Jumpstart! Apps: Creative learning, ideas and activities for ages 7-11 / Edition 1

by Natalia Kucirkova, Jon Audain, Liz Chamberlain

Overview

This collection of engaging and simple to use activities will jumpstart students’ learning and help the busy teacher to reinvigorate their teaching through the use of mobile apps and activities that can be used in the classroom.

A wealth of practical activities and advice on how to incorporate over 40 lively and exciting apps into the classroom will enable teachers to deliver creative lessons. This essential guide focuses on a range of apps, including Skitch, QR codes, Comic Life, Do Ink Green Screen, Puppet Pals, Our Story and much more.

This book offers much needed guidance on creative ways to integrate apps within the National Curriculum and how they can be incorporated into the teaching of Key Stages 1 and 2. Enabling teachers to deliver effective and imaginative lessons through the use of apps and providing links to a wide range of online resources, it covers all core areas of the curriculum:

• English, Maths, Science, Modern Foreign Languages, ICT, History, Geography and PE.

Jumpstart! Apps is an essential classroom resource that will encourage creative and independent learning in children and is the perfect solution for helping teachers, teaching assistants and students integrate apps into their daily practice, make the most of technology at their disposal and deliver imaginative and effective lessons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138940161
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/08/2016
Series:	Jumpstart
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Natalia Kucirkova is Senior Lecturer in Childhood, Youth and Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Jon Audain is Senior Lecturer in ICT/Computing and Music for Primary ITE at The University of Winchester, UK and an Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE).

Liz Chamberlain is a Senior Lecturer in Education at The Open University, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

1 Tablets and iPads 1

2 Creativity: what do we mean by it? 6

3 Skitch: editing and doodling on documents 10

4 QR codes: accessing and creating information points 18

5 Comic Life: your learning in pictures 27

6 Personalising with Our Story app 36

7 Explain Everything: really, explain anything and everything 48

8 Do Ink Green Screen: imagine away your classroom 61

9 Padlet: collaboration starting with a blank page 68

10 Scratch: coding, computational thinking and problem-solving 76

11 Puppet Pals: I Can Animate 82

12 Welcome to our digital museum 93

13 Superheroes 100

14 Crime scene investigations 109

15 Story making 116

16 'Great British Bake Off 131

Teacher tools 137