SECOND LANGUAGES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2013, CANMORE, OCT 26

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I presented yesterday at SLIC Conference 2013 "iPads for bilingual education" in Canmore, Alberta. There was a lot of interest in the topic. It seems many schools are planning on purchasing iPads and teachers want to be prepared to know how to use them in a purposeful way. 

This is a graphic that shows iPad content creation according to Blooms' Taxonomy. The creation would be the higher order thinking skill according to this classification. 


All the stages are interconnected and according to the revised Bloom's taxonomy, they do not have to happen in a  determined order. But creation would be the most complex one. I advocate for the use of iPads as a tool, not as an end or as a repository of apps that substitutes teaching/learning time or that is understood as solely a game tool. I believe it is the task that generates the app, and not the other way round.We first need to think what do we want to do with our class, and then, think of the app that could serve as. 

There are different media tasks that we can perform with an iPad. 

Many of these activities can now be easily performed with iPads and tablets. This is my Symbaloo of apps to create content using iPads. It summarizes the ones I presented yesterday.




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