2. Khan Academy
This app gives students access to learning resources such as
videos, exercises, and interesting articles about a wide range of
subjects, including biology, chemistry, and physics. This app is
set up for easy understanding, allowing students to gain skills in
subject areas provided. This app is set up to be private with a
username and password. This app is a powerhouse of
information and provides comprehensive instructions for use
and offers exercises and information that follows along with
curriculum standards. https://www.khanacademy.org
3. Kahoot
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools
and other educational institutions. Its learning games, "Kahoots", are multiple-choice
quizzes that allow user generation and can be accessed via a web browser or the
Kahoot app. Kahoot allows for teachers and students to take an active approach to
understanding information within a classroom environment. It encourages students
and teachers to create quizzes for each other to take and adds to the classroom
discourse. It is very simple to use and requires a random code for every entry. It
connects to instruction and curriculum deeply when used correctly. The directions are
easy to follow and feedback is instant unless the teacher wants to elaborate on each
case.
https://kahoot.com/mobile-app/
4. Class Dojo
This is an online behavior management app that is used to encourage positive student behavior
and classroom environment. This app provides feedback to students where they can earn points
based on academic knowledge and classroom behavior. I would not say that this app offers
higher learning thinking skills as much as it encourages good behavior which is needed in higher
learning. This app gives you the option to private message parents to keep them updated on
their students class day and behavior. It also gives the option to show how the class is doing as a
whole so the students can see how many points they have and how they are progressing. This
app is very friendly to teachers, parents, and students as it is easy to use. I used the app for my
classroom last year and saw that it encouraged my students to stay on task and to participate in
classroom discussion. https://www.classdojo.com/
5. edX
edX is a massive open online course provider. It hosts online university-level courses in a
wide range of disciplines to a worldwide student body, including some courses at no
charge. It also conducts research into learning based on how people use its platform. As
it states, many of the classes are free, but the real benefit to this is the ability to dive in to
college level courses and begin to understand what kind of discourse is active. The app is
secure and teachers would be able to use this in their classroom by either purchasing or
finding free classes that work with the curriculum they are delving into. This allows for
an open-ended and classroom friendly curriculum based discourse. The directions are
easy to follow and feedback is provided upon the teachers discretion.
https://www.edx.org/mobile
6. Sworkit Kids
iIs great for physical education teachers as it encourages kids to exercise. It does not
offer as much higher learning skills, but gives kids a short activity to break up the
lesson period. It helps get them moving and is easy to use. This app can be used
anywhere, which makes it great for students to use outside of school and at school in
the classroom. This app demonstrates all the exercises visually, so it is useful for
English language learners as well as students with hearing impairments. This app
does not require sign up so it does not offer privacy. This app allows you to create
customizable workouts that target balance, agility, flexibility, and strength for students
age 7-14. It reinforces curriculum by giving kids an avenue to get their recommended
exercise for the day and promoting health and wellness. This is a great app to have in
the classroom as it gives instructions for the activity and is student friendly, allowing
Students can share their favorite workouts with friends and
family.https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/sworkit-kids
7. Edmodo
Edmodo is an educational technology company offering a communication, collaboration, and coaching
platform to K-12 schools and teachers. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content,
distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents.
Edmodo allows for teachers to be active in curriculum creation and student understanding of their
curriculum. The accessibility is easy and straightforward allowing for teachers to add students and
share class keys for parents to view their child’s understanding. What comes as the most important
aspect is that it allows for endless understanding in any curriculum subject, along with teachers being
able to work together and help enhance curriculum overall. In the end, this helps students to
understand and become more knowledgeable in their subject areas. The directions are easy to follow
and feedback is quick and easy to access.
https://www.edmodo.com/mobile
8. My incredible body
https://www.visiblebody.com/anatomy-and-physiology-
apps/anatomy-for-kids This app shows kids all the wonders of
the human body. This app is visually engaging and is easy to
use with a unique virtual guide. Its an app you pay for and has
privacy to have your own account. This app would be great to
use in any health class and also biology. This app allows you to
zoom in on the skeleton, muscles, organs, nerves, and blood
vessels to learn where everything is located and how it all
functions. This app also has follow up quizzes so students can
test themselves to see what they have learned. This is a great
app to use in the classroom.
9. Grammar Up
Grammar Up is a multiple-choice quiz system for English that provides over 1,800 questions
across 20 grammar categories. It claims to help learners improve their grammar, word selection
and vocabulary. This is especially helpful in the current ELL heavy school environments that are
a part of many of America’s public schools. This will help even native English speakers and
understand the rules surrounding their native language. For teachers it provides the ability to
see directly what students do and do not understand, meaning that feedback will be very
directed at the problems. Joining is simple and setting it up is easy due to many of the quizzes
already being available; however, teachers are able to create more as they would like. This
would be an overall helpful app within an English classroom and would be beneficial to everyone
involved. The directions are easy to follow.
https://download.cnet.com/Grammar-Up/3000-18495_4-75338005.html
10. ABCmouse
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/abcmouse-com/id586328581
This app can be used in the classroom by reviewing over questions that are
heavily missed. I enjoyed using this app with my kids to give them a chance to
use an interactive program that helped them develop their reading, math, art,
and music skills. It is easy to use and I implemented it in my own classroom last
year. The skills that are learned in the program reinforced what I taught in my
lesson plans. This app has comprehensive instructions and is easy to follow. This
app dramatically improved my kids reading and math skills. This app also allows
the teachers to track and monitor the progress of each student.
11. Hologo
STEM education focused around augmented reality learning. Very interesting concept that allows for
endless ways of learning and understanding STEM. I found it even more interesting for its storytelling
ability. It allows students to view anything from across the world and break it down and understand it.
Teachers are able to use this in a classroom to help curate stories and break down understandings of
those stories. English teachers would be able to show students exactly what a person in a story was
seeing and how they felt at those moments. It also allows for structuralism approaches and
destructuralism approaches. The app is fairly easy to use, and the students that would be using it would
be investing time to completely understanding it. In the end, it is an aid to teaching and not something
that teachers would use to assess students, so feedback would not really be a part of it. However,
teachers could take a formative approach and create assignments based on some of the AR renderings.
This would be a harder app to use for some, but it would be worth the time and effort in the end. In the
end, being able to see something and break it down by talking about it is a huge part of literature and
English writing skills.
https://www.hologo.world/
