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Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum: A Literacy-Based Framework and Guide

Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum: A Literacy-Based Framework and Guide - Paperback

by Richard Beach, David O'Brien
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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard Beach, David O'BrienPublish date:2014-10-24Pages:282
Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781138782631ISBN-10:1138782637UPC:9781138782631Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Education, ComputersBook Subcategory:Literacy, Computers & Technology, Educational SoftwareSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC8ARNM9HW

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781138782631ISBN-10:1138782637UPC:9781138782631Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Education, ComputersBook Subcategory:Literacy, Computers & Technology, Educational SoftwareSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC8ARNM9HW

Richard Beach is Professor Emeritus, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota, USA.

David O'Brien is Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota, USA.


Publisher: Routledge

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Richard Beach, David O'Brien

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Richard Beach, David O'Brien

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