creating higher-achieving math students in the app generation
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DR. GARY GLEN BITTER RUSEN MEYLANI
A R I Z O N A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y
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WWW.GARYBITTER.COM
Creating Higher-Achieving Math Students in the App Generation
What happens in 60 seconds? Version 1 2
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What happens in 60 seconds? Version 2 3
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Mobile Statistics 4
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Mobile Statistics 5
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Mobile Statistics 6
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Essential Skills for the Mobile User (Both Learner and Teacher)
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Creating presentations: Sliderocket, Idea Flight, Slideshark. SlideGrabber, Prezi Viewer, Xavier Presentation
Creating digital stories: StoryKit, Talking Tom & Ben News,I Tell a Story, Scholastic Storia, Talking Tom Cat, Toontastic, Our Story, Bunsella Bedtimes Story
Creating eBooks: Book Creator for iPad, eBook Magic, Demibooks Composer, Story Patch, Creative Book Builder
Printing documents right from the mobile device: Epson iPrint, Print Magic, ACT Printer, Doc Printer, Air Sharing
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Essential Skills for the Mobile User (Both Learner and Teacher)
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Creating videos: Animoto Video, Videolicious, Vidify app, ReelDirector, Magisto, Super 8, Vintagio, iMovie
Taking notes on the mobile device: Paper Desk Lite, Idea Sketch, Mobile Noter, ABC Notes, Ghost Writer Notes, Penultimate, Note Taker HD, Note Shelf
Creating digital portfolios: Evernote, Paper, Three Ring, Coolibah, Coolibah, VoiceThread
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Essential Skills for the Mobile User (Both Learner and Teacher)
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Using Interactive White Boards from the mobile device: Educreations, ShowMe, Jot, SyncSpace, Ideas Flight
Recording audio clips: AudioBoo, iTalk Recorder, Mobile Podcaster, iPadio, Voice Recorder HD, Audio Note, Sound Note, Dragon Dictation
Screen sharing: Join.me, Air Sketch, Conference Pad, Team Viewer, Screen Chomp
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Essential Skills for the Mobile User (Both Learner and Teacher)
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Doing homework via the mobile device: Homeworkr, Homework Planner, iHomeworkr, iStudiez-Pro
Doing research using the mobile device: Documents to Go, Readdledocs, Dropbox, Wolfram alpha, Good Reader, iSource APA, Cloud Readers, iBooks
Creating written content on the mobile device: Write Boom, Enso Writer, Clean Writer, Chapters Notebooks for Writers, Chronicle for iPad, ABC Cursive Writing, Sentence Builder for iPad, Popplet, Storybuilder for iPad, iCan Write
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Common Core Standards for Mathematics 11
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More Apps Aligned with Common Core Everyday 12
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Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice
Make sense of non typical problems and persist in solving them: Modeling real life problems with mathematics
Employ appropriate tools; K-12 students are “digital natives” while their teachers are “digital immigrants”
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Why Use App’s in the Math Classroom
Android and iOS devices: Small, light and convenient; can easily be moved around
Access the abundant and ever growing resources of knowledge on the Internet
Read, write, draw, take pictures and record videos, watch videos, take notes via speech recognition software without typing or writing
Numerous other advantages…
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Uses of the Tablet
Doing the task “now” Reinforcement of math concepts Practicing basic facts through “cool” and “fun” apps Whole group as well as differentiated instruction Posting teacher-created math videos Games (to preview or reinforce skills) Exit tickets/quick assessments Ease of collecting data
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Uses of the Tablet
Access to “game like” digital learning environments that are more engaging and interactive
Communicate and collaborate easily Teachers become facilitators; more individualized
time per student; more “teachable moments” Various ways to use the mobile device besides only
apps; sky is the limit to your imagination…
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Challenges of Using Apps in the Classroom
However: Lesson plans are needed to accommodate such technologies.
A certain level of comfort of use is needed at and outside school: Learners: Should be comfortable using the mobile technology Teachers: Should be comfortable to train the students and
intervene whenever needed Parents: Cost of the mobile device, basic knowledge of how to
use the device so as to monitor the activities of children Administrators: Technology, maintenance, personnel and
professional training costs; restriction of use to scholarly purposes
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Tips and Tricks to Overcome the Challenges 18
• Specify rules from the beginning. • Make both students and parents sign a contract prior to usage. • Make the iOS or Android tablets easily accessible – this is a gradual process. • Learn and teach the basics to use the mobile device. • Recharge all devices periodically (typically once every week). • Install all apps to all devices. • Share your apps with parents. • Update apps every 2 weeks. • Search under App store to see what has been purchased. • Deleting apps is easy; students should be accountable and not allowed to delete
apps. • Beware of the lite versions. You don’t always get the extra features. • There are thousands of apps available, do your homework before you use your
limited budget to purchase any apps.
(Credit: Kristi Watters and Martha Anderson)
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Locating iOS Apps Locating Android Apps
Install iTunes Click on iTunes Store Then click on App
Store On the top right hand
side, type the keyword(s) to find the apps of your interest
Go to Google Play Scroll down to find the
link for ANDROID APPS
Type the keyword(s) to find the apps of your interest
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How to Locate iOS and Android Math Apps
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Useful iOS Apps 20
Apps for Teachers Classroom Tasks Curricula Support Classroom Collaboration Instructional Tools Personal Organization Reference
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Useful iOS Apps 21
Math Numbers and Operations Geometry and More Algebra Calculus Probability and Statistics Applying Math Math Games
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Useful iOS Apps 22
Special Education Sign Language Communication Emotional Development Seeing and Hearing Language Development Literacy and Learning Diagnostics and Reference Organization Life Skills
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Useful Android Apps 23
Math and Math Assessment Apps Android Math Apps Android Math Practice, Drill, Exercise, Test, Assessment, Exam Apps Common Core Standards Apps for Android
Math Apps by Strand Numbers and Operations Algebra Geometry Measurement Data Analysis and Probability Process
Math Apps by Kind Number Recognition and Writing Games Puzzles Fun Facts References Video Clips Tools
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Thank You 24
For more information please contact:
Dr. Gary Glen BITTER at [email protected]
www.garybitter.com
or
Rusen MEYLANI at [email protected]
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