Unleashing Creativity: Greg Kulowiec App Smashing - from Beth Holland

Greg Kulowiec begins his session by asking, “Why limit our students to one tool at one time?” With App Smashing, students can create content with a variety of apps and then publish it to the web – don’t let content “die on your iPad.” The general concept between App Smashing is merging content from a variety of apps. Toolkit for App Smashing – keep it simple! The key to App Smashing is the camera roll – use apps that can save to camera roll or take screen captures and bring them in. While the concept is to create content, get it into a central location, and make something with it, now, what can you do???? App Smash Creations Create a multimedia book about whatever concept, topic or idea is happening in class. Create a published web-book that can be exported to the web as a PDF. “Making books if fun, but advanced video can be more fun,” says Greg. The ThingLink Smash is one of Greg’s favorites. Common Craft Videos are also possible as App Smashes. >> View Greg’s presentation materials Save

cooltoolsforschools - home SiteBuilderReport Why App Smash? Inspired by the last #1to1iPadChat , I thought it was time to post on the world craze that is App Smashing. The term App Smash was coined by the great Greg Kulowiec (@gregkulowiec) from EdTech Teacher fame. It is a hot topic in EdTech and obviously has its own Hashtag – #AppSmash. What is an App Smash? Content created in one app transferred to and enhanced by a second app and sometimes third. Reasons to App Smash: It demands creative thinkingIt demands more from the technology (value for money)It turns the issue of not having a ‘wonder app’ into a positiveIt removes any restrictions to take a topic as far as it can be taken.It often results in more engaging learning productsIt’s a fun challenge for ‘digital natives’ Key rules for successful App Smashing: Use the Camera Roll as your main conduit between appsLeave the app choice to the studentsHave a list of apps capable of smashing content together (See below) Key Apps when App Smashing: Examples I’ve used: Final thought Other links: Like this:

Helping the Poor in Education: The Power of a Simple Nudge Photo There are enormous inequalities in education in the United States. A child born into a poor family has only a 9 percent chance of getting a college degree, but the odds are 54 percent for a child in a high-income family. These gaps open early, with poor children less prepared than their kindergarten classmates. How can we close these gaps? Yet as these debates rage, researchers have been quietly finding small, effective ways to improve education. Let’s start with college. While they were graduate students at Harvard, two young professors designed and tested a program to help students stick to their college plans. The result? The same researchers also tested a texting program to keep students from dropping out of college. We know these programs worked because they were evaluated, like all the innovations cited in this column, using a randomized, controlled trial. Students were randomly assigned to receive texts or not receive them. Two researchers at Stanford University, Eric P.

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