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Schools are responsible for students during school hours and are nervous to send them off campus for credit-bearing opportunities that they can’t supervise. Big high schools have so many student schedules to manage that off-campus opportunities can seem like one thing too many. And, even when schools do have some work-based programming, it’s often tied to a program or teacher. For example, career technical education (CTE) teachers may have a small work-based program that’s completely separate from opportunities elsewhere in the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigpicture.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Picture Learning \u003c/a>network have long held internships as a core part of the teaching model, so it made sense for the organization to develop a tool to help educators manage those programs. In the process, they’re trying to make internships more palatable to a broader group of schools. 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The platform allows internship coordinators and teachers to see a snapshot of all student internships in a semester and facilitates logging internship hours and communication with mentors. It's currently being used in more than 50 schools and was recently selected to be part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wise-qatar.org/wise-accelerator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WISE accelerator\u003c/a>, a program for ed-tech startups that have strong potential to have a positive impact and could scale internationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools really want to know where their kids are,” Berg said. “It’s easier to keep them all in the building because then you know where they are. 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That learning then becomes the basis for more traditional academic work in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it should be the right of every student by the time they graduate high school to have had a mentor,” Berg said. “We want to make it possible for this to be the norm in schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Picture has found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/45453/interests-to-internships-when-students-take-the-lead-in-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">internships often help re-engage students\u003c/a> who haven’t traditionally done well in school. Many adolescents have trouble seeing how classroom learning and homework connects to their lives outside of school. Work-based learning can help bridge that gap. Or, like sports for some kids, it could be the reason students are willing to put up with the rest of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to have that effect, students must be given time to explore their passions and investigate internships where they’ll be happy working for a semester or a whole year. ImBlaze tries to streamline the process of finding an internship and embeds some of the best practices Big Picture Learning has discovered through trial and error into the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The platform is really less about the platform,” Berg said, “but it’s existence helps us inform the conversation about what work-based learning should be like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOW IMBLAZE WORKS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ImBlaze is a database of internship opportunities curated and maintained by an internship coordinator at the school. Students can search this database for opportunities and suggest sites that interest them if they aren’t already in the system. Once students finds something they want to pursue, they request it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/225448984\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internship coordinator reviews the request and then approves or denies the student to pursue the internship. This step allows the coordinator, who has a birds-eye view of the program, to make sure students across the school are equitably able to access internships. Once that approval comes through, the student can see contact information for the mentor and can reach out to set up an interview or shadow day. The student only has a certain amount of time to pursue the internship before it becomes available to other students again. That prevents students from hogging internships that they aren’t pursuing in good faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the student and mentor hit it off and intend to formalize the internship, the student requests to start through the app. At that point, the classroom teacher gets an email and has the power to approve or deny the internship. Throughout the semester, students can track their attendance through the app, set goals, and receive feedback from internship mentors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This platform doesn’t make an internship happen,” Berg said. “It’s management of the logistics.” That’s significant because the human elements of this process are important. Students have to initiate the process, show interest in something, follow up on that interest and eventually log their hours and progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these interactions through the app are visible to the internship coordinator, who then has an overall picture of which internships are running smoothly, which mentors need a check-in, and whether or not students are actually going to their internships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes the internship process very deliberative and it makes it very step by step,” said Robert Fung, the internship coordinator at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegounified.org/schools/san-diego-metropolitan-regional-technical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego MET High School\u003c/a>, a Big Picture school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before switching to ImBlaze, Fung said his school tried a variety of methods to manage their internships. At first they had an offline database students had to take turns searching. Then they moved to an in-house Google Fusion Table set-up that allowed students to search online and filter for various interests. Students filled out paper timesheets to track their hours at internship sites and inevitably those weren’t very trustworthy. Students would forget to fill them out daily and end up guessing at their hours when it was time to turn in the logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-1020x574.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-768x432.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-1200x675.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-520x293.