Using iOS Apps to Foster Literacy Learning
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Richard Beach discusses using iOS apps to foster literacy learning. He outlines several affordances of iPads/iPhones including touch navigation, portability, social reading/writing, and multimodality. Beach then describes various apps that can be used to develop literacy across the curriculum, including apps for accessing/analyzing information, reading/writing digitally, discussing, using images/audio/video, games/simulations, and reflection. Examples are provided of students and teachers using apps like Diigo, Popplet Lite, VoiceThread, and ShowMe to support literacy activities.
![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.
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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
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- 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
- 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?”
- 17. One student’s annotation: Pro wind turbine essay
- 18. One student’s annotation: con essay
- 19. Students responding to each other’s annotations
- 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.
- 22. Writing to learn
- 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?”
- 25. Mateo’s initial map: 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
- 28. Twitteriffic
- 29. HootSuite
- 30. Collaborative writing/data collection: Google Docs forms 5th graders: Weaver Lake School, Osseo, MN Data on parasite presence in Monar 49% had parasites
- 31. Writing multmodal story books StoryKit, Storyrobe, Book Creator, Bookemon Mobile, Picture Books, Writer's Studio, StoryPatch, Demibooks® Composer, StoryBuddy, My Story, MoglueBooks, myebook, StoryJumper (for younger students), Tikatok
- 33. Comics/graphic novels Comic Life, Strip Designer, ComicStrip CS Shttp://tinyurl.com/6or7bvz, Comics Creator, PhotoComic, Comic Touch Lite
- 35. Strip Designer: Retell stories 35
- 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
- 51. Discussing to learn: Google+ Hangout: Up to 10 people
- 53. Sundry Notes: Draw pictures and add audio notes: Story cause/effect 53
- 54. Doodly Buddy: Story illustrations 54
- 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
- 56. VoiceThread: Multiple audiences share responses to the same images
- 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
- 69. My message on Tom’s Messenger QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture.
- 70. Another message QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture.
- 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
- 75. Screencasting: feedback VoiceThread, ExplainEverything, Screenchomp, ShowMe, Educreastions Video response to writing: Jing ◦ http://tinyurl.com/3kkw4am Speeches/drama: Formative Feedback for Learning http ://formativefeedbackapp.blogspot.com
- 76. Professional development to learn
- 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
- 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