Build Background Knowledge: iPad Symposium

The University of Akron's Center for Literacy will be holding an iPad Symposium this Saturday, May 11, 2013. To get you started on the right foot, the Center's Lori Vargo has put together a wide array of iPad in Education related materials.

These materials will help you build background knowledge and think about classroom practice as they relate to digital literacy skills. By studying these resources prior to the Symposium, you will begin to think about how you can embed the iPad into instructional practices to meet the demanding changes in the millennial learner.

Recommended Reading

• Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Instructional Strategies

• 29 Ways to Use the Only iPad in the Classroom
• 62 Interesting Ways to use iPads in the Classroom 

App Lists

• Fav Free Apps for Educators/Listly
• Craig Nansen on Listly
• 10 of the best apps for education 
• 40 STEM iPad Apps for Kids
• iRead iWrite iSpeak iListen iLearn – Grade 6-12 ELA Common Core Grades 6-12 Apps
• APPitic
• Appolocious 
• Three Math Apps to Get Your Ready for the Common Core
• Canyon City Schools District (Utah) list of recommended Math Apps 

App Evaluation

• Kathy Schrock's App Evaluation Form 

Join the Center for Literacy at NeoTech 2013!

The Center for Literacy is proud to be a part of the NeoTech conference for the 3rd consecutive year. For 2013 we will be presenting on the following topics.

1. Leveraging Digital Media to Meet the Demands of the 3^rd Grade Reading Guarantee
2. 20 Apps for Ebook Creation on the iPad
3. Around the Horn #edtech #beta

NeoTech is taking place Tuesday, March 19, 2013 on the campus of Kent State University. More information is available at http://www.neotechconference.org/. We hope you plan to join us for what promises to be a great day for Northeast Ohio educators.