As part of the Australian & New Zealand Apple Professional Learning Live series, I shared with fellow teachers ways that we can use iPad to Create Inclusive Classrooms. As teachers, we know that inclusion in education means ensuring that every student, no matter their individual needs or potential barriers, has equal access to learning and the same opportunities to succeed. In this webinar, we first explored a range of tools and features on iPad designed to support ALL our learners, such as: Dictation, Speak Selection, Translate, Live Text, Safari Reader and the Accessibility Assistant. Thanks again to Julia Parker for the wonderful accessibility resources that each of the links above takes you to.
We then explored the idea of providing students with a digital template - or learning scaffold - using apps such as Pages, Keynote or Numbers. Not only can teachers add visual and auditory elements to these scaffolds to ensure students understand the task they are to complete, but students can also have agency over the way they respond to the task. Here are some of the elements I love to add to inclusive learning scaffolds:
You can create your own scaffolds within Pages, Keynote or Numbers, using text, shapes, Audio Recordings and Placeholders (TIP - In Pages or Keynote - use one of the apps templates as a launch pad to edit and make your own, most templates have Placeholders for photos and text already included). This link will take you to a post by Laura Meney to show you how to create your own learning scaffolds, THANKS LAURA 🙌🏻
Otherwise, why not search the Apple Education Website for pre-existing learning scaffolds that have already been created by AMAZING educators from around the world. (TIP - Download and add your own audio instructions or Shapes Library visuals for that extra inclusive support if needed.) To get you started, here are links to some of my favourites (and BONUS - some of these links include video tutorials to show how they were made):
This forum post has a great Pages Personal Learning Journal scaffold to download, as well as a video tutorial to show how it was made on Mac.
🗣️ Persuasive Text Toolkit by Laura Meney
This link was mentioned above, and contains a video on how to create your own learning scaffolds. It also contains a fantastic Persuasive Text Toolkit to use in Keynote.
🐞 Mini Beasts Investigation by Julie Parker
Most people only think of spreadsheets when they think of the Numbers app - but this app makes fantastic sequential learning scaffolds! This Numbers scaffold is great for young learners and can be used to research a range of Mini Beasts.
A great early years Literacy Hunt task to use alongside your phonics programme, including a video tutorial on how to create the scaffold.
There are so many more on the forum, so be sure to search and check them out!
One More Thing....
Lastly, I would like to leave you with a set of lower primary learning scaffolds I created within Keynote. You can download these at the end of this post. These scaffolds focus on capturing photos through Placeholders to show evidence of learning and understanding and cover basic concepts such as shapes (shown above), 3D objects, letters, measurement, emotions, rhyming words and so on. Whilst they may not offer multiple modes of responding, taking photos with iPad is a task that is achievable for almost all learners and is also a great way to introduce digital scaffolds to your students. Please customise these templates however you would like! Unlock text to edit, move placeholders around, copy and paste single slides from this deck into a new deck. The options are endless! Enjoy!
August 20, 2024
This is such a great aggregation of resources!
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