Representation

This week you’ll review ways to use apps to provide your students with both access to information (content) as well as access to learning, as you explore ways to use apps to increase students’ comprehension and higher order thinking skills.

This Week’s Essential Question:

How do I use mobile devices and apps to provide accessible content and help my students become resourceful, knowledgeable learners?

Image Description:

Scene: Two children playing with blocks.
Boy: They’re OK, I guess. I just wish I could change the font.

Provide Multiple Means of Representation to help build Resourceful, knowledgeable Learners

Provide options for comprehension

Activate or supply background knowledge
Highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships
Guide information processing, visualization, and manipulation
Maximize transfer and generalization

Provide options for language, mathematical expressions, and symbols

Clarify vocabulary and symbols
Clarify syntax and structure
Support decoding of text, mathematical notation, and symbols
Promote understanding across languages
Illustrate through multiple media

Provide options for perception

Offer ways of customizing the display of information
Offer alternatives for auditory information
Offer alternatives for visual information

CAST 2014