Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking Literacy Skills using iPads in Primary Education
- 1. Fostering Creative & Critical Thinking: Using iPads for Literacy By Joanne Villis
- 2. What is creative and critical thinking? According the Australian Curriculum it is the ability for students to: - generate and evaluate knowledge - clarify concepts and ideas - seek possibilities - consider alternatives and solve problems How do we teach our students to ?
- 5. Higher Order Thinking Skills Bloom’s Extended Digital Taxonomy Lower Order Thinking Skills
- 6. Taxonomy source: https://www.fractuslearni ng.com/wp-content/ uploads/2014/08 /bloom_taxonomy_1280.p ng
- 7. iPads and Literacy skills? According to the Australian Curriculum Literacy involves: - listening - reading - viewing - speaking - writing - creating oral, print, visual and digital texts - using and modifying language
- 8. How do iPads fit in with the curriculum? iPads can be tools to support higher order thinking skills. I have witnessed a shift in the use of iPads in education. Initially teachers, including myself, had a strong desire to have all the good apps they could find. Now, it is a matter of using a few good apps and using them well.
- 9. What has happened to my literacy block? It has been integrated…
- 10. Where do you start?
- 11. 1. Start with your iPads’ features (a) Camera function both photo and video
- 12. 1. Start with your iPads’ features (b) Press the home button and on/off down button at the same time, a screen shot will be sent to your photos. This saves you money as you often don’t need to upgrade apps. In addition when using drill and practice apps you can keep a record of student’s achievements by taking a screen capture.
- 13. 1. Start with your iPads’ features (c) Set speech selection to assist students with reading difficulties. To do this: - Go to settings - Select general - Select speak selection - Turn on
- 14. 2. Read blogs Edudemic- Connecting education and technology Langwitches Teaching Appz iPad4schools Free tech 4 teachers
- 15. 2. Read blogs continued… The work has already been done for you! http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html
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- 17. 4. Recommended apps a) Explain Everything Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screen casting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/explain-everything/ id431493086?mt=8
- 18. 4. Recommended apps b) Garage Band Garage band is a free app which allows students to record, play and review their voices. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/garageband/id408787095
- 19. 4. Recommended apps c) Popplet Lite Poppet lite is a free app that supports students to organise their ideas before writing. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/popplet-lite/id364738549?mt=8
- 20. 4. Recommended apps d) ReadNRespond Organised according to Bloom's taxonomy, this versatile app provides student response forms that are applicable to any piece of literature, movie, or text available. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/readnrespond/id545919500?mt=8
- 21. 4. Recommended apps e) CompareNContrast This app presents 35 sets of photos connected to a graphic organiser, students list the similar and contrasting traits for each set of two photos. Teachers and students can also make their own Compare and Contrast scenes by adding photos or text. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comparencontrast/id578513815?mt=8
- 22. 5. Recommended apps f) My Create Using the built-in camera, students capture a series of photos of the physical world around them, edit and create a stop-motion animation. Videos can be uploaded or saved to photos. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mycreate/id566673733?mt=8
- 23. 5. Recommended apps g) Drawp edu Drawp is a free app which allows users to insert images, draw, annotate and share. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drawp-for-school-create.-learn./id794209888?mt=8
- 24. 5. Recommended apps h) iBooks iBooks allows you to download and share paid or free books. You can annotate, share and much more. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language hthttps://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8tps://itunes.a pple.com/us/app/drawp-for-school-create.-learn./id794209888?mt=8
- 25. 5. Recommended apps i) Fotobabble This app allows students to take a photo, record audio, add effects and share. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fotobabble/id353078443?mt=8v
- 26. 5. Recommended apps j) Story Dice Story Dice is a creative writing prompt tool to create ideas. It can be used for both written and oral storytelling. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/story-dice/id525351988?mt=8
- 27. 5. Recommended apps k) Inspire This App is designed to help spark the creative writing process. It contains extensive image and quote galleries for young writers to explore. You can also use the Randomiser function to experiment with various combinations of theme, setting and character, or use the First Line tool to automatically generate the first line to start your story. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/inspire/id894894207?mt=8
- 28. 5. Recommended apps l) Photo Comic Students can select layouts, take photos, and select various bubbles and action words. Literacy Skill Listening Reading Viewing Speaking Writing Creating Using language hthttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photocomic/id409694813?mt=8tps://itu nes.apple.com/us/app/story-dice/id525351988?mt=8
- 29. If everything fails, at least treat your iPad with respect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHofgmnFL1k
- 30. Created by Joanne Villis for a presentation at the IWBNet Oz Tech Conference 2014 http://intertecheducation.edublogs.org/ http://www.pinterest.com/joannevillis/ Images: http://pixabay.com/
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