ISBE Low-cost Laptop Results
The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) iPad Project seeks to dramatically transform the classroom. Such a transformation is made possible through use of the low‐cost Apple iPad tablet computers. In an effort to drive “big change” and to promote meaningful classroom usage, EdTech Department, part of the Curriculum and Instruction Office, offered iPad grants to schools. In return, we were able to identify best practices that could dramatically transform the way teachers teach and the way students learn throughout the District.We have collected preliminary data on the different ways schools use the device and applications, and structure their classroom around the iPad. Here is a collection of Exectutive Summaries from each of the schools that participated in the ISBE Low-cost Laptop program in 2011-12.
Barry Elementary School
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Boone Elementary School
With iPads, our diverse 7th and 8th grade students now have the tool to communicate their unique perspectives. Through virtual dialogue and discussions in their Science and Language Arts classes, students have improved their critical thinking and collaboration. We now see student more engaged and eager to learn!
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Daley Elementary School
At Daley Academy, our middle school literacy classrooms focus on increasing student’s reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, research, and presentation skills. With the iPad Grant, we had the opportunity to incorporate technology with literacy making topics and themes relevant to student’s lives. Students created authentic multimedia projects and reports via the use of various iPad apps such as, Keynote, iMovie, Pages, Educreations, and many others. Through inquiry and collaboration, students explored and analyzed universal themes such as, Overcoming Obstacles, Making Responsible Choices, Exploring Social Issues and Conditions and Fairness and Equality at a Global Perspective.
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Miles Davis Magnet Elementary Academy
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Dawes Elementary School
Dawes School was awarded three laptop carts for use in the sixth and seventh grades. We are a community of diverse learners, of which 97% are poverty level. 10% of our students receive ELL services; an additional 10% are categorized as special needs. The iPads have been invaluable in engaging all of our students in more rigorous curriculum. Because of the multitudinous applications available on the iPads, we now have the availability to differentiate for every student’s needs. The iPads were used in Math, Science, and Reading classes.
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Dewey Academy
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Edward Everett Elementary School
Overview of Project: Our goal for this project was to use the iPad and its apps to create a virtual global economy simulation that would improve student achievement in computer and financial literacy. Through project based learning and the use of iPads, students applied computer and multidisciplinary skills to real world scenarios and, in the process, acquire a conceptual knowledge of interdependent economies, entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, communication, and innovation. In addition, this project directly exposed our predominantly Hispanic student body to foreign cultures, enabling them to become global citizens.
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Fiske Elementary School
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Gillespie Elementary School
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Gray Elementary School
Gray School received a grant for iPad 1ʼs in the classroom during 2010/2011 school year and used them to enhance learning for middle school level ELL students. Gray school was lucky enough to receive 3 carts of iPad 2ʼs in the fall of 2011 and focused on meeting the needs of and improving the language arts, reading and vocabulary skills for our 6th and 7th grade students. The goal was to expand the success of the original grant to regular and special education students.
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Healy Elementary School
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Kinzie Elementary School
Kinzie Elementary is a high performing school tucked inside a quiet residential neighborhood near Midway Airport. Kinzie is home to 782 students, 51% Hispanic, 48% White/Non-Hispanic, and 5% African American. Our school also has a large special education population, including a program for approximately 75 deaf students.
Kinzie students have always done well on standardized tests. However, students have shown significant growth in the areas of reading and math on the Scantron tests over the course of the 2011-2012 academic year. This year’s growth on Scantron testing was particularly impressive, due in part to iPad implementation in the classrooms.
Kinzie students have always done well on standardized tests. However, students have shown significant growth in the areas of reading and math on the Scantron tests over the course of the 2011-2012 academic year. This year’s growth on Scantron testing was particularly impressive, due in part to iPad implementation in the classrooms.
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McNair Elementary School
In the 2011/2012 school year, three special education classrooms at McNair received a grant to use iPads in their classrooms. The teachers received training and then set out to enrich instruction with the use of the iPads. I am currently a Special Education teacher in a self-contained classroom with 11 3rd,4th and 5th grade students. The data that was gathered for this project was from my Special Ed classroom. The purpose of the iPads is to improve student motivation. I utilized the Achieve 3000 program, along with other iPad instructional applications on a daily basis with the students. In addition, the iPad offers the capability to address identified IEP needs of the students. For example, if a student’s IEP identified an accommodation for content to be read, the Achieve 3000 program for iPads has an application that allows stories and questions to be read aloud to students through the use of headphones. The use of iPads in the three classrooms at McNair this past year enlightened the teachers as to how technology motivates students to be more engaged in learning. The teachers also used iPads as an incentive for the students, and the students responded favorably.
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Marsh Elementary School
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May Community Academy
Students in May Community Academy’s 5th and 6th grade classrooms began with the idea of using iPads to carry out a “Shoe Project”. During the project students wrote various compositions related to shoes. They interpreted poetry about shoes and researched how shoes are designed using the scientific method. Our students moved beyond using the iPads for this project based lesson. They successfully implemented the iPads into their daily school curriculum, becoming more creative and independent in the process. We are grateful for the opportunity to reach our students in new ways.
