Reflection

This app is relevant to my future classroom because it allows for me to use an interactive and engaging app to track student math progress instead of doing worksheets. Because I am a special education major, my students need a lot of personalized learning. Having apps that allow the teacher to adjust the content to fit the student, is extremely important. A lot of my students might struggle with motor skills that prevent paper/pencil activities, so having the iPad app would also be extremely helpful to track understanding for those kids. 

Reviewing the helpful classroom applications of an app was definitely a good way to help me in preparing to become a teacher. I had no idea there was a list of actual educational standards that needed to be met by an app in order to consider it useful in a classroom, so reading that list definitely helped me to consider things like that. It was fun messing around with the capture software, but since I don't have a Mac, I was unable to use Quicktime to make my video. Instead, I had to download two seperate IPad apps and two apps for my PC in order to get things to work, and I was quite proud of myself and my technological skills.

I will definitely use the app KomaKoma in my future classroom, and I may even have my students record reviews of their own if my classroom has the technology, since I think this is a good assignment to get people (myself included) to think critically and apply what they know.

This is an interesting lesson. Doing a critical review of an app was not something that I had done before. In terms of how it applies to my future classroom, I could see using something like this as a way to teach technology literacy, while also giving kids a chance to really express their interests. I'd most likely use it with something like their favorite hobby, and why other people should try it.

I never knew that there was so much important criteria to be considered when choosing an app to use in your classroom. I learned a lot about important criteria that needs to be met when looking for different apps and what to look for. In my future classroom I will definitely use the different evaluation methods and guidelines to review apps before using them in my classroom. This experience also allowed me to find different possible apps I can use with my students.