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Getting Started with Apple iOS Devices
Increasing Reading Comprehension
Reading books with iBooks—whether they’re Multi-Touch textbooks on iPad or literature
books from the iBookstore—provides students with many ways to increase their read-
ing skills and deepen their understanding of what they read. Younger students have
immediate access to a dictionary to look up words as they occur in the book, and they
can increase the font size. Older students can use the search and bookmark tools as they
analyze and write about literature, such as searching for a recurring symbol or quotes
by a specic character or marking passages they want to return to later.
Interactive book apps are another way to help students strengthen their reading skills
and enhance their understanding. With the Green Eggs and Ham app, for example,
students hear the book read aloud while viewing the text and can tap items onscreen
to hear and see the word for that object. Elementary school students can work on their
ability to read for details by using the MiniMod Reading for Details app. Older students
can use the Shakespeare in Bits: Romeo and Juliet app to read, watch, and explore that
play using built-in comprehension tools.
iPad and iPod touch oer additional tools to support reading—for example, students
can take notes with the Notes app while they listen or pause to look up something on
the Internet when they have a question.
When and Where in the World
You can support history and social studies with iPad, iPod touch, and iTunes. The
versatile resources in iTunes U give students an opportunity to experience dierent
periods of history or other locales. Students studying American history can view lms
of the Spanish-American War (actually made between 1898 and 1901) or the streets of
Chicago in 1897 from the Library of Congress in iTunes U, or listen to Richard Nixon’s
Presidential tape recordings available from America Public Media. They can create an
interactive journal in Pages on a Mac that includes the primary source videos, audio,
and images and publish it as an ePub document to share with other students and
family members, or use iBooks Author to create a book for iPad.
They can enrich their learning with interactive game apps such as National
Geographic’s GeoBee Challenge, The Oregon Trail, or Pearson’s World History; travel
through history with Virtual History ROMA and Back in Time (both for iPad); or nd
information with apps such as History:Maps of World and World Atlas HD from
National Geographic.
Mobile Math
No matter what their level, students will enjoy math learning with iPad and iPod touch.
These are versatile tools to support the learning of mathematics, personalize student
learning, and extend learning beyond the classroom. Students can present and analyze
data in spreadsheets with the Numbers app on iPad. They can also perform calculations
and check their work with the Calculator app in iPod touch or with graphing and other
calculators and conversion tools available for iPad and iPod touch.
They can reinforce their math skills with hundreds of engaging, interactive apps
available from the App Store. Math apps provide you with an easy way to customize
learning for particular students—you can include specic apps on a student’s
iOS device to support that student’s learning needs. Elementary school students can
practice math skills with the Math Bingo app, solve problems on a digital chalkboard
with MathBoard, and practice fractions with Motion Math HD. Older students can
deepen their understanding of algebra with Algebra Touch or challenge their critical
thinking skills with NineGaps, a Sudoku-like game for building math skills.