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

<p>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.</p><p><i>Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum</i></p><ul> <li>presents a wide range of different apps and also assesses their value</li> <li>features methods for and apps related to planning instruction and assessing student learning</li> <li>identifies favorite apps whose affordances are most likely to foster certain disciplinary literacies</li> <li>includes resources and apps for professional development</li> <li>provides examples of student learning in the classroom</li> </ul><p>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.</p>