Mobile iEducator | reviewing the best apps for education. Web sites that review education apps. Apps. Lots and lots and LOTS of apps. Half a million and counting in Apple’s App Store… As iPads and iPod Touches become more prevalent in schools, educators often are overwhelmed by the sheer size and diversity of the apps ecosystem: How do I know which apps are good for my kids? Is there an app out there that will help my students with this learning goal?
How can I tell if an app is great or junk? Thankfully, others have stepped up to help educators curate apps that have learning value. Here is my list of web sites that review and/or share educational apps that work on Apple devices: iOS Education App Reviews and Web Sites The list focuses on sites dedicated specifically to education apps, not sites that include apps and other educational technology resources as well. Does your school organization have a systematic way of sharing excellent learning apps with educators and/or parents? Image credit: Time for Apps, Bigstock. Teachers with Apps - Because Not All Apps are Created Equal - 12345. Photo Manipulation - iPads in the Art Room. 60 Apps in 60 Minutes: Mobile 2012. What I Wish I’d Done Before Deploying iPads to 735 Middle Schoolers, Part 2 | Terice T. Schneider's Digital Home.
We planned. We met to go over the plans. We talked. We planned some more. We made Wikis, created websites, and put it all our plans on spreadsheets and documents. We trained teachers on everything iPad from how to turn it on to how to create an ePub with lesson information. We overwhelmed them with information, and it wasn’t always the information they needed most. What we didn’t do was address some of the simple day-to-day things that we never thought would be an issue. When offering professional development to teachers on integrating iPads, give them training on a management system like Texas’s Project Share from Epsilen (which is releasing an App soon), Edmodo, or Schoology or even eBackPack. Teachers also want to know how to deliver content to their students. Everyone agreed that the better way to do this would have been to choose one, train how to use it and stick with it for a year. We had an expectation that the iPads would be used multiple times a week if not daily.
How it works. Kindertown / Find the Best Educational Apps for Preschoolers. 15 Great Resources for Educational Apps for Teachers, Parents and Educators. Now that mobile learning is advancing in a quicker pace than we ever expected and that our students and kids are embracing more and more mobile devices in their life, we are left with no other alternative but to swim with the torrent. It is the onus of our responsibility to teach our students how to educationally benefit from this influx of mobile technology We need to equip them with apps that can help them learn and become confident learners. Fortunately enough, in this age of wired comunication and cloud based connections nothing is hard to get anymore. There are now several platforms designed specifically to meet teachers and students needs in using mobile devices in education. These websites are, most of the time, created and run by educators and provide reviews of awesone apps to use for learning.
I have compiled a list of these resources for you to bookmark and access whenever you want to look for a certain app to share with students. 1- Educational technology and Mobile Learning. Category: Elementary Intermediate. The Case of the Cheesecake Thief! Jun 20 dschmitElementary Intermediate, Middle Level Science, social learning, social studies, Visual Literacy courtesy blvesboy Procedural crime dramas are very popular and for good reason.
This apptivity will chain together using the iPad’s Camera App, photo editing features, YouTube (or built in Video), Skitch, and Keynote. More Eureka! Apr 07 kshirleyElementary Intermediate Language Arts, Research, social studies Imagine student engagement at creating a puppet show about the Gold Rush on an iPod touch! Overview Students will be able to apply factual knowledge about the Gold Rush to their own Puppet Pals show using animation and dramatic dialogue and through this, demonstrate comprehension about the beginning of the Gold Rush period. More Dressing Up Vocabulary with Storyrobe kshirleyElementary Intermediate, Middle Level ESL, Language Arts, recording, vocabulary Overview Dictating for Foreign Language Fluency Feb 21 Feb 09 Feb 08 Cookie Party! 1-to-1 Learning | 21 Steps to iPad Success.