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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?
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
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?
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