Apps for Learning

40 Best iPad/iPod Touch/iPhone Apps for High School Classrooms

AvHarry J. (Jerome) Dickens,Andrew Churches

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Del i serien The 21st Century Fluency Series

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Beskrivning

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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-04-04
Mått:177 x 254 x 14 mm
Vikt:450 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The 21st Century Fluency Series
Antal sidor:224
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781452225326

Utforska kategorier

Material och digital teknik i undervisningen inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

Harry Dickens is an Instructional Technology Consultant for several school districts in Arkansas and other states. Previously, he was the Technology Director for the Arkansas Public School Resource Center. Prior to his position at the center, Harry was a classroom teacher in Texarkana and El Dorado, Arkansas. He left the classroom to become the instructional technology director for the Texarkana School District. Harry teaches professional development classes on infusing technology into instruction throughout Arkansas, as well as at national conferences. He is a member of the core Technology Infused Education (TIE) team, a technology group of more than 100 instructional technology trainers in Arkansas. Harry is also a member of the Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL), which is a cadre of administrators that contributes new technology resources and provides orientation and training sessions throughout the state. He is currently serving on the Arkansas State technology planning committee and is chairing the teaching and learning subcommittee. Harry believes that receiving education content extends beyond district or state boundaries. He also believes we must embrace mobile technologies as a teaching tool, as well as a delivery mechanism for relevant content for classrooms. Harry has a wife named Quita and two young sons, Harrison and Jordan.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.

Recensioner i media

"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."

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroductionApps at a Glance: Quick Reference ChartI. Utility Apps1. Atomic Web Browser2. Box.net3. GoodReader4. Print nShareII. General Apps5. Adobe Photoshop PSExpress6. Dragon Dictation7. eClicker Host/eClicker8. Evernote9. Garage Band10. Google Earth11. iBooks12. iMovie13. iThoughtsHD14. iTranslate/iTranslate Plus15. Keynote16. Keynote Remote17. Lynkee 2 QR Barcode Reader18. Note Taker HD19. Numbers20. Pages21. Skype22. TED23. Teleprompt+24. Whiteboard HD25. Wikihood/Wikihood PlusIII. Specialty Apps26. Algebra Touch27. Comic Touch/Comic Touch Lite28. EMD PTE29. Frog Dissection30. gFlashPro31. iMathematics32. Manual for the United States of America33. NASA App HD34. Play2Learn35. Rory′s Story Cube36. Shmoop37. Stack the States/Stack the Countries38. StoryKit39. VideoScience40. World FactbookIndex