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Mollison Elementary School
Mollison Middle School’s literacy teacher and social studies teacher wrote the iPad grant to expose our kids to technology as a bridge into literature and history. The students used the iPads to learn about themselves, the Bronzeville community where they live, and their individual and collective histories.
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Mozart Elementary School
By using the iPads at Mozart Elementary School, students didn’t just learn how to use technology, instead they used technology to learn. Through the use of iPads, students explored Ancient Egypt and presented what they learned by using applications such as, Google Earth, Keynote, Simplenote, and Pages.
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Namaste Charter School
The intention of the grant was to use iPads in the middle school classrooms at Namaste. Adding iPads into the curriculum in these classrooms improved student engagement, challenged higher-level thinking, increased the amount of technology in the school overall, and improved student learning.
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National Teachers Academy
National Teachers Academy has been implementing iPads in Music, 6-8th grade Special Education and 4th-5th grade Science and Social studies classrooms. Students have been transformed from consumers of content and ideas to creators of content and curators of resources. Students have collaborated to use multimedia both for learning and presenting learning to others and taken understanding of concepts to a deeper level through analysis and the tools provided through applications on the iPad. All the images, videos and music are student creations. The impact has empowered our students to become 21st Century learners and leaders. Thank you to the ISBE Low-Cost Laptop Initiative for providing the tools for our students' success.
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Nicholson Technology Academy
Come one…come all! Witness the integration of iPads into the literacy curriculum at Nicholson Technology Academy. Read about our plan and listen to students’ testimonials. Finally, you’ll get a glimpse of the final product students created.
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Pulaski Elementary School
Our kids are tech savvy. KIDS are tech savvy. It’s what their generation is all about. So why not teach them in their own language?
The iPad technology inherently appeals to our diverse learners: it’s visual, it’s hands-on, it’s auditory; it encompasses the styles of all intelligences and is differentiated at it’s core.
This grant has allowed us to reach our kids through the vehicle they’re most familiar with; the dynamic, hands-on, stimulating device that allows them to be directors of their own learning.While we focused our grant on teaching middle school Math, this resource has proven beneficial across the curricula.
The iPad technology inherently appeals to our diverse learners: it’s visual, it’s hands-on, it’s auditory; it encompasses the styles of all intelligences and is differentiated at it’s core.
This grant has allowed us to reach our kids through the vehicle they’re most familiar with; the dynamic, hands-on, stimulating device that allows them to be directors of their own learning.While we focused our grant on teaching middle school Math, this resource has proven beneficial across the curricula.
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Ravenswood Elementary School
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Saucedo Elementary Scholastic Academy
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Scammon Elementary School
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Tarkington Elementary School
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University of Chicago Charter Schools Carter G. Woodson Middle School Campus
UCCS Carter G. Woodson is a middle school serving students from 6th-8th grades and is part of the University of Chicago Charter Schools Network. This year, our sixth grade students were given the job of becoming Junior Epidemiologists. Each class was assigned a specific infectious disease to research. Students used various applications and features on the iPad to conduct their research and produce authentic work.
In Science, students learned about the biology of the disease: what is the cause, how is it spread, how is it treated / cured and prevention. In Social Studies students were given a country to research that has reported high rates of the disease and research how culture, economy, geography, government, immigration, religion, and access to health care impact the spread of disease. In literacy, students read a historical fiction book, Fever, 1793 to understand the point of view of someone in the midst of an epidemic. Lastly in math, students collected, analyze and graph data related to the findings for Social Studies. The iPad project transformed the way students think and learn, feeding our students’ curiosities and challenging them to think critically and collaborate effectively.
In Science, students learned about the biology of the disease: what is the cause, how is it spread, how is it treated / cured and prevention. In Social Studies students were given a country to research that has reported high rates of the disease and research how culture, economy, geography, government, immigration, religion, and access to health care impact the spread of disease. In literacy, students read a historical fiction book, Fever, 1793 to understand the point of view of someone in the midst of an epidemic. Lastly in math, students collected, analyze and graph data related to the findings for Social Studies. The iPad project transformed the way students think and learn, feeding our students’ curiosities and challenging them to think critically and collaborate effectively.
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Waters Elementary School
Our project involved the students identifying a challenge or problem in our school or classroom and using the iPads to research the problem, design/redesign a solution to the problem in the form of an invention or a radically redesigned existing product. Students have used a variety of productivity applications to complete our iPad Project. Students were able to complete our iPad project using Safari for research, iBrainstorm and Notes to organize ideas, Drawing Box and Skitch to illustrate ideas, the camera to take photos and videos, and Keynote to present their final product.
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Westcott Elementary School
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Eli Whitney Elementary School
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For more information please contact Margaret Murphy at [email protected]