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fung said he was drawn to ImBlaze because the user interface was easy for students to use. They have an app on their phone, which makes it easy to check in when they arrive at their internship and check out when they leave. ImBlaze uses GPS data from the student’s phone to confirm they are at their internship site, but students can turn off that feature if they don’t want to be tracked. When students check in, they’re asked to list a few goals for the day. When they check out, their internship mentor gets an email asking them to confirm that they were there. In that email the mentor can see what the student’s goals were for the day and give feedback if they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things we’re concerned about in internships is that often kids go to their internship and then go home,” Berg said. That means if the student had an issue at their internship that day, he or she may never report it. ImBlaze offers many more opportunities for communication between the student and the school as well as the mentor and the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not expect mentors to leave comments very often, but they have left them with good frequency,” Fung said. To him, that’s one unexpected benefit of ImBlaze. Most mentors don’t have a problem writing a quick response when they get the check-out email, so Fung has a much better record and sense of the student’s progression at the internship site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’ve found is they’ll leave comments that are insightful, even if they’re not lengthy,” Fung said. “I think it creates this living regular conversation that gives us good feedback, good data, but also makes us feel more in touch with the mentors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under his old system, Fung often wouldn’t hear about issues at an internship until he visited the site. Now, he’s able to help mediate smaller issues before they become bigger. The enhanced communication also means that Fung knows right away if a student is skipping out on their internship and can talk to them about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first year of implementation, Fung said the main problems he had revolved around teacher buy-in. Many members of his staff were used to the old way of doing internships, and some had developed short cuts, so they chafed against the methodical, step-by-step nature of ImBlaze. The technology intentionally slows the process down to make sure students aren’t hastily assigned to internships they don’t actually want. Fung has also found that teachers had trouble learning how to use the tool and needed some training. Students, on the other hand, didn’t seem to have any problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NETWORKS AS EQUITY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What students know is important, but who students know is also really important for their success in life,” David Berg said. “That’s something that has become much more laser focused in the work itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teacher and administrator, Berg didn’t understand just how much social networks mattered for closing the opportunity gap. Since he’s become more focused on internship offerings in various parts of the country and by different schools, he’s come to see just how unequal those networks can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_52346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-52346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region.png\" alt=\"Internship opportunity distribution between two schools in same region.\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region.png 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region-160x99.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region-240x148.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region-375x232.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region-520x322.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Internship opportunity distribution between two schools in same region. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David Berg/Big Picture Learning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often the internships a school has cultivated don’t match the interests of students. ImBlaze has a “wishlist” feature where students can list internships they’d like to have. Berg noticed that 25 percent of the internships listed in ImBlaze are in the field of education (which makes sense because teachers know other educators), but many students request healthcare-related internships on their wishlists. With that knowledge, the internship coordinator at a school can actively try to cultivate more internship experiences in that field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really concerned around the inequity of social capital,” Berg said. “We’re collecting data around this now. We see how some schools using our platform have more opportunities than other schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Big Picture would like to see ImBlaze used regionally -- schools could share their social networks. Right now, each school has its own network of internship opportunities that no one else can see. Berg would like to move towards a system where ImBlaze is managed by a district or other regional player so that students at one school could see the internship opportunities cultivated by another school. This would help equalize the kinds of internships on offer. One school might have a bunch of internships in the arts or trades while another has more in science and technology fields. If they shared, both sets of students would have access to more types of internship opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tricky because we want schools to own the relationships,” Berg said. “We want there to be a real personal component.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Picture has found that when a school cultivates a relationship with internship mentors, students have better experiences. While they want to open up the opportunities available to students, no matter where they live, they don’t want ImBlaze to become an impersonal job board experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.heretohere.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here To Here\u003c/a>, a Bronx-based non-profit working to connect high schools, community colleges, businesses, and community-based organizations through internships is piloting the type of regional approach Berg envisions. The program works with eight high schools in the South Bronx, all of which have different levels of comfort with internships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to use it as a regional portal; so our eight schools are all in one ImBlaze portal,” said Noel Parish, director of high school partnerships for Here To Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have a naming convention to differentiate the internship opportunities a school’s staff brought in versus ones Here To Here cultivated. When students search the system for an internship, they first look at the opportunities their school has, along with the ones available to everyone through Here To Here. Over time, if another school’s internships aren’t filled, the staff can release them to the broader community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the beginning of the school year folks were very nervous about sharing a portal and having all those things listed transparently in one place,” Parish said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as they got used to the system they could see its value. For example, one school had numerous EMT opportunities that no other school could offer. When a few of those spots became available to the broader Bronx high school community it was a boon to students who wouldn’t otherwise have had access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A side benefit of this regional approach to using ImBlaze is a more