Apps for Learning

Harry J. Dickens - 21st Century Fluency Project
Andrew Churches - 21st Century Fluency Project

Series:
The 21st Century Fluency Series

Courses:
Microcomputer/Mobile Device Applications for Teachers

October 2011 | 224 pages | Corwin

How to teach "generation app"

This first book in a three-book series offers a wealth of strategies for integrating 40 of the most effective applications—or apps—for the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone into K–12 classrooms to cultivate 21st century fluencies. The authors show how to use them to enhance teaching and learning and to address curricular objectives in an engaging, relevant, real-world environment. Written by practitioners for practitioners, key features include:

Apps with an extended shelf life, such as Pages, Keynote, iMovie, and Google Earth
An overview of each app's cost, application type, curriculum area, basic functions and features
Examples for using each tool in practice

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Preface

Introduction

Apps at a Glance: Quick Reference Chart

I. Utility Apps

1. Atomic Web Browser

2. Box.net

3. GoodReader

4. Print nShare

II. General Apps

5. Adobe Photoshop PSExpress

6. Dragon Dictation

7. eClicker Host/eClicker

8. Evernote

9. Garage Band

10. Google Earth

11. iBooks

12. iMovie

13. iThoughtsHD

14. iTranslate/iTranslate Plus

15. Keynote

16. Keynote Remote

17. Lynkee 2 QR Barcode Reader

18. Note Taker HD

19. Numbers

20. Pages

21. Skype

22. TED

23. Teleprompt+

24. Whiteboard HD

25. Wikihood/Wikihood Plus

III. Specialty Apps

26. Algebra Touch

27. Comic Touch/Comic Touch Lite

28. EMD PTE

29. Frog Dissection

30. gFlashPro

31. iMathematics

32. Manual for the United States of America

33. NASA App HD

34. Play2Learn

35. Rory's Story Cube

36. Shmoop

37. Stack the States/Stack the Countries

38. StoryKit

39. VideoScience

40. World Factbook

Index

Key features

Offers apps that have considerable staying power, (e.g., Pages, Keynote, iMovie, Google Earth) in order to give teachers a resource that will have an extended shelf life.
Includes snapshots of some of the best and most appropriate applications for the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone for use in the classroom.
Written by classroom practitioners for classroom practitioners.
Demonstrates ways to harness the power of mobile digital devices for learning, creativity, and discovery in classrooms.
Provides cost, application type, curriculum area (where applicable), basic functions and features for each app.
Includes an example of classroom application in each app module that shows how to use the tool in practice.

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