Category: RTC News

March 5, 2024

Apple Education Workshops – March 2024

Learning and Teaching for the Future

Apple Education are inviting educators from across Scotland to an inspiring half day of workshops focused on Learning and Teaching for the Future with Apple Technology.

Technology has an important role to play in bringing learning to life, enabling young people to develop, refine and showcase their learning, demonstrate understanding and collaborate safely as they progress through their educational journey. Locations and dates

This event will enable educators to explore how Apple & iPad can support these challenges and enrich the learning experience
across the curriculum. You will hear from a variety of presenters and have the chance to get hands-on with education focused
experience sessions. These sessions are suitable for practitioners across all sectors.

Hands-on workshops include

- - Engage: Technology engages learners more deeply by providing immersive experiences that are intuitive and delightful. This workshop will explore a range of experiences on iPad and how they bring learning to life.

- - Scaffold: Technology scaffolds learning by making it more personal and more accessible, empowering every learner to be their best. This workshop will explore the accessibility tools that are built into iPad, straight out of the box.

- - Connect: Technology connects learners to information, resources and people seamlessly, wherever they are. In this session we will look at the opportunities iPad enables alongside Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

Requirements

Please bring bags of enthusiasm! If you have an iPad please bring it along. Devices will also be available for loan on the day. No previous experience with Apple technologies necessary.

Events are taking place in locations near Motherwell and Aberdeen. Please select the event most convenient to you.

Refreshments provided on arrival.

February 22, 2024

March 20th, 16:00 Falkirk RTC – Mastery through Quizzing with Quizizz

 Register Here

Join Falkirk RTC for an Exploring Learner Engagement Series of webinars.

This hands on session will explore how gamification can enhance retrieval practice or engage learners with new content. Explore a demonstration of the pupil experience and discover the ways in which the data becomes available to educators as their class attempts to master a topic.

There will also be be an exploration of the Quizizz Free-For-Schools tools and explore the new AI features in Quizizz.

Quizizz is a browser based tool useful for 1:1 and shared device environments.

Anyone is welcome to attend this online session. The session will take place on Webex which can be accessed via the Webex app or in a browser, information will follow by email after registration.

February 22, 2024

March 13th, 16:00 Falkirk RTC – Easy Interactive Lessons with Curipod

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Join Falkirk RTC for an Exploring Learner Engagement Series of webinars.

In this session, attendees will discover how simple it is to make interactive and engaging lessons with Curipod.

Whether using existing resources or working with the built in AI to make something new, Curipod caters for all.

Explore a hands-on demonstration of the pupils experience and learn about the teacher moderation tools.

Curipod is a browser based tool useful for 1:1 and shared device environments.

Anyone is welcome to attend this online session. The session will take place on Webex which can be accessed via the Webex app or in a browser, information will follow by email after registration.

February 22, 2024

March 7th, 16:00 Falkirk RTC – Classroom Collaboration with Padlet

 Register Here

Join Falkirk RTC for an Exploring Learner Engagement Series of webinars.

The first session will explore real time collaboration with Padlet, through a hands on look at new features which allow for fast and easy learner collaboration using a variety of multimodal content. Learn how to manage teacher workflow to maximise the free Padlet account.

Padlet is a browser based tool useful for 1:1 and shared device environments.

The session will take place on Webex which can be accessed via the Webex app or in a browser, information will follow by email after your registration.

January 18, 2024

Resource – Space Exploration Workbook

Version 1.0

This project stems from an example we created to support staff in their professional development. During a 4 part CLPL course that we run, This is Digital, we spoke about a Planning, Learning, Teaching, and Assessment cycle, and one of the aspects to this was that a well planned resource can help not only with student learning and engagement but with assessment strategies and establishing success criteria. We created a Pages Workbook that essentially acts as a 1.0 to the resource being shared. This example workbook was populated with digital literacy examples using out of the box features and apps, and also created spaces for teacher feedback and evaluation.

iPad screenshot showing a video — Space for ‘flight director’ comment laying out student achievement

Staff attending these sessions were not necessarily all iPad users but it was enough to spark the ‘art of the possible’ in their practice and reception to the aspects laid out were very positive. Especially when the digital examples were shared, allowing pupils the ability to share their knowledge in a way that makes sense to them. This led to the new resource being made so that it might have an impact on teaching & learning and take it in a direction that our colleague George says, is more than simply using markup to draw a face on a bin, as it puts the digital literacy into context and has an ability to take all aspects of iPad use into account.

Example created in keynote, imported in Pages and teacher feedback added

Putting the new version together

In creating this document, it was important to show the various strings to the bow that the iWork suite has, including the recent update that allows USDZ and SVG files to be included natively. It allows various levels of interactivity in a single resource and means that pupils have all the resources they need.

iPad screenshot showing a Mars habitat — Incorporating USDZ files for hands on and icons to signify each page

Layout

Icons are a great learning tool as it gives pupils a visual guide to what type of activities they can do on each page/section. The workbook has a natural flow and progression of skills making use of apps such as Keynote, GarageBand, iMovie and the Everyone Can Create projects.

iPad screenshot showing a robot — Using icons to explain what each section/page incorporates

For each of the activities, we have laid out a context beforehand, giving pupils a scenario and then set a task that builds on it. The Everyone Can Create projects are an excellent way to leverage these activities and make this book more project based, topic focused rather than a one and done style of activity.

iPad screenshot showing iPad with a page for adding content — Example of an activity page. Pupils create their example and add it to this page.

Download the Space Explorers Workbook here

Download the 1.0 version of the workbook here

September 19, 2023

iPadOS 17 now available

iPadOS 17 takes iPad further with new levels of personalisation, custom Lock Screens, easier ways to find and share information, and intelligent features to help get things done.

September 18, 2023

UPDATE

iPadOS 17 is now available

iPadOS 17 brings new levels of personalisation and versatility to iPad, and is available today as a free software update. Below are some of the updates that can be useful in school.

Users can now customise the Lock Screen with widgets, quickly access notes and calendar events, and expressive their individual styles. Interactive widgets take glanceable information further with the ability to get tasks done right in the moment with just a tap, directly from the Lock Screen or Home Screen.

Working with PDFs on iPad is easier than ever. Coming later this year, AutoFill identifies and fills fields in forms, allowing users to quickly add details such as names, addresses, and emails from Contacts. Notes also offers new ways to organise, read, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs, and now lets users quickly link one note to another.

Entering information in PDFs is now easier than ever.

Stage Manager adds more flexibility to the positioning of windows and offers the ability to use an external display camera for FaceTime and conference calls. With Profiles in Safari, teachers and pupils can keep their browsing separate between topics like work and personal.

Notes allows users to review and mark up PDFs and scanned documents right in the note.

Freeform gets new drawing tools and adds Follow Along to guide collaborators around the board, and Keyboard brings big improvements to autocorrect, allowing users to enter text faster, easier, and more accurately than ever before.

In Freeform, users can create expressive boards with new drawing tools and a diagramming mode.

iPadOS 17 is available for iPad (6th generation and later), iPad mini (5th generation and later), iPad Air (3rd generation and later), 12.9-inch iPad Pro (2nd generation and later), 10.5-inch iPad Pro, and 11-inch iPad Pro (1st generation and later).

Updates are subject to Local Authority authorisation. Some features may not be available in all areas.

Visit apple.com/ipados/ipados-17 or reach out to a member of the national or your local authority team for more information