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to Foster Literacy Learning Richard Beach, University of Minnesota [email protected] Google Docs Version of apps handout: http://tinyurl.c om/b6xl2yk

Using iOS Apps to Foster Literacy Learning

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  • Using iOS Apps toFoster LiteracyLearningRichard Beach, University of Minnesota [email protected] 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