fully developed asset map of what’s available to students in each area. To truly offer students work-based opportunities that reflect their interests and give them networks in professional fields where they may not otherwise know anyone personally, educators have to be intentional about the internships on offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really believe that this is something that helps every young person prepare to enter the workforce and go to college,” Parish said. “You can waste a lot of money in college if you don't know what you want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, David Berg hopes the tool they’ve developed will make work-based learning cheaper and easier to manage. He sees national interest in things like career technical education, internships, and other real-world learning opportunities as a positive shift in education and doesn’t want it to lose momentum for lack of a good tool to manage the logistics. Big Picture does charge an on-boarding fee when schools start using ImBlaze and a per student charge year over year. Berg said the organization was working to reduce the per student charges to zero through philanthropic funding, but has not yet reached that goal.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An online database tool to manage student internships could make work-based learning much easier for schools.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1540193886,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://player.vimeo.com/video/225448984"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":2525},"headData":{"title":"Want to Offer Internships At Your School? A Tool To Make It Easier | KQED","description":"An online database tool to manage student internships could make work-based learning much easier for schools.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Want to Offer Internships At Your School? A Tool To Make It Easier","datePublished":"2018-10-22T07:38:06.000Z","dateModified":"2018-10-22T07:38:06.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"52325 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=52325","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2018/10/22/want-to-offer-internships-at-your-school-a-tool-to-make-it-easier/","disqusTitle":"Want to Offer Internships At Your School? A Tool To Make It Easier","path":"/mindshift/52325/want-to-offer-internships-at-your-school-a-tool-to-make-it-easier","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Work-based opportunities are becoming more popular in many high schools as educators and parents look for ways to connect academic learning to real-world work. States like \u003ca href=\"https://education.vermont.gov/student-learning/flexible-pathways/work-based-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vermont\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://nhlearninginitiative.org/our-initial-projects/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Hampshire\u003c/a> already have work-based learning pathways at the state level, and voters in cities like Oakland have approved money to expand “linked learning.” Internships are also emerging as a way to help low-income students develop professional networks like those more affluent students have access to through family connections and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many educators see \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/34377/the-value-of-interships-a-dose-of-the-real-world-in-high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the value in work-based learning opportunities\u003c/a>, but the logistical challenges are daunting. Schools are responsible for students during school hours and are nervous to send them off campus for credit-bearing opportunities that they can’t supervise. Big high schools have so many student schedules to manage that off-campus opportunities can seem like one thing too many. And, even when schools do have some work-based programming, it’s often tied to a program or teacher. For example, career technical education (CTE) teachers may have a small work-based program that’s completely separate from opportunities elsewhere in the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bigpicture.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Picture Learning \u003c/a>network have long held internships as a core part of the teaching model, so it made sense for the organization to develop a tool to help educators manage those programs. In the process, they’re trying to make internships more palatable to a broader group of schools. Their tool is called \u003ca href=\"https://www.imblaze.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ImBlaze\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really trying to put a flag in the hill about what internships are and the importance of real world learning,” said David Berg, the director of technology at Big Picture Learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_52327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1097px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-52327\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/ImBlaze-cycle.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1097\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/ImBlaze-cycle.png 1097w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/ImBlaze-cycle-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/ImBlaze-cycle-800x524.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/ImBlaze-cycle-768x503.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/ImBlaze-cycle-1020x669.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/ImBlaze-cycle-960x629.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/ImBlaze-cycle-240x157.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/ImBlaze-cycle-375x246.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/ImBlaze-cycle-520x341.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1097px) 100vw, 1097px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The process of securing an internship from beginning to end in the ImBlaze system. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.imblaze.org/\">ImBlaze\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At its core, ImBlaze is a networked database of internship opportunities that students can search, favorite and request. The platform allows internship coordinators and teachers to see a snapshot of all student internships in a semester and facilitates logging internship hours and communication with mentors. It's currently being used in more than 50 schools and was recently selected to be part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wise-qatar.org/wise-accelerator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WISE accelerator\u003c/a>, a program for ed-tech startups that have strong potential to have a positive impact and could scale internationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools really want to know where their kids are,” Berg said. “It’s easier to keep them all in the building because then you know where they are. But the technology lets you know where kids are pretty well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Picture schools see work-based learning as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/41562/is-the-public-system-scared-to-put-students-at-the-center-of-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">important part