This document summarizes Lauren Gourlay's top 4 apps for education. IXL is ranked number 1 as it provides fun educational games aligned to K-12 curriculum and allows teachers to track student progress. Seesaw is number 2 as it allows for student journals, parent communication, and integrating videos and recordings. Prodigy is third as it makes math learning fun through interactive games and characters while tracking student data. Book Creator rounds out the top 4 by enabling students to create their own books with multimedia and record feedback.

1. M Y
T O P 4
A P P S
L A U R E N G O U R L AY

2. My #1 App
IXL
• Why is this APP my top?
• K-12th user friendly
• So many fun educational games
with the ability to have live
classrooms
• Teachers get direct reports from the
site and allows you to see where
students needs are.
• Allows students to move on to the
next concept once they’ve mastered
the level before.
• Students are able to move the
mouse over the game title and see a
sample of the question
• Great privacy as schools give out
the use names for students and
parents can set up their own
account
• K-12 curriculum
• Ease of use for students

3. Coming in at number 2…..
Seesaw
TEACHER FRIENDLY!
EVEN HAS AN OPTION
TO SET UP A LATER
DATE AND TIME FOR
WORK TO BE
ASSIGNED!
EACH STUDENT HAS
HIS/HER OWN
JOURNAL FOR WORK.
PARENTS CAN
COMMUNICATE
QUICKLY ON ANY
DEVICE
RESOURCE LIBRARY
WHERE YOU CAN PULL
MANY ITEMS TO USE
FOR YOUR CURRENT
CURRICULUM OR UNIT
VIDEOS SHOWING
STUDENTS HOW TO DO
THE WORK BEFORE
THEY BEGIN
TEACHER SEND OUT
UNIQUE CODE TO
EACH
STUDENT/PARENT.
PRIVACY ISN’T AN
ISSUE.
STUDENTS USE
TECHNOLOGY
THROUGH VIDEOS,
PAINT, RECORDINGS.

4. In 3rd
Prodigy
Making Math fun!
Earn characters, fight
wizards, and move on to
the next level as your
progress.
Interactive games that
test knowledge.
Student’s data appears
on teacher’s dashboard.
Also offers a co-teaching
feature so you and your
student can work within
same dashboard.
Questions get harder as
students progress.
In game instructions and
allows all levels of
learners to play at their
own level. Has a read-
aloud selection.

5. Last place is…
Book
Creator
Allows students make their own books!
Record feedback on each page.
Multimedia design
Pre- made books to read out loud to the class
Can sign in using Clever
Tabs at the top of the page help students learn how
to use it.