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Individual iPads would not only enhance lessons and learning in my classroom but they would help prepare my students for a world that is driven by technology!
With each one of my students having access to an iPad daily, I would be able to increase student excitement for reading a by allowing students to listen to stories on great apps such as epic! Our classroom does not have many books that are on a kindergarten reading level. Kindergartners need to hear stories and listen to expression and fluency. There are so many apps that will provide us with on level text. Listening to a story on an iPad will be fun and exciting and the students will want to read more and more! I believe that I could also enhance sight words and learning to spell if students were able to type their sight words. We write our words with pencil, pen, crayons and markers, but I would love to provide my students with the opportunity to type!
One of my student's favorite things to do to practice counting is play a game on the whiteboard where they have to click on numbers in numerical order. If every student had an iPad, I would be able to allow them to have more turns counting and they would not get bored waiting for others which would increase their attention to our skill we are working on! I would use the iPads to gain attention to a new skill and I could use them for enrichment to review skills we have already learned!
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Individual iPads would not only enhance lessons and learning in my classroom but they would help prepare my students for a world that is driven by technology!
With each one of my students having access to an iPad daily, I would be able to increase student excitement for reading a by allowing students to listen to stories on great apps such as epic! Our classroom does not have many books that are on a kindergarten reading level. Kindergartners need to hear stories and listen to expression and fluency. There are so many apps that will provide us with on level text. Listening to a story on an iPad will be fun and exciting and the students will want to read more and more! I believe that I could also enhance sight words and learning to spell if students were able to type their sight words. We write our words with pencil, pen, crayons and markers, but I would love to provide my students with the opportunity to type!
One of my student's favorite things to do to practice counting is play a game on the whiteboard where they have to click on numbers in numerical order. If every student had an iPad, I would be able to allow them to have more turns counting and they would not get bored waiting for others which would increase their attention to our skill we are working on! I would use the iPads to gain attention to a new skill and I could use them for enrichment to review skills we have already learned!