20 Ways to Use ONE iPad in Your K-12 Classroom

ONE iPad can change your teaching. Do you believe it? In a lot of ways, I think my teaching transformed more when I had only my own iPad than when I got the class set a few months later.

copyright Duke Energy, 2011

Here are just 20 ways you can use your ONE iPad (or iPod, or iPhone) to enhance your teaching and open your classroom.

1. Scanner - handwritten notes on paper, old paper originals from curriculum, student work examples (Camscanner, GeniusScan)
2. Document camera
3. Mobile IWB (Airsketch)
4. Podcasting - you OR your students
5. Large screen graphing calculator
6. Creating tutorials (for assessment or flipping the class) - (Explain Everything, ShowMe, Educreations)
7. Timer for pacing work 
8. 2-3 students catching up on assignments/notes from absences
9. Student trips to the "library" - collection of reference texts (iBooks, Kindle, Google Play)
10. Super Stick Pick can with differentiated Bloom's question prompts (Stick Pick)
11. Texting students/parents class updates (Remind 101)
12. Monitoring backchannel while your main machine runs presentation (Today'sMeet, PollEverywhere, Twiddla, Wiffitti)
13. Automatic rubric scoring of student presentations/projects with Google forms
14. Dictate notes on student performance or parental contact (Dragon Dictation)
15. Administrative tasks - gradebook/seating chart/behavior and learning notes (TeacherKit)
16. Videoconferencing (FaceTime, Skype, Google+)
17. Writing a collaborative story (Google Docs, Twiddla, Mad Libs, Popplet, StoryBuilder, Toontastic)
18. Running Prezi/SlideRocket/PowerPoint remotely
19. Interactive globe (Google Earth)
20. Card/Dice/Marble simulator for probability experiments or random number generation (Natural Dice, Best Chance)

Anything to add to the list? How have you used your iOS device for your students?