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Cuatro ‘apps’ que ayudan a escribir sin faltas de ortografía. “Esta Nabidad compra libros o si no acavarán escribiendo asin”.

Cuatro ‘apps’ que ayudan a escribir sin faltas de ortografía

Esta es la frase que cierra la cruzada personal del escritor Sergio Sola contra las faltas de ortografía, materializada en un vídeo que se ha hecho viral durante las últimas semanas y cuyo objetivo es que los más pequeños aprendan a escribir correctamente mediante el hábito de la lectura. Recientemente, también hemos sido testigos del lanzamiento de La tabla periódica de la ortografía, una creación del lingüista Juan Romeu que puede resultar muy útil para resolver rápidamente dudas concretas sobre la lengua española y para que los niños consulten y retengan algunas de sus principales normas de una forma divertida.

Pero, además, gracias a las aplicaciones móviles, nuestros teléfonos y tabletas pueden convertirse en cuadernos digitales para aprender y reforzar la ortografía desde los primeros palotes. Todo de manera lúdica e incluso con propuestas para usuarios de cualquier edad. iCuadernos by Rubio, la preescritura. 5 apps para aprender a escribir. Las pantallas táctiles han facilitado muchas cosas.

5 apps para aprender a escribir

Entre ellas, la forma en la que usamos la tecnología de un modo mucho más natural. Esto, unido a los lápices digitales que existen, abre una interesante posibilidad: las apps para aprender a escribir en una tableta como si estuviéramos haciéndolo sobre un papel. Y, por supuesto, existen muchas apps para aprender a escribir en una tableta que facilitan la labor, por ejemplo, creando las guías o aplicando una pequeña dosis de gamificación basada en ejercicios, premios o recompensas. Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom Apps. Educators and students are quickly becoming more comfortable with classroom technology, allowing them to shift from thinking about the technical side of integrating a new tool to focusing on how it improves learning.

While the sheer number of education apps is still overwhelming, increasingly teachers have found what works for them and are sticking to them. “The conversations I had were radically different than they were a year ago,” said Michelle Luhtala, the librarian for New Canaan High School and host of an Emerging Tech webinar on edWeb. She tapped her professional learning network of educators, teaching all grades and located all over the country, to share their favorite tech tools. “A year ago people felt like it was this new thing that was so overwhelming,” Luhtala said, “and now it really seems much more comfortable.” Educators have become proficient with their favorite classroom apps and are getting more creative with using them to achieve teaching goals. 24 iPad Apps to Support Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Via eSchool News Bloom’s Taxonomy, introduced in the 1950s as a system of organizing learning objectives into a pyramid, traditionally has started with creating at the top, followed by evaluating, analyzing, applying, understanding, and remembering.

24 iPad Apps to Support Bloom’s Taxonomy

Some educators today are flipping the triangle so that remembering is on top, followed by understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating on the bottom. During an edWeb.net webinar, educational technologist Kathy Schrock presented a variety of apps for iPads that can boost student engagement and collaboration, and that can be used for teaching and learning according to Bloom’s Taxonomy. 14 Free Apps for Higher Order Thinking. Apps for higher order thinking can be a great push for your students to explain their thinking and create their own digital portfolio items.

14 Free Apps for Higher Order Thinking

Apps that focus on higher order thinking can help your students start using focused thought processes to address new questions, investigations, and basic HOTS skills. Each of these apps can be used to complement and execute Bloom’s Higher Order of Thinking framework, focusing on analyzing, evaluating, and creating. With these high order thinking apps, you can focus your students on: raising questions vital to discussiongathering and assessing information systematicallytesting conclusions against criteriathinking with an open mind about alternative theories and solutionscommunicating complex ideas effectively Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=" onclick="__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', ' 'discussion by Sidelines.') Education Week. Las mejores apps de cuentos interactivos. Los cuentos interactivos son ideales para que los más pequeños aprendan sin darse cuenta, porque creen que están jugando.

Las mejores apps de cuentos interactivos

Estas aplicaciones para tabletas (algunas también compatibles con smartphones) enseñan desde historia hasta tareas diarias o valores. Class Messenger. Easy Portfolio – Create Student Portfolios on Your iPad. Best EdTech Apps of 2014. 2014 was a terrific year for learning apps.