of a young person’s education\u003c/a>. At many schools in the network, students spend two days a week at internships of their choosing where they are mentored by a professional in that field. That learning then becomes the basis for more traditional academic work in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it should be the right of every student by the time they graduate high school to have had a mentor,” Berg said. “We want to make it possible for this to be the norm in schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Picture has found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/45453/interests-to-internships-when-students-take-the-lead-in-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">internships often help re-engage students\u003c/a> who haven’t traditionally done well in school. Many adolescents have trouble seeing how classroom learning and homework connects to their lives outside of school. Work-based learning can help bridge that gap. Or, like sports for some kids, it could be the reason students are willing to put up with the rest of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to have that effect, students must be given time to explore their passions and investigate internships where they’ll be happy working for a semester or a whole year. ImBlaze tries to streamline the process of finding an internship and embeds some of the best practices Big Picture Learning has discovered through trial and error into the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The platform is really less about the platform,” Berg said, “but it’s existence helps us inform the conversation about what work-based learning should be like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOW IMBLAZE WORKS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ImBlaze is a database of internship opportunities curated and maintained by an internship coordinator at the school. Students can search this database for opportunities and suggest sites that interest them if they aren’t already in the system. Once students finds something they want to pursue, they request it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/225448984\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internship coordinator reviews the request and then approves or denies the student to pursue the internship. This step allows the coordinator, who has a birds-eye view of the program, to make sure students across the school are equitably able to access internships. Once that approval comes through, the student can see contact information for the mentor and can reach out to set up an interview or shadow day. The student only has a certain amount of time to pursue the internship before it becomes available to other students again. That prevents students from hogging internships that they aren’t pursuing in good faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the student and mentor hit it off and intend to formalize the internship, the student requests to start through the app. At that point, the classroom teacher gets an email and has the power to approve or deny the internship. Throughout the semester, students can track their attendance through the app, set goals, and receive feedback from internship mentors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This platform doesn’t make an internship happen,” Berg said. “It’s management of the logistics.” That’s significant because the human elements of this process are important. Students have to initiate the process, show interest in something, follow up on that interest and eventually log their hours and progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All these interactions through the app are visible to the internship coordinator, who then has an overall picture of which internships are running smoothly, which mentors need a check-in, and whether or not students are actually going to their internships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes the internship process very deliberative and it makes it very step by step,” said Robert Fung, the internship coordinator at \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegounified.org/schools/san-diego-metropolitan-regional-technical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego MET High School\u003c/a>, a Big Picture school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before switching to ImBlaze, Fung said his school tried a variety of methods to manage their internships. At first they had an offline database students had to take turns searching. Then they moved to an in-house Google Fusion Table set-up that allowed students to search online and filter for various interests. Students filled out paper timesheets to track their hours at internship sites and inevitably those weren’t very trustworthy. Students would forget to fill them out daily and end up guessing at their hours when it was time to turn in the logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52331\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-1020x574.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-1020x574.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-768x432.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-1200x675.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/STEMinternship-520x293.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fung said he was drawn to ImBlaze because the user interface was easy for students to use. They have an app on their phone, which makes it easy to check in when they arrive at their internship and check out when they leave. ImBlaze uses GPS data from the student’s phone to confirm they are at their internship site, but students can turn off that feature if they don’t want to be tracked. When students check in, they’re asked to list a few goals for the day. When they check out, their internship mentor gets an email asking them to confirm that they were there. In that email the mentor can see what the student’s goals were for the day and give feedback if they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things we’re concerned about in internships is that often kids go to their internship and then go home,” Berg said. That means if the student had an issue at their internship that day, he or she may never report it. ImBlaze offers many more opportunities for communication between the student and the school as well as the mentor and the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not expect mentors to leave comments very often, but they have left them with good frequency,” Fung said. To him, that’s one unexpected benefit of ImBlaze. Most mentors don’t have a problem writing a quick response when they get the check-out email, so Fung has a much better record and sense of the student’s progression at the internship site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’ve found is they’ll leave comments that are insightful, even if they’re not lengthy,” Fung said. “I think it creates this living regular conversation that gives us good feedback, good data, but also makes us feel more in touch with the mentors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under his old system, Fung often wouldn’t hear about issues at an internship until he visited the site. Now, he’s able to help mediate smaller issues before they become bigger. The enhanced communication also means that Fung knows right away if a student is skipping out on their internship and can