Materials in support of a presentation by Gail Lovely at ISTE 2013

1. Not Too Little to Learn,
Tablets in Little Hands
Gail Lovely
Gail@GailLovely.com
http://LovelyLearning.com

2. Juggle’s Rainbow

7. Developmentally Appropriate Interface

8. Developmentally Appropriate
Content and Goals

10. Screenshots
from
Live
ABC

11. Developmentally Appropriate Language
Draw a circle around the
illustration of an item which
begins with the letter L as in
licorice.

12. Screenshot
from
Casey’s
Contraptions

13. Educational Criteria
Teach or practice
curriculum or skills
of value

14. Educational Criteria
Create evidence of
knowledge or skills
or materials to learn
with or from

15. Implementation Criteria
Sound Box by SagoSago
MultiTouch Math

16. Implementation Criteria
Appropriate learning curve

17. Implementation Criteria
Ability to play well with other files and
apps
Screenchomp (free)
Output to link on their site (with ads)
On the iPad on which it was made
Explain Everything ($2.99)
Output to: Email, Dropbox, Evernote, Box, YouTube…

18. Implementation Criteria
Does the app consider multiple users?

19. The App Store…

20. Some stats…
 Education Category: 89,501 (active)
 Average price: $1.55
http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/

22. Educational researchers and practitioners alike assert that the
potential of new technologies for learning is likely to be found not in
the technologies themselves but in the way in which these
technologies are used as tools for learning (Means & Olson, 1995;
Owston, 1997; Valdez et al., 1999).
From NCREL: http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/reading/li300.htm

23. 30% of apps are only opened once
LOOK LOO
K

24. Zoe Page, Yokohama International School
Kindergarten, Day TWO

25. Quick! Before the
Bell Rings…
A few Apps…

26. Apps Worth Sharing:
 Kindoma Storytime
 Futaba Classroom Games
 Collins Big Cat Books
 Explain Everything
 Felt Board
 Fotopedia Heritage
 Write My Name
 Bugs and…
 Math Doodles
 Endless ABC
 Multitouch Math
 Book Creator
 Skitch
 Myscript Calculator

27. Thank you
Gail Lovely
Gail@GailLovely.com