Apps for Enhancement of mLearning
EDU 210
DreamBox Math
This website and mobile app could be implemented into an elementary math class as a review and formative assessment tool for teachers. The teacher can control what content they have access too, and upon completion of the activities individual progress reports are made for each student. This would provide students with a fun and engaging review to the math content they are learning, while also providing the teacher with sufficient evidence of student learning.
DreamBox Math
BareFoot Atlas
iDiary for Kids
BareFoot World Atlas
This is an excellent app for educating students in a Social Studies class about the diversity of the world-physically, culturally, economically, and linguistically. This could be used in a grade 3 classroom based upon the learning of Communities in the World. Create an assignment comparing and contrasting our culture in Canada to a different country in the world. They will discover using the globe this information.
iDiary for Kids: Journaling Platform.
This would be an excellent tool to implement into a Language Arts class. For example, the teacher could use it as a supplementary activity to the weekly spelling words. The students would need to incorporate the spelling words in their correct context within the journal entry. It would engage students as they are free to choose the topic and be creative. The teacher could assess whether the students understand the context the words should be used in.
Mobl 21
This app would be very beneficial for higher level sciences in a secondary school system. For example, at the start of a Biology 30 unit the teacher and students could use it as an ongoing study habit for Body Systems. Definitions, key concepts, and photos could be used with this app to help aid in studying and reinforce knowledge on topics.
Mobl 21
Mobl 21
Story Wheel
Story Wheel
This app could be used as a supplementary tool or an introductory activity to a Language Arts lesson focusing primarily on composition of writing. In an elementary classroom, teachers could educate students that their is a beginning, middle, and end to every story and that these principles are important so the story makes sense. This app could be used as practice for the students to comprehend this knowledge as well as create their own stories using these principles.