EDST Student Teaching - Reineke

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About This Article

This article describes how mobile computing, specifically tablets, was piloted in Prof. Jim Reineke's Student Teaching to transform teaching and learning.

Intended Audience

WSU instructors interested in past faculty experience with tablet devices in the classroom.

Fall 2013 iPad Pilot

Education students doing their student teaching had access to an iPad tablet to use throughout the spring semester along with several apps selected by Dr. Reineke for use in class and in the field.

How the iPads are Used in Student Teaching

iPads are powerful teaching tools and, with the inclusion of iPads in so many elementary schools, student teachers must have tablet experience when they graduate and enter the workforce. In a joint effort between WSU and Winona Area Public Schools, this pilot was designed to ensure that student teaching candidates graduated with the needed background.

Objectives for the pilot included:

  • Using iPads as educational tools while "on the job" student teaching. Putting iPads in the hands of the teaching candidates will build the necessary skill set.
  • Evolve communications and relationships between student teachers and supervisors. One of the most cumbersome aspects of student teaching is the student teachers scheduling and reporting their progress back to their supervisors. The video capabilities of the iPad and video-collaboration apps were used to open the communications channels between the student teachers and the student-teaching supervisors. (For more information, take a look at the Student Teaching Observers pilot.

Outcomes

Changes in the classroom

  • There were several experiments with student teachers and their supervisors communicating through video-collaboration apps during this pilot. While the idea was a good one, the applications used could not support smooth discussions between large numbers of participants at the same time. This limited the capabilities of conferencing from the field. As the apps mature and technology evolves, this idea is worth trying again.
  • Likewise, supplying student teachers with iPads for in the classroom is a great idea but it was found that many of the schools were not 1:1 iPads to students yet. This limited the capabilities of the teacher's iPad to presentations and a few demonstrations.

Recommendations

  • Student teachers do need the exposure to tablet technology before they graduate and this effort should continue. However, the students should also be supplied with iPads to maximize the return. There is an effort in the works to use some of the WSU-purchased iPads in a classroom as loaner devices for the student teacher and the students. This will open up additional avenues for exploration and learning.
  • Remote reporting to the supervisor will continue with experimentation broadening to more applications and technologies.

iPad Applications Employed in Student Teaching

Professor Reineke used the following applications in his Student Teaching pilot:

  • Adobe Connect
  • Cisco Jabber

Descriptions, pricing, and links to iTunes for each of these applications is available on the iPad Pilot Applications page.

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