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Using iPads for English Language Learners

What is an iPad?

Steve Jobs first created the iPad. He created it to show a Microsoft employer what a tablet really looks like. The first iPad came out in 2010 and didn’t have a camera. The second iPad came out in 2011 and had a camera on both sides of the iPad. People could use Facetime to talk and see each other through the device. The third iPad came out this year in 2012. It is thinner and faster than the first two versions. Ebooks can be bought on iPad, and the book can even be read to you out loud. There are numerous types of applications you can download of just about anything you can think of.

 What Schools are using them now? Central California District, particularly Lodi Unified School District, is using the Rosetta Stone TOTALe Course Application for iPad for 2nd and 3rd grade English Language Learners. According to Art Hand Jr., assistant superintendent for Lodi Unified School District, students are "reacting very positively to Rosetta Stone solutions...children that have more limited language skills are often less confident in the classroom setting. Now that students are working with a program that enables them to go at their own pace and focus on areas where they tend to struggle, we see their confidence increasing. They're excited about speaking and learning."

In a middle school ELL classroom at Comal Independent School District in New Braunfels, TX, a teacher asks her students to bring their iPod Touch devices home and use their voice memo apps to record themselves reading aloud in English. The next day, after she syncs the devices to her iTunes library, she listens to a recording made by a student who has refused to speak English since joining her class two years prior. In the classroom he would only communicate in Spanish, but in the privacy of his own home, knowing that only the teacher would hear the recording, he had a breakthrough; his teacher was able to hear him speak English for the first time.

What a re some other useful Apps for E.L.L.'s ?

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 * Roadshow – Collect web videos and play them back anytime
 * Language Builder – A rich environment for improving language development
 * ScreenChomp – Sharing tools used to create a sharable, replay-able video
 * ShowMe – Record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online
 * Videolicious – Create a video combining videos, photos, music, and stories
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Audioboo – Create audio and post to your own account on the web
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">SlideShark – View and share PowerPoint presentations on the iPad
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">BugBrained Phonics Awareness-Free! Helps them learn not just English words, but helps with phonics. It gives instant feedback. They can create books, their own journals, and storyboard.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Dragon Dictation-Students talk into ipad and ipad turns into text.

<span style="color: #e12a2a; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">10 Ways to Incorporate it in the Classroom <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">1. Reading <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">2. If extra time, students can play educational games. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">3. Different apps downloaded for students to learn how to read, write, spell, etc. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">4. Students can use it to listen to the story being read to them. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">5. Students can use it as a quick dictionary. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">6. It can be used to practice writing, whether it is typing or writing the actual word on the ipad itself. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">7. It can be used to develop fine motor skills. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">8. Students can use it to take notes. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">9. It can be used as a voice recorder, so the students can go back and listen to the lesson again. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">10. It can be used as a translator.

<span style="color: #08bca7; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">How iTranslate has helped an ACTUAL E.L.L. Student media type="youtube" key="VdiP0G8AIhY" height="315" width="560"

<span style="color: #5d00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">Additional Links <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://bgmsipad.blogspot.com/2010/11/ipad-and-ell-students.html---Teacher's blog

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">@http://wordpress.sanjuan.edu/ipad/app-lists/apps-for-ell-students/ --technology services blog that lists description & price of apps that can help ELL students []- apps <span style="color: #5d00ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">Others <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://wordpress.sanjuan.edu/ipad/app-lists/apps-for-ell-students/ <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://esltechies.com/category/ipad-apps/ <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://www.elltoolbox.com/ipads-for-students.html <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://scottweidig.com/2010/05/04/love-your-feedback-the-ipad-for-english-language-learners-1/