Learning

FIELD STUDY 2 Episode

Utilizing Applications
(Apps) for Teaching

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and Learning

To have a meaningful and successful accomplishment in this FS episode, be sure

to read through the whole episode before participating and assisting in your FS 2
Resource Teacher’s class. Note all the information you will need in tasks you will need
to do before working on this episode.

Target Your Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Learning Episode, I must be able to:
 select applications that are most appropriate to the different aspects of
the teaching-learning process to address learning goals. (PPST 4.5.1)

 show skills in the positive use of applications for student engagement in

teaching and learning. (PPST 1.3.1)

 demonstrate positive attitude towards the use of technology tools. (ICT

CST 7.1.2)

 use professional reflection and learning to improve practice. (PPST

7.4.1)

Clarify Your Task

An app, (a shorter way of saying application) is a kind of software which can be
installed in various gadgets – a desktop, laptop, smartphone, and tablet. There are
thousands of apps, each with specific functions. A wide range of functions among
others includes, ordering food, getting a ride, getting a date, doing bank transaction
and even praying and meditating. Now, there are those that are directly useful for
teaching and learning which can be referred to as educational apps. Whether is face-to-
face, blended, or fully online, a vast number of apps can truly enhance the teaching-
learning process.
The judicious use of apps can make the teaching-learning process more
effective, efficient, and equally important, more fun and satisfying for both the
teacher and the students. The teacher can use apps in the different stages of planning,
preparation, implementation and assessment. Teacher use apps to prepare high-impact
presentations that help them deliver content. Teachers also use apps to motivate
students to participate, resulting in greater and more enjoyable engagement. Apps are
also used to assess, document ad report performance and achievement.
Your task in this episode is to demonstrate our skills in choosing and using
appropriate applications, enhancing both the delivery of content and the learning and
mastery of the students. You will accomplish this as you participate and assist in your
resource teacher’s class. Whether the class is purely online or blended, carefully
observe how the teacher utilizes apps for e-learning.
An excellent guide for choosing applications to enhance teaching and learning is
the Pedagogy Wheel Model created under the leadership of Dr. Carrington. There were
earlier precursors, but this model appears to be the most comprehensive so far. The
model aligns the applications to four essential levers. The apps’ section considers what
attributes the students will develop, student motivation, tapping higher-order thinking
skills as articulated in Bloom’s taxonomy and at what level the app will be used in the
SAMR Model. You will recall this from your previous technology class and surely learn
even more from this episode.
Apple gave a set of five criteria in selecting apps for teaching. The set of
criteria includes developmental appropriateness, motivation, instructional design,
motivation and accessibility.
It is also most likely that you have experienced learning using many of these
apps, as a student. The most popular ones are Canva, Khoot, Mentimeter, Jamboard,
Slido, Google slides, google docs, Flipgrid, etc. And then, some apps are for specific
levels and learning areas. For example, there are hundreds of as for pre-schoolers or
kindergarteners, like story books apps, alphabet and numbers apps, etc. At the same
time, there are apps for math, reading, science for primary, intermediate and
secondary or even collegiate levels.
As you work on this episode, remember that you take the role of FS students
now participating and assisting this work of selecting and using apps for more effective
teaching and learning. You are inching closer to shifting the role from being a student
to being the teacher.
Additionally, you take the role of a future researcher. Always use your capacity
to notice what is going well? Or what can be missing, what can be improved? What can
be a new way of doing things? Then focus on finding out the answers to these questions.
This is to develop in you the disposition as a teacher-researcher. That as a teacher,
you can always find ways to do things better and more effectively. Also, aim to
develop the confidence to try and initiate to continuously improve your skills.
Revisit the Pedagogy wheel infographics that follow. The links and QR codes are
provided. Once you have downloaded, enjoy exploring what powers these apps have by
clicking their icons directly from the Pedagogy wheel. An infographic on Choosing Aps
for teachers is also included. Exciting!

