Improving Student
Writing Using iPads
wfryer.me/map
by Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
22-23 Jan 2014
Lewisville, Texas
www.speedofcreativity.org

Please install these FREE iPad apps!
KidBlog
AudioBoo

Referenced Resources Today Are On:
stem.wesfryer.com
maps.playingwithmedia.com

documenting our learning … practicing communication skills
stem.wesfryer.com

Remember Saturday Morning Cartoons?
www.flickr.com/photos/digital_ramapge/3906121933/

www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/2959807121/

2013
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/9423979722

<1> Inspire
you to CREATE with your students
<2> Equip
you to start using interactive writing!
& narrated art projects with students
<3> Persuade
you to OPENLY SHARE student work

https://todaysmeet.com/lisd14

sadly many adults just see devices as“arcades”
www.flickr.com/photos/rogerimp/3902464739

see iPads as...
imagination!
machines
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nnrgc3gBL.jpg
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/350962891
bridges to!
creativity
http://maps.playingwithmedia.com

www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/6660141777
www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/6660135637
www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/6660084813
www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667864872
photos by @bradflickinger

Expand your classroom MENU!
of how students show what they know & understand
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6190432919

http://maps.playingwithmedia.com

discounted copies of my latest!
eBook for today’s!
attendees
99
9.
$
$14.99!
(June 2013)
http://maps.playingwithmedia.com/ebook/

www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/223327646
picture the importance of relationships at school

I know from watching and listening all over the country in schools
and in workshops, however, that many educators have become less
creative, more timid and unimaginative, and have indeed lost pride in
their work in the face of how heavy-handed the states have been in
promulgating this retro and harmful “accountability”. Why is not the
state responsible for ensuring that the incentives are right and the
resources are available to do the work well? States should have to be
accountable for how local leaders interpre their mandates. But states
wash their hands of the problem of change; they merely issue
mandates. So, teachers become brow-beaten by scores, encouraged
to do test prep, and in general, down the authority line, to teach
worse rather than better – somehow in the name of “standards.”
http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/standards-yes-current-implementation-no-how-we-have-re-invented-soviet-era-wheat-quotas/

too many people today believe
in the power of
TECHNOLOGY & TESTING
rather than the power of
WORDS & PASSIONATE
PEOPLE
www.flickr.com/photos/jemimus/4824411391

“If you just
buy this...”
“your test!
scores will!
look like this:”
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f8pXcUqZgA8/TG7TCB1j4cI/AAAAAAAAAos/nIbsPJ_g2ys/s1600/iwanttobelieveel4.jpg

larrycuban.wordpress.com
Dr. Larry Cuban
(2003)
www.tc.columbia.edu/news.htm?articleID=3911&pub=6&issue=56

research on improving literacy skills?
www.marzanoresearch.com
Identifying Similarities & Differences!
Summarizing & Note-Taking!
Reinforcing Effort & Providing Recognition
Homework & Practice!
Nonlinguistic Representation!
Cooperative Learning!
Setting Objectives & Providing Feedback!
Generating & Testing Hypotheses!
Questions, Cues, & Advance Organizers
time on task
http://web2thatworks.com
parent involvement
by Stephanie Sandifer @ssandifer

http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.RedefiningLiteracyForThe21stCentury
2004
2013
http://maps.playingwithmedia.com
“Let’s re-draw the!
map for!
“digital literacy”
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/407220044

www.flickr.com/photos/julicrockett/2968136899/
creativity is intrinsically valuable

“what will!
we create!
today?”
2001 revision of Bloom's Taxonomy

http://maps.playingwithmedia.com

<1>
http://maps.playingwithmedia.com/interactive-writing/

www.flickr.com/photos/rwkphotography/3134567786
(free)
KidBlog
http://kidblog.org/mmccmt/1876378b-4207-4ffea536-4062fb6d2fb6/lw-kindergarten-byod-daycelebrating-technology/

<2>
http://maps.playingwithmedia.com/narrated-art/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LT3GQPqVew
http://wfryer.me/ies

Field!
Trip!
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/8680572249
April 25, 2013

http://audioboo.fm/fieldtripokc

http://vimeo.com/63484898

Workflow:
iOS or!
Android!
with!
camera
+
(free)

closing
thoughts
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/9512241421

<story>
http://maps.playingwithmedia.com/ebook/

www.flickr.com/photos/carmichaellibrary/5436669614
www.flickr.com/photos/starforlifeorg/3566388792/
books can be bridges

www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/7561882966

http://meetsnowflake.com
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/sets/72157629093449999/
http://rachelfryer.com

www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/9515023722

http://ebooks.playingwithmedia.com/moore/

www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/9515028114

Create ENHANCED eBooks on iOS
(record your voice)
Book Creator for iPad
www.redjumper.net/bookcreator/
Creative Book Builder
http://getcreativebookbuilder.blogspot.com
http://wfryer.com/ebooks

Epiphany:
student!
agency!
&!
voice
www.flickr.com/photos/belobaba/6058142799

www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/9515024646
empowering students to discover their VOICE!
and the POWER of their WORDS

Mapping Media
to the Common Core
(with iPads)
wfryer.me/map
by Wesley Fryer, Ph.D.
14 Sep 2013
Classroom 2.0 Live!
www.speedofcreativity.org