In this interview with Kathrin Termin, who works in teacher training in the Department of Religious Education at the Ruhr University in Bochum, you will learn how you can use the iPad to design competence-oriented religious education classes.
Your new online training is about iPads in religious education. What possibilities does the iPad offer for contemporary religious education?
Kathrin Termin: The iPad offers a wide range of possibilities. On the one hand, it can be used by the teacher to perform an image viewing with advanced features or to prepare an interactive exploration of an out-of-school learning site. On the other hand, the students can use the iPad to produce creative and impressive learning products, so that their media skills are promoted at the same time. In addition, students grow up with digital media, and digital media such as smartphones and/or iPads play an essential role in their biography. The lifeworld of the students is determined by the consumption of digital media. A contemporary religion class uses iPads purposefully to move students from a consumer mindset to a producer mindset and to focus on the four Cs (collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication).
Kathrin Termin: Judgment skills can be fostered through guided internet research and recommended search engines for religious education, enabling students to apply their developed point of view to an explainer film using the research results and the iPad. In order to promote methodological skills, the iPad can be used for digital image viewing, so that a work of art can be developed together in a criterion-guided manner and a creative engagement of the students with the image is made possible, for example, by using the app Photos with speech bubbles or the app ChatterPix to bring the image to life with their own voice.
Interpretive skills can be fostered through working with Bible stories by having students structure the story using the app Keynote or come up with alternative scenarios to a Bible story using the app Stopmotion.
Exploring out-of-school places with the iPad also promotes perceptual competence and at the same time offers the opportunity to present students’ impressions in the classroom.
Kathrin Termin: In class, I discussed the parable of the rich grain farmer with the students. It was elaborated that in the parable it is told that the grain farmer is rich in grain but not rich before God. In class, the question then arose, “What does it mean to be “rich in the sight of God? The students then worked intensively in groups on how the parable could be changed so that the grain farmer would be rich before God. They implemented their reflections with suitable materials using the StopMotion app and presented them at the end of the lesson series. In the process, very diverse and creative solutions emerged, which in a next step were transferred to situations in their living environment.
Kathrin Termin: As a teacher, the iPad has helped me to expand my didactic repertoire, to diversify my lessons, and to respond flexibly to students’ comments and visualize them. The students are always highly motivated when they learn that they will be working with iPads in a lesson or series of lessons. In addition, I have noticed, especially in group work, that the students support each other and react very appreciatively to the learning products of their fellow students. The most important thing, however, is to dare to use the iPad or certain apps and to have the courage to try out new methods with the students. Working with iPads in religious education is a collaborative learning process!
In this online training, you will learn how to use iPads for a competency-based religious education class.
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