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Apps for Good
Our goal is to transform the way technology is taught in schools; to empower students from all backgrounds to seize the opportunities of our digital age and create solutions to the problems they care about, using technology.
Rodrigo Baggio, CDI Apps for Good Founding Chairman & FounderCDI GlobalYour Own Technology Survey
The Your Own Technology Survey (YOTS) is a (free) tool to help schools and researchers better understand the digital technology available to their students at home, and how that technology might be utilized to enhance educational outcomes. It can help you answer question such as:
What proportion of your pupils has Internet access from home?
How many of your students have an Internet enabled mobile device?
What proportion of your students would be allowed, able and willing to bring their mobile device into school on a regular basis?
What proportion of your pupils has Internet access from home?
How many of your students have an Internet enabled mobile device?
What proportion of your students would be allowed, able and willing to bring their mobile device into school on a regular basis?
Sneezies - FREE!
Learnist makes sharing what you know and learning from others fast and easy by remixing anything on the web like videos, ebooks, maps, blogs, podcasts, surveys and more into a simple and elegant learning resource on any topic that you can share with anyone. Learnist is like a collaborative, multimedia and interactive ebook from the future.
Apps for Good Project
Children work in teams to undertake a series of tasks that lead to the creation of a mobile app. The project is ideal to introduce as an afterschool club or as part of the curriculum. Details on how to run the project is available from the website, www.appsforgood.org
Your Own Technology Survey
The Your Own Technology Survey is an initiative to help schools better understand the technology available to their students, and how that technology might be utilized to enhance educational outcomes.
Learnist
Learnist is one of the hot education-oriented social networks you should know about. If you’re a teacher, student, administrator, or anyone who wants to learn while browsing the web, you should know about Learnist. Learnist makes it easy to share what you know by curating the web. You can use videos, blogs, books, docs, images or anything on the web to explain anything.