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iPad ideas and appsDan Bowen

Aims of the session

• To identify strategies to best use iPads

• To look at specific apps to support learning

Session 1: Questions to consider

What are my values and beliefs about student learning?

• what is the long term goal? • what attributes do we want our students to have?

What are my values and beliefs about the role of ICT in learning and teaching?

• does it help learning?

Questions to ask

• What does my current pedagogy look like? (How do I teach?)

• What does it look like when I am teaching with ICT?

• How might it look in ‘my iPad classroom’?• What are my curriculum planning practices?• What are my assessment practices?• How might my planning and assessment need to

change to reflect learning and teaching with iPads?

Students can:• virtually explore the world online• visit museums and libraries around the world• access rich, multimedia information & resources to support research

and investigations• connect, communicate and collaborate with people all over the

world (who has used face time?)• create and publish to the web and have an audience (quad blogging,

blogging)• use a wide array of specialist apps tailored to different learning styles• access learning anytime, anywhere and anything (via video, games

and text)• Digital Literacy and Literacy in Digital age

How do YOU learn best?

Reshaping our thinking…

Discuss: Did you learn something

over the summer?

What are the current trends for

learning at universities and other contexts?

Khan Academy, iTunesU, Learning Platforms, Video Conference, MIT Open Courseware

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Let learners take ownership

Foster a sense of community

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Learning Platforms

Source: BECTA – Inclusive use of technology

iOS accessibilityThere are many built-in features on iDevices that accommodate learning disabilities and help improve productivity. The iPhone and the iPad have some differences here so it is important that you get the tools that best fits your needs. Apple provides a section just on accessibility option worth exploring but also check out the details of many of those built-in accessibility options in the iOS Technology.Just to name a few:Guided Access• VoiceOver• VoiceOver with Zoom• Zoom• VoiceOver with Maps• Text Completion• Siri• Siri’s ability to launch apps• White-on-Black• Hands Free• Alternate alerts• Custom vibration patterns for alerts• FaceTime over 3G (for signing)• New Made for iPhone hearing aids• Word highlights in speak selection

‘tips’

Integrated software

• Note taking (notes)• Video recording and playback• Photos• Email• Sound recording • Music• Browsing the internet• PDF bookshelf, ebooks, ibooks• Email• Calendar

200 Apps for Autistic Learners

• http://www.iautism.info/en/2013/04/02/free-or-discounted-apps-on-world-autism-awareness-day-2013/#comment-17968

Autism and other SEN• Apps for Autism - Apps for ASD iPod Touch Project is designed for children with Autism,

broken down into categories, including quick and easy description and cost for each app makes it easy to find what you may be looking for.

• Apps for Children with Special Needs (A4cwsn) is dedicated to serving children with special needs and the associated communities who work with them. Not only do they provide listings of recommended apps, by categories with descriptions, but A4cwsn has created videos to demonstrate how APPS that have been designed for children with special needs really work.

• Apps Designed with Disability in Mind provides a listing divided up by category. Worth exploring.

• Apps for Education by Compiled by Carolann Cormier, MS, CCC-SLP, ATP is kept up-dated and broken down into categories. This is one of my favorite listings. Bookmark this one and you are pretty set.

• Apps for Learning Social Skills - as this site states, "One of the three core symptoms for an autism spectrum disorder is social impairment. People on the autism spectrum learn by association rather than by observation. An iTunes app can be used as a teaching tool for the purpose of making associative connections (visual clues) by pictures or stories showing what social skills are supposed to look like so that the person with an autism spectrum disorder can learn (by visual association) and model (by imitation) these social skills in the context of real life social scenarios." This is an extensive listing of apps for developing social skills- worth exploring!

• Snapps4Kids - http://bridgingapps.org/snapps4kids-has-become-bridgingapps/

SEN Apps - Art

Drawing Pad

Doodle Buddy

SEN Apps - Relax

Pocket Pond

SEN Apps - Keyboard

Virtuoso

Garageband

SEN Apps - Senses

Tesla Toy

SEN Apps – Movie editing

iMovie

Splice

SEN Apps – story telling

PuppetPals HD

SEN Apps – News and TV

News apps

• BBC News• Sky News• Sky Sports News

• Apple TV – buy one!

SEN Apps – around the world

Google Earth

SEN Apps – News stand

MagazinesMusicArt and so on..

Books iBooksNewspapers

SEN Apps – teacher tools

• Screen Chomp – Screen recording tool• Nearpod – Whiteboarding• Explain Everything -Whiteboarding• Socrative – use your iPad as a voting device

• iTunesU• Kahn Academy• TED Talks– talks to inspire you

Other apps of note

• AutismXpress• Pics Aloud Lite• Choicepad lite (Makaton symbols and BSL)• Colour Me• iComm lite• Talking Tom• Monkey Math lunchbox• Land of me - storytime

Choosing apps

• The National Center for Learning Disabilities has a section, "There's an app for that! But is it right for you?" designed by a parent who came up with strategies for evaluating an app before deciding to buy it.

iEvalaute

• Jeanette Van Houten developed iEvaluate Apps for Special Needs which is a detailed rubric specific for selecting apps for students with special needs.

