videos, stickers, scans, links, and other files to a Freeform board on iPad
• Position items on a Freeform board on iPad
• Navigate and present ‘Scenes’ in your Freeform boards on iPad
• Share Freeform boards and collaborate on iPad

Explicit Teaching with Screen Recording on iPad

Screen recordings can be easily created to communicate with students and parents or to better utilise class time by providing learners with a ‘flipped classroom’ experience, where they can watch and listen to a ‘step by step’ instructional video and action the instructions at their own pace. 

You might also ask students to record their own video with their own voice to demonstrate their work, explain a concept, show how they have solved a problem, or illustrate a learning process from start to finish.

These links can support you to learn more about ‘Screen Recording’ on iPad:

• Take a Screen Recording on your iPad
• Create Screen Recordings for Back to School Learning

Make sure you check the Control Centre to ensure the ‘Screen Recording’ button is readily available and also check that the microphone is working should you want to include a voice over.

These links will take you through the access and customisation of your iPad's Control Centre:

• Access Control Center on your iPad
• Use and customise Control Centre on iPad

Feedback with Smart Annotations and Audio Recordings

With Smart Annotations, you can mark up and add feedback to Pages documents with a pencil or your finger. 

Annotations stay connected to marked-up objects as revisions are made, so if you are collaborating with coauthors, they can review, track, and incorporate changes.

Using smart annotations and adding an audio recording for feedback for learners, allows greater scope for teachers to personalise feedback and a clearer understanding for students, where they can replay the audio as many times as they need to.

The annotated document can then be shared back to the learner to use the feedback effectively to improve their task, before finalising it.

Read more about smart annotations using Pages:

• Annotate a Pages document on iPad 
• Provide Feedback for Writing

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