steam and ipads -session 508
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STEAM AND IPADS
AGENDA•What is STEAM Education?•How to set up STEAM in your school• iPads and STEAM•STEAMy Apps and websites•Your STEAM challenge today
From projects.upei.ca
A STEAM group has 3 members.
Director – Makes sure everyone in the group understands the task or challenge, makes sure everyone is on track and collaborates on the project.
Manager – Gathers equipment needed and collaborates on the project
Researcher – Researches ideas on the iPad and may ask other people for ideas, collaborates on the project.
STEAM GROUPS AND ROLES
THE DESIGN PROCESS
From Make Magazine
THE BIG QUESTION: CREATING THE STEAM CHALLENGEA STEAM challenge should be:• no longer what can be written on a t-shirt• open-ended• guided by your resources, capabilities of your students,
current world problems or student or community issues and topics you are studying in the classroom – Make it meaningful for your students• involve at least two of the core topics. Eg. Technology
and Science
iPads and STEAMStudents use the iPads as a:• research tool – with search engines, apps• learning tool – eg. coding apps such as Hopscotch,
Kodable• creative tool – eg. interactive art such as Scratch, Glitche• presenting tool – eg. Explain Everything, Book creator,
Storybook creator• sharing tool for peer and teacher review – eg. Edmodo
Teachers can use the iPads to present the initial challenge - eg. Powtoons, Edmodo, Seesaw
TEST AND EVALUATE!
STEAMY WEBSITES• http://educationcloset.com/steam/• https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/ste
m-education-over-25-steam-links-filled-with-resources-and-information• http://thinglinkblog.com/2015/01/04/full-steam-ahead-wit
h-thinglink-challenges-in-2015/• http://www.garlandisd.net/departments/curriculum/steam
/• www.learningscience.org• www.erintegration.com• http://leftbraincraftbrain.com• STEAM youtube channels to check out: Vi Hart, Babble
Dabble Do, Make Workshops, Tinker Lab, What do we do all day, Design your world, TedEd, Caine’s Arcade and Sylvia’s Super Awesome Mini Maker Show.
STEAMY APPSThere are constantly new, innovative apps on the market.My favourite apps at the moment include:• Nearpod• Explain everything • Edmodo• Stop Motion• Swifty• Spotify• Glitche• Animoto• Flipagram• 123D Make• Polyphonic
From:We are TEACHERS website
From: Critical Thinking for Life
CONTACT• [email protected] • Chelsea Walsh
Cooerwull Public SchoolMain StreetLithgow NSW 2790
Pinterest: Chels W