Apps for VIiDevices are becoming increasingly accessible to blind and visually impaired users through screen-access technology (VoiceOver) and a magnification program (Zoom) built into the iOS operating system and a growing number of accessible apps. I explored and found, what I feel to be, a couple of great resources for apps for the Visually Impaired:Apps for the Blind and Visually Impaired - highlights some of the most innovative apps available. • Gradients of Sight has provided a listing and review of each. • Indiana AT Act has a nice listing of low vision apps. • Join Me provides a a quick, easy way for instant screen sharing allowing a student the ability to

see what is on the whiteboard by manipulating and enlarging the screen as needed on their iPad. (For more information, see iPads and Visually Impaired Students.)

• Magnification and Vision Support listing by Spectronics is also a good guide.• Spectronics has a listing of apps for people who have low vision, and teachers of students who

have a vision impairment.• Eric Jerman has provided a nice document to support students with visual impairments. • Apps for the Visually Impaired highlights some of the most innovative and entertaining apps

available to the vision impaired. • Not assistive technology but may be worth exploring is: Apps that can aid in Visual Skills• Voice Dream Reader app provides text-to-speech that lets you listen to any articles, blog posts,

reports, papers, and books. It reads the text using the best available text-to-speech technology . You can add it to your Bookshare account easily. VDR allows for many color options, the Text-To-Speech can be set for wpm, and I think you will like the reading screen feature.

•For more apps for Visually Impaired check out: appadvice.com/applists/show/apps-for-the-visually-impaired

Apps for HI• Apps for Deaf and Hard of Hearing:

To better facilitate communication and make it possible to place and receive audio and/or video calls, the iPhone has provided extra support. Many apps are available for signing programs. There are not a lot of listings for apps specifically for this population other than the signing programs. Here are the few that I felt were worth mentioning:Accessibility Features for DHH users

• ATLA - concentrating mostly on iPhones but many of the apps mentioned can also be used on the iPad.

• iHelp for Special Needs has provided a listing of their top recommended sign language apps. • IP-Relay: - enables people with hearing challenges to use an iPhone to quickly and easily call

people who are hearing. Like an instant message, you type your side conversation. A certified operator receives it and voices everything you type to the hearing person. When the hearing person responds, the operator types their words. You watch the entire conversation live, right on your iPhone.

• Sign Language - There are literally dozens and dozens of Sign Language Translators, Dictionaries and Tutorials for learning to Sign.Explore the various ones to choose the one that best suits your needs and learning style. I like iSign.

• SpeakIt - Text to Speech - with this app the user can type their message and then have the app speak it for them. Great possibilities with those who struggle with speech.

• TapTap - is designed specifically to help bridge the gap to the audio world. Loud noises trigger TapTap to notify you with vibration and a flashing screen. Alone at night in your quiet home? Turn TapTap's sensitivity all the way up and it will respond to the slightest sounds.

•For more, visit Apps for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Fine motor skills

Fine Motor Challenges

You might want to explore OT (Occupational Therapy) iTool Kit Apps.

Switching apps

Apps that can be Accessed through the use of a Switch:

• A list of Switch Accessible Apps compiled by Jane Farrall with Alex Dunn from Inclusioneers available through this link...

Learning Platform

• Fronter App allows you to look at resources in your fronter rooms

• Internet allows full functionality for this and therefore personalised content

Health and Safety

There is currently little documentary evidence of Health and Safety when using portable devices

• Usage – at school, lighting, duration, SEN specific apps at the ridgeway

• Posture – of students when using, of staff when using at home

• Charging – in school and at home• Noise – via prolonged use of earphones

Practical tips

• Don’t let battery fully discharge if you can but fully power down over holidays

• Don’t use liquids to clean the screen• Don’t forget to share your favourite apps with

colleagues• Don’t put up with glitchy iPad – They can be

restored easily by the network team• Health and safety – don’t forget useage and

addiction issues

E-Safety & Data Handling

• Student work• School work• Pictures • Social Networking in SEN context

School Acceptable Use Policies, data protection, copyright and patents

www.surreyesafety.co.uk for some free helpful tips and advice

Vulnerable students need new strategies for:

Source: Munch, Poke and Ping report

Currently schools are not looking at these in relation to the technological changeSMSC now added to the Ofsted EF….community cohesion is back…reactionary

Further research and resources

• Bloomin’ Apps - http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html

• Tony Vincents blog - http://learninginhand.com/ipad/

• Offical iPad videos - http://www.apple.com/ipad/videos/

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