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Sketches School: Big Ideas from a Small Dot
In this lesson with Year 2 and 3 students, I used the story The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds to inspire creativity and critical thinking. We started with a simple dot on the screen in the Sketches School…
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Biography Beats - Character Traits with GarageBand
Engaging 2nd Graders with Biography Beats: A Multimodal Learning Project Looking for innovative ways to integrate literacy, technology, and music in your 2nd-grade classroom? Our students recently…
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Magic move: Creative storytelling with a twist
As part of our storytelling and digital creativity focus, I shared the traditional Māori story How the Kiwi Lost Its Wings to my Year 2 and 3 learners. Students were challenged to retell part of the …
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Shapes in Habitats Past and Present
Today I was at our local STEAM establishment, Blueprint designing some 3D printing creatures with my son for my upcoming Habitats inquiry. They had some extra dinosaurs in their recycling bin that I …
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Enhancing National Poetry Month with Multimedia on iPad
April is National Poetry Month and it is the perfect opportunity to leverage iPad technology. Elevate your poetry lessons by blending words with audio and media using the ideas below: 🎙️Leverage au…
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Coaching Through Curriculum Changes
Currently in Aotearoa, New Zealand we are having a rapid shift in pedagogy and this is reflected in our new English and Maths Curriculums. Lots of our kaiako (teachers) are working double time to lea…
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Storytelling Setting with Shapes
Create literacy landscapes built shape by shape in Keynote! This fun and engaging activity is suitable for all ages, with simple shapes leading to more intricate designs. During our literacy time i…
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Exploring our Local Habitats
Next term we will be learning about Habitats and some of the animals that live there. In my role as a Year 2 Teacher, Junior Literacy Lead and Apple Coach I will be supporting staff in a number of wa…
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Sentence Level Fluency for Junior Writing
Next Term in my roles as Junior Literacy Lead and Apple Coach I will be supporting staff to step into new learning for writing. I have started to develop my digital bookshelf to support our teachers …
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Storytelling with Photography and Markup
Storytelling with photography and Markup has been a focus area in Term 4 for my Year 1 ākonga (5 and 6 year olds).They have been learning how to take a quality photo and then manipulate the image wit…
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Feed the Little Old Lady: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog Story Sequencing & Retelling
There was an old lady who swallowed a… Explore what the Little Old Lady swallowed through a Keynote drag & drop sequencing activity and live video story retelling! Take the traditional early chil…
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Zoo Animal Scavenger Hunt
Let’s go on a Scavenger Hunt! #dptech Take pictures of Zoo Animals at the zoo or in your classroom to build vocabulary and connect to content-area learning. Go to the zoo or post pictures of zoo anim…
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LÄS, TÄNK & SKAPA
LÄS, TÄNK & SKAPA – ett kreativt alternativ till traditionella läsförståelsefrågor Känner du också att upplägget ”läs en text och svara på frågor” ibland känns lite uttjatat? Vill du prova något …
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Harnessing the Freeform App for Dynamic Digital Learning
CoAuthor - @ParkerSmith Students in our district are gaining confidence in using creation tools available throughout Apple's native applications utilizing Keynote templates created by @TechZ. Now, it…
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Imaginative Story Journal
Pages is such a wonderful tool for developing future authors. Connecting the reading unit with writing imaginative stories or traditional tales, lead to creation of this Pages writing journal centere…
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Tiny Happy People - A Storytelling and Book Making Project Using AR
Introduction Hello. Fellow Apple Distinguished Educator Sebastian Achatz (Austria) and I (Kerry Abercrombie - Scotland) are delighted to introduce to our joint One Best Thing project which we invite …
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Fluency Tracker in Numbers
Leveraging the capabilities of Numbers opened access to providing literacy interventions and feedback loop for students efficiently. Setting up a collaborative file, a teacher can easily setup, maint…
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Letter Tiles
This is for anyone who has taught phonics or a foundational skills groups where the tiles have gone missing or have students who need to see limited sets of tiles at time. Attached is a Letter Tiles …
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Make a "Punny" Valentine Card
Creative activity: Use homophones, puns or play with words to make fun and clever Valentine’s sayings. Then combine them using stickers, drawings, images or emoji in Markup to make a custom Valentine…
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Unlocking Literacy- Empowering Learners with a Multimodal Approach
Unlocking Literacy-Empowering Learners with a Multimodal Approach Like many states, Wisconsin has recently adopted some new legislature around policies on evidence-based reading practices. In Wiscon…
