How the iPad Has Helped Us Learn

This is my second year using a school-issued iPad, and I have to say, I love it. Since I first started using an iPad for learning purposes, I've become familiar with many apps, including notability, schoology, educreations, flipboard, nearpod, flashcardlet, and many more. These apps have greatly enriched the curriculum for the classes they've been selected for. Notability, for example, is perfect for note taking, organizing, completing assignments, and even starting rough drafts for papers. What I love about an app like this is that it's like a huge folder that I can divide up into different subjects. I'm not the most organized person, so this really helps me out because I don't have to keep track of a million papers; they're all together on my iPad. Other apps, like schoology and flipboard, are helpful because you can observe things that other students and teachers post. We even access most our assignments on schoology. I consider apps such as educreations, nearpod, and flashcardlet excellent study/practice tools. I use flashcardlet to study my AP Bio terms every week, which is so convenient because I don't have to worry about carrying around a bunch of little notecards. Nearpod is often used to have interactive presentations in classes, where teachers design the slides to have questions on them and students can type and submit an answer. Educreations is also a great app to learn from because you can type, draw, insert pictures, and create an audio recording to go along with it all. It's like a much cooler and more improved version of a PowerPoint presentation. It helps me understand material so much better when I can write or draw it out and explain it in words with an app like that. Those are just a few of the amazing apps I regularly use on my iPad. They continue to prove very useful in my comprehension of material and ability to be prepared and organized for classes.