Pages and Apple Pencil Learning Templates

Have you just got some Apple Pencils for your students to use (or thinking about it?) but you don't know where to start? Pencils are great for so many things on the iPad, from writing, to maths and obviously getting creative with the arts, brainstorming and presentations.

But, for so many teachers we work with in schools, it can be hard to know what kinds of areas of your classroom learning program you can take into the digital space, let alone feeling confident to make the resources yourself.

This resource, which is downloadable below, is a Pages document you can adapt for your year level and context, but is also general enough to pick up and use right away. It's a series of templates for:

• handwriting
• writing
• maths
• reading

This is the cover to the Pages and Pencil Learning Templates

Once you've downloaded your own copy of the template with the link below you can learn the basics of Pages from the second page. Then simply adapt and / or share the file with your students and start using them. The next step is to start creating your own templates yourself and it's super easy when you know what Pages can do and have mastered the basics.

Here's an example of one template, a simple Book Report worksheet that can include an audio file as a reflection for capturing that student voice.

An example of a template as a Book Report resource

'But, Mark,' you might be thinking. 'Isn't this just a digital version of what students could do with pen and paper?'

I've found that the journey to moving teacher practice through the SAMR model, developed by Dr Ruben Puentedura, from straight 'Substitution' through to 'Redefinition,' usually starts with taking a first step into the straight 'Substitution' first.

These templates are a great way to start using a simple template for handwriting, as an example, and then introducing our learners to features such as recorded audio for reflections on their work. Then we're designing a learning experience that's moving into the 'Augmentation' area and on into 'Modification.' But it starts with a simple template.

These templates are one resource we share as part of our 6 week 'Apple Test Kit Experience' program and a crucial step to showing teachers what they can do with their MacBooks, iPads and Pencils in their classrooms. We hope you'll find them as helpful as the teachers we share this with and share them with your colleagues, too.

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