Fantastic! But... now what Apps were we going to load onto all these iPad that our elementary students could use and would enhance their learning.
Our school began to it's search for the best apps for our students. As part of the committee to research this, I suggested we start with AASL's Best Apps for Teaching and Learning found at
http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards/best/apps/2016 This site lists the best Apps for 2016 in the area of books, stem, organization and management, humanities and arts, and content creation. It also lists the price for each app, which was helpful since all our apps needed to be free.
From there we went to the following three websites:
As the librarian, I was particularly interested in what App would be best for my youngest readers. Kate Bircher's article, "What Makes a Good Picture Book App?" was particularly helpful in making a good decision for my K-1 students.
Finally, the committee looked at Apps that would help teachers. I found Nicole Henning's Blog, Keeping Current with Mobile Technologies, to be helpful. http://nicolehennig.com/blog/
So if your school is looking for apps to enhance learning, I hope these links will help you as they helped us in our search.
This is so helpful. We have teachers that have class sets of iPads at the high school level. They usually use Kahoot and testing apps for their benchmarks. It's nice to see a variety of links to visit to decide what's best for students. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI'd also suggest brainstorming apps like Popplet that encourage collaboration for your upper elementary students. Educreations is amazing for both teachers and students. Free and a great flip the lesson/classroom option.
ReplyDeleteThis is great and will be helpful in the future! I love that the libguides website organizes the apps by subject so I know exactly what each one can be used for. Thanks for sharing!
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