Title of Unit Curriculum Area

Three Must Have Apps for the Kindergarten Classroom Technology Integration

Grade Level Time Frame

Staff Development Kindergarten Teachers 2 Sessions Approximately 45 minutes

Stage 1 Desired Results

ISTE NETS-T (National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers) 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers: a. demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations. b. collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation. c. communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats. d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning. 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers: a. participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning. b. exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others. c. evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning. d. contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.

Understandings
Understandings: Learners will understand iPads have many educational benefits. the use of educational apps can help improve student learning in different content areas. some of the different ways that iPads and apps can be used in the classroom.

Essential Questions Overarching Question(s) Topical Question(s)

How can we promote iPads in an educational setting? What are some ways that iPads can be used in the classroom? What are some ways I can use the apps discussed today?

Knowledge and Skills Knowledge

Learners will know how to locate and download apps how to use the apps presented in this lesson in a classroom environment

Skills
Learners will be able to use iPads as an instructional tool locate and download apps from the App store implement the use of iPads and apps in the classroom

Stage 2 Assessment Evidence

Performance Task: Learners will choose one of the apps presented and implement it in the classroom. They will be expected to share their experiences with their grade level during a follow-up planning period. Other Forms of Assessment: Learners will complete an online survey about the staff development training, the apps covered, and their experience implementing them in the classroom.

Stage 3: Learning Activities

Session 1: Introduction - As a hook, the presenter will play a short YouTube video on iPads. In the video, a group of students demonstrate some ways that iPads can be used to improve student learning. Before starting the lesson, the presenter will make sure that the staff has a good understanding of how to download and install apps.

PuppetPals HD The presenter will introduce and demonstrate how to use the PuppetPals HD app. The presenter will connect the use of the app to a grade level specific standard and share some ways it can be used in the classroom.(students use this app to retell stories or create their own) Conclusion The presenter will show the staff how to locate the resource wiki. The wiki contains information, video tutorials, and tips for each of the apps presented. The presenter will encourage the staff to implement the apps discussed in their classrooms and bring ideas and student created products to share during the next session. The presenter will have the staff locate and download each of the apps presented. The presenter will encourage the staff to explore the apps and try them out. Session Two : Introduction - As a hook, the presenter will play a short YouTube video on iPads. This video will show different ways that iPads can be used in the classroom. The presenter will review the apps discussed in the previous staff development lesson and have the staff share ideas for implementing the apps and student products. Screen Chomp The presenter will introduce and demonstrate how to use the Screen Chomp app. The presenter will connect the use of the app to a grade level specific standard and share some ways it can be used in the classroom. (students use this app during number talks to explain their thinking, students who have a good understanding of a specific standard can use this app to create a how-to tutorial, the teacher can create a lesson for students listen to and complete during centers, use it to assess student understanding) iTalk The presenter will introduce and demonstrate how to use the iTalk Recorder app. The presenter will connect the use of the app to a grade level specific standard and share some ways it can be used in the classroom. (Students can use this app to record themselves reading. Students can use this app to record themselves doing just about anything. They can go back and listen to their recording.) The presenter will have the staff locate and download the app presented. The presenter will encourage the staff to explore the app and try it out. The presenter will show the staff how to create folders and organize their apps by topic or type.

Conclusion The presenter will remind the staff how to locate the resource wiki. The wiki contains information, video tutorials, and tips for each of the apps presented. The presenter will inform the staff that they will be asked to complete an online survey about the training session, the apps presented, and their experience with implementing the apps in the classroom. Below are the survey questions that the staff will be asked to answer at the end of the training. The feedback from the survey will be used to include areas of training needed and improve the training sessions. The survey was created in Survey Monkey.

* 1. Was the information presented in the staff development sessions on iPads useful?

Was the information presented in the staff development sessions on iPads useful?

* 2. Will you implement at least one of the apps presented in your classroom?

Will you implement at least one of the apps presented in your classroom?

* 3. Was the resource wiki easy to follow and useful?

Was the resource wiki easy to follow and useful?

* 4. What type of iPad training would you like to see offered?

What type of iPad training would you like to see offered?

* 5. Were the apps presented to your grade level developmentally appropriate for your students? Were the students able to understand and use the apps?