In Innovate with Lessons to Transform Learning , Lirenman and Wideen provide a complete selection of clearly laid out, open-ended lessons to enhance the way you use iPad in the classroom. By simply downloading a few basic, open-ended creation apps, your students will engage in the learning process and demonstrate their newfound knowledge in the ways that work best for them. The book offers more than 60 lessons that you can adapt--whether you're teaching online or face-to-face, or are homeschooling young learners. Each lesson includes step-by-step instructions, app suggestions and helpful tips to make integrating iPad into your lessons seamless . Innovate with iPad also features downloadable task cards, student-generated examples, and extension ideas to use with your students. “This is an invaluable resource for anyone teaching students in early elementary school with any kind of technology access.” — Dr. Reshan Richards , Chief Learning Officer and co-Founder, Explain Everything “All teachers with iPads should read this book. Your students will thank you for it!” — Dan Amos , developer of Book Creator for iPad “This resource will provide new ideas for differentiating instruction and offering students choice across the curriculum.” — Kristin Ziemke , Author of Amplify
To say innovate is to stretch the truth to the point of breaking. The content itself is too repetitive to be useful. It feels as if this is a fleshed out powerpoint from an Early Childhood teaching conference.
A terrific guide for elementary teachers getting started with classroom iPads. Concrete projects are laid out step-by-step with everything you need to get started. Ideas for integrating the technology into math, literacy, science and social studies are included, and things are open ended enough that teachers will be able to jump off and use their own content. I love that the emphasis is on using open-ended creative apps. I'm looking forward to using this book with my teachers in the fall.