Discussion #2: iPad in Assessment &Remediation
There are so many situation that I would like to incorporate the iPad in my workplace. As a part of the literacy program, our second and third year students are required to have practical sessions with students from the primary grades. However, based on the usual attitude and interest inventories done, the students are fascinated by technology but are not able to access it at will. Even though the practicing teachers use a few Xos to suffice their lessons, more is needed and the iPad would be perfect for that slot. The primary goal would to use it to facilitate ebooks. It would be used as part of this intervention program where it will aid in assessment and remediation situations. The assessment instrument (Qualitative Reading Inventory, QRI4) would be used by the students on the iPad while teachers make the check marks marking miscues on paper. Since the ebook provides the complete text experience, students would benefit from vocabulary, decoding and comprehension instructions in one package from a single device.
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Angela Novoa 5:16 am on November 2, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Everton, thanks for sharing your ideas. From my experience, iPads functions great as eBooks. There are different free and payed apps that allows users to make annotations and classify your readings. Plus, through its Internet browser users can search for vocabulary that the reader does not know. I am not familiar with the assessment instrument that you mentioned (QRI4). Could you tell us more about it?
verenanz 12:10 pm on November 2, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Angela and Everton,
Thanks for the great ideas. My daughter loves reading on her IPad. I would love to be able to find books that are at her level- please tell us more about QR14.
Angela- what Apps do you enjoy using most for developing “great” readers? W use KoBo …what others do you suggest?
Verena:)