Using Apps to Foster Learning New Literacies in the Classroom Richard Beach, University of Minnesota, [email protected]Google Docs Version of apps handout: http:// tinyurl.com /bt8s3rk Using iPad and iPhone Apps for Learning with Literacy Across the Curriculum http://usingipads.pbworks.com
1. Using Apps to Foster LearningNew Literacies in
theClassroomRichard Beach, University of
Minnesota,[email protected] Docs Version of apps
handout:http://tinyurl.com/bt8s3rkUsing iPad and iPhone Apps
forLearning with Literacy Across
theCurriculumhttp://usingipads.pbworks.com
4. Affordances of iPads/iPhones Touch: Intuitive navigation of
texts andvirtual worlds Portability/storage/ownership Personal
learning device Social reading/writing Multimodality
Collaboration/communication
5. App affordances: Literacies tolearn across the
curriculum(app iTunes links on handout) Accessing/Analyzing
Information toLearn Reading Digitally to Learn Writing to Learn
Discussing to Learn Images to Learn Audio/Video to Learn Games,
Simulations, and Drama toLearn Reflection to Learn
6. Accessing/AnalyzingInformation to Learn:Wikipedia Qwiki
includes videos, images, graphs, andentries for millions of topics
Articles for iPad Wikipedia Mobile Wikipanion Plus Simplepedia
iWiki
7. Social, collaborative reading &writing to learn Social
reading/writing: Study: two 7th graders reading eachothers
annotations (Coiro, Castek,& Guzniczak, 2011, 61st LRAYearbook)
Exposed to alternative responsepractices that may differ from
theirown Acquiring new ways of interpretingtexts
8. Collaborative TaskWhat caused the downfall of the Mayan
civilization?
9. What will happen when Abby and Starfishwork
collaboratively?In what ways might their patterns ofstrategy use
remain the same or change?
10. Findings: Shifts in Abby and Starfishs Individual and
Collaborative StancesThoughtful Gather Purposeful
SummarizerAesthetic SummarizerReflective Analyzer
11. App affordances: Socialreading/writing shared
responsestoKobo Pulse texts http://tinyurl.com/6v7oy9w Readmill
http://tinyurl.com/6tldeng Video demo http://readmill.com Subtext
http://tinyurl.com/6v6fgxg Video
demo:http://www.subtext.com/education Students share annotations,
chat withother readers, and view what peers arereading
12. Using Diigo social bookmarkingfor sharing annotations1. Add
Diigo to your iPad or computertoolbar2. Find an online text3.
Highlight sections of the text4. Click on the icon to add a Sticky
Noteresponse5. Have other students add their responses
13. Diigo annotations: Pro-conreadings: benefits of energy
fromwind power th 7 grade students iMelanieSwandbys Lighthouse
School CommunityCharter School, Oakland, California Students posed
questions for eachother What does that mean, virtuallyfree? What
are some things that useenergy or power?
14. Adding sticky-noteannotations
15. One students annotation: Prowind turbine essay
16. One students annotation: conessay
17. Students responding to eachothers annotations
18. Dialogic interactions throughannotationsThere is a bad and
good thing about this. Bad is it kills birds passing by. Good it
makes energy cleaner. Tarnished with wind turbines? Arent wind
turbines supposed to be a good thing? Why are they complaining
about the turbines? it doesnt even look bad.
19. Use of annotations for summarywriting I am perplexed in
choosing if wind energyis a good courses or bad source. While,wind
energy is a good source becauseits renewable and needs nothing
morebut construction, it can also causeirritation and attention of
some people.Wind turbines are loud, noisy, and risky.Even though,
it doesnt cause anygreenhouse gases in the air, windturbines are
harmful to wildlife andspace. More birds die by getting hit bywind
turbines which is very dangerous toour wildlife.
20. Backchannel comments: Socialreading/writing to
learn:http://todaysmeet.com/NCNewLit Reactions?????????? Whatare
some ways you could use apps to foster social reading/writing to
learn in your classroom?
21. Accessing/Analyzing Informationto Learn: QR reader apps
Create QR code images Entering in a URL in a QR createsite such as
Qrafter, QRstuff.com,Kaywa, Tec-IT, QR-app InsertQR codes into
texts provide other related texts or pose questions
22. Digital concept mapping iPad apps: iBrainstorm,
MindMeisterfor Ipad,, Sundry Notes, Idea Sketch,Total Recall,
inShare, iMindMapMindNode, iThoughtsHD, Popplet Lite
http://tinyurl.com/3o6a3wy Hierarchical/logical relationships
betweenkey concepts
23. 5th Grade Students: PoppletLite for Concept Mapping 5th
grade studentsin LauraKretschmars classat LighthouseCommunity
CharterSchool, Oakland,California Lesson on rareearth metals
toaddress thequestion, What isgold?
