Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum

Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum

Title: Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum
Author: Richard Beach & David O'Brien
Release: 2014-10-17
Kind: ebook
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines, Books, Professional & Technical, Education, Reference
Size: 3460855
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 Curriculum
presents 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 development provides examples of student learning in the classroom
A 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.

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