Apps+Lesson+Plan

Apps Lesson Plan
**Lesson Context:** With the popularity of mobile devices, the library and faculty are discussing how such devices can be used in the classroom. A big topic lately is the Pew study about how young adults have more reliable access to the Internet through their cell phones than through traditional computers. If we are able to incorporate technology such as the mobile device into our curriculum then maybe we can teach students new ways to think about technology, while also touching upon media literacy. Integrating applications or “apps” into the curriculum is a way to bring in technology that is used everyday and to shed a new light, or more precisely an educational context, onto it. The goal for the instruction of an App class is to teach faculty new, creative ways to interact with their students and generate class discussion, while staying within the course parameters and fulfilling their own course goals and objectives. It is understood that not all students have access to the type of mobile device needed to download and use apps. The library is working with the administration to place mobile devices at the reference desk for students to check out.  **Standards:** ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Learning

**Student Profile** : This class focuses on faculty development instruction. The faculty ranges in ages and technology skills. At first, the library thought of conducting classes with all the departmental disciplines together, but decided to divide professors by their unit of study. This is so professors can work together to use or create apps that are relevant to all the classes available within their departments. Of course, ultimately, we will be flexible to suit faculty needs. The library expects much interaction to occur during the class and has expanded the class length to accommodate and encourage such discussion. We ask the faculty to come to the session with a few ideas of how they want to incorporate apps into their curriculum. The focus of the class depends upon the courses taught by the participating professors.

**Essential Question:** In what ways can professors use interactive digital tools to further student involvement, while also engaging students different learning styles?

**Goal:** The goal of this lesson series is for professors to engage students on their level, while still sticking to the curriculum. The goal is to teach faculty that new technology has a place next to reliable and reputable teaching standards.

**Objectives:**  After this lesson students will be able to: 
 * identify and define applications
 * explore different apps and determine what may be used in the classroom
 * discuss how to implement the use of apps in the classroom

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Action Plan:**
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Environment/Materials: This session will be held within a computer lab.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Special Needs: A lot of discussion and work time is planned into this lesson for brainstorming, collaborative work, and for those who may need extra help.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outline of Lesson: Duration 1 hour 30 minutes

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction: 5 minutes
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduce a problem some professors have with cell phones in the classroom
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m sure all of you have experienced students paying more attention to their cell phones than to your lecture. With the popularity of text messaging, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media, it’s hard to compete and we are past the stage of taking away the cell phone for bad behavior.
 * We should know more about these digital tools that are becoming staples in our everyday lives.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Definition and identification of an Application: 20 minutes
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An application or app is computer software created to help users complete specific tasks. Apps are used in a user’s professional, educational, and social lives to solve problems in a quick, convenient, and sometimes fun way.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mobile phones or handheld devices with Internet access can be used to access apps.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apps are available for free, but many have to be purchased. We will focus on free apps because we want all students to be able to access them. If students do not have the correct mobile device they can come to the reference desk at the library where they will be on reserve.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apps can be found through:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">iTunes store
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">professional publications, including blogs
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reviews of using apps in an educational context can be found at:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Education Apps Review -- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.iear.org__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Society for Technology in Education has good blogs with ideas about incorporating new technologies into lesson plans -- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.iste.org/connect/iste-connects/blog.aspx__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spectrum blog covering mobile learning, libraries, and technologies -- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apps (choose a few apps to show faculty and explain how they can be used in classes): 20 minutes
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Databases that are mobile phone compatible:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IEEE Xplore can search its own research for “technical literature in engineering and technology” -- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/mobile/about.html__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DukeMobile has the most extensive image gallery accessible through mobile phones -- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://m.duke.edu/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hey Cosmo can create quick surveys for both personal and academic life -- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.heycosmo.com/landing/index.php__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">iTunes Apps:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LexisNexis Get Cases & Shepardize -- Retrieves and reviews legal cases.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">iSSRN (Social Science Research Network) -- Provides social science and humanities research information and scholarly works.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">iStudiez Lite -- Keeps students organized and helps them stay on top of assignments.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Periodic Table -- Not the amazing app for the iPad that comes with a fee, but gives a basic periodic table that students can reference in chemistry class.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SAT Vocab Challenge -- For English and writing classes. Students can improve their vocabulary.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Graphing Symbolic Calculator -- Great for those students who may not be able to afford the expensive graphic calculator.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cloudwatcher - Science -- Take a photograph of a cloud and the app tells you what type it is and little information about it.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On this Day … -- Gives historical events and important birthdays that occurred throughout history on a specific date.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (These lists are not exhaustive.)

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Brainstorm/Discussion/Independent Work: 30-40 minutes
 * Ask questions that spur discussion.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are some apps you guys use everyday?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does it have an relation to your focus of study?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How can a specific app, or apps in general, be incorporated into class?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What type of activities or assignments can be created around, or supported by apps?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Allow faculty to help each other come up with ideas for how they can use apps to promote certain topics within the discipline.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Give time for them to search online for apps that pertain to their unit of study. This could be done individually or as a group.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Float around and interact with the faculty. Be available for questions.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Conclusion: 10 minutes
 * Conclude the lesson with how apps can reach students in a different way
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apps are fun and you might hook a student that is not doing very well in class. Apps help to break up lectures and cultivate discussion. Incorporating media literacy into the classroom prepares students to understand and adapt to new technologies, which is becoming more important in our society. By teaching students to look at cell phones and other handheld technology in a new light we are able to show them that a simple device we use everyday has much potential to perform many other functions.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Final Questions

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Assessment: <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During this lesson, assessment is best conducted during the discussion periods.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The real test and chance for assessment goes beyond the time frame of the class to whether faculty begin to incorporate apps into their curriculum.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Further Reading:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lenhart, A., Ling, R., Cambell, S., Purcell, K. (2010). Teens and Mobile Phones. Pew Internet and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">American Life Project. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones/Summary-of-findings.aspx__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marcoux, E. (2009). The <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//phone// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: A tool for learning. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Teacher Librarian// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 36(4), 73-74. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">McKiernan, G. (2010). Worldwide mobile phone adoption and libraries. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Searcher// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 18(3), 48-51. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pope, K., Peters, T., Bell, L., & Burhams, S. (2010). Twenty-first century library must-haves: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mobile library services. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Searcher,// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">18(3), 44-47. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Handheld Librarian Online Conference. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.handheldlibrarian.org/__]