PA-126 - Skyrocketing Student Learning With iPad Technology

As technology advances, new opportunities to increase learning effectiveness and knowledge retention arise. One such opportunity is teaching and learning with iPads. Apps like Notability, Explain Everything and Tooth Atlas 9 provide collaborative learning opportunities in classroom, lab and clinic environments. Students use Notability for extensive annotations in lectures for their assignments. In clinic, instructors take pictures of a prep, enlarge and draw on it, showing their student errors and the corrections they need to make. Tooth Atlas 9 provides a 3D experience, further enhancing learning. Come explore the most innovative practices of using iPads for powerful teaching experiences.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how to utilize three different iPad applications in a dental school setting.
• Learn new ways to promote interactive learning with these applications, and iPads in general.
• Strategize additional methods to apply iPad teaching in a dental school setting.