Educational Technology: ipad books

November, 2014

Here is another great free guide from Apple specifically designed for teachers and educators. Hopscotch Lesson Ideas is a free guide available for free download in iTunes. And as I said in an earlier post, this work is part of Apple's "Apps in the Classroom" series whose aim is to provide teachers with ideas and tips on how to integrate apps into daily classroom instruction.

HopScotch Lesson Ideas features a set of activities and tutorials that you can use in class to teach students about coding and creative thinking. For those of you not yet familiar with HopScotch, this is among the most popular iPad apps for teaching kids to code. Hopscotch teaches kids to code using simple, intuitive building blocks. Kids can create games, animations and other programs in this colorful, interactive environment. Program your characters to move, draw, and collide with each other, and use shaking, tilting, or even shouting at the iPad to control them. Hopscotch was inspired by MIT’s Scratch and gives kids a creative way to learn the fundamentals of computer programming.

Click on this link to download Hoptscotch guide and read it on your iBooks in iPad or Mac or in iTunes in your computer. Enjoy

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November, 2014
Explain Everything Lesson Ideas is a free eBook created and provided for free by Apple. This work is part of Apple's" Apps in the Classroom" project that aims at helping teachers make the best of educational apps in their instruction. Each of the guides included in this project centres around a popular educational app and provides examples and ideas on how teachers can use it with their students in class. Today's guide is on the popular screencasting and whiteboard app Explain Everything.

Explain Everything Lesson Ideas is a short interactive guide that offers a wide variety of ideas and tips on how to use Explain Everything app with students in class. It actually outlines 6 basic activities that span different age ranges and subjects: Literacy, Science, Mathematics, and History. These activities are designed to help students leverage the power of this app to think in new ways. They also help them take a creative approach to applying and demonstrating what they are learning.

Explain Everything Lesson Ideas is available for free download from iTunes. You can read it using iBooks in both iPad and Mac. Enjoy

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