The iPad committee, Ghassan (chair), Noel, Peter, Caesar and Sheila have been working with teams across the HCT system focusing on the three main strands of the iPad implementation project: infrastructure, content and pedagogy. These three areas are being co-ordinated by a group of senior managers from HCT, ZU and UAEU, with Dr Jace Hargis, Director of ADW, heading up the iPadagogy team. Last week Apple trainers ran a series of workshops at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, for representatives from Foundations in the three institutions, with Sheila attending for Madinat Zayed and Ruwais Colleges. Apple training for all Foundations faculty is in the pipeline, as is a one day conference which will give all early iPad adopters the chance to share their experience of teaching and learning with this amazing device. What this space for dates and details.
There are iFoundations teams led by Central Academic Services working on both Maths and English. It is planned that there will a specially chosen number of apps for each discipline which every Foundations teacher and student will have downloaded. We’ll let you know as soon as these have been determined.
Meanwhile check out iPads for Education, a joint website for the UAEU, ZU and HCT. Here you will find reviews of many apps, information, blogs on iPadagogy and links to how-to videos. Eventually there will be a bank of lesson plans to exemplify iPad integration.
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