Educational Mobile Apps
Module 9
What exactly is a Mobile App?
Here we will be focusing on apps that can be used in the classroom to assist in and enhance the learning experience!
How do you get Mobile Apps?
GooglePlay is the store that is used by Android users and can be used to download apps on devices such as smartphones, and tablets that are developed by Google and Samsung. If you have a device created by Apple, there is a separate portal to find apps which is fittingly called the App Store.
Both brands of devices, though fairly similar, have slight differences and may also have differentiated access to certain apps you may be looking for. This is important to keep in mind, especially if you use one brand to browse or plan lessons and are planning on using another to work through them with your students.
Some Recommended Apps for the Classroom...
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Spelling City
Sock Puppets
Sock Puppets is an app that I love because who doesn't love a new way to express themselves or their story?! This app allows students take a story they've written and create a movie with sock puppets! Students can record their voices to narrate it and add props and sound effects to the sock puppets acting out the events. These movies can then be saved or shared!