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Becoming an Apple Teacher is an easy and worth while endeavour you can do to increase your familiarity with Apple products in our schools.  Best of all it's free! Why become an Apple Teacher?  To be a better teacher with technology of course. Lakeland Catholic Schools currently has well over 300 MacBooks/iMacs and over 1400 iPads for student use.  Chances are, that if you want to use an Apple product in your classroom you will have the opportunity to do so.  The technology department will be placing most of the ex-teacher computers back into schools to increase the number of laptops schools have available for student use. iPads and MacBooks have certain advantages over Chromebooks when it comes to dealing with assortment of media in your classroom and while Chromebooks can also be used to create a large variety of media, Apple products can do so while using very little bandwidth, which might be a factor in your school. So how do you get started?  First y...

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Engaging students in learning using technology:  Ensuring time with technology is time well spent! Using Technology Wisely In our ongoing series on Learning First, Technology Second I’d like to give you a brief description of the first “E”, or engaging students with their learning using technology. When we engage students in learning we are encouraging them to internalize the learning outcomes from the curriculum.   Having students state what they have learned in their own words is an example of internalizing learning. Some example of engagement from can include (source: https://tripeeframework.com): Guided practice. Modelling thinking. Modelling navigation of the tool. Software tour. I do, we do, you do. Teacher monitoring. Student self-reflective monitoring. Co-use or co-engagement. Purposeful partnering. Gradual release of learning. Create a mentor text. Share-aloud. Turn and talk. Switcheroo - when students exchange digital devices to see...