Best 1-to-1 Apps
It can be tough to figure out which apps to load onto tablets when your classroom is 1-to-1. The last thing you want is to commit to an app and use it for a week or, even worse, a day. This handpicked collection of apps is a good place to start. Each is highly rated and tuned well to the needs of 1-to-1 teachers and students. There's a mixture of apps with tons of content that'll keep students engaged and learning, tools for teachers to assess and manage classes, and opportunities for students to think, create, and share.
Best 1-to-1 Apps
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Here is the K-5 iPad Apps presentation from the 2015 SESC Summer Workshop series.
Diane Darrow's Edutopia Post including extended explanation of each thinking skill associated with iPad apps.
Create and play quizzes, discussions or even surveys using any device with a web browser including a laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Chromebook, Windows Phone or PC. CREATE: Through a simple 'drag & drop' creator tool (using any device), build quizzes with embedded imagery and video, based on educational content. Or, find public content to play. LAUNCH: Engage the room and focus attention by projecting the quiz onto the screen at the front. Without needing an account, everyone in the room quickly joins through their personal device, seeing their name appear at the front. PLAY: Answering questions in real time through an easy-to-use interface, they play against each other aiming to top the on-screen leaderboard, whilst you facilitate and discuss the content. Join Kahoot! Here Blended learning is not the same as technology-rich instruction. It goes beyond one-to-one computers and high-tech gadgets. Blended learning involves leveraging the Internet to afford each student a more personalized learning experience, meaning increased student control over the time, place, path, and/or pace of his or her learning. The definition of blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns: (1) at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace; (2) at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home; (3) and the modalities along each student’s learning path within a course or subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience. Here are a few Blended Learning resources to help get you started: Blended Learning from Edutopia Blended Learning Now University of Central Florida: Blended Learning Toolkit Blended Learning Infographic (knewton.com)
Epic! is the first "All-You-Can-Read" eBook service for kids. Epic provides reading experience by letting kids choose and instantly access the books they want to read, without the need to purchase and download them one-by-one. Epic! is the only kids eBook subscription service that offers thousands of high-quality books from well known publishers like HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, National Geographic and many others. Epic! for Educators Introducing "Epic! for Educators," an entirely free version of our award-winning eBook reading app for iOS devices. Now available to all U.S. and Canada-based elementary school teachers and librarians. Fill out the Epic! for Educators form here. Here are 19 simple tricks iPhone and iPad users Should Know. How many of these tricks did you know about? iPhone & iPad Tricks Have you ever considered purchasing Rosetta Stone but can't bring yourself to spend that kind of cash on something you are mildly curious about? Well try this free app duolingo! You can learn Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese through duolingo's app (found in Apple app store) or website at https://www.duolingo.com/. Below is a video explaining the process. What in the world is Augmented Reality?! Simply put, AR is the layering of digital information on top of the physical world. How does it work? When you hold a digital device running an AR app over an image or recognizable scene it triggers multimedia into action. The multimedia can be images, audio, and video. See how Spicewood Elementary School in Marble Falls, TX uses AR. http://www.dailytrib.com/2013/11/26/new-technology-opens-world-learning-marble-falls-isd-students/#ixzz2lmA752wa Aurasma is a free AR app and service used by over 20,000 partners including most major companies across the globe. The app and service is free to use just by signing up. http://www.aurasma.com
colAR App is a free and fun AR app that kids really enjoy. Download coloring pages (see below) and let your kids color them, when they are finished look at them through the colAR App viewer and they come to life with 3D digital images and music that take on the artists colors applied to the page. http://colarapp.com/ http://appitic.com/ is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings. |
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ResourcesThis is a continuously growing list of teacher resources for you to use, such as links to Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Pioneer Library, Smart, UEN, USOE, and more. Check back often as this page is always changing. I Archives
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