talk to them about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first year of implementation, Fung said the main problems he had revolved around teacher buy-in. Many members of his staff were used to the old way of doing internships, and some had developed short cuts, so they chafed against the methodical, step-by-step nature of ImBlaze. The technology intentionally slows the process down to make sure students aren’t hastily assigned to internships they don’t actually want. Fung has also found that teachers had trouble learning how to use the tool and needed some training. Students, on the other hand, didn’t seem to have any problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NETWORKS AS EQUITY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What students know is important, but who students know is also really important for their success in life,” David Berg said. “That’s something that has become much more laser focused in the work itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a teacher and administrator, Berg didn’t understand just how much social networks mattered for closing the opportunity gap. Since he’s become more focused on internship offerings in various parts of the country and by different schools, he’s come to see just how unequal those networks can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_52346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-52346\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region.png\" alt=\"Internship opportunity distribution between two schools in same region.\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region.png 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region-160x99.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region-240x148.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region-375x232.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2018/10/Internship-Opportunity-Distribution-Between-Two-Schools-in-Same-Region-520x322.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Internship opportunity distribution between two schools in same region. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David Berg/Big Picture Learning)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often the internships a school has cultivated don’t match the interests of students. ImBlaze has a “wishlist” feature where students can list internships they’d like to have. Berg noticed that 25 percent of the internships listed in ImBlaze are in the field of education (which makes sense because teachers know other educators), but many students request healthcare-related internships on their wishlists. With that knowledge, the internship coordinator at a school can actively try to cultivate more internship experiences in that field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really concerned around the inequity of social capital,” Berg said. “We’re collecting data around this now. We see how some schools using our platform have more opportunities than other schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Big Picture would like to see ImBlaze used regionally -- schools could share their social networks. Right now, each school has its own network of internship opportunities that no one else can see. Berg would like to move towards a system where ImBlaze is managed by a district or other regional player so that students at one school could see the internship opportunities cultivated by another school. This would help equalize the kinds of internships on offer. One school might have a bunch of internships in the arts or trades while another has more in science and technology fields. If they shared, both sets of students would have access to more types of internship opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tricky because we want schools to own the relationships,” Berg said. “We want there to be a real personal component.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Picture has found that when a school cultivates a relationship with internship mentors, students have better experiences. While they want to open up the opportunities available to students, no matter where they live, they don’t want ImBlaze to become an impersonal job board experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.heretohere.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here To Here\u003c/a>, a Bronx-based non-profit working to connect high schools, community colleges, businesses, and community-based organizations through internships is piloting the type of regional approach Berg envisions. The program works with eight high schools in the South Bronx, all of which have different levels of comfort with internships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to use it as a regional portal; so our eight schools are all in one ImBlaze portal,” said Noel Parish, director of high school partnerships for Here To Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have a naming convention to differentiate the internship opportunities a school’s staff brought in versus ones Here To Here cultivated. When students search the system for an internship, they first look at the opportunities their school has, along with the ones available to everyone through Here To Here. Over time, if another school’s internships aren’t filled, the staff can release them to the broader community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the beginning of the school year folks were very nervous about sharing a portal and having all those things listed transparently in one place,” Parish said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as they got used to the system they could see its value. For example, one school had numerous EMT opportunities that no other school could offer. When a few of those spots became available to the broader Bronx high school community it was a boon to students who wouldn’t otherwise have had access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A side benefit of this regional approach to using ImBlaze is a more fully developed asset map of what’s available to students in each area. To truly offer students work-based opportunities that reflect their interests and give them networks in professional fields where they may not otherwise know anyone personally, educators have to be intentional about the internships on offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really believe that this is something that helps every young person prepare to enter the workforce and go to college,” Parish said. “You can waste a lot of money in college if you don't know what you want to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, David Berg hopes the tool they’ve developed will make work-based learning cheaper and easier to manage. He sees national interest in things like career technical education, internships, and other real-world learning opportunities as a positive shift in education and doesn’t want it to lose momentum for lack of a good tool to manage the logistics. Big Picture does charge an on-boarding fee when schools start using ImBlaze and a per student charge year over year. Berg said the organization was working to reduce the per student charges to zero through philanthropic funding, but has not yet reached that goal.