This document discusses using tablet computers to develop multi-literacy skills in e-learning environments for primary grade students in Thailand. It provides an overview of Thailand's policy to provide one tablet computer per primary student to allow access to educational materials. The objectives are to promote cognitive development, critical thinking, knowledge acquisition and associative learning. Examples are given of digital pedagogy lessons learned, literacy skills developed, and learning progressions achieved through the use of instructive, manipulative and constructive apps on the tablets.

1. Tablet Computers and Kids
Developing Multi-literacy Skills in e-Learning Environments using
Tablet Computers at the Primary Grade Level in Thailand
Prepared by:
Willard Van De Bogart
Language Institute
Bangkok University
How can kids
learn using a
tablet computer?
The Fourth TCU International e-Learning Conference - June 14 -15, Bangkok
“Smart Innovations in Education and Lifelong Learning”

2. What is Multi-literacy?
Moving Touching
Voicing

3. What is an e-Learning environment?

4. Participatory e-Learning
Explore
Collaborate

5. Who is the teacher?

6. What is Thailand’s Computer
Tablet Policy?
Provide one tablet
per child to all
Prathom 1 students
Allow students to have
access to other
materials
Provide a 21 century
learning tool
PM Yingluck Shinawatra

7. 1st Who are the stake holders?
• Families of Thailand
• Educational representatives of Thailand
• Teachers of Thailand
• Producers of Thailand
• Thailand as an ASEAN nation member
• Thailand’s diaspora
2nd What are the objectives?
* Cognitive development
* Critical Thinking
* Knowledge acquisition and management
* Associative learning

8. Alphabet to Apphabet

9. Apphabet to the world
?
Teacher

10. Web2Thai Foundation
Teaching Children English with Tablet Computers
Per Algot Enevoldsen - President
Right: Sven Sprogoe Petersen - Consultant
2nd right: Dah – Teacher Trainer
3rd right: Willard Van De Bogart - Researcher

11. What are these kids doing?

12. What are these students doing?
They used to be kids!

13. A new 3D Educational Methodology
• A 3D Education is going from the alphabet
to the apphabet using:
Digital pedagogy = Lessons learned
Digital literacy = Skills mastered
Digital scaffolding = Stages achieved

14. Digital pedagogy – Lessons learned
Making shapes Give the child many
choices.
Sound
Color
Shapes
Draw
Select
Motion Identify
Songs
Injini

15. Digital pedagogy – Lessons Learned
Instructive apps
Manipulative apps
Constructive apps

16. Digital literacy – Skills mastered
Moving fingers
Associating ideas
Recognizing patterns

17. Digital scaffolding – Stages achieved
3.
2.
Stage 3
Stage 2 1.
Stage 1

18. Interrelated Learning Progressions
Puppet Pal
App App
Diagram: Karin Hess, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment

19. Thailand’s Digital Education Policy?
15 years old
Scaffolding for the future…
e-Learning environment
5 years old
2014
2013
From moving fingers to moving ideas
2012

20. Thailand’s Tablet Revolution
The tablet computer is an educational processor
AEC 2015
The future is now – Thank you