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App games are great to help build literacy and mathematical skills as well as help move on Bloom's Taxonomy levels...but what else can we use the iPad for? There is FaceTime which is similar to Skype. Users can make a video call to another classroom miles away. I could also see FaceTime being used to connect to authors or illustratrators. The iPad also has the ability to video or audio record. Perfect to record students reading to help build fluency.
Displaying iPad on Projector ~ This website explains how to display your iPad 2 or newer iPad on a projector. You do need to purchase an Apple TV, but would is a wonderful way to demonstrate and model how to use certain apps before sending them off on their own or crowding around one iPad while a teacher demonstrates.
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Dragon Dictation is an app that takes spoken words and translates them into type. Perfect to send quick emails or document students behavior on the fly! Students with special needs who have trouble typing may also be able to enjoy this app y understanding the relationship between spoken and written words.
iPads and Parents

Welcome to iPads 3-5!
—This page offers many different options for incorporating iPads in grades 3-5 literacy block.—
Daily 5 and iPads:
Here is a list of many apps you can download and implement in each section of the Daily 5. In fact, these are some of the very apps I use in my own 4th grade classroom and my students absolutely love them!
Read to Self: Children's Stories, Children's Classics, ShelMovies, Free Books, Kindle, and Nook.
Read to Partner: ICDL, MeeGenius, PlayTales.
Listen to Reading: ICDL, Shoemaker, Audiobooks, Dog Story, Play Tales, MeeGenius, and ShelMovies.
Word Work: Words Mine, Word Avalanche, Word War, Bluster, SparkleFish, Whirly Word, Same Meaning I and II,
Chicktionary, Angry Words, Wordball, Same Sound, Word to Word, Fact or Opinion, WordsPuzzle and Textropolis.
Work on Writing: SparkleFish, iDiary for Kids, BrainPOP, neu.Annotate, Pages, Numbers, Toontastic, ShowMe,
ScreenChomp, Popplet. Just a few fun writing/tracing apps include Head Pad, FirePaint, Magnetic ABC, and Chalkboard.
Not only do these apps fit nicely into the Daily 5, but there are many apps out there that coincide with thematic units including folktales (fables, fairy tales, etc.), poetry, graphic novels, informational text, and comics.
Excellent Websites for Apps that Build Literacy:
For those educators who do not implement the Daily 5/CAFE, here are many online resources for you to browse to pinpoint certain skills you want students to work on through specific apps. Some of these website even offer apps for math, science, and social studies!
InterAction Education
40 Apps that Librarians Love
5 Great iPad Apps for 3-5 Teachers
Teach with your iPad
12 Great iPad Apps for Elementary Students
Pros and Cons:
The viewpoints on how positive or negative classroom iPad curriculum is lands on a very broad spectrum. Many people today have strong viewpoints on why iPads are an essential tool in the classroom, while others are set against it with a passion. Several of the common pros include: easily accessible/portable, fast and easy to use, draws children in with fun apps and games. However, there are also some common downfalls, including: a keyboard option that is more difficult to use, not a laptop, and the ever-present fear that children will become addicted to it. Here are a couple online articles that discuss the pros and cons of incorporating iPads in the classroom.
Teaching and Learning: Using iPads in the Classroom
Wired Educator
What are your thoughts? Are iPads good or bad to use in the 3-5 grade classrooms?
Accessing Apps on the iPad:
Here are two great sites to get you started with downloading educational iPad apps for children.
Apple iPad Home
Apple iPad Education

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One of the first steps you can do as a teacher or a parent for safer searching is go to Google SafeSearch
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Go Gooligans Kids Search Engine ( this cool site even has a pop-up keyboard for kids with disabilities!)
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Once students and parents are made aware of the dangers of the internet, I feel it is important to provide them with information about safe search engines and safe places for younger students to use for social networking.
Google SafeSearch
Here you can find instructions for changing your browser settings to filter the content that will show up when searching.
The settings include:
Strict filtering filters sexually explicit video and images from Google Search result pages, as well as results that might link to explicit content.
Moderate filtering excludes sexually explicit video and images from Google Search result pages, but does not filter results that might link to explicit content. This is the default SafeSearch setting.
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Another option for safe searching is to use safe, kid-friendly search engines that are just for kids. Parents can create a shortcut to these search engines to their desktop, and require children to use these safe icons when cyber searching
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Ivy Joy Kids Search Engine
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