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Through the use of several apps, teachers can provide notes, display steps and processes to problems, initiate the display of media (pausing and resuming as needed from any location in the classroom), and allow students to participate from their own seats in a variety of interactive activities. The use of the Apple TV in combination with an iPad in the instructorâ€™s hand provides a mobile platform from which classroom activities can be initiated. Immediately, this presents some problems when professional educators are asked to circulate and monitor student activity around the room. This inherently ties the teacher to one location or space in the classroom. Married to this idea is the use of the laptop, that is tethered to the projection device for the board.

APPLE SMART NOTES SOFTWARE

Image by K.Walsh, Apple TV logo source: Historically, we have relied upon the interactive boards as a way to infuse the technology of the computer and software to the learning objectives found in the various content areas of our curriculum. All instructors are expected to explore and integrate the device in their instructional setting to maximize the learning experience and student/professional productivity. We have committed our school to issuing every high school student and instructor an iPad. With the iPad, the Apple TV can offer a flexible, complete, and cost efficient alternative to the traditional interactive boards populating our classrooms.Īs a school administrator and teacher, I have explored the Apple TV and its offerings as an alternative to one of the many types of interactive whiteboards currently available to instructors. With the integration of the iPad into the instructional environment, teachers and students have discovered many new ways in which the device can expand and enhance the learning environment.

Guest writer and High School Principal Da vi d M aha ley is using this approach and offers his insights, and observations from educators in his school. An iPad and Apple TV can combineÂ to provide an advantageous alternative to more expensive, traditional interactive white boards.

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