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App Selection by Gail Lovely
The document discusses factors to consider when selecting educational apps for student use. It notes that while price is a consideration, educational value is more important. Effective apps teach or practice curriculum skills, create evidence of learning, and produce learning materials. Other criteria include usability, the ability to work with other apps and files, and appropriate learning curves. The document provides examples of effective educational apps and resources for reviewing apps.
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- 1. Selecting Apps for Student Use: Looking Beyond the Price Gail Lovely Gail@GailLovely.com LovelyLearning.com Gail@GailLovely.com
- 2. The App Store… Likea box of chocolate
- 3. The App Store… AHUGE box of chocolate
- 4. SOME STATS… http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/ Appsavailable for download: 659,936 Education Category: 65,530 (active) Average App price: $1.99
- 5. What are thenumbers? From 2009 to 2011 apps for toddlers - elementary school have grown from 47% to 72% of the education collection*. Gail@GailLovely.com *(iTunes)
- 6. Price… Free? Really? Gail@GailLovely.com
- 7. “All television iseducational television. The question is: what is it teaching?” Nicholas Johnson
- 8. Educational Criteria Teach or practice curriculum or skills of value Create evidence of knowledge or skills Produce materials to learn with or from More than CUTE, ENGAGING, FUN. Gail@GailLovely.com
- 9. Apps and Applicationof Apps Educational researchers and practitioners alike assert that the potential of new technologies for learning is likely to be found not in the technologies themselves but in the way in which these technologies are used as tools for learning (Means & Olson, 1995; Owston, 1997; Valdez et al., 1999). Gail@GailLovely.com From NCREL: http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/reading/li300.htm
- 11. Gail@GailLovely.com Book Creator
- 12. “Don’t bring inan elephant to teach the color gray.” - Madeleine Hunter
- 13. Educational Criteria Ability to play well with other files and apps Appropriate learning curve Useability Let’s Look at Some! Gail@GailLovely.com
- 14. Gail@GailLovely.com StoryKit
- 15. Additionally – formatmatters Does the app consider multiple users? Bluster and Futaba are examples of this… Gail@GailLovely.com
- 16. Additionally – strategymatters Does the app target the users appropriately? Toontastic is a wonderful example of this… Gail@GailLovely.com
- 17. App Selection A few “technical” things to look for… Gail@GailLovely.com
- 18. Technical Criteria Ability to get files off device Screenchomp (free) ◦ Output to link on their site (with ads) ◦ On the iPad on which it was made Explain Everything ($2.99) ◦ Output to: Email, Dropbox, Evernote, Box, YouTube… Gail@GailLovely.com
- 19. You HAVE tobe Careful… There is a reason 30% of apps are opened only once. Gail@GailLovely.com
- 20. Gail@GailLovely.com Reading Level MisMatch Screenshot from Casey’s Contraptions
- 21. Gail@GailLovely.com Confusing…? Screenshots from Live ABC
- 22. Gail@GailLovely.com Lets Look…
- 23. Examples DialSafe Pro –teach to use phone http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dialsafe-pro/id438306615?mt=8 Free Audio Note – audio synched to pen http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audionote-notepad-voice- recorder/id369820957?mt=8 $4.99 Futaba Classroom Games http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/futaba-classroom-games- for/id487979995?mt=8 $4.99
- 24. Examples Math Doodles http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/math- doodles/id526959716?mt=8 $2.99 Kids Puzzles– African Plains http://itunes.apple.com/fi/app/kids-puzzles-african-plains/id438085328?mt=8 Free Book Creator http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-creator-for- ipad/id442378070?mt=8 $4.99
- 25. Just a fewmore? Toontastic – write a cartoon http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toontastic/id404693282?mt= 8 Free (not really) StoryKit – write a book http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storykit/id329374595?mt=8 free Moment Diary – learning journal? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/momentdiary/id352263913?mt=8 free
- 26. App Developers Ilike… • Grasshopper Apps • Nosy Crow • National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) • Apple • LittleBit Studio
- 27. Apps by BloomsTaxonomy http://www.edutopia.org/ipad- apps-elementary-blooms- taxomony-diane-darrow Gail@GailLovely.com
- 28. Apps by Bloom’sTaxonomy http://www.schrockguide.net/bloo min-apps.html Gail@GailLovely.com
- 29. Apps by StudentAction http://edtechteacher.org/index.p hp/teaching-technology/mobile- technology-apps/ipad-as Gail@GailLovely.com
- 30. App Selection Places to hear from others http://www.tcea.org/ipad Gail@GailLovely.com
- 31. App Selection Places to hear from others http://www.iear.org/ Gail@GailLovely.com
- 32. Reviewers of Apps Children’s Technology Review - http://childrenstech.com/ Common Sense Media - http://www.commonsensemedia.org/ Also educators on Pinterest and Twitter and User Ratings (in the store or Gail@GailLovely.com marketplace)
- 33. App Selection Places to hear from others http://teachwithyouripad.wikispac es.com/iPAD+Apps http://www.techchef4u.com/ Gail@GailLovely.com
- 34. App Selection http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/sur prisinglyeduapps Gail@GailLovely.com
- 35. Over-Whelming Support Lists, lists, lists… (not just apps) http://www.livebinders.com/play/ play/26195 http://www.livebinders.com/play/ play/40590 Gail@GailLovely.com
Editor's Notes
- #8 As we work to develop a criteria for the selection of apps for learners 3 - 7 years of age. The intended bias is for apps which are not just tools for learning something, but for practicing or learning things we value.