Revisit the Infographic/s

The Pedagogy Wheel Model
“With Allan Carrington’s Pedagogy Wheel Model, teachers have an at-hand
reference that ties apps to specific learning outcomes directly connected to modern
pedagogies and theories. They can easily sit with the wheel during lesson planning to
find tools that will best aid their students or us them during class time to extend or
deepen learning towards a specific 21st-century skill or content area. This connection
of theory, practice, and application make the Pedagogy Wheel and invaluable resource
that should be on the wall of every classroom.”
Matt Harris, Ed.D
#EdTech Leader, Teacher, Mentor,
Creator
Explore!
You can use the links or scan the QR codes to access either the Pedagogy wheel
for Android or Apple apps. Once you open the PDF, you will see that all the apps are
already hot-linked. You can readily explore by clicking on the icons. For Android they
connect to the Google Play site. For Apple iOS they connect to the web preview pages
and will open your iTunes.
For Android: http://bit.ly/AppleENGV5Screen

For Apple: http://bit.ly/AndroidENGV5Screen

 THE ART OF
Choosing apps for teachers
DEVELOPMENTAL APPROPRIATENESS

 Is the app’s content appropriate for the intended age group?

 Does it have an age-appropriate interface?

ENGAGEMENT
 Does the app have an intuitive
INSTRUCTIONAL
interface?
DESIGN
 Is it user friendly?
ENGAGEMENT  Does the app support your
 Does the app open new ways to teaching goals?
learn?
 Does it meet students’ learning
expectations?
MOTIVATION
 Does it include interactive
 Is the app’s content inviting features that allow for feedback,
and relevant for the intended assessment and reflection?
grade level? ACCESSIBILITY
 Does it include gaming  Does the app have multiple
principles and motivating learning styles?
methods?
 Does the app include
 Does it help students connect personalization features?
learning with their life/world
experiences (e.g. via GPS,  Does the app include a range of
levels for a variety of users
INFORMATION SOURCES ith diff i kill l l ?
Participate and Assist
Before you participate and assist in tasks related to apps, first enumerate the
apps you already know and have probably tried. Explore the Pedagogy Wheel and learn
at least five more. Fill out the table below.

Apps that I already know/have How can I utilize this in teaching – learning?
recently explored
Google is an instructional resource where the
teacher and Learner search for different
Google
information that will support learning period
teacher can also different websites she can use
to improve teaching.

Google classroom is where teacher posting

updates, lectures and activities. All students
Google classroom
enrolled in the class are required to join in the
google classroom so they are aware with daily
activities.

Educators use Youtube to get different

Educational videos to be used as an
Instructional materials for learners. You can
Youtube also search for different recorded webinar on
Youtube that will be used in improving your
teaching skill.

Google meet is an application that both teacher

and Learner used to have class meetings or
Google meet
small group meeting. This more convenient
because it consumes less data.

Messenger is a common application most of

people use to communicate with friends, love
and people from different country. To use it in
Messenger educational purpose the teacher creates a group
chat on messenger. This is where the teacher
 post announcements, consult students and even
students can ask their question regarding the
lesson.

Your guide to participate and assist:

1. Interview your FS resource teacher o her experience in using apps for teaching
and learning.

2. Ask the teacher how you can participate or assist in work involving the use of
applications in one or more of these tasks:

 preparing materials,

 doing a motivational activity,

 delivering a lesson,

 engaging the learners to respond

 giving an assignment,

 making learners practice a skill,

 making the learners collaborate and

 managing the class-checking of attendance.

The more opportunities to observe participate and assist, the better.

Level/ Grade of the Class: Grade 10
Lesson/Topic: Prepare Poultry and Game Dishes
Apps you plan to utilize in What is the use or purpose Explain why you selected
the lesson. of using the app. Describe the app, based on the five
how you or the teacher will criteria of developmental
use each. appropriateness,
motivation, instructional
design, engagement and
accessibility
The teacher will use Google This app is more convenient
meet to discuss the topic than others application
 Google Meet of discussion. This will because it consumes less
allow both the teacher and data. It is intended for
the students to have classroom use and is
interactive discussion even simpler to navigate. It does
when there are no face-to- not necessitate a fast
face classes internet connection.
Teachers can easily assign Google Classroom
homework, projects, or accommodates diverse
Google Classroom
quizzes, setting due dates learning styles, allowing for
and providing specific both self-paced and teacher
instructions. -led instruction.
The goal of this material is This material is easily
to capture learners accessible and can
Youtube
attention and interest, encourage students to
which will help the class focus on the discussion.
become more active
How dos tis connect with that you know about selecting and using apps?
This is related to what I Know about selecting and using up as an Instructional material
by selecting which app is more convenient and accessible to students.The teacher
should consider his or her students when selecting an application because not all
students have a good internet connection and cannot afford to buy load every week.
The materials I've chosen to use have been chosen with my target learners.

