action research project inver grove heights community schools by karin swainey and sara getting

Action Research Project Inver Grove Heights Community Schools

by Karin Swainey and Sara Getting

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Driving Question

• Can iPads be used in 1st Grade Reading Groups to measurably improve scores of the 100 sight words, oral fluency, understanding vocabulary and literal and inferential comprehension?

Goals/Objectives of today…

• Useful apps for primary students.

• Data: how using iPads increased sight words, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary.

• How we incorporated 21 Century Skills.

• How we managed the iPads with first graders.

Hilltop Elementary’s Demographics

Fluency andComprehension Apps

• FluencyComprehension-Voice memo -readinga-z.com

-Talking Tom

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Sight Word/Vocab. apps

• K-3 Sight words

• Sight words

• Magnetic ABC

• Glitter doodle

• Whiteboard

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Phonics apps

• Word cub

• Clifford Be Big

• Alphabet Car

• Pocket Phonics

• Word Magic

• Word Families

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21st Century Skills

• Critical thinking, systems thinking, collaborative problem solving.– These were difficult to produce with iPads.

Instead we took the angle of using these to help us improve our own teaching strategies and best practice. These are not developmentally appropriate nor conducive to the subject matter for first grade.

21st Century Skills

• Global Awareness: Google Earth.• Interactive Communication: swapped iPads

and listened to another student’s fluent reading as they followed along in the story.

• Scientific Inquiry: new students to groups had to show some degree of self inquiry to manage given tasks.

• Data analysis: stoplight charts

Unintended outcomes

• VGA Cord.

• Student movement within groups. (30)

• iPad syncing.

• Noisy apps.

• Use of websites.

“Aha” Moments

• Letter reversals: ABC Tracer.

• Fluency app: Talking Tom.

• Comfort level of students with iPads.

• Motivation: time on task.

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Intentional Sharing: already occurred

• Student presented at school board meeting in November.

• Shared our iPad apps list.• IGH Student Led Technology

Conference.• Staff training & sign out sheets.• Staff testimonials.

Sharing …

•We have submitted an article and are in the process of being published in ISTE Learning and Leading with Technology magazine.

Resources

http://wiki.ties.k12.mn.us/TIES2011-+Action+Research+iPads+and+1st-Grade+Readers

In Conclusion…

• Overall the use of iPads increased the four areas of data collections: sight words, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

• Studying and implementing 21st Century Skills in our teaching strategies has changed our teaching.

• Had a vision of what we thought would happen, but through the process we were very flexible and made several adaptations.

• Working with digital natives helped us learn too.

Questions?

Sara Getting

Gettings@invergrove.k12.mn.us

651-306-7411

Karin Swainey

Swaineys@invergrove.k12.mn.us

651-306-7414