Best EdTech Apps of 2014

As more schools put tablets in kids' hands, edtech developers are rising to the challenge. Of the hundreds of apps reviewed on Common Sense Graphite this year, these 10 stood out as some of the most innovative, effective, and enjoyable apps I've seen. Study Habits: New App Helps Students Get Organized and Motivated. After testing the app for a month with two classes of students, I can endorse Study Habits as the best student productivity app for iOS and Android.

Study Habits: New App Helps Students Get Organized and Motivated

Compared to its competitors, Study Habits provides the richest array of features and augments its planning capabilities with proven study aids. The app enables students to manage their time, monitor their GPAs, and adopt effective study habits. Thanks to its educational-psychology-based learning and motivation strategies, Study Habits is unparalleled in the productivity app market.

Read on to find out what Study Habits can do and why no other student planning app compares. 14 Apps to Help Students Create & Collaborate on iPads. Ready to Research: Recording Citations. Las TICs y su utilización en la educación : 10 apps para mejorar el razonamiento lógico. Siempre estamos probando nuevas apps con mis estudiantes aquellas a los cuales sean ellos/ellas quienes den el feedback de que son de agrado y sobre todo les llama la atención muchos podemos sugerir algunas pero quienes tienen la última palabra son los estudiantes, estas apps son las que pasaron las pruebas y demostraron dar ese input de agilidad mental que se perseguía en clase: Imagina que eres un cilindro caminando en un laberinto de cajas cuadradas.

Las TICs y su utilización en la educación : 10 apps para mejorar el razonamiento lógico

Algunas cajas tienen comportamientos especiales como elevarte o incluso congelarte, debes ir descubriendo tu camino. Sudoku es el más popular juego de lógica basado en números. El objetivo del juego es colocar 1 a 9 en cada celda de la cuadrícula de modo que cada número sólo puede aparecer una vez en cada fila, cada columna y cada rejilla. Top Apps to Keep New Year's Resolutions **UPDATED for 2015 with 23 FREE apps! Five iPad Apps That Help Students Learn Programming Basics.

Even if your students are never going to become professional app developers, learning the fundamentals of programming can be helpful in understanding how software works.

Five iPad Apps That Help Students Learn Programming Basics

Learning programming basics also helps students develop a better understanding of “if, then” logic which can be applied to a wide variety of academic areas. Here are five iPad apps that can help students learn some programming basics. The Tynker iPad app features stories that students animate by completing a series of programming challenges. The programming happens by organizing a series of blocks that represent commands. Play Magnus – Play and Learn Chess With a Grandmaster. The best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula rated for learning. Apps Operación Vuelta al Cole: Apps para trabajar las Inteligencias Múltiples.

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Apps Operación Vuelta al Cole: Apps para trabajar las Inteligencias Múltiples

Cappaces. ClassTechTips : 11 Free Assessment Tools for ... The periodic table of iPad Apps. Xataka Android México - Las 11 aplicaciones imprescindibles para un estudiante. Making The Best App Choices With @Graphite. When I was beginning to roll out a Bring Your Own Device initiative in my previous district we spent a great deal of time sitting and talking with teachers. There are many misconceptions and questions that arise when we allow students to use their own technology in the classroom, so I wanted to make sure we addressed those right away so we could focus on the learning and not the classroom management. 10 times out of 10 the question came up, how could they find new and exciting tools, apps and sites to use with their students but still ensure they were effective and meeting their curriculum goals?

