tablet computers and kids
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Prepared for the Fourth International TCU e-Learning Conference, Bangkok, Thailand June14-15, 2012TRANSCRIPT
Tablet Computers and KidsDeveloping Multi-literacy Skills in e-Learning Environments using
Tablet Computers at the Primary Grade Level in Thailand
How can kids learn using a tablet computer?
Prepared by:Willard Van De BogartLanguage InstituteBangkok University
The Fourth TCU International e-Learning Conference - June 14 -15, Bangkok “Smart Innovations in Education and Lifelong Learning”
What is Multi-literacy?
Moving Touching
Voicing
What is an e-Learning environment?
Participatory e-Learning
Collaborate
Explore
Who is the teacher?
What is Thailand’s Computer Tablet Policy?
Provide one tablet per child to all Prathom 1 students Allow students to have access to other materials
Provide a 21 century learning tool
PM Yingluck Shinawatra
1st Who are the stake holders?• Families of Thailand• Educational representatives of Thailand• Teachers of Thailand• Producers of Thailand• Thailand as an ASEAN nation member• Thailand’s diaspora
2nd What are the objectives?
* Cognitive development* Critical Thinking* Knowledge acquisition and management* Associative learning
Alphabet to Apphabet
Apphabet to the world
Teacher
?
Web2Thai Foundation
Teaching Children English with Tablet Computers
Right: Sven Sprogoe Petersen - Consultant2nd right: Dah – Teacher Trainer3rd right: Willard Van De Bogart - Researcher
Per Algot Enevoldsen - President
What are these kids doing?
What are these students doing?
They used to be kids!
A new 3D Educational Methodology
• A 3D Education is going from the alphabet to the apphabet using:
Digital pedagogy = Lessons learned Digital literacy = Skills mastered Digital scaffolding = Stages achieved
Digital pedagogy – Lessons learned
Making shapes
DrawSelectIdentify
Give the child manychoices.
SoundColorShapes
Injini
MotionSongs
Digital pedagogy – Lessons Learned
Instructive appsManipulative appsConstructive apps
Digital literacy – Skills mastered
Moving fingersAssociating ideasRecognizing patterns
Digital scaffolding – Stages achieved
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
1.
2.
3.
Interrelated Learning Progressions
Puppet Pal
Diagram: Karin Hess, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment
App App
Thailand’s Digital Education Policy?
2012
2013
2014
5 years old
15 years oldScaffolding for the future…
From moving fingers to moving ideas
e-Learning environment
Thailand’s Tablet RevolutionThe tablet computer is an educational processor
The future is now – Thank you
AEC 2015