{"id":2385,"date":"2013-02-14T07:30:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2013-02-11T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:24:20","slug":"choosing-meaningful-apps-idevices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/2013\/02\/choosing-meaningful-apps-idevices\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Meaningful Apps (iDevices)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/09\/apps_ipad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1979\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"apps_ipad\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/09\/apps_ipad-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of apps come and go in the iTunes Store. \u00a0Without concerted strategic effort, searching for that &#8220;just right app&#8221; may feel like a hunt for a needle in a haystack. Even when it is identified &#8220;educational&#8221;, what does that mean? \u00a0Upon closer inspection, many of these are nothing more than repetitive practice at Blooms <em>&#8216;Knowledge<\/em>&#8216; level.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"app_rubric\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/11\/app_rubric-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>What makes an app worthy of students&#8217; time? \u00a0Consider this approach to evaluate apps:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>the value an app can bring to a learner (and being able to articulate the value)<\/li>\n<li>the connection from curricular content to the app (and being able to demonstrate the depth of that connection)<\/li>\n<li>the possibilities the app can bring in order to <strong>amplify<\/strong> the learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>Using a rubric that considers\u00a0<strong>Relevance, Thinking Skills, Sharing and Usability<\/strong>\u00a0provide a roadmap for thoughtful choices. \u00a0 \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2012\/11\/app_evaluation_rubric.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for a rubric to help in your decision making.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Thousands of apps come and go in the iTunes Store. \u00a0Without concerted strategic effort, searching for that &#8220;just right app&#8221; may feel like a hunt for a needle in a haystack. Even when it is identified &#8220;educational&#8221;, what does that mean? \u00a0Upon closer inspection, many of these are nothing more than repetitive practice at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[113,112,92,125,17],"tags":[154,50,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}