This event is held September 30, 2025.
Thank you for joining us at Leading Technology Integration and Reading Improvement: Effective Practices for Educators. We enjoyed sharing this journey with you. Apple Education’s dedicated team guided interactive experiences on diverse topics. Please see a list of resources from the session below.
Freeform — A digital whiteboard app designed providing an infinite canvas to bring together various content like photos, documents, web links, audio, and video. Users can sketch, draw, use shapes and sticky notes to visualize their learning.
Creating Web Apps on iPad- Add to home screen — Add bookmarks to websites directly to the iPad screen. Many education websites open in full screen as a web app providing a more focused learning environment for students.
Photo Markup — use the Markup tools to draw and sketch in your documents. You can also use the Markup tools to annotate screenshots, PDFs, and more.
Live Text — use your iPad camera to highlight, speak, copy, share, look up, and translate text that appears within the camera frame.
Voice Memos - Record reading Progress — Help motivate emerging readers by using Voice Memos on iPad to document improvements in reading fluency and language skills.
Safari Reader — Use Safari Reader to hide ads and other distractions to keep students focus on what matters. Use the mark up tool to highlight information and take notes
Pages — Presenter Mode — use presenter mode so that your text scrolls automatically like it’s on a teleprompter. The text appears in a large font against a dark background—without images or other media—so that it’s easy to read.
Make Videos with Clips — Learn how to easily create quick, expressive videos that are unique, informative, and fun.
Keynote Live video — Quick easy green screen in combination with screen recording so students can be anywhere their imagination can take them.
Creative Activities for Early Learners — Level up any lesson plan with quick, creative activities on iPad. Designed for early learners ages 4–8 years old, these simple activities include engaging lesson ideas and helpful templates.
Creative Activities - Level up any lesson plan with quick, creative activities on iPad. Designed for students ages 8 years old and up, these simple activities include engaging lesson ideas and helpful templates.
Creativity In Learning — Discover fun activities, step-by-step tutorials, downloadable templates, project guides, and more to help you quickly and easily enhance any lesson using drawings, videos, photos, and music.
Ideas and Resources from Educators
Readers Theater — Students using Presenter Mode in Pages to read scripts or write their own plays.
Support Literacy and Language with iPad — Integrating iPad in a way that positively impacts literacy and language learning within the classroom.
Harnessing the Freeform App for Dynamic Digital Learning — Discover new ways to create interactive, multi-media-rich learning experiences that captivate and engage. Using Freeform, students can engage independently or collaboratively in real-time, from group brainstorming activities to digital station rotations.
Vocab Choice Board — Students us a multimodal choice board to help build their understanding of vocabulary.
Foster Early Years Literacy with iPad — Support literacy and language learning for our early learners using Keynote on iPad.
Elevating education: effective vocabulary instruction — As educators, we know that teaching vocabulary is essential for fostering academic success and narrowing the pervasive vocabulary gap observed among students. Template provided that focuses on the different tiers of vocabulary.
Vocabulary Workbook — This learning journal explores the power of using multiple modalities to support meaningful vocabulary instruction in the classroom.
Apple Education Programs
Apple Teacher
Apple Teacher is a free professional learning program designed to support and celebrate educators using Apple products for teaching and learning. Your self-paced journey starts by learning foundational skills on iPad and Mac, and continues as you integrate Apple technology into your everyday lessons. With three recognitions to explore, there’s endless inspiration and opportunity to be rewarded for doing your very best teaching — teaching that gives students more connected, creative, collaborative, and personal learning experiences. Become an Apple Teacher >
Apple Learning Coach
Apple Learning Coach is a free, online certification program that trains instructional coaches, digital learning specialists and other coaching educators to get more out of Apple technology. In this session, discover how becoming an Apple Learning Coach can enhance teaching and learning with technology. You’ll hear insights from certified Apple Learning Coaches and learn how the program has transformed their coaching practice. Apply to Apple Learning Coach >
Attach up to 5 files which will be available for other members to download.