Introduction

Make sure that you make the most out of iPads as a highly motivational tool, to engage students in Science and support a range of key curricular outcomes. Join expert tutors, Emma and Ed, as they explore how the use of iPads can help you improve and simplify both assessment and workflow, and consider the implications for helping students to develop Higher Order Thinking. Packed with a wealth of practical advice for immediate application in the classroom, this course will enable you to explore a range of apps to enthuse students and ease the burden of planning and assessment.

Attend this course to:
1. Understand the impact of the iPad as a tool for researching evidence, capturing ideas and analysing data, and making this meaningful for students
2. Learn how students’ scientific ideas can be developed and shared through blogging
3. Discover how students can share work effectively, offering and receiving feedback
4. Examine assessment tools out that gather feedback on progress and inform lesson planning

Apps to download:
Educreation – free
Nearpod – free
iMovie - £2.99
Socrative – free
Plague Inc - £0.99
Edmodo – free
Oscope - £2.99
We will also be using Padlet.com

Useful links

• Further event details More information about the event

Speakers

• Emma Sealey Emma is Director of Learning for Science at Wildern School. She previously taught at The Hurst Community College in Tadley, leaving to join Wildern as the Second in Science before being promoted to team leader. Emma is involved in LifeLab, a project which has been developed since 2008 by The Wellcome Trust, The Medical Research Council, researchers in the Southampton Education School, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Science Learning Centre. Her CPD session for LifeLab University Researchers on classroom management is on YouTube. She also has links with the Outreach team at the University of Southampton helping to deliver sessions on language, pupil engagement and behaviour as well as supporting the Communication Course provided by the Science Learning Centre South East for individuals due to embark on their teacher training.
  
  
  Wildern School has a record of academic success and provides a range of opportunities to students both through the curriculum and extensive extracurricular activities. The school performs well above the national average; Ofsted graded the school as outstanding in 2006, 2008 and 2012. Wildern School makes extensive use of digital technology, which involves the use of Apple technology and an array of other devices including PCs and a wireless technology centre. It has become a pioneer of mobile networking in education., United Kingdom
• Ed Walsh Ed is a Science Adviser with twenty years’ experience of teaching Science, including leading National Strategies project teams on Narrowing the Gap in Science and Curriculum Provision at KS4, and is a very well-respected author of a wider range of Science resources.
  
  He was seconded to the National Strategies for two years, as a Regional Adviser on the Science & Innovation Investment Framework supporting schools and LAs in several parts of England and then Senior Adviser for the South of England., United Kingdom

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Venue

Central London, venue not known yet

Central London, venue not known yet, TBC, TBC, TBC, United Kingdom

Organised by

Philip Allan Events

Philip Allan Events

Contact information

Mr Alex Duffy
Philip Allan Events
Market Place
Deddington
Oxfordshire
OX15 0SE
United Kingdom
01869 336410
Contact us by email

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