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 unbelievable 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 prospect they have to do help school 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 talk about favorite apps and largest errors with implementing iPads inside the classroom. Issues embrace:

• Kristen and Karen’s favorite apps (that they use nearly day-after-day)
• The elemental workflow of each of the apps with their school 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 primary school kids within the USA and Canada.By way of her progressive, student-driven initiatives, she teaches classes to take chances and develop the talents very important to achieve the twenty-first century. Kristen encourages her school college students to create, collaborate, and be open to try new points in her classroom day-after-day. She earned her bachelor’s diploma in coaching by the use of the Faculty of Windsor, completed her grasp’s inside the paintings of teaching at Marygrove School in Detroit, Michigan, and was acknowledged as an Apple Distinguished Educator. She commonly writes about her tutorial 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 school college students with choice in how they research, current, and share their knowledge. She engages them globally by the use of video conferencing, Twitter, and operating a weblog and makes use of experience as seamlessly as in all probability to make this all happen. http://www.klirenman.com/