Designing Learning for Tablet Classrooms

Donovan R. Walling is a writer and editorial consultant. He also is a senior consultant for the Center for Civic Education and formerly was director of publications for Phi Delta Kappa International. Prior to moving into education publishing, he was a curriculum administrator in public school districts in Wisconsin and Indiana, following a lengthy career as a classroom teacher in Wisconsin and for the U.S. Department of Defense in Germany.Walling is the author or editor of sixteen books. Recent titles include Why Civic Education Matters; Writing for Understanding: Strategies to Increase Content Learning; Teaching Writing to Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners; Visual Knowing: Connecting Art and Ideas Across the Curriculum; Public Education, Democracy, and the Common Good; and Virtual Schooling: Issues in the Development of E-Learning Policy. He also has contributed articles to a number of professional journals, including a six-part series on student-produced media, titled “Tech-Savvy Teaching,” for the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) journal, TechTrends. He is the co-author (with Phillip Harris) of “Policies Governing Educational Technology Practice and Research” (Chapter 50) in Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, Fourth Edition. He also edits and designs the AECT quarterly e-newsletter, iTECH DIGEST.Walling has written monographs; contributed articles to encyclopedias; provided pre- and post-publication book reviews; contributed chapters to various books, including scholarly history; published poems in journals and anthologies; and written several produced scripts for radio and stage as well as short story fiction. His Arts in View blog, which he began in 2009, is read literally around the world, as is his other blog, Advancing Learning and Democracy, which was launched in 2012. He was a founding associate editor of the Journal of Gayand Lesbian Issues in Education, now Journal of LGBT Youth, for which he continues to serve on the editorial board.As a speaker, Walling has presented keynote and session presentations and workshops at international, national, regional and state education conferences in the United States, Canada and Germany.

"The structure of this book makes it an appropriate resource for someone considering tablet use in the classroom or for an experienced user looking for additional ideas for innovative technology integration. ... The book is written as a practical guide for the non-technical implementer and user. ... I would recommend this book as a resource for anyone considering tablet computer implementation into a learning context." (J. Ana Donaldson, Technology, Knowledge and Learning, Vol. 20, 2015)

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: “i” Is for Innovation.- Chapter 2: Tablet Technology as a Moving Target.- Chapter 3: Who’s the Learning Designer Here?.- Chapter 4: Framing the Learning Design Approach.- Chapter 5: Analyzing the Learning Environment.- Chapter 6: Designing Learning that Capitalizes on Tablet Technology.- Chapter 7: Developing Activities that Match Learning Needs.- Chapter 8: Implementing the Learning Design.- Chapter 9: Evaluation—Before, During and After.- Chapter 10: Are eTextbooks More than Books?.- Chapter 11: Tablet Computer Reading—the How’s.- Chapter 12: Tablet Computer Reading—the What’s.- Chapter 13: Are Apps a Good Fit for Learning Goals?.- Chapter 14: The Immediacy of Connectivity—Pluses and Pitfalls.- Chapter 15: Using Tablet Technology for Multisensory Learning.- Chapter 16: Can Virtual Be as Effective as Real?.- Chapter 17: From the Tablet to the Big Picture.- Chapter 18: Tablet Take-Home Strategies.- Chapter 19: Do You Moodle?.- Chapter 20: Tackling Trouble in the Tablet Classroom.