Slides to support a presentation for the public in Lincolnshire Illinois in October 2016

1. Tech Keys
Opening Doors to Literacy
Gail Lovely

2. SuddenlyitClicks.com

3. Me, Gail Lovely
Learned to read before anyone knew it.
Demanded books.

4. How did you become literate?
Image credit: https://theosophywatch.com/2015/04/14/growing-the-child-a-moral-and-spiritual-covenant/

5. Technologies have many roles in developing and
supporting literacy.

6. Motivation
Variety
Choice

7. Motivation
Success
Social

8. Motivation
Support of developing skills and
yet-to-be-developed skills

9. Skills like…
sequencing
writing
speaking
Phonemic awareness
patterns
letter formation
listening
reading
Storytelling
story structure
spelling
inference
problem solving
point of view
vocabulary

10. NOT about replacing
paper-based books!

11. Robots and Coding
https://newrobbinsvalley.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/robot-reading.jpg

12. $89.00
(no computer
or device
needed)
http://bee-bot.us
Bee-bot

13. $30.00
(no computer
or device
needed)
http://www.learningresources.com
Code & Go Programmable Mouse

14. Robots and Coding
• Symbolic thought
• Sequence
• Tools for Stories
• As well as counting, logic, problem solving, dealing with frustration,
and some self-esteem and fun for families as well as children!

15. Augmented and Virtual
Reality

16. Usually
through a
headset or
viewer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4QisBVtRgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT0hVLEe5mU
Virtual Reality

17. Virtual Reality
• Immersion in “places”
• Tools for Stories
• Experiences
• Exploring places we cannot go (yet)
• Adding context to books we read
• Bringing fiction and nonfiction together
A “negative” is it is not usually a shared in real-time experience.

18. iOS
Android
Free Apps
Cards - $10
Augmented Reality Cards
http://4d.octagon-studio.com/

19. iOS
$2.99
Act out or tell stories, add to books, retell stories, etc.
Green Screen by Do Ink

20. iOS
Android
$2.99
Augmented non-reality– personalizing the story
The Tortoise and the Hare
(by Arloon)

21. Beyond the Screen

22. Starter Kit is
$79.00
Requires iPad
(not
included)
https://www.playosmo.com/en/
OSMO

23. Web and free
app
http://explore.org
Explore.org

24. Apps

25. iOS
Android
$3.99
vocabulary building in context
Tacky the Penguin

26. iOS
free
Own narration, create own stories, illustrations/photos
Collins Big Cat:
It Was a Cold, Dark Night Story Creator

27. iOS
$2.99
Switch languages with one touch (English – Spanish)
ABC Actions

28. iOS
$1.99
Reader-adjusted reading levels
The Strange and Wonderful World of Ants

29. iOS
$4.99
Two points of view here…
Goldilocks and Little Bear

30. iOS
$9.99
Illustrations drive readers to learn more
Journeys of Invention: Science and Technology
from Past to Present

31. iOS
Chrome
Free +
Soundtracks for books
BookTrack
(also on web)

32. iOS
Android
$1.99
(this week
only!)
ibooks
Custom or Self-made Books
Book Creator App

33. What
Matters…

34. What
Matters…

35. What
Matters…

36. What
Matters…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedtime_story_-_Madeline.JPG#/media/File:Bedtime_story_-_Madeline.JPG

37. What
Matters…

38. Let’s Talk!

39. In the end…
it is not about
the book or the
app…
it is about the
child.

40. What I am reading…
Some good online sources…
Joan Ganz Cooney Center http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/
Fred Rogers Center http://www.fredrogerscenter.org/
TEC (Technology in Early Childhood) Center at Erikson http://teccenter.erikson.edu/

41. Gail Lovely
GailLovely@SuddenlyItClicks.com
Thank you for caring
about children, literacy
and technology.