Reflection

Becoming an Apple Teacher will be relevant to my future classroom when working with technology. I will have sufficient experience working with Apple products and will be able to help my students if necessary. I can also use this title of "Apple Teacher" on my resume when applying for jobs. Having this title may give me a slight advantage over other applicants. It is always beneficial to have significant experience when it comes to working with technology in the classroom!

Although my future classroom may not have access to Apple products, as the years go on, it becomes more likely. Becoming an Apple teacher allows me to expand my lessons to include Apple technology. Although I want to teach sixth grade science, I can easily see the benefits to many of the apps I learned about (such as Keynote or Numbers). Becoming better acquainted to technology also broadens my own horizons. Even though I hardly use my iPad, I feel much more connected to it now (and much more competent with using it).

Earning this badge is a huge accomplishment towards me becoming a Special Education teacher. Having the knowledge that I now do from obtaining this badge will help me to be able to help my students get the most out of their experiences with iPads. I will also use this to integrate differing modes of presentation of information to my students. 

I familiarized myself with the different apple apps which is extremely helpful because many schools now provide ipads to students. The iMovie app will be extremely helpful so students can record the steps they take during an experiment. The apps will also be helpful for when we have to slow down a video of a chemical reaction that occurs quickly. 

There were many useful things I learned when reading and quizzing myself over all of the apple teacher required softwares. Using applications such as Keynote, Pages, or even Garageband or iMovie, will allow my students to have engaging tools in the classroom that are relevant to them and will benefit them more than a worksheet. My students will become effective "Creative Communicators" and "Empowered Learners" by using these resources to express their ideas and see their learning come to life through the use of the technology they use everyday and different platforms of media. I would love to use something like Keynote in an integrate arts book report of some sort where they can use the drawing tool while recording themselves while they talk about their book!

I now know more about apple apps and how I can use them in my classroom! I will use the iMovie app a lot in kindergarten becasue the children could use the app to record their finding or work to reflect on thier work or collect data. The children would be designing or analyzing while competing these types of activities. 

I think becoming an Apple teacher is extremely beneficial for those looking to teach at Apple-enabled schools.  By going through the 8 quizzes, I learned a lot about productivity, GarageBand, iMovie, Sheets, and Pages.  While I'm not sure if I will teach at a school with iPads, I'm excited to employ everything I have learned to create a more technologically advanced and stimulating classroom for my students.

The Apple Teacher Badge is relevant for my future classroom because it helped me learn the technology that my students will be familiar with. My students will know more about technology than I will, so this badge was helpful because it allowed me to explore the technology I will be expected to use in my classroom. Completing this badge promotes learning for me as an educator. There is always more out there that I can learn so that I can better my instruction in the classroom. This also opens up doors for many different types of activities. Now, I will be able to assign project or activities that the students will be able to be creative with rather than a simple worksheet and powerpoint. I can use these apps to have students create a song, a movie, and much more. 

Learning how to use Apple products has always been a struggle for me. I have always been a Microsoft/android person and I will continue to be one as well. However, I feel a lot more confident in using ipads in my future classroom after completing the apple badges. For my future classroom, I will incorporate keynote for creating stories for children about social and emotional development as well as helping them create their own stories. I will use garage band to record songs that we sign as a class and to record morning meetings. I might use pages to record morning meeting messages and student responses for them to reference later in the year. I do still think I need to more practice with using the ipad but I think over time, this is something I will learn. 

While going through the Apple Teacher certification, I couldn't help but think about how useful this information will be for my future classroom. Now getting to know the ends and outs of specific apps like Keynote, iMovie, and Pages, I have a better understanding of how to utilize them in my future classroom. Being that I am getting an Early Childhood certification, it is important that my students get exposed to technology early on in their education. Early Childhood revolves around taking a project-based approached in the classroom which makes apps such as those that I mentioned earlier so important. With the new knowledge I have on these apps, I am able to explain step by step how to use them in a basic way for young children. I can especially see iMovie being used to make a movie showing all that the students have learned over the course of the semester.

The Apple apps that we learn for the Apple Teacher training are not only helpful for us as teachers in presenting information to students, but also for students to use in project-based learning. In this age of technology, allowing students to use these apps for normal classroom activities will help keep their interest in the material. In order to use these apps in our classroom, we have to be well-versed in using them ourselves and the Apple Teacher training is a good start to learning these apps.