This document provides examples of how iPads can be used to promote higher order thinking skills (HOTs) in topics work and reading. It describes how apps like Popplet, Educreations, PicCollage, and Smoovie can be used for tasks involving understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Teachers are asked to plan an activity using one of the apps that enhances learning in an upcoming unit and to link it to an aspect of Bloom's Taxonomy. Instructions are also provided on setting up Showbie accounts and using the app to collect and provide feedback on student work.

1. Aims:
You will have ideas on how
iPads can be used to
promote Higher Order
Thinking
You will know how to use
Showbie to collect children's
work produced on iPads to
be able to give feedback
You will have planned an
opportunity for children to
create content using the
iPad which shows the use of
Image developed by Allan
HOTs
Carrington.
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By Carol Newton, Whingate
HOTs Primary School

2. Using iPads to support HOTs in topic work -
some examples.

3. recall facts or steps helps us
to perform higher level
functions.
Year 3 children use medieval life app to find out what
life was like in a Viking village.
They use Aurasma to scan pictures of/real Viking
objects which link to a video the teacher has made
using
Funny Movie Maker showing a Viking describing how
they used it.
They make a list of observations in Skitch,
accompanied by screenshots from the apps.
To see Aurasma in action, scan
Reggie Ray or Rita!

4. Understanding - processing or
making sense of what you have
seen or experienced.
Children use
Popplet to
categorise
what they have
found out into
'buildings',
'clothing', 'jobs'
etc

5. facts and skills learned or
remembered to complete a
task.
Children use
Educreations
to create an audio
tour of the
village, combining
screenshots
and VoiceOver.

6. relevance, distinguishing
relationships and recognising
structure of content.
They use
PicCollage to
present aspects of
Viking Life
alongside modern
day equivalents to
compare life in the
past to life now.

7. Evaluating - judge what you are
seeing or experiencing by
checking and critiquing. Tellagami
They use
to
play the role of a
time
traveller to the
village,
explaining what
they
can see, and their
reactions to it.
Within
a group, each child
has responsibility
for commenting on
a different aspect of
Viking life.

8. through the process of
generating, planning and
producing.
Children use Smoovie
to create an animated
story which takes
place within the Viking
town.
They storyboard their
film first using Strip
Designer
with still photographs
and
captions for stage
directions.

9. Using iPads to support HOTs in Reading

10. recall facts or steps helps us
to perform higher level
functions.
Children use Popplet to
show
the main characters in a
story and any adjectives
used to describe them.

11. Understanding - processing or
making sense of what you have
seen or experienced.
Children use
perfect
captions to add
thought
bubbles
showing what
characters
were thinking in
different parts
of the story.

12. facts and skills learned or
remembered to complete a
task.
Children use
ToonTastic to
'dramatise' a part of
the story.

13. relevance, distinguishing
relationships and recognising
structure of content.
Children create a
photo diary
showing the change in
a character's feelings
at different points in
the story using
Pic Collage.

14. Evaluating - judge what you are
seeing or experiencing by
checking and critiquing.
Children
create a book review
and add this to the
learning platform for
other children to
comment on.

15. through the process of
generating, planning and
producing.
Children use
PuppetPals to
create an alternative
scene/ending for a
story.

16. Your Task - 1
Have a look at some of the apps used for creating
content mentioned today.
Think of a way using one if these apps will enhance the
learning in a forthcoming unit.
Note down your planned use of the app in Showbie. If you
can, link it to an aspect of Bloom's Taxonomy.
Downloading this presentation from Showbie and
following the link on the first page will take you to an
interactive version of the 'cog' visual, which will give you
more ideas of apps you could use.

17. Your Task - 2
Go to the Learning Platform StaffRoom and read the instructions
for setting up Showbie.
Follow the link in your LLN inbox to set up a teacher's Showbie
account.
On Safari, go to www.showbie.com and log in using your teacher
account. Create a class and make a note of your class code. Try
adding an assignment box ready for children to upload work into.
Go to the Showbie app and log in using your teacher account.
Create something using one of the apps mentioned in this
presentation and then upload it into the shared file in your
assignment box.
Give your class code to a partner. Ask them to join your class and
upload a file for you to feedback on.

18. Your Task - 3
Log back into Showbie using your student login.
Download the Learning Powers Self Assessment
and open it in Pages.
Edit the boxes to answer the questions then re
upload it straight from Pages to Showbie (the
instructions for this are on the learning platform)

19. Congratulations!
You have just worked at your own pace using multiple
apps
as part of your 'Workflow'!
This is what we need to prepare our 21st Century
Digital Native learners to do!
Click here to see the latest version of a video I first showed
in a staff meeting in 2007 - what has changed in that short
time? And what are the possibilities in the next 6 years?