Ways to Evaluate Educational Apps
I am conducting a series of workshops in Florida and was asked to share a rubric to help teachers evaluate educational apps as part of the workshop. In 2010 Harry Walker developed a rubric, and I used his rubric (with some modifications by Kathy Schrock) as the basis for mine. (Read Harry Walker's paper Evaluating the Effectiveness of Apps for Mobile Devices.) I kept in mind that some apps are used to practice a discrete skill or present information just one time. Others are creative apps that a learner may use again and again, so it's a challenge to craft a rubric that can be used for a wide span of purposes. My rubric also emphasizes the ability to customize content or settings and how the app encourages the use of higher order thinking skills. Here's what I chose to spotlight in my rubric: Relevance The app’s focus has a strong connection to the purpose for the app and appropriate for the student Customization Feedback Student is provided specific feedback Thinking Skills Engagement Sharing
BrainPOP
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Glossary of Instructional Strategies
Current number of strategies and methods: 1271 Last updated: 27 July, 2013 Definitions written by Kelly Jo Rowan. ©1996-2013 Kelly Jo Rowan. 10 + 2 (Ten Plus Two) Direct instruction variation where the teacher presents for ten minutes, students share and reflect for two minutes, then the cycle repeats. 1st TRIP (First TRIP) A reading strategy consisting of: Title, Relationships, Intent of questions, Put in perspective. 3-2-1 (Three-Two-One) Writing activity where students write: 3 key terms from what they have just learned, 2 ideas they would like to learn more about, and 1 concept or skill they think they have mastered. 5 + 1 (Five Plus One) Direct instruction variation where the teacher presents for five minutes, students share and reflect for one minute, then the cycle repeats. A-B-C Summarize A form of review in which each student in a class is assigned a different letter of the alphabet and they must select a word starting with that letter that is related to the topic being studied. Acronyms
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20 Amazing iPad Apps for Educators
When one looks at how technology has changed education over the past decade, one can’t help but be blown away by the sheer number of iPad apps for educators that have absolutely flooded the electronic marketplace. There are so many iPad apps for teachers released every month that even the most plugged-in educator would have a difficult time processing and utilizing them all. Luckily, when teachers are looking to learn how to use iPads in the classroom, they need to look no further than TeachHUB magazine and TeachHUB.com -- an educator’s primary go-to resource when researching iPad apps for teachers and iPads in the classroom. Read on to learn about TeachHUB magazine and TeachHUB.com’s updated list of the hottest iPad apps for teachers and iPad apps for education, destined to forever alter your curriculum landscape, organized here by subject. Scroll down for an index of many of TeachHUB's helpful iPads in the classroom app reviews and more of the best usage of iPads in the classroom. Trello
Kami
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ICTAC MEMO iPhone Apps for Education
Use Notes on iPhone to write yourself aquick note and keep important informationon hand. Send notes to yourself or othersvia email and sync them back to your Macor PC.Very useful for helping studentsremember things.... Keywords,homework tasks, assignmentnotes, lesson notes. iPhone uses iTunes to sync the photos youhave in iPhoto on a Mac or AdobePhotoshop Elements and Adobe PhotoshopAlbum on a PC. Messages appear on your iPhone as anongoing conversation, so it’s easy to pickup where you left off. Record ideas, reminders, meetings, classlectures, notes — any audio you want —using the built-in iPhone microphone, yourheadset, or an external mic accessory.Voice Memos records even when you’reusing your iPhone to do things like checkemail or surf the web.Sometimes it is quicker to recordnotes as an audio file, rather thanwriting down notes. Shop theiTunes Storeright on iPhone andchoose from millions of songs you candownload via Wi-Fi or your cellularnetwork.
Navigating the information landscape through collaboration
Elizabeth Hutchinson, Head of Schools' Library Service in Guernsey, writes that information literacy is at the centre of student learning, making the role of library staff as important as ever. School libraries and school library professionals have a huge role to play in supporting teaching and learning within a school. I often hear visiting authors comment on being able to identify a good school by how well the library is used. School librarian Caroline Roche penned the phrase ‘heart of the school’, which is used to describe schools whose library is at the centre of learning. In a perfect world, all teachers would know how to access their school library and understand why using the library is beneficial to them and their students. In order for school librarians to remain relevant it is important for us to keep supporting the next new idea in schools. Information literacy starts in the school library Identifying resource quality through referencing How can library staff help?