Notice
After you participated or assisted in the use of apps in teaching-learning, describe
what you observed and experienced by answering the items below.
1. Describe how you or the teacher utilized the apps. Narrate your experience as
you participated and assisted.

As I assisted the apps that my resource teacher uses is YouTube students enjoy
spending their classroom time watching YouTube videos which also helps to
improve their listening comprehension and pronunciation skills as they mimic the
people speaking in the videos, and teachers are able to spend more time
focusing on the students instead of trying to explain complex topics. In relation
to my own experiences with using YouTube as an Educational method in the
classroom I believe that It can be used to develop each one of the language
skills; Listening , Speaking, Writing and Reading.
Analyze
What worked well during the activity using the apps?
The participation of students. Students love to take quiz and seeing their standing on
score board.

What part can be improved?

For me the part that still need some improvement is the internet connection, because
we are now in face to face some classroom has a smart Tv but sometimes there is an
error because of slow internet connection. Sometimes the teacher has a online meeting
with parent and some parents are not able to attend because of internet connection.

What would you have done differently? What would I change? What will make it next
time?
I think it would be better next time If I download the videos and prepare video for
myself if have a meeting when the parent are not attend they can still updated.

How does this connect with what you know about selecting and using apps?
I can say that I am ready because I have already tried it on my demonstration and it
goes very well and effective.

Reflect
1. How ready am I organizing and using aps in the teaching-learning process?

I believe I am now prepared to organize and use applications for teaching

because I have been exposed to various apps that I know I could use for
teaching.

2. What do I still need to learn in order to use aps in teaching effectively?

I am familiar with various apps, but I still need to learn more about so that I can
determine which ones are the best to use to improve the teaching and learning
process.
 3. What can I do to learn more about and practice the use of educational apps?

To learn more and practice using educational apps, I will explore application
available in the Play Store and become acquainted with them.

Write Action Research Prompts

This part allows you to synthesize or put together what you noticed, analyzed,
and reflected on to come up with a possible topic for an action research.

OBSERVE

1. What problematic situation/challenges/area of improvement prevailed in using

apps?

Some applications do not work properly on various Android phones.

List at least three sources that you have read about this problem/challenge/area
of improvement.
Resource or Reference about the topic Key points/findings in what I read
http://www.beezer.com/disadvantage of mobile Some application does not work
well in defferent and android
phones.
http://www.techthough.com/technology/appsfail The problem is that the majority
of these apps do not adhere to
commonly accepted educational
software principles. While an
educational app may be
entertaining, it is likely to be
determinal to a students learning
progress.
https://karenmahon.com/2023/02l17/the High quality educational apps are
 problem-with-free-education-apps expensive to build. The expense
of the graphics, which is the most
obvious part to the user, is the tip
of the iceberg when it comes to
quality apps.

REFLECT
2. What do I hope to achieve to address the problem? (What change do you want to
achieve?
I want all of my students to be able to use the application were using. I want the
application to be easy for them to use while they are learning.

PLAN
3. What strategies/solutions/means can you employ to improve the situation/solve the
problem?
I will investigate more applications so that I can the best application that all of my
students can access. Because not all students have a good internet connection, I will
use various websites and search the internet for the best application that are convinent
for all students.

ACT
4. If you will conduct action research, what will be the title (Base this on your answers
in nos, 1-3):
Base on my answer on the previous question I will entitle my action research as
"Utilizing convenient application to improve instruction and learning"