This document discusses the potential for untethered and flexible learning environments using mobile devices like iPads. It suggests that when given choices in tools and spaces, students can engage in personalized, creative, and technology-integrated learning. Specific apps like Educreations, iMovie, and Puppet Pals are presented as options to demonstrate knowledge through multimedia formats. The document also highlights examples of schools that provide agile, reconfigurable spaces and public platforms to share student work.

1. Ellen KraskaMark Hammons
Tales of An UnTethered
Classroom

2. Today’s Meet
Introduce yourself!
!
What did you enjoy learning when you went to school?
todaysmeet.com/notdon

3. Trends today

4. Affordance Theory
Environment shapes behavior

5. In school
we want students to be engaged, focused, creative…
Photo from flickr - aarongilson

6. Yet, these are the spaces we give them.
Photo from Wikimedia Commons

7. Myth of Averages Video
http://goo.gl/Pt0d53

8. Opportunity
Photo from Flickr - Stuartpilbrow

9. • Social
• Mobile
• Multi-modal
• Contextual
• Integrates technology
Learning is…

10. Tim Springer Hero Inc. @heroesdrtim
http://goo.gl/x9DQV0

11. What do you want learning to look like?
Turn and Talk. Share your answers in Today’s Meet.
todaysmeet.com/notdon

12. Where do you go
for inspiration, to be creative, to learn, to work…
Photo from flickr - martinlabar

13. Design with learning in mind

14. If someone walked into your room,
when the students were using iPads,
what would learning look like?

15. How is the iPad changing the learning
experience in your classroom?

16. Sugata Mitra
Learning behaviors are changing because of technology.
Photo from flickr: TED Conference

17. Using iPads to…
• Enable movement
• Enable independence
and autonomy
• Personalize learning
experience

18. One iPad

19. Using AppleTV to…
• Enable movement
• Celebrate work
• Create community
• Elevate voices
• Shift the attention from the teacher to the students

20. The Untethered Classroom with
AppleTV: Nuts & Bolts
• System requirements
• Settings
• Apple Remote
• Home share to distribute media

21. Choice Time
More Apple TV Nuts and
Bolts with Mark
Brainstorming possible
“app”lications with Ellen

24. Educreations Doodlecast Pro
Explain Everything

25. Camera app, iMovie, Garage Band,
Croak.it!

26. Tellagami, Toontastic, Puppet Pals,
Sock Puppets, Chatter Pix

27. Book Creator, My Story

28. Windows to Student Thinking
Whiteboard Apps
Educreations, Doodlecast Pro, Explain Everything
!
Digital Storytelling Apps
Camera App, GarageBand, iMovie, Croak it!, DoInk Green Screen
!
Avatars & Puppets Apps
Sock Puppets, Puppet Pals, Toontastic, Tellagami
!
Book Publishing Apps
Book Creator, My Story
Presentation Apps
Haiku Deck, Keynote, ThingLink
!
Notetaking Apps
Google Drive, Evernote, Notability

29. Create Individualized
Learning Opportunities
• Ignite curiosity and inspire creativity
• Open windows to student thinking
• Provide opportunities for students to demonstrate
knowledge and learning in multimedia formats
• Screencasts, iMovies, podcasts, tellagamis and more!

31. Flexible and reconfigurable
Hillbrook iLab

32. Agile Spaces
Wheels, nesting and stacking
Hillbrook iLab

33. Public Platforms
for galleries of thinking

34. Choice

35. Seamless
Zackees Turn Signal Gloves

36. Thank you!