Beginning this semester, the education department at Saint Michael's College started an "iPad Initiative". Each student in the department was provided with an iPad as a new medium for learning and teaching. On this technology platform we would begin to build our skills as future educators.
Our task for the course, "Adolescent Development" was not only to construct a portfolio in the form of a blog, but also to plan an 80 minute lesson to present in class. On November 3rd, Robert Daneau and I taught our lesson on "The Self", a chapter from our class textbook. We spent about three weeks preparing a thorough lesson plan which utilized a handful of technologies to engage students in a critical inquiry about what constitutes identity. Our professor encouraged us to use several apps including PollEverywhere, AnkiApp, Quizlet, as well as Google sheets, Google docs, Google slides, Google sites, and Apple TV. In this way, we were able to teach our lesson from a Google website, which we created, while taking full advantage of our iPads in the classroom.
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