Go wild with your iPad!
Get behind the scenes at the zoo and master how to embed technology into your classroom with our iPad training event at Cotswold Wildlife Park.
This course provides VIP access for the day, a fresh perspective on the animals and a fully hands-on environment.
You will learn and practice how iPads can be embedded effectively into your classroom to support the learning process. All activities are fully adaptable to be used with your own class.
Transform teaching and learning in your classroom
• Create interactive learning scaffolds rather than just using the iPad to produce outcomes of students’ learning
• Learn a fully integrated approach, blending technology with more traditional classroom practices
• Learn to use apps and devices (such as Explain Everything) that can be rolled out across the whole curriculum and at all learning levels
• Embed new-found skills into your term’s planning
• Use the Take-Away Toolkit in your own school environment
• Replicate the experience at Cotswold Wildlife Park with your own class or apply all activities to other areas of the curriculum
Key course activities
• Explanation of the power of the camera and AirPlay in learning (includes a short talk by a wildlife expert)
• Introduction to creating a learning scaffold using the Explain Everything app (incorporates Cotswold Wildlife Park’s Penguin Talk and Madagascar Talk)
• Explanation as to how a learning scaffold can be used across the curriculum (includes a chance to explore the park and capture animal footage)
• Demonstration of how technology can be embedded to review, collate, collaborate, refine and rehearse (includes apps such as Popplet)
• Review of the learning process and embedding the iPad
• Review of Take-Away toolkit (includes How To guides, lesson plans, snapshot ideas for each app, information on future Technology Mastery training series dates
Who is it for?
Master Embedding Technology at Cotswold Wildlife Park is perfect if your school uses iPads, if you have some experience of teaching with them and if you want to build your confidence by taking your use to the next level.
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