Overview
When?
Summer 2015
What?
5-Day workshop
Where?
High school computer lab equipped with SmartBoard
Who?
20 FCPS high school teachers in various disciplines
iPad Topics
Usage and troubleshooting
Content-related lesson plans
Technology grant application process
Why iPads?
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Day
Title
Audience
9-12 Teachers
Description
9-12 Teachers
the classroom
1. Instructor will review how to download apps onto
iPad.
2. Instructor will supply resource sites for finding
appropriate apps for teachers classrooms.
3. Teachers will investigate apps that would be
appropriate for their classroom.
9-12 Teachers
9-12 Teachers
9-12 Teachers
Proposed Needs /
Budget
Computer Lab at a FCPS High School
Must have SmartBoard in classroom
Resources
Baker, J. C., Isbell, J. K., Wendt, J., & Wilson, B. (2013). V-SPACE: Training teachers to use iPads to create
virtual spaces for accessing content in English. International Journal of Technology in Teaching &
Learning, 9(1), 64-80.
Flewitt, R., Kucirkova, N., & Messer, D. (2014). Touching the virtual, touching the real: iPads and
enabling literacy for students experiencing disability. Australian Journal of Language & Literacy, 37(2),
107-116.
Ingraham, M. (2013). Incorporating iPad Technology into the Classroom: A Geometry Project. Ohio
Journal of School Mathematics, (67), 27-32.
iPads for high school [image]. (n.d.). Retrieved from: http://
www.ipadinschools.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ipad-release.jpg
Montgomery County Public Schools. (2014). Strategic technology planCreating 21st century learning
spaces - Questions and answers. Retrieved from
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/Strategic-Technology-Plan-FAQs.pdf
Montgomery County Public Schools. (2014). Technology roll-out by school. Retrieved from
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/technology/TechPlanRollout.pdf
Tablets Help Students Learn Science. (2014). Science Teacher, 81(2), 19-20.