Finding high-quality digital apps and integrating them into instruction isn’t always easy. Here’s how some educators are making the shift.
For social studies teacher Jean LaBelle, the value of her school’s new iPad program was driven home by a recent lesson on the Emancipation Proclamation.
LaBelle, who teaches U.S. history and other subjects at Maynard High School in Massachusetts, leads a lesson in which she asks her freshman students, “Did the Emancipation Proclamation end U.S. slavery?”
In prior years, she would hand out a photocopy with the text of the document and call students’ attention to the passage that reads:…Read More