20+ Fun Free Apps that Promote Student Centered Learning & Literacy. Shelly Terrell Shelly Sanchez Terrell is a teacher trainer, instructional designer, adjunct professor, and the author of The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers: Small Steps to Transform Your Teaching and Learning to Go: Lesson Ideas for Teaching with Mobile Devices, Cell Phones and BYOT.
She has been recognized by the ELTon Awards, The New York Times, the Ministry of Education in Spain, and Microsoft’s Heroes for Education as an innovator in the movement of teacher-driven professional development and education technology. Recently, she was named Woman of the Year 2014 by Star Jone’s National Association of Professional Women and awarded a Bammy Award as a founder of #Edchat, the Twitter chat that spurred over 400 teacher chats. Flipped Classroom Visually Explained for Teachers. 5 Apps for Making Movies on Mobile Devices. Every year at Hollywood award shows, we see fantastic movies celebrated for their rich storytelling and dynamic performances.
Your students can become moviemakers, too, thanks to some powerful apps for mobile devices. With these tools, your children can take videos and edit their work to make professional quality movies using iOS devices (iPads and iPhones) and Android tablets. One good thing about this easy-to-use technology is that students can still use important English language arts skills like writing a narrative, planning a sequential story, and including key details when getting ready to make a movie.
These apps can enhance the work that you are doing with children in the classroom and give them room to be creative storytellers. iMotion HD (iOS: Free, Upgrade Available) Your students can create a time-lapse or stop-motion film using this video app. iMotion HD lets kids make a movie by combining still photos. PicPlayPost (iOS: $1.99) Magisto Video Editor & Maker (Android: Free) Transformational 1:1 learning and SAMR. Let us talk about the word transformational.
It has cemented its place as one of the first words in any half-decent game of educational technology bingo in recent years, thanks largely to its position at the pinnacle of Dr. Ruben R. Puentedura’s much loved SAMR model (see below). It is perhaps inevitable then, that it is used misused with such alarming regularity. The SAMR model is regularly introduced to teachers (I even introduced it at my school 18 months ago) at the beginning of any mobile device initiative. One of the major issues I have with SAMR is its place in the conflict between the short and long term.
Perhaps just as worryingly, many of the tools that I regularly witness have a huge effect on student learning such as Showbie and iTunes U rank only marginally above the ‘don’t bother’ stage. This leads me to the ‘technophobe’s view’ of SAMR. There is lots of genuinely transformational stuff going on in schools – the majority of it has nothing to do with technology. Top 10 Apps in an Established 1:1 iPad School. The Stephen Perse Foundation has had a 1:1 iPad programme running for two years now.
Whilst there are many subject specific apps utilised for learning, it is interesting to note how the top 10 apps are all multipurpose. The list below also includes an indication of how workflow is developing for the school and how an app is chosen when and where it is appropriate. For more information about how we are using the iPads as a tool for learning please visit SPFlearning.com Explain Everything Simply the most versatile education app available. Socrative 1.0 and 2.0 Socrative is a very simple and effective assessment tool that can be used during any part of the learning process. iMovie iMovie has always been a favourite with students, but it is interesting to see how it has developed as an educational tool. iTunes U iTunes U is often referred to as our learning platform.
Showbie Showbie allows you to assign, collect and review student work. Edmodo Notability Keynote Book Creator Pages Like this: