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Using iOS Apps to Foster Literacy Learning
1. Using iOS Apps to
Foster Literacy
Learning
Richard Beach, University of Minnesota rbeach@umn.edu
Google Docs Version of apps
handout:
http://tinyurl.com/b6xl2yk
3. Affordances of iPads/iPhones
Touch:
◦ Intuitive navigation of texts and
virtual worlds
Portability/storage/ownership
◦ Personal learning device
Social reading/writing
Multimodality
Collaboration/communication
4. Affordances
Affordances not “in” app
App Activity
Affordances created by teachers
Activity App
5. App affordances: Literacies to learn
across the curriculum (app iTunes links
on handout)
Accessing/Analyzing Information to Learn
Reading Digitally to Learn
Writing to Learn
Discussing to Learn
Images to Learn
Audio/Video to Learn
Games, Simulations, and Drama to Learn
Reflection to Learn
6. Affordances (Hutchinson & Beschorner,
2013, Journal of of Education Computing Research
Contained 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
8. Accessing/Analyzing Information to
Learn: Wikipedia
Qwiki
◦ includes videos, images, graphs, and entries for
millions of topics
Articlesfor iPad
Wikipedia Mobile
Wikipanion Plus
Simplepedia
iWiki
9.
10.
11.
12. Accessing/Analyzing Information to
Learn: QR reader apps
Create QR code images
◦ Entering in a URL in a QR create site
such as Qrafter, QRstuff.com, Kaywa, Tec-
IT, QR-app
Insert QR codes into texts
◦ provide other related texts or pose
questions
14. Using Diigo social bookmarking
for sharing annotations
1. Add Diigo to your iPad or computer
toolbar
2. Find an online text
3. Highlight sections of the text
4. Click on the icon to add a Sticky Note
response
5. Have other students add their responses
15. Diigo annotations: Pro-con readings:
benefits of energy from wind power
7thgrade students iMelanie Swandby’s
◦ Lighthouse School Community Charter
School, Oakland, California
Students posed questions for each other
◦ “What does that mean, virtually free?”
◦ What are some things that use energy
or power?”
20. Dialogic interactions through
annotations
“There is a bad and good thing about this.
Bad is it kills birds passing by. Good it
makes energy cleaner.”
“Tarnished with wind turbines? Aren't
wind turbines supposed to be a good
thing? Why are they complaining about
the turbines? it doesn't even look bad.”
21. Use of annotations for summary
writing
I am perplexed in choosing if wind energy is a
good courses or bad source. While, wind
energy is a good source because it’s
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 doesn’t
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.
23. Digital concept mapping
iPad apps: iBrainstorm, MindMeister for
Ipad,, Sundry Notes, Idea Sketch, Total
Recall, inShare, iMindMap MindNode,
iThoughtsHD, Popplet Lite
http://tinyurl.com/3o6a3wy
Hierarchical/logical relationships between
key concepts
24. 5th Grade Students: Popplet Lite for
Concept Mapping
5thgrade students in
Laura Kretschmar’s
class at Lighthouse
Community Charter
School, Oakland,
California
Lesson on rare earth
metals to address the
question, “What is
gold?”
27. Twitter apps
Twitter Apps such as Twitter, TweetCaster
Tweetbot, Tweetdeck, Twitteriffic,
HootSuite
Create class account
Use Twitter hashtag for your class
#JonesHistory10AikenHS
36. Apps for Sharing/Publishing Writing
ePub: Mac Pages (soon to be on
iPad Pages)
Apple iBooks Author (requires
OS Lion): iBooks
Dotepub or Inkling books
48. Discussing to learn: Collaborize
Classroom http://tinyurl.com/7xdcejl
Free platform for classroom
discussions
App/Web-based
Extensive curriculum resources
Focus on fostering students
collaboration
Professional development
55. Value of drawing apps
Interviewer: 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 don’t 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
57. 5th Graders: VoiceThread for Studying
Dinosaurs
Extinction 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/
58. VoiceThread affordances: Literacy
practices
Collaborative shared reading
◦ Mediated by focus on same images
◦ Learn from each other’s focus/practices
Scientific thinking: claims/counter-claims
◦ Exposure to competing arguments
“The asteroid couldn’t have caused the dinosaur
extinction because the asteroid only landed on one
spot and there were dinosaurs everywhere.”
59. Screencasting app: Doodles and
audio voice-over for collaborative
reading/writing/video
ShowMe, Explain Everything,VoiceThread,
Screenchomp, Educreations
7th grade students at Lighthouse
Community Charter School
◦ Mendelian genetics
◦ Created ShowMe presentations
60. Students ShowMe’s: Genetics: dominant
vs. recessive traits
“Ifa brown eyed and a blue eyed parent had a
baby, what color eyes would the baby have?”
http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=ibbycYS
Mother and father birds and baby bird
http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=RNKspgu
Pea plant genetics
http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=GC6q3nM
61. ShowMe affordances: Social
reading/writing/video synergy
Unfoldingdoodling voice-over talk
Use of ShowMe for prewriting/revision
◦ Testing our/erasing doodles
Collaborative focus on same images
Video: Rhetorical sense of audience
Use science disciplinary literacy
◦ Images, charts, figures as data evidence
62. Screencasting: Students or you create
how-to tutorials for peers
VoiceThread, ExplainEverything,
Screenchomp, ShowMe, Educreastions
Snapguide http://tinyurl.com/ctkslx8
◦ Students:
63. Discussing to learn: Teen texting: Pew
Research
63% text daily
◦ Median number sent daily was 60 in 2011.
39% cell phones
35% face-to-face socializing,
29% social-networking messages,
22% IMing
6% emailing.
64. Texting/message apps
iMessage (iPad or iPhone),
Messages (Mac), AK Messenger!,
textPlus Free Texting + Group
Text, Textie™ Messaging
Classroom-based texting systems:
Class Parrot, Kikutext, WeTxt,
Remind101, Sendhub, Class Pager
72. Games/simulations/drama to learn:
Game/simulation/roleplay apps
Tiny 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 setting
http://www.porchester.notts.sch.uk/citadel
77. Apps for planning/organizing instruction
Nearpod http://tinyurl.com/6ts55kp
◦ http://new.nearpod.com
◦ videos, polls, sketching tools, or featured
presentations
GoClass http://tinyurl.com/chbmeke
◦ http://tinyurl.com/blgogqs
◦ SHOW (online resources), EXPLAIN (add
notes), ASK (questions for students)
78. App uses/recommendations
EdReadch channel (MobileReach,
MacReach)
Appy Hours 4 U
◦ The TechChef4u app
The iPad Show
The Daily App Show
TWIT channel
Tech Chick Tips
79.
80. Online resources: Apps for literacy
learning
Google Docs: apps handout:
http://tinyurl.com/b6xl2yk
Ebook: Using iPad and iPho ne A pps fo r
Learning w ith Literacy A cro ss the
C urriculum
http://www.appsforlearningliteracies.com
Wiki resource site for this book
http://usingipads.pbworks.com