Using iOS Apps to Foster Literacy Learning
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- Using iOS Apps toFoster LiteracyLearningRichard Beach,
University of Minnesota rbeach@umn.eduGoogle Docs Version of
appshandout:http://tinyurl.com/b6xl2yk
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- Affordances of iPads/iPhonesTouch: Intuitive navigation of
texts and virtual worldsPortability/storage/ownership Personal
learning deviceSocial
reading/writingMultimodalityCollaboration/communication
- AffordancesAffordances not in appApp ActivityAffordances
created by teachersActivity App
- App affordances: Literacies to learnacross the curriculum (app
iTunes linkson handout)Accessing/Analyzing Information to
LearnReading Digitally to LearnWriting to LearnDiscussing to
LearnImages to LearnAudio/Video to LearnGames, Simulations, and
Drama to LearnReflection to Learn
- Affordances (Hutchinson & Beschorner,2013, Journal of of
Education Computing ResearchContained nature of the apps focus and
efficiency: instructional planning.Intuitive features the camera
roll, the audio recording graphic organizers adding and revising
images and drawings Mobility: Collaboration 6
- Accessing/Analyzing Information
- Accessing/Analyzing Information toLearn: WikipediaQwiki
includes videos, images, graphs, and entries for millions of
topicsArticlesfor iPadWikipedia MobileWikipanion
PlusSimplepediaiWiki
- Accessing/Analyzing Information toLearn: QR reader appsCreate
QR code images Entering in a URL in a QR create site such as
Qrafter, QRstuff.com, Kaywa, Tec- IT, QR-appInsert QR codes into
texts provide other related texts or pose questions
- Reading/writing to learn
- Using Diigo social bookmarkingfor sharing annotations1. Add
Diigo to your iPad or computertoolbar2. Find an online text3.
Highlight sections of the text4. Click on the icon to add a Sticky
Noteresponse5. Have other students add their responses
- Diigo annotations: Pro-con readings:benefits of energy from
wind power7thgrade students iMelanie Swandbys Lighthouse School
Community Charter School, Oakland, CaliforniaStudents posed
questions for each other What does that mean, virtually free? What
are some things that use energy or power?
- Adding sticky-note annotations
- One students annotation: Pro windturbine essay
- One students annotation: con essay
- Students responding to each othersannotations
- Dialogic interactions throughannotationsThere is a bad and good
thing about this. Bad is it kills birds passing by. Good it makes
energy cleaner. Tarnished with wind turbines? Arent wind turbines
supposed to be a good thing? Why are they complaining about the
turbines? it doesnt even look bad.
- Use of annotations for summarywritingI am perplexed in choosing
if wind energy is a good courses or bad source. While, wind energy
is a good source because its renewable and needs nothing more but
construction, it can also cause irritation and attention of some
people. Wind turbines are loud, noisy, and risky. Even though, it
doesnt cause any greenhouse gases in the air, wind turbines are
harmful to wildlife and space. More birds die by getting hit by
wind turbines which is very dangerous to our wildlife.
- Writing to learn
- Digital concept mappingiPad apps: iBrainstorm, MindMeister for
Ipad,, Sundry Notes, Idea Sketch, Total Recall, inShare, iMindMap
MindNode, iThoughtsHD, Popplet Lite
http://tinyurl.com/3o6a3wyHierarchical/logical relationships
between key concepts
- 5th Grade Students: Popplet Lite forConcept Mapping5thgrade
students in Laura Kretschmars class at Lighthouse Community Charter
School, Oakland, CaliforniaLesson on rare earth metals to address
the question, What is gold?
- Mateos initial map: What is gold?
