Support Instruction Presented by Janice Weesner for the Moscow School District October 2014 Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants I am a digital native. We are digital immigrants. T-PACK Common Core Technology Standards
With the adoption of the Idaho Common Core Standards the teaching of & with technology is no longer optional...but it is supported.
Doceo Center ELA Tech Standards
It's not about technology...it's about what you do with it. The SAMR Model- (Dr. Ruben Puentedura) provides a lense with which we can view any technology.
Where do apps fit? It depends.. Notability Before You Start Collecting Apps. Be thoughtful about your organization of apps. Use folders Use homescreen
Reading: e-books Storia iBooks This app is a great resource for picture & chapter books that you can add to your digital collection This is just one of the many apps available from Collins Big Cat series. Includes read to myself, read to me, AND story creator options. Collins Big Cat Great app to download and read and listen to books. iBooks includes access to iBooks Store, where you can download books. I love that iBooks also opens content published in the ePub and PDF formats
Subtext Syncs with Renaissance Learning, ePubs or PDFs. Subtext supports teachers in their Common Core instruction and encourages students to analyze what they read, articulate what they think, and make connections between texts and the outside world.
Reading: Fluency K12 Timed Reading Practice
Student Fluency Practice Example
Practice fluency with short passages for K-4 with this app
Students video record themselves reading and then play back to evaluate themselves iPad Video Notability is a place to create, share, and manage your notes. It combines handwriting, typing, audio recordings, and photos so you can create notes that fit your needs. Notability Reading: Word Work Fry Words Bluster includes all 1,000 Fry words in groups of 10, customizable, add new cards or lists students can practice spelling through games, custom lists can be created if you register Bitsboard match rhyming words, prefixes and suffixes, synonyms, homophones, and adjectives, over 800 vocabulary words, team mode to work with a partner, versus mode to play against a classmate
Study almost anything with 20 mini-games. Easily create your own study sets or download sets from a catalog. Ideal for mastering vocabulary, learning to read, spelling, etc. Vocabulary Spelling City Writing/Speaking/Listening Alphabet Board Storybuddy 2
Write, record, and share multiple stories with this powerful app. You can also send your stories to iBooks. A fun way to learn to practice writing letters. Using tried and true methods, Alphabet Board is an interactive way to learn to write.
ABC Animal Phonics Writing Lite
Learn ABC recognition, letter sounds, writing, and listening skills with animals.
Popplet This is a productivity app that also works as a mind mapping tool. Use the app to begin structuring the writing process. The app can also be used to create graphic organizers Writing & GAFE Kidblog Google Docs Create and manage Kidblog accounts from your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. Teachers can monitor blog activity and moderate comments and posts. Students can easily upload photos and videos directly from their iOS device Google Drive
Google Drive is a free way to keep your files backed up and easy to reach from any phone, tablet, or computer. Blogger cloud-based app that allows for typing, commenting and collaboration Google Blogger can be used to create, and update, a class blog. Very easy to create a closed, private and easily updated blog Digital Sandbox #1 Lets Explore! We are going to take 30 minutes for hands-on exploration of language art apps. Math Match 10 An individual, partner, or small group activity to practice addition facts to 10. Number Bonds
An individual, partner, or small group activity to practice addition and subtraction facts to 99 using fact families. ($1.99) Math Duel
Math Duel is a split screen mathematics game that pits two players against each other on the same device! Change settings for each player to level the playing field. New single player mode is great for fun math practice! Quick Images The mathematical skill of subitizing is "instantly seeing how many." The tasks in this app are designed to develop this skill by flashing a graphic of objects on screen for a limited amount of time before vanishing. Science Notability link to student science notebook Mibio Mibio helps you capture and share beautiful stories while keeping your media organized and backed up. Capture photos, videos, audio, notes, location, weather and more to tell your story. Everything in a story becomes a tile that you can drag and drop, edit or delete $0.99. General Apps for K-2 Remind Class Dojo Remind is a free, safe communication tool for teachers and parents- available for PC and IOS You set the noise level and the graphic changes when students get too loud, pro version sounds an alarm for $2.99 CamScanner ClassDojo helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators.
CamScanner helps you scan, digitize, store, sync and collaborate on various contents across smartphones, iPads, tablets and computers.
Too Noisy Lite General Apps for K-2 FaceTalker Skitch
Explain Everything make photos talk, use to have students tell stories, create presentations, etc. Lets you mark-up, highlight, annotate and share photos, PDFs and diagrams Explain Everything is an easy-to- use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Wonderopolois Wonderopolis offers multidisciplinary daily content through a Wonder of the Day, containing a curious question, written text, vocabulary words, graphic images and video to fuel learning, and inspire curiosity and exploration in and out of the classroom GAFE Google Apps for Education The One iPad Classroom Possible iPad Configurations 1. Whole Class - Teacher uses the iPad to display content on a projector for the whole class. 2. Stations - Attach a task to complete at a station that incorporates the use of the iPad. 3. Small Groups - Working in 2s, 3s, or 4s on some kind of collaborative group work. Management Ideas In elementary classrooms, use timers to help facilitate turn taking. Work in pairs or small groups taking turns at "pressing the buttons" (or whatever else is required in the app) Headphones make the iPad a good deal less distracting for those that don't have it, and more involving for those that do have it! Headphone splitters mean more than one student can listen at once. When working in small groups - assign roles to the group members (time keeper, iPad user, photographer, voice recorder, etc) and rotate these roles so everyone gets a turn. One strike youre out.
Digital Sandbox #2 Lets Explore! We are going to take 30 minutes for hands-on exploration of math, science & general apps