The document discusses various educational apps that enhance classroom engagement and promote self-directed learning among students. It highlights tools for quizzes, collaboration, note-taking, and health tracking, emphasizing their usefulness for both teachers and students. The apps facilitate better communication, promote critical skills, and provide alternative methods for mastering content.

1. Ryan Glidden, Doug Young

2.  Useful in the classroom to create quizzes or
surveys, and the students can respond.
 This is useful in the classroom because it
promotes discussion, understanding, and
mastery of skills.
 The educator can better assess the
knowledge of the students.

3.  Useful in engaging students in self-directed
learning, foster their curiosity, and develop
critical research and digital literacy skills.
 Students can take notes in their journal and
pin resources to their own Grok.
 App is easy to use, and provides a place for
students to store relevant information and
ideas.

4.  Allows teachers and students to stay
connected 24/7 to their LMS.
 Teachers can assign tasks, create messages,
and keep everyone informed.
 Teachers are able to grade submitted
assignments and return them on the go.
 Student collaboration with peers is promoted.

5.  Creates a different learning environment in
the classroom setting by allowing students to
create stories by recording voice over images,
library of themes, fonts, and music.
 Students can use the story starter functions in
Voice to express their content.

6.  Allows students or teachers to take a picture
and record their voice giving a description of
the picture or something else relatable.
 It can help students with their confidence in
voiceovers and expressing themselves
without being in front of their peers.
 This could be a really good to use for
assignments for online classes. The student
could even do a picture of themselves and
just leave an audio comment on a page.

7.  Allows teachers to post study guides for students
that they can view online in their own time. It has
the option to put the questions in flashcard
mode. You can also use it for review games in
your classroom.
 This is a popular app for college students and
professors. It is a useful tool to review notes and
study for tests
 The app addresses students who need extra help
studying beyond the resources to provided to
them. It gives the opportunity for an alternative
studying method.

8.  Notability allows note takers to annotate
documents, record lectures, sketch
illustrations, and a lot more.
 This is an extremely useful app for students
who are poor note takers or unorganized.
 A lot of students are poor note takers
because they are rushed, have poor
handwriting, etc. This is an extremely helpful
to keep your notes in one place and avoid
jumbled notes.

9.  Math 42 is an excellent app. Students can
type in a problem and it will give them step
by step help.
 This is great for tougher concepts. Different
students learn differently, and not every
student will learn by the teacher lecturing.
 The teacher can use it as they’re teaching the
lesson by putting it up on the screen to help
the visual learners step by step.

10.  This is an app where students can keep up with there calorie
count and their diet throughout the day.
 We decided this would be a good app for a health class to use.
 The students could have an assignment where they have to
keep up with their calorie intake, diet, and amount of exercise.
Then they will report it
 This is a great app, not only for present assignments, but also
for the future health of the students. Starting healthy habits
now will help the students be more healthy in the future.

11.  Educreation allows a student to teach
concepts from all areas of the curriculum.
 Lessons can be saved and shared via multiple
platforms.
 Students can create their own videos, and
educators can provide feedback on student’s
work.