The student used their iPad daily for taking notes in class, studying at home, and writing papers. They found the iPad more useful than their iTouch due to its larger screen size. Taking notes and writing papers on the iPad helped improve the student's verbal and visual learning styles. The iPad's portability and note-taking apps made it easier for the student to be organized and efficient. While games occasionally distracted the student, overall the iPad enhanced their learning process and made their last semester of college easier.
Quick and simple ways to utilise i pads in lessons
Crystal Ngai's iPad Enhances Learning Through Notes, Writing
1. Crystal Ngai
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The technology I chose to use for this semester in this assignment was my ipad. I used my ipad
almost every day so it was a very often use. I would take my ipad with me to class so I can take
notes and study with. I used my ipad at home for other purposes too that was not only for
school. I found the ipad to be a daily use because of its portability. As for my itouch I started to
neglect it after I got the ipad because I found the ipad to be more useful and easier to use. The
screen on the itouch was too small for me to read my notes off of so I began to use my ipad
instead.
I used the ipad to apply to my visual and verbal learning styles. It has definitely improved both of
those learning styles. The ipad opens PDF which is where most of my lecture notes for school is
kept in, which made it very easy for me to keep up with daily school work. The ipad has a very
clear screen that projects the images very nicely so I was able to use the ipad in class for hours
at a time. My verbal learning style was applied in this use of technology from all the papers I
wrote on it. I was able to write papers on my ipad that made me verbally say out what I wanted
to put in my papers. Because the ipad is completely a touch screen, I was able to easier scroll
up and down to read and edit my papers.
This technology has improved my writing and visual analysis learning. I wrote essays and
papers on the ipad which helped me improve my writing because I would be able to easily edit
my papers by scrolling up and down looking for mistakes. My visual analysis has improved from
using this technology because of its screen clarity that made it so easy to detect mistakes in
writing and papers.
This technology was helpful to my learning process because it made it easier and efficient to
learn. The ipad was portable which made it easier to bring everywhere with me. The ipad never
broke down or failed on me like some of the laptops I had in the past. I was able to download a
lot of useful note taking applications that helped me take down all my lecture notes. I didn’t have
to carry around different note books to class because everything I needed was taken down onto
my ipad.
Something I would do differently next time would be to not download too many games on to my
ipad because at times it was really distracting when I needed to focus on homework or studying.
Other than that I don’t think I would change anything about using this technology. This
technology made my last semester of college a lot easier and relaxing. I think that teachers and
professors should use ipads to teach with because it’s portable and easy to use.