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Consume, Create, Collaborate: Using iPads and Apps in the Literacy
Classroom Reading Association of Ireland Conference 2014
Marino Institute of Education
27.09.14
David Mc Mahon
Professional Development Service for Teachers
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© PDST Technology in Education 2014
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Session Objectives
• To actively demonstrate and explore how iPads can be purposefully used as a teaching and learning tool within the context of the primary classroom.
• To allow participating teachers ample opportunities to experiment with a range of literacy focused teaching and learning applications.
• To create, collaborate and finally share a variety of literacy based teaching resources using a variety of applications.
iPad – Features & Functions
*SEN & Accessibility Features Socrative Quiz
Consume Create Collaborate
Literacy Apps Classroom Focus
‘ICT can promote active learning by enabling the child to find, manage, evaluate and use information to inform their learning’ (NCCA: 2004: 8)
PDST Tech Good Practice
Tablet TechnologiesAudience Task
One Minute Task*
Can you list some potentialbenefits of tablet technologiesfor Irish schools?
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• How would a teacher incorporate the application into their classroom? Is there a clear association with intended learning outcomes?
• Will the app meet the learning needs of all students in the class? Is there a facility within the app to allow students to collaborate on work with others and co-create?
• Does the app accommodate more than one learning style (visual, auditory, kinesthetic)?
• Will the app engage, motivate and challenge the students?
Kathy Schrock iPads for Teaching
iPad Educational App EvaluationFocus on Teaching & Learning
App Activities - ConsumingCollins Big Cat Apps & ABC PocketPhonics
• A Cold, Dark Night!• Personalising learning in the infant classes.• Letter sounds and blends leading to languageacquisition and development.
Participant Tasks• Read, Listen and Record Functions• Using Story Creator Feature • Classroom Application: How would you use this resource to enhance teaching
and learning in a literacy lesson?The Poetry App*
App Activities - CreatingToontastic & Build a Story • Generating, creating and writing.• Build awareness of writing genres, their features and conventions.
Participant Tasks• Story Arc, Conflict, Challenge, Climax and Resolution.• Build a story, theme, elements, characters and action.• Classroom Application: How would you use these
resources to enhance writing within a literacy lesson?
App Activities - CollaboratingNotability & Educreations • Building a literacy portfolio• Incorporating pair, group orwhole class input.
Participant Tasks• Lesson, Audio and Image Functions• Storage Feature • Story Starter: Once upon a time there was awicked witch who……
Further Useful Literacy Applications
Oral Language Development Capture learning through VideoNarrative Writing
www.appitic.com/ & www.tmadeeasy.com/
PDST – Further Resources
PDST Primary ICT PDST Primary Literacy PDST Technology
@davidmcma or @PDST_TechinEd
The App GenerationHoward Gardner
With educational goals as the starting point, not an afterthought, teachers can help students use, and then transcend technology as they learn. Most importantly, look for technology that uses questions to foster curiosity and the joy of discovery.
(Howard Gardner: The App Generation: 2013)
A final thought….
Further Resource Links
• http://appitic.com/ - Apps by subject areahttp://www.clareed.ie/resourcesList.php - apps for curriculum subjects.http://www.ipads4teaching.net/ipads-in-the-classroom.html - App evaluation rubrics.http://www.pdsttechnologyineducation.ie/en/Good-Practice/Videos/#64069464 - Good practice videos using tablets in Irish classrooms.
• http://www.pdst.ie/ICT - PDST active learning through technologyhttp://davidmcmahonpdst.weebly.com/week-one---tablet-technologies.html - resources for SEN, accessibility, SESS advice sheets etc.
• http://www.tmadeeasy.com/ - apps per subject area