No matter how good an App is, it does not create learning - teachers and students do that through constructive engagement with rich learning tasks. Apps that follow an instructive process to a predetermined result are plentiful and only provide superficial interaction with the material presented. However inherently instructive Apps can have a constructive focus if used appropriately. This presentation will examine how to leverage the use of flexible, open ended, constructive Apps to build higher order cognitive tasks that allow students to control the path of their own learning to produce higher order engagement coupled with deeper meaning and understanding within a collaborative environment.

2. Create a conversation by using voice recording Apps which
can be edited together in iMovie

3. Use Google Earth to zoom in and out for much
greater detail than a static map.

4. Use Answer Garden website to
brainstorm ideas and information

5. Watch on YouTube

7. This YouTube video shows the dangers of not
recognising student creativity within your classroom.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9REhdmJ36rg

8. Socrative is a two part student response App -
the teacher version creates the polls and the
student version is used to respond.

11. It’s easier to be creative within a creative learning space.

13. You and your students are the greatest
creative resources in the classroom

16. Do not expect the App to do the teaching

18. Converts writing to print - the answer is displayed with
the full number sentence

19. How many different numerical ways can the
number 42 be represented?
Would look great on an answer garden
wall but it does not display the + sign.

20. Note that MyScript obeys the order of operations

21. A subtraction method used
by a 10 year old.
This method will always
work and builds on skip
counting principles.
Do we correct the child
because this method is not in
the curriculum? Even though
it is more efficient than the
methods that are.

22. There are many Information Apps available
which are specific to particular needs

23. Wikipanion displays information from
Wikipeadia in an easy to navigate form.

24. Book Creator uses text, images, audio and
video to create media rich books that
export to iBooks. Use a collage App to
create interesting visuals to import.

25. PhotoFunia has made the move from web to App. It will
place your images within a large variety of situations. Now
your students really can display their work in an art gallery.

26. eBooks give access to functionality not previously possible

27. The ability to search and look up definitions
allow students to be more informed about
the texts they are reading.

28. Book Apps are engaging to read but have limited use.
Consider taking screen shots of the images and using
them in other Apps to create a new story

29. Rory’s Story Cubes is an interesting way to get a story started
but the story does not have to stop here . . .

30. Refine and combine the
previous text with images
to visualise the story in a
comic creator app.

31. Comic Life has many templates and formatting options to create
visually appealing comics and photo books that export to iBooks.

32. Puppet Pals is great for telling animated
digital stories and mocumentaries

33. How is this an indication of population density?

34. How is this an indication of population density?

35. Comic Puppets allows students to use
their own image to create a character
that can then be used in animated
programs such as Puppet Pals.

36. iMovie book trailers are extremely
effective and just as simple to create.

39. Creative use of the iPad fits very well with the SAMR model

40. My aim for this session was to do absolutely everything on the
iPad and it was not very difficult to do so. Some functions
transferred easily and some tasks needed exploring new ways.

41. Apps used in the creation of this presentation.