Including TECH Across the Curriculum by Jayne Clare

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Hi - It is an HONOR to be here, thank you for the invitation. I'm Jayne Clare SPECIAL EDUCATION teacher - edtech expert & cofounder of Teachers With Apps

I thought I would TEACH for a few years and get it out of my system - YOU KNOW decide what I wanted to be when I grew up....

I quickly learned that you couldn't teach a hungry child and that you couldn't teach a child who wasn’t feeling good about themselves.... I adopted the Whole Child method and stayed with it my entire career. As well as getting my second MASTERS DEGREE in technology.

It took 30 years - for me to realize that my mission included enabling teachers to use technology in their tool box to address the educational needs of their students.

Including TECH Across the Curriculum

Published on Oct 27, 2018

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

MY FIRST YEARS...

'09 Developed Apps

in 2009 a colleague and I set out to make an educational app using a reading readiness program that I had been cultivating for years.

Using training and best practices in conjunction with being mindful that not all brains are wired the same....

Together we released one of the first ABC app's.
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This was prior to the release of the iPad...

Thinking we were golden when we saw ABC on the Go - the 2.0 or second version of the app make it to number one in iTunes - only to find out we had only sold 33 apps.... This was enough for us to realize we would never make our investment back.

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Teachers With Apps emerged from this ACCOMPLISHMENT, we had learned much from our being in the app development business.

TWA a resource site promoting exemplary educational apps came to be because of our frustrations with the thousands of apps entering the educational app market and our irritation with the app store and the lack of curation on their part.

We knew many of the quality educational applications were being made by indie developers.

We learned early on that you don't know the magic of an app until you put the device into the hands of a child.

lished reviews resulted from indepth field testing apps with real children.

Our goal: teach children to TRANSFER SKILLS TO ENHANCE their everyday life

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We understood how subjective this process of reviewing could be - so we made the decision not to GRADE apps with stars or
numbers and only published what we considered to be the best educational tools.

Evidence that our work was not fruitless! What you see here are Poll results from a webinar hosted by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center/Sesame Worksop/Reasearch Dept.

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When an app developer asked why we didn't review their app we would provide constructive criticism via a list and one day realized that that was called consulting.

Jayne Clare Consulting was born and works in tandem with TWA on the mission to reimagine education -

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Teaching the whole child has always included social and emotional learning. But the common core turned most schools upside down into academic test preparartries
and this emphasis went to the wayside

Today I would like to share a recent app release which addresses the social/emotional side of learning - it is called Fitoons.

FOOD consumption

In addressing the epidemic of child obesity in the United States

There are two main ingredients

Food Consumption and...

Physical Activity

You are what you EAT!

The app used in the following mini lesson addresses this sensitive topic in a sublte way. The characters grow bigger when overeating and slim down with the combination of eating well and being physically active.

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Here is an example lesson introducing this concept to a pre K class.

The children had just listened to a story book about Halloween ---- it was the perfect segway into "too many treats" may not be a GOOD THING

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Make your own character

First child up got to choose the character of choice…

The FUN selection offers cats, dogs & kids as well as some diverse options like even a gorilla

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Choose exercise

Another child gets to choose a zany workout outfit

and pick from an sidebar selection of 20 different exercise options

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Student Modeling

Here a student models the necessary movements needed for this specific exercise

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and we then proceeded with whole group instruction

Link to Video: https://youtu.be/-wm8KwSmSFw

Play Video

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Hungry after all that exercise and the kitchen is a virtual haven for learning to cook all kinds of creative fare! And an excellent place to incorporate cross curriculum teaching

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The lesson culminated with breaking into small groups and the app was added to a center in the room for further exploration

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Your turn

Your Turn - Teaching the whole child has always included social and emotional learning. But the common core turned most schools upside down into academic test preparartries
and this emphasis went to the wayside

Today I would like to share a recent app release which addresses the social/emotional side of learning - it is called Fitoons.

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Select an educational issue that your group is passionate about.

Select an educational issue that your group is passionate about.

Use your devices to find suitable tools to extend the learning with technology

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Make a presentation with Haiku Deck include the tech tools you found...

Make a presentation with Haiku Deck or any other presentation Program and

include the tech tools you found...

REMEMBER:

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TWA is one of many resources to help you find quality tech tools

Jayne Clare

Haiku Deck Pro User

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