Tablet Computers and KidsDeveloping Multi-literacy Skills in e-Learning Environments using

Tablet Computers at the Primary Grade Level in Thailand

How can kids learn using a tablet computer?

Prepared by:Willard Van De BogartLanguage InstituteBangkok University

The Fourth TCU International e-Learning Conference - June 14 -15, Bangkok “Smart Innovations in Education and Lifelong Learning”

What is Multi-literacy?

Moving Touching

Voicing

What is an e-Learning environment?

Participatory e-Learning

Collaborate

Explore

Who is the teacher?

What is Thailand’s Computer Tablet Policy?

Provide one tablet per child to all Prathom 1 students Allow students to have access to other materials

Provide a 21 century learning tool

PM Yingluck Shinawatra

1st Who are the stake holders?• Families of Thailand• Educational representatives of Thailand• Teachers of Thailand• Producers of Thailand• Thailand as an ASEAN nation member• Thailand’s diaspora

2nd What are the objectives?

* Cognitive development* Critical Thinking* Knowledge acquisition and management* Associative learning

Alphabet to Apphabet

Apphabet to the world

Teacher

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Web2Thai Foundation

Teaching Children English with Tablet Computers

Right: Sven Sprogoe Petersen - Consultant2nd right: Dah – Teacher Trainer3rd right: Willard Van De Bogart - Researcher

Per Algot Enevoldsen - President

What are these kids doing?

What are these students doing?

They used to be kids!

A new 3D Educational Methodology

• A 3D Education is going from the alphabet to the apphabet using:

Digital pedagogy = Lessons learned Digital literacy = Skills mastered Digital scaffolding = Stages achieved

Digital pedagogy – Lessons learned

Making shapes

DrawSelectIdentify

Give the child manychoices.

SoundColorShapes

Injini

MotionSongs

Digital pedagogy – Lessons Learned

Instructive appsManipulative appsConstructive apps

Digital literacy – Skills mastered

Moving fingersAssociating ideasRecognizing patterns

Digital scaffolding – Stages achieved

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

1.

2.

3.

Interrelated Learning Progressions

Puppet Pal

Diagram: Karin Hess, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment

App App

Thailand’s Digital Education Policy?

2012

2013

2014

5 years old

15 years oldScaffolding for the future…

From moving fingers to moving ideas

e-Learning environment

Thailand’s Tablet RevolutionThe tablet computer is an educational processor

The future is now – Thank you

AEC 2015