I was curious as to how to place an
Apple symbol into a blog or text message. I found an article
from April 2017 on how this works. However, the January 2018 version is slightly different.
This leads me to the practice of allowing students to "
consume content" while teaching. A perfect example of this happened this week. A teacher had a famous person in history projected in front of the class. The instructor asked students, "What do you know about this person?" The high school students didn't say a word.
Not. One. Word.
The instructor discouragingly proceeded on by giving the students everything the teacher knew about the famous person. After observing this, I mentioned to the teacher that at the moment they asked what the students know, the teacher
could have provided students with
three to five to however long the "investigating" minutes takes for students to
consume content that could be a website, a video, an image, a pdf, etc. Allowing students to "
critically think" about the content that they are "
consuming" and then sharing that content is a great skill for our students to develop and master.
The teacher tried the strategy the next day and emailed me a tremendous "
thank you" as the discussion was so much more valuable and productive.
STOP using digital devices and tools "
just for projects". Utilizing the tools for
consuming content,
critically thinking about that content,
collaborating with others, and
creating/sharing solutions can all be incorporated into a single learning experience. Furthermore,
STOP calling all of these "
learning experiences" "
projects". Avoid saying, "We are going to do an iMovie project." We don't say that this weekend I'm going to do a "hammer project". We say, "I'm going to build a deck and these are the tools I'll need: hammer, saw, nails, etc." These "projects" are simply opportunities that allow students to build skills through learning experiences that help them move closer to contributing to their college, career, or community while in school and after graduating.
This leads me back to this morning. I wanted to learn how to insert an
Apple symbol into a blog or text message. I was able to
consume the content, but needed to
critically think about that the information I found
"shortcuts" from the article
was slightly different than what I was seeing as
"text replacement".
Once I did that I was successfully able to insert an Apple symbol on my iPad.
Our high school physical education students will be creating energetic lifting videos. We will be teaching them how to film correctly when using an iPad.
