I prefer to take notes with my iPad, because there’s no need to carry too many books with me anymore. “At the beginning it´s unusual, but after a week I got used to it”, her friend Elisabeth replenishes. It´s easier to keep clear and organised Notes, she adds. “It´s all easier with the iPad, because I have all things that are relevant for me in one place”, Maria says. Andreas mirrors his device wirelessly via Apple TV to the projector and shows his work that he made with the App Goodnotes.Īnd what do the kids say about notes taking with the iPad. Friessnig the maths teacher says to Andreas. “Can you connect your iPad to the projector and show us your solution” Mr. In Fürstenfeld the learners as well as the teachers use different note taking apps like Notability, Penultimate or Good Notes. But technology has advanced and now pens specially developed for tablet use, such as the Stylus from Bamboo or the Apple Pencil, in combination with special note taking apps allow for highly personal and fast note taking, without using a single piece of paper. Note taking on a tablet only using your fingers is difficult and tiring. The local school has started a couple of years ago with iPad classes and the students are free to choose if they want to use an ordinary exercise book or take their notes with the iPad. Yes it is happening right now and let´s take a look at a wonderful example.Īround 70 km away from our main course location in Graz, in Fürstenfeld, in the regional high school I discover an example of innovation.

The iPad combined with certain powerful note taking apps offers a creative possibility to create rich-media notes that are highly personal and live up to the UDL-principle mentioned above.īut is this already happening in schools you might ask yourself? The answer is yes.

How do learners normally build their knowledge and make it their own?Īn explicit act of knowledge building usually involves any kind of personal note taking – whether it´s with a traditional exercise or note book, or nowadays with a tablet or a personal computer. If you consider what this principle can mean in practice you understand that providing analogue, traditional means of expressing knowledge needs more preparation and time than using the possibilities of new technologies. One principle of universal design of learning is to provide learners with multiple means of action and expression of their knowledge.

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