Reflection

I want to teach middle school social studies. When I was in middle school, we learned the various amendments. The app I reviewed gave an analyzed version of the amendments. This is appealing because the language used in the original document can be hard to follow, and this app gave it more explanation. I could use this app when going over the constitution to help my students get a better understand of the exact meaning. Dr. Cullen sent me this app in an email. I did find trouble with this app. There was not an option to highlight, write, or have it read aloud. I wish these three things will be included when this app gets updated. I would use this in my classroom if my students could highlight and write down things they find important. Additionally, I might have slow readers who cannot comprehend what they read at a fast pace, and if the app could read aloud, it could help them have a better understanding. This app would be useful for units over the Constitution, but it is definitely not a necessity. 

I know that i could use this app in my future classroom with some additions. By itself the app is kind of boring, but i think that it could be a great tool to make a project fun, or make a lesson come to life. I really liked that it was for music learners because that is the way that I learn best, so i think it could be fun to see how students use it to enhance their learning. Music is important to the classroom and it truly just makes it more fun, so this app could be a fun way to get kids up, moving, around, and communicating. If anything, this app is a classroom builder and is applicable to the community aspect of the classroom. 

This experience was very helpful to me as a future teacher. By reviewing my app not only did I learn a lot about the app and how I can use it in my classroom, but I also learned how I can take other apps and evaluate them. This will help me in deciding if the apps that I’m using are good for the classroom or if I can find better apps. I plan on using my app in the classroom for introducing my students to other perspectives on subjects as well as using different modes of instruction to help my students learn. 

This app is perfect for assessing students reading level and practicing reading skills. I am going to be using this app for tutoring literacy because it is really easy to use and there are so many books to choose from. In my future classroom, I could use this app to have all of my students practice reading on their own iPads by reading books of their own interest and appropriate reading level. My friend who used this app to tutor in literacy before told me about this app, and I think it is very convenient and useful, especially for tutoring.

As a future art teacher I am obsessed with this app. The possibilities of activities we can do are almost endless. The app is free, you can save for later, share, and archive favorites. This app offers daily art that includes the name, artist, date, and who it was donated from. It also gives a description of the history of the piece, what medium, era, and where it can be found in real life. I can see this being used as bell work, exit tickets, research projects, art history, daily discussion, for me this app has everything. I can view it on my apple watch, ipad, phone, so I can make this available to the class or if tech is available to them then they can use it on their own. The only downside is that the app is not available for laptops.

 I found this app by just looking at the education section on the App Store. This app may be relevant to my future classroom. I plan on teaching younger grades which this app does have curriculum for,  but this app requires young students to read. This may be something I use later in the year, so my students can fluently read the game. I could use this app in my math centers. I believe this app was good, but it only used the lower levels of bloom’s taxonomy.  It is not something to heavily rely on, but it is a good resource. 

This app can be relevant to my classroom if I am teaching upper elementary (4th or 5th grade) when learning about about different states. This was always a key subject that I remember and this app makes it more fun and memorable for students. I always remembered just doing flash cards with pictures on it, so having something interactive would be better. I would use this app in my social studies lessons and have them practice individually or with a partner after we completed the main lesson of the day. This app will allow them to prepare for the test without feeling like the are studying as much. I found this app on the ITunes store by searching different subject areas I remember doing in elementary school, and it was one of the first ones that popped up that looked interesting. This app could better fit my needs by having more free maps, for example, the capitals. Overall, the app was great and even if you wanted the capitals map, it was not too expensive to purchase. I would considering using this in my future classroom for sure.

If I am teaching younger grades this app will be very useful for my students. I could use this app for when students who are done with their work and they can play this game instead of talking with other students. I found this app when I was looking for literacy games for my 2nd grade student when I was tutoring her last year. If it wasn't so expensive then it would fit my needs to get all of the levels.

I feel that this app could be very beneficial for young learners; however, I feel they will not be able to grow into the app. The app is very limiting in games and activities, so I believe some students will get bored eventually. Furthermore, I hate the fact that you must pay in order to go beyond level one. I believe that I might have liked the app more if it was free for all of the levels. 

In my opinion, the Sight Words app would be extremely helpful in an elementary classroom. Before students can become literate, they are required to be familiar with certain words. The knowledge of these words allows students to read more fluently and with less error. This app is a great alternative to plain old flashcards because it allows students to interact with the sight words. In my classroom, I would like to use this app at a literacy station. At the station, the student will be able to listen to the sight words and will choose the correct word. This will also be helpful because other students will not know whether the student got the word right or wrong. I found this app while looking under education app in the app store. Ideally, it would be helpful if the game could be reversed somehow where the student would be able to say the sight word orally. 

Personally, I would use this app in an early childhood classroom as a reinforcement for students who are struggling with the alphabetic principle. I think this app is something that children could easily use at home to gain the repetition need in learning the phonemes associated with letter shapes and names. This app could also be used as a brain break for the whole class. Since each letter on the homepage has a unique song or activity that goes along with it, I could see my whole class doing a letter together as a brain break. In addition, this app has a feature that teaches students the sign language for each letter. I love the idea of my early childhood students being able to attach movements with letters. To make this app better, I would love to see some kind of creating component. Whether it's the ability to manipulate letters together to make new sounds or create words, I think this app lacks any kind of ability to create.