At the time the answer was an elusive one. Our Instructional Technology program had done a lot of front loading and cataloged many of our favorite apps and sites and tried to align them. Cinco aplicaciones para divertirse aprendiendo ortografía - Repaso de verano. 3 apps con 24 juegos educativos. Top 5 iPad apps for Educators — Edgalaxy: Cool Stuff for Nerdy teachers. It would be remiss of me not to put together an obligatory iPad story that is loosely linked to education so here are some top iPad apps for educators who feel as though they need to do something work related on it after they have finished playing with all the fun stuff on it iWork Until Microsoft release office for the iPad iWork offers the MS Works equivalent of a productivity suite for the iPad. Pages, Numbers and Keynote make for a fairly impressive productivity suite for $30, or $10 each.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration: Sounds a bit pricey for a periodic table, but the vividly animated illustrations of every substance our world is made of more than make up for it. $14 Bento: Organize your Life Mobile Air Mouse: Do you use an Interactive whiteboard and have wireless keyboards and mice floating around the place that either don’t work or you have to actually sit in front of a computer to type something on your IWB. Las 10 mejores Aplicaciones educativas (gratis) para aprender en vacaciones. ClassTechTips : Read about different ways to ... EducaRedAR : 3 Apps para el aula de ... Mrkempnz : Great tools and apps to teach ...

10 Powerful iPad Apps For English And History. When I first started teaching English with 1:1 iPads, I was really jealous of the science and fine arts teachers. They had all of the most engaging apps, and I was left with a lowly word processor and an instant thesaurus. Fortunately, so much has changed. I now have the flexibility to duck in and out of my students’ papers as they write and leave them comments on drafts in progress. I have the resources to connect them with a real-world network of readers who authentically guide them to books they will enjoy through reviews and ratings. As a class, we can collaborate on a challenging text, asking questions of each other in shared annotations. During the research process, students have tools to keep their ideas organized, and their resources available to others with similar interests.

Senior leader's iPad toolkit. Leadership Published on June 8th, 2014 | by Mark Anderson Working as a member of a senior leadership team brings a number of interesting prospects. I’ve certainly had an interesting year so far with a number of challenges that have come my way. What is has done for me however is give me a fresh perspective in how technology can support a senior leader and the rest of their leadership group.

Tasks The Daddy of all of these really has to be OmniFocus. 84 iPad Apps to Share With K-12 Teachers and Students. 14 Apps for Creating in Elementary. iPad Apps and Resources for Teachers. Marine Missions to Explore Ocean Science. Essential Skeleton 3D. Explain Everything for superb student feedback. iPad Published on December 2nd, 2013 | by Mark Anderson. ClassTechTips: 12 Apps for the One iPad ... Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 6 Good Apps for Better Interaction with Your Students. April 25, 2014 Over the last few days I have been sharing with you some useful iPad tips and apps from " iPad as Teacher's Pet" created by Tony Vincent.

In today's post, I am featuring 6 important apps that will help you employ your iPad for interactional purposes. These apps will allow you to conduct polls, communicate, and host game shows. While some of these tools don't require students to have iPads, other do call for students to use a computer or device that access the web, email, or text messaging: 1- PollEverywhere Create multiple choice and open-ended polls. 2- Kahoot Kahoot is a game-based classroom response system. Lessons in online learning. 10 Apps for Math Fluency. There are so many ways to use mobile devices with students. You can create interactive textbooks for children to read, ask them to explain their thinking through screencasting or help them access informational text using QR codes. Mobile devices can also be used to help students practice foundational math skills and build their math fluency.

In order for students to tackle the multi-step word problems they'll be asked to solve as early as elementary school, they need to have mastered their addition, subtraction and multiplication facts. By answering 4 + 12, 15 - 5, 9 x 7 and 18 / 3 quickly and accurately, students can focus on reading word problems to figure out what the question is asking them to do. 10 questions to ask yourself before giving an assessment. 1). What's the point and purpose of the assessment? 2). Is this a preventative check-up (formative) type assessment or an autopsy (summative) type assessment? 3). Reading 2.0. Many educators are worried about how technology is affecting the amount of reading that students are doing. They notice that: 40 Android Apps for Teaching and Learning – ProfHacker - Blogs.

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A great How-to Tutorial on Creating Student Portfolios on iPad Using Google Drive App ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. Recordium - Highlight & Annotate Voice Recordings for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store. 46 Education App Review Sites For Teachers And Students. A Crowdsourced List Of The Best iOS Education Apps. 10 Best Science Learning Apps For iPad. My 24 Most-Used Education Apps (What Are Yours?) How To Raise The Next Zuckerberg: 6 Coding Apps For Kids. 61 Educational Apps For The 21st Century Student.

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