What:
Apple offers numerous products for educators to implement in the classroom including curriculum called Everyone Can Create and Apple Classroom. Classroom is an app available to iOS and Mac OS devices and allows a parent device to monitor other devices from one screen (as shown in the image above) using bluetooth. Classroom not only allows the parent device to see the individual screens but also allows all connected devices to be locked, muted, or grouped. Classroom also allows the parent device to send a specific link to all connected devices or a specific group of connected devices.
Why:
Apple Classroom is easy to set up and yet extremely powerful to use. Educators can connect each class and easily help students navigate to websites, lock students in apps, or lock student iPads. However, Apple Classroom is much more than a monitoring device by allowing educators the ability to control the atmosphere of the classroom. My favorite use of Classroom is as a timekeeper. When students are working on projects throughout the classroom (and are even in the hall) I will send memes to all student devices suggesting ten minutes left, five minutes left, and finally, a come back together meme. This allows students to work without feeling the need to constantly check the time. I found students to be much more productive without me constantly interrupting their work with vocalizing the time left.
How / Next Steps:
Check out this educators guide for setting up and implementing classroom.
References:
References and image sources are also hyperlinked above as applicable.
TLDR (too long didn’t read):
Classroom is an app available to iOS and Mac OS devices and allows a parent device to monitor other devices from one screen (as shown in the image above) using bluetooth. Classroom not only allows the parent device to see the individual screens but also allows all connected devices to be locked, muted, or grouped. Classroom also allows the parent device to send a specific link to all connected devices or a specific group of connected devices.
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