- Mateos revised map
- Twitter appsTwitter Apps such as Twitter, TweetCaster Tweetbot,
Tweetdeck, Twitteriffic, HootSuiteCreate class accountUse Twitter
hashtag for your class #JonesHistory10AikenHS
- Twitteriffic
- HootSuite
- Collaborative writing/data collection:Google Docs forms5th
graders: Weaver Lake School, Osseo, MNData on parasite presence in
Monar49% had parasites
- Writing multmodal story booksStoryKit, Storyrobe, Book Creator,
Bookemon Mobile, Picture Books, Writers Studio, StoryPatch,
Demibooks Composer, StoryBuddy, My Story, MoglueBooks, myebook,
StoryJumper (for younger students), Tikatok
- Comics/graphic novelsComic Life, Strip Designer, ComicStrip CS
Shttp://tinyurl.com/6or7bvz, Comics Creator, PhotoComic, Comic
Touch Lite
- Strip Designer: Retell stories 35
- Apps for Sharing/Publishing WritingePub: Mac Pages (soon to be
on iPad Pages)Apple iBooks Author (requires OS Lion): iBooksDotepub
or Inkling books
- Discussing to learn
- Subtext: book discussions
- Discussing to learn: CollaborizeClassroom
http://tinyurl.com/7xdcejlFree platform for classroom
discussionsApp/Web-basedExtensive curriculum resourcesFocus on
fostering students collaborationProfessional development
- Discussing to learn: Google+ Hangout:Up to 10 people
- Images/audio/video to learn
- Sundry Notes: Draw pictures and add audionotes: Story
cause/effect 53
- Doodly Buddy: Story illustrations 54
- Value of drawing appsInterviewer: How is it [using the iPad]
different, or was it different, than just drawing on paper?Student
1: Um, you get to type.Student 2: And it is different, because
there is glitter and an eraser and paint and chalk.Student 3: Yeah,
and you dont have to pick up things. All you have to do is tap it
and it will do it.Student 1: Yeah, and if you do it, the chalk at
the bottom of the line will show up and then colors will come on
and you can pick different colors.Student 3: I like where we could
just tap it or we could just move that thing around. 55
- VoiceThread: Multiple audiences shareresponses to the same
images
- 5th Graders: VoiceThread for StudyingDinosaursExtinction of the
dinosaurs: supernova, volcanoes, or an asteroid. Volcanoes http
://voicethread.com/share/2454743/ Supernova http
://voicethread.com/share/2544219/ Asteriod
http://voicethread.com/share/2545658/
- VoiceThread affordances: LiteracypracticesCollaborative shared
reading Mediated by focus on same images Learn from each others
focus/practicesScientific thinking: claims/counter-claims Exposure
to competing arguments The asteroid couldnt have caused the
dinosaur extinction because the asteroid only landed on one spot
and there were dinosaurs everywhere.
- Screencasting app: Doodles andaudio voice-over for
collaborativereading/writing/videoShowMe, Explain
Everything,VoiceThread, Screenchomp, Educreations7th grade students
at Lighthouse Community Charter School Mendelian genetics Created
ShowMe presentations
- Students ShowMes: Genetics: dominantvs. recessive traitsIfa
brown eyed and a blue eyed parent had a baby, what color eyes would
the baby have? http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=ibbycYSMother and father
birds and baby bird http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=RNKspguPea plant
genetics http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=GC6q3nM
- ShowMe affordances: Socialreading/writing/video
synergyUnfoldingdoodling voice-over talkUse of ShowMe for
prewriting/revision Testing our/erasing doodlesCollaborative focus
on same imagesVideo: Rhetorical sense of audienceUse science
disciplinary literacy Images, charts, figures as data evidence
- Screencasting: Students or you createhow-to tutorials for
peersVoiceThread, ExplainEverything, Screenchomp, ShowMe,
EducreastionsSnapguide http://tinyurl.com/ctkslx8 Students:
- Discussing to learn: Teen texting: PewResearch63% text daily
Median number sent daily was 60 in 2011.39% cell phones35%
face-to-face socializing,29% social-networking messages,22% IMing6%
emailing.
- Texting/message appsiMessage (iPad or iPhone), Messages (Mac),
AK Messenger!, textPlus Free Texting + Group Text, Textie
MessagingClassroom-based texting systems: Class Parrot, Kikutext,
WeTxt, Remind101, Sendhub, Class Pager
- Toms Messengerhttp://tinyurl.com/7v7klxw
- My message on Toms Messenger QuickTime and a decompressor are
needed to see this picture.
- Another message QuickTime and a decompressor are needed to see
this picture.
- Gaming/simulation to learn
- Games/simulations/drama to learn:Game/simulation/roleplay
appsTiny Tower, C ityVille Ho metow n, My Tow n 2, Trade Natio n,
Farm Sto r y, Epic C itadel (medieval fantasy town with a
cathedral).Students creating characters and stories based on the
Epic Citadel medieval
settinghttp://www.porchester.notts.sch.uk/citadel
- Reflection to learn
- Screencasting: feedbackVoiceThread, ExplainEverything,
Screenchomp, ShowMe, EducreastionsVideo response to writing: Jing
http://tinyurl.com/3kkw4amSpeeches/drama: Formative Feedback for
Learning http ://formativefeedbackapp.blogspot.com
- Professional development to learn
- Apps for planning/organizing instructionNearpod
http://tinyurl.com/6ts55kp http://new.nearpod.com videos, polls,
sketching tools, or featured presentationsGoClass
http://tinyurl.com/chbmeke http://tinyurl.com/blgogqs SHOW (online
resources), EXPLAIN (add notes), ASK (questions for students)
- App uses/recommendationsEdReadch channel (MobileReach,
MacReach)Appy Hours 4 U The TechChef4u appThe iPad ShowThe Daily
App Show TWIT channel Tech Chick Tips
- Online resources: Apps for literacylearningGoogle Docs: apps
handout:http://tinyurl.com/b6xl2ykEbook: Using iPad and iPho ne A
pps fo r Learning w ith Literacy A cro ss the C
urriculumhttp://www.appsforlearningliteracies.comWiki resource site
for this bookhttp://usingipads.pbworks.com