24. Mateos initial map: What isgold?
25. Mateos revised map
26. Twitter apps Twitter Apps such as Twitter,TweetCaster
Tweetbot, Tweetdeck,Twitteriffic, HootSuite Create class account
Use Twitter hashtag for your class#JonesHistory10AikenHS
27. Twitteriffic
28. HootSuite
29. Collaborative writing/datacollection: Google Docs forms 5th
graders: Weaver LakeSchool, Osseo, MN Data on parasite presence
inMonarch butterflies 49% had parasites
34. Apps for Sharing/PublishingWriting ePub: Mac Pages (soon to
beon iPad Pages) Apple Author (requires OSLion): iBooks Dotepub or
Inkling books Human Biology Inklingtextbook
35. Discussing to learn: CMSplatform options OpenClass (free;
linked to GoogleApps) http://www.joinopenclass.com/open/view/t1
Edmodo (free; also an app) http://www.edmodo.com/ Schoology
https://www.schoology.com/home.php rcampus (cloud-based)
http://www.rcampus.com/
36. Discussing to learn:Collaborize
Classroomhttp://tinyurl.com/7xdcejl Free platform for
classroomdiscussions App/Web-based Extensive curriculum resources
Focus on fostering studentscollaboration Professional
development
37. Discussing to learn: Google+Hangout: Up to 10 people
38. VoiceThread: Multiple audiencesshare responses to the
sameimages
39. 5th Graders: VoiceThread forStudying Dinosaurs Extinction
of the dinosaurs: supernova, volcanoes, or an asteroid.
Volcanoeshttp://voicethread.com/share/2454743/
Supernovahttp://voicethread.com/share/2544219/
Asteriodhttp://voicethread.com/share/2545658/
40. VoiceThread affordances:Literacy practices Collaborative
shared reading Mediated by focus on same images Learn from each
others focus/practices Scientific thinking: claims/counter-claims
Exposure to competing arguments The asteroid couldnt have caused
the dinosaur extinction because the asteroid only landed on one
spot and there were dinosaurs everywhere.
41. Screencasting app: Doodles andaudio voice-over for
collaborativereading/writing/video ShowMe, Explain
Everything,VoiceThread, Screenchomp,Educreations 7th grade students
at LighthouseCommunity Charter School Mendelian genetics Created
ShowMe presentations
42. Students ShowMes: Genetics:dominant vs. recessive traits If
a brown eyed and a blue eyed parenthad a baby, what color eyes
would the babyhave? 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
43. ShowMe affordances: Socialreading/writing/video synergy
Unfolding doodling voice-overtalk 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
44. Screencasting: Students or youcreate how-to tutorials for
peers VoiceThread, ExplainEverything,Screenchomp,
ShowMe,Educreastions Snapguide http://tinyurl.com/ctkslx8
Students:
45. Screencasting: feedback VoiceThread,
ExplainEverything,Screenchomp, ShowMe,Educreastions Video response
to writing: Jing http://tinyurl.com/3kkw4am Speeches/drama:
FormativeFeedback for
Learninghttp://formativefeedbackapp.blogspot.com
47. Backchannel comments Reactions?????????????? What are some
ways you could use screencasting apps: VoiceThread or ShowMe in
your classroom?
48. Discussing to learn: Teentexting: 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.
49. Texting/message apps iMessage(iPad or iPhone),Messages
(Mac), AKMessenger!, textPlus FreeTexting + Group Text,
TextieMessaging Classroom-based textingsystems: Class
Parrot,Kikutext, WeTxt, Remind101,
50. Class Parrot: School texting
51. Toms Messengerhttp://tinyurl.com/7v7klxw
52. My message on TomsMessenger
53. Another message
54. Games/simulations/drama tolearn:
Game/simulation/roleplayapps Tiny Tower, CityVille Hometown, MyTown
2, Trade Nation, Farm Story,Epic Citadel (medieval fantasy townwith
a cathedral). Students creating characters andstories based on the
Epic Citadelmedieval
settinghttp://www.porchester.notts.sch.uk/citadel
55. Apps for planning/organizinginstruction Nearpod
http://tinyurl.com/6ts55kp http://new.nearpod.com videos, polls,
sketching tools, or featuredpresentations GoClass
http://tinyurl.com/chbmeke http://tinyurl.com/blgogqs SHOW (online
resources), EXPLAIN (addnotes), ASK (questions for students)
56. 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