Apps Across the Curriculum
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This document discusses educational apps for different age groups from elementary school through college. For elementary students, it recommends apps like FlashToPass, Spelling City, and BrainPOP/BrainPOP Jr. to help develop skills through practice. For middle school, it suggests apps like Symbaloo for organizing research websites and Remind101 for connecting with students safely. High school apps highlighted include Today's Meet for interactive lectures and StudyStack for vocabulary. College-level apps include iWork, iLife, Notability, and Evernote for writing, creating, and staying organized in higher education. The document provides resources for finding additional recommended educational apps.
Apps Across the Curriculum
- 1. APPS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: FAVORITES FOR EVERY AGE GROUP Lynett Croyle, Therese Dristas, Nettie Eichelberger, Anastasia Trekles ICE Indiana – http://iceindiana.org
- 3. APPS FOR YOUNG LEARNERS DEVELOPING SKILLS Young learners develop automaticity with practice. Apps make practice fun! FlashToPass for math facts Spelling City for spelling & vocabulary BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. for educational video, quizes, activities, and more!
- 6. ORGANIZATION Students should understand a need to curate their important websites for easy access. Students can set up a tab. For each subject. Students can chronicle their Web research. http://www.symbaloo.com/
- 7. THE NEED FOR RESEARCH CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis reflection, and research.
- 10. CONNECTING WITH STUDENTS SAFELY https://www.remind101.com/
- 11. INTERACTION http://padlet.com/wall/dristas If you have your own device, go here and add an idea: http://padlet.com/wall/14t0uy897c
- 16. APPS FOR COLLEGE AND BEYOND
- 17. BEST APPS FOR BIG KIDS ON NEW LEARNING PATHS By college, students need to write, create, and stay organized Essentials include: Pages, Keynote, Numbers (iWork) iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand (iLife) Notability VoiceThread PearlTrees Evernote Dropbox
- 18. RESOURCES Graphite app curation service (FREE!): http://graphite.org Cool Tools for Schools wiki: http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com Cool Apps for Schools wiki: http://coolappsforschools.wikispaces.com APPitic app list for education: http://www.appitic.com Apple Education apps: http://www.apple.com/education/apps/ Top 10 list of apps for Android and iOS: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2013/04/26/new-10-of-the-best-apple-and- android-apps-for-education-in-2013/
- 19. THANK YOU! Lynett Croyle, 2nd grade teacher, School City of Hammond: lmcroyle@hammond.k12.in.us Therese Dristas, Technology Coach, School Town of Munster: tdristas@munster.us Nettie Eichelberger, 2nd grade teacher, East Porter County Schools (Kouts, IN): nettie.eichelberger@eastporter.k12.in.us Anastasia Trekles, instructional technology chairperson, Purdue University Calumet (Hammond, IN): atrekles@purdue.edu