This document discusses using iPads in learning and teaching. It summarizes feedback from classroom trials of using iPads and explores features of the iPad and apps that can engage students. Some advantages of iPads noted are their portability, ability to accommodate different learning styles, and accessibility features. Issues discussed include a lack of quality Australian apps and apps that focus on rote learning. The document provides examples of apps for information, fiction, digital storytelling, creating, collaborating, and designing with pedagogy in mind. It also discusses evaluating apps and integrating iPad use into lessons.

1. Exploring iPads
in Learning
and Teaching
Learning with a Twist
Image used with permission © Emma Sinclair
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2. Overview
Students today consume, create and make sense of
content via a range of mobile digital technologies.
This workshop will discuss feedback
from a classroom trial of iPads as
well as exploring the innovative
features the iPad and various Apps
can play in enhancing and engaging
students in learning.
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3. iPads research in learning
Advantages
• Instant on.
• Engage low ability readers, especially boys.
• Visual and tactile features easy to use.
• Accessibility features.
• Portability.
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Instant on - keeps students on task
Portability for collaborative work
Ability to increase font size helps students with dyslexia or low reading ability.
Larger font sizes cause more space between letters - Less crowding is easier to locate and read words.
Ref How Larger Font Size Impacts Reading and the
Implications for Educational Use of Digital Text Readers
by William E. DeLamater, M.Ed. and eReadia LLC.
April 29, 2010

4. iPads research in learning
Issues
• Lack of quality Australian
Apps.
• Many Maths/English
Apps rote learning.
• Management and
syncing of multiple iPads.
• App licensing across
multiple iPads.
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5. iPads in learning
• Learners have control.
• Learning is personalised.
• A range of learning styles
and levels accommodated.
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6. Accessibility
Zoom
Touch screen
Buttons
Vision impairment
Mobility
Voiceover Predictive
Orientation
keyboard
Visual alerts
Mono
Hearing audio
Facetime
impairment
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8. Reading and the iPad
• Provides: pronunciations,
definitions, extended
information, read to me, different
reading levels, interactivity.
• Different strategies needed
for ebook reading.
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Doty, Popplewell, and Byers (2001) found no significant difference on oral retellings
associated with interactive storybooks versus traditional printed books. However when
comprehension was measured through questions, students reading the interactive storybook
scored higher. The interactive books provided students with the ability to obtain
pronunciation and definitions. Student could also click on illustrations for labels and
pronunciation of words.
READING IN IPAD TRANSMEDIA UNIVERSE: five real-world issues
http://eduscapes.com/fluid/3f.html

9. Information text Apps
• Our Choice
• Eureka Sports Science
• World Books World of Animals
• Timbuktu
• Virtual History - Roma
• London1647
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10. Fiction Apps for Primary
• Bartelby’s Book of Buttons
• The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris
Lessmore
• Wonkey Donkey
• Animalia
• Miss Spiders Tea Party
• Cozmo’s Day Off
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11. Fiction Apps for
Secondary
• A Christmas Carol
• War of the Worlds
• Pedlar Lady
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12. Digital Storytelling
• Photocard Lite
• Toontastic
• Strip Designer
• Comic Life
• Others at Digital
Storytelling with
the iPad Hand drawn image from Toontastic
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13. Creating with the iPad
• Flipboard - create your own magazine
• ShowMe - create/share animated whiteboard
videos.
• iPad orchestras.
• Animate objects using I Can Animate
• Draw and animate using DoInk.
• iMovie/Garageband create music and movies.
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14. Create your own iBooks
• Pages
• dotEPUB
• ePUB BUD
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15. Collaborate
• Idea sketch
• Popplet
• Adobe Ideas
• Whiteboard lite
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Adobe ideas digital sketchbook

16. Apps designed with
pedagogy in mind
• GAMeS Lab Radford University
• Education Services Australia
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• Games Lab collaborates with participating teachers to determine how best to design and integrate
games within the existing curricula. http://gameslab.radford.edu/iLearn/apps.html
• toontastic is a storywriting app designed in partnership with a crew from Stanford’s Graduate School of
Education and Zeum: San Francisco’s Children’s Museum. It’s a creative learning tool for the iPad that
teaches storytelling skills through playful cartoon creation.

17. Quality Australian Apps
• Please touch the Exhibit - science/discovery
• Pirate Treasure Hunt - thinking/literacy
• Birthday Buzz - predictive reading
• DigiMacq - Australian history
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18. Integrating iPad/Apps in
learning
Process Resources
• Evaluate Apps in • Assess Apps using Kathy
your school. Schrock’s iPads in the
Classroom iPad App
• Establish a toolkit of rubric.
Apps that can be
integrated into your • Integrate: see Writing
lessons. iPad inspired lessons.
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19. Where to find App
reviews
• Learning and Teaching with iPads
• iPads for learning
• Teach with your iPad
• IEAR I Education Apps review
• BloomsApps based on Blooms Taxonomy
• Apples Education Apps
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20. Lisa Nash
Librarian
Learning Exchange
Catholic Education,
Diocese of Parramatta
References and detailed information
at:
Learning and Teaching with iPads blog
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