Ipads to Increase Technology Access for Learning Support

Technology is an increasingly important tool in the classroom to support student learning.  Ipads are highly portable, and all students can easily access all ipad apps and data.  Ipads can be used in centers, for students to present culminating projects, for students to take DSAs on, for research, for data collection in the field, for common, formative and summative assessments, to access established learning programs such as Lexia, A/R, RazKids, etc. Ipads can be used for students to collaborate with eachother to produce a multimedia project. Older students can download or even create a book, in Book Builder,  that they can narrate, working on fluency, and the younger students can listen to. ELD students can use several different programs such as the builder series: Sentance Builder, Conversation Builder, Question Builder and Preposition Builder; which can prepare them for the CELDT test.