Tablet learning at Chesterton

We use iPads, coupled with innovative new teaching practices, to improve and extend learning at Chesterton. The iPad gives teachers the ability to allow students to shape their own learning. Students in a class can all be working on different aspects of a task, working at their own pace and learning in their own preferred style. This learning can then continue beyond the lesson and beyond the school, either as an individual task or working collaboratively with class mates.

Collaborative learning

FOR EXAMPLE: A teacher could set up a lesson where students have to complete 4 tasks. If the teacher allows access through the iPads and an online infrastructure to all of the lesson resources for that lesson and the success criteria (what the students need to achieve to meet the lesson objectives) then students can tackle these four tasks in the order they want, spend more time on the task they find more difficult and can complete the task in a style they find suits their own preferred method.

Students can extend their learning and find new information about those tasks not even provided by the teacher and they can personalise the context of the tasks.  The teacher does not have to spend time lecturing to the whole class or provide information to the group at the pace of the slowest knowledge retainer.  The teacher can move around the class and spend time with individuals or groups of students ensuring that students are making the most progress possible and helping consolidate individual knowledge gaps.

Extending learning

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