"Creativity is contagious, pass it on." ~Albert Einstein

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

"Tell me and I forget,
teach me and I may remember,
involve me and I learn."  
~Benjamin Franklin

The most important part of my job as a Technology Integration Specialist is to give teachers ideas or examples on how to seamlessly integrate technology into their curriculums.  Setting teachers up for success is something that I take seriously and I find that I am continually differentiating to meet the needs of our teachers.

Recently I decided that the "show and tell" format of me teaching/showing an app was simply not getting the job done.  I was simply placing another item on their plate, and that plate was starting to look like it was loaded at an all you can eat buffet.  

I thought about what I could do differently in regards to meeting the needs of our teachers and came up with the idea of creating "App Task Challenges."  

What are App Task Challenges? 
  • Easy to follow guides that give teachers the opportunity to create products with an app that they can take directly back to their classrooms 
  • The challenge is in the teacher trying to complete the task from start to finish (usually not a problem)
  • I create them using Pages on my Mac
  • I share them with our Middle School teachers during our weekly IDT meetings and just last week issued a challenge to our Elementary and High School teachers.  The challenge involved teachers completing the app tasks and then sharing their completed product with me via email or with our #aurorahuskies hashtag.  An iTunes card was given away to a random name that was drawn from teachers that submitted a product. 
Here are some examples of App Task Challenges:






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