Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking Literacy Skills using iPads in Primary Education
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This slide share is a copy of a presentation which I am presenting at the Oz Tech 2014 Conference at Firbank Grammar School during September. I have provided iPad apps to use with Primary school students in order to foster critical and creative literacy skills.
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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 ?
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.
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
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
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