Using apps for learning across the curriculum : a literacy-based framework and guide / Richard Beach and David O’Brien.

Beach, Richard.
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Introduction: Defining Purposes for Learning With Literacies Through Use of Apps — Acquiring Disciplinary Literacies Through Use of Apps — Planning Instruction Using Apps to Foster Learning With Literacy — Using Apps for Accessing and Assessing Information — Using Apps for Reading Digitally — Using Apps for Writing — Using Apps to Foster Discussion — Using Apps to Respond to and Produce Images — Using Apps for Audio and Video Productions — Using Apps for Gaming/Simulations — Using Apps for Reflection/Assessment — Professional Development on Using Apps.
  • How can apps be used to foster learning with literacy across the curriculum? This book offers both a theoretical framework for considering app affordances and practical ways to use apps to build students’ disciplinary literacies and to foster a wide range of literacy practices.Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculumpresents a wide range of different apps and also assesses their value features methods for and apps related to planning instruction and assessing student learning identifies favorite apps whose affordances are most likely to foster certain disciplinary literacies includes resources and apps for professional developmentprovides examples of student learning in the classroomA website (www.usingipads.pbworks.com) with resources for teaching and further reading for each chapter, a link to a blog for continuing conversations about topics in the book (appsforlearningliteracies.com), and more enhance the usefulness of the book — Provided by publisher.
  • Text in English.

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Requested by Kurpiers, R.

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