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Apps for Learning: 40 Best iPad/iPod Touch/iPhone Apps for High School Classrooms
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
Book Details
- Publisher: Corwin Publishers
- Publish Date: Oct 20th, 2011
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.90in - 6.90in - 0.60in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9781452225326
- Categories: • Computers & Technology• Schools - Levels - Higher• Teaching - General
About the Author
Churches, Andrew: - Andrew Churches is a teacher and ICT enthusiast. He teaches at Kristin School on Auckland's North Shore, a school with a mobile computing program that sees students with personal mobile devices and laptops. He is an edublogger, wiki author, and innovator. In 2008, Andrew's wiki, Educational Origami, was nominated for the Edublogs Best Wiki awards. He contributes to a number of web sites and blogs including Techlearning, Spectrum Education magazine, and the Committed Sardine Blog. Andrew believes that to prepare our students for the future we must prepare them for change and teach them to question, think, adapt, and modify.
Praise for this book
"With the push for a technology-centered classroom, it is useful to have a book such as this one to help teachers navigate through the applications available to determine their usefulness in the classroom."--Melody L. Aldrich, Teacher (10/28/2011 12:00:00 AM)
"The authors clearly describe the apps and highlight connections between classroom instruction and student learning." --Sally Bennett, Curriculum Coordinator (10/28/2011 12:00:00 AM)
"The chapters provide comprehensive information on each app including the subject areas, cost (if any), developer address, background information, and how to use the specific app. This is an important contribution to the myriad resources available for teachers who like to use technology in their classroom."--Karen Chenoweth, Assistant Principal (10/28/2011 12:00:00 AM)
"The authors encourage educators to think outside of personal comfort zones to capitalize on young learners' inquisitiveness."--Judith A. Rogers, Mathematics Specialist (10/28/2011 12:00:00 AM)
"This is a very important resource for teachers. The authors offer many creative uses for these apps, the ideas are easy to implement and are sure to increase student engagement and excitement about learning. An outstanding asset for the teacher who wants to build a foundational toolkit that will support 21st Century learning."--Sara J. Stewart, Instructional Technology Project Facilitator (10/28/2011 12:00:00 AM)