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.
- ISBN13 9781317668497
- Publish Date 17 October 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 282
- Language English