iPads in Kindergarten

Karen Lirenman (@KLirenman) and Kristen Wideen (@mrswideen) have written the definitive information on using iPads inside the elementary classroom,  Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning in the Classroom. (This episode is from our vault of hottest reveals of all time – and it was the first current! Kristen and Karen share timeless concepts of incredible educating with 1:1 and iPads inside the kindergarten classroom. It deserves a relisten for everyone who hasn’t heard this current!)

The problem with iPads is there are so many apps and so many choices. It is easy for lecturers to get overwhelmed and by no means know the place to start. Even worse, some lecturers merely use them for “sport day” and miss the possibility they have to do help faculty college students research with them.

Proper this second’s current will help settle the mud and convey readability to iPads inside the elementary classroom.

On this podcast episode, we cowl a lot in only some temporary minutes. We discuss favorite apps and largest errors with implementing iPads inside the classroom. Issues embrace:

• Kristen and Karen’s favorite apps (that they use just about day-after-day)
• The basic workflow of each of the apps with their faculty college students
• Courses realized from their first few years of using iPads with kids
• Errors that lecturers don’t have to make as soon as they get started!

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Full Bios of our Guests

Kristen Wideen

Kristen has spent her career educating and engaging predominant faculty kids within the USA and Canada.By the use of her progressive, student-driven initiatives, she teaches classes to take possibilities and develop the talents very important to achieve the twenty-first century. Kristen encourages her faculty college students to create, collaborate, and be open to attempt new points in her classroom day-after-day. She earned her bachelor’s diploma in coaching by means of the Faculty of Windsor, completed her grasp’s inside the paintings of teaching at Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan, and was acknowledged as an Apple Distinguished Educator. She frequently writes about her educational journey at www.mrswideen.com, and enjoys inspiring educators to make use of experience in progressive strategies by speaking at conferences.

Karen Lirenman

Karen Lirenman is a multi-age Grade 1-3 teacher in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, who loves to supply her faculty college students with choice in how they research, current, and share their information. She engages them globally by means of video conferencing, Twitter, and working a weblog and makes use of experience as seamlessly as most likely to make this all happen. http://www.klirenman.com/