content learning and critical literacy skills... with the YoouKids iPad app

The YoouKids iPad app provides students with isolated access to teacher created and/or teacher selected YouTube videos and/or playlists.

I use the YoouKids iPad app as an instructional resource across the curriculum to enhance and extend instruction and student learning.

The First Grade Butterflies use the YoouKids iPad app to access individual videos and/or playlists.

Access to YouTube videos of demonstrations, presentations, commercials, documentaries, news-clips, animations, and... supports learning and development of content knowledge and development and application of media literacy, critical literacy, and communication skills.  Videos promote interest and engagement through providing sensory experiences in which meaning of concepts and ideas are constructed through multi-modal processing.

The YoouKids iPad app provides the ability to incorporate YouTube videos as a beneficial facet of learning and instruction in a safe, monitored, and organized format.

first graders access videos through a shared playlist
-using the YoouKids iPad app

informed citizens... learning about our world with the News-O-Matic iPad app

The First Grade Butterflies LOVE the News-O-Matic iPad app!

Five new articles are posted each day with kid-friendly language and supportive features (for example- capability to have text read aloud, access to a map indicating the location of the "news", ideas to "act" and become involved, additional "facts", and...)!

News-O-Matic 

• provides readers access to informational text that is meaningful, authentic, and relevant to their lives-world
• facilitates readers' application of reading skills, strategies, and behaviors to construct meaning in a variety of "text" types
• promotes development of knowledgeable, global, and informed citizens 
• incites critical literacy skills
• inspires intentional discourse and problem-solving
• and... 

News-O-Matic is a Butterfly "BEST" iPad app (a "definite-must have" app) for iPads in the classroom and for iPads at home!

a first grader learns about current events
with the News-O-Matic iPad app

first graders become informed citizens
...learning about our world through the News-O-Matic iPad app

first graders record reactions to current events
...learning about our world through the News-O-Matic iPad app