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/52325/want-to-offer-internships-at-your-school-a-tool-to-make-it-easier","authors":["234"],"categories":["mindshift_195"],"tags":["mindshift_20891","mindshift_20678","mindshift_20583","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_20848","mindshift_20700"],"featImg":"mindshift_52329","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_49609":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_49609","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"49609","score":null,"sort":[1509738014000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"4-tools-to-help-kids-develop-empathy-and-cultural-humility","title":"4 Tools to Help Kids Develop Empathy and Cultural Humility","publishDate":1509738014,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Humility is not necessarily about modesty or pretending to be less than you are. In fact, people who are humble often have a high sense of self-worth; it's just that they can recognize their own strengths and limitations. Research about humility also suggests a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439760.2012.671348\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">strong connection between being humble and being generous\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For kids growing up in a media-driven world that often rewards narcissism, humility has become a way to stand up and stand out, like this valedictorian student who used a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/15/valedictorian-anonymous-instagram_n_7571462.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">secret Instagram profile\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to sing the praises of his peers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there’s a specific aspect of humility that’s especially relevant today: cultural humility. This is when we recognize that we have biases and limitations to our knowledge regarding another’s culture. Whether they are seeking to relate to someone of a different race, age, or gender, kids who can better keep themselves in perspective and practice cultural humility are more likely to value the contributions of others to their lives -- a necessity when fostering truly collaborative, forward-thinking societies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out these picks to help kids reflect on their own views and work toward the welfare of others. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/global-oneness-project\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-160x160.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-240x240.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-375x375.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/global-oneness-project\">Global Oneness Project\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This site showcases multicultural life stories through short videos and photo essays. Kids can view a film about the effects of climate change on a local community or explore an article uncovering a culture on the edge of extinction. Once kids have had a chance to observe experiences outside their everyday reality, challenge them to go out into their own neighborhood, find an unexpected or inspiring story, and create a video that captures their own community in a new light.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/gapminder\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-160x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-150x150.png 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/gapminder\">Gapminder\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With Gapminder, kids can analyze data from interactive, animated charts to compare regions of our planet based on topics like health, fertility, literacy, debt, and more. Have kids try out Dollar Street, a feature that contains photos and information for 264 families across 50 countries -- all sorted by income. Kids can compare their own families to ones across the world who live at the same income level. They’ll get to reflect on everyday life and how it looks similar and different, as well as acknowledge any stereotypes they may have.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/big-history-project\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49612\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-160x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-150x150.png 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/big-history-project\">Big History Project\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This fascinating site looks at science, history, and the meaning of life from a broad lens and ultimately asks questions such as, \"Why are we here?\" The goal is to step back and look at Earth’s pivotal moments and people from a wider perspective so that the smallest details begin to make more sense. Kids and adults alike will appreciate the opportunity to look beyond themselves, and through discussion with each other, can begin to make predictions about the next transformative event in Earth’s future.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/parable-of-the-polygons\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49613\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-160x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-160x157.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-240x235.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/parable-of-the-polygons\">Parable of the Polygons\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through an interactive simulation, Parable of the Polygons stimulates thought around the connection between people’s biases and segregation. Kids drag and drop shapes that represent different racial groups to show how individual choices about where to live can drive others away from diverse neighborhoods. After analyzing the scenarios, the site asks us to challenge our own biases through our actions moving forward. Kids can also reach out and donate to diversity causes like Black Girls Code.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article’s content is an extension of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/we-all-teach-sel-inspiring-activities-for-every-classroom\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We All Teach SEL\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> blog series from Common Sense Education. Check it out for a complete look at social and emotional learning in the classroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Common Sense Education has reviews on four tools that can help students gain perspective on people and cultures different from themselves to help cultivate a sense of humility. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1509738014,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":588},"headData":{"title":"4 Tools to Help Kids Develop Empathy and Cultural Humility | KQED","description":"Common Sense Education has reviews on four tools that can help students gain perspective on people and cultures different from themselves to help cultivate a sense of humility. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"4 Tools to Help Kids Develop Empathy and Cultural Humility","datePublished":"2017-11-03T19:40:14.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-03T19:40:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"49609 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=49609","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/11/03/4-tools-to-help-kids-develop-empathy-and-cultural-humility/","disqusTitle":"4 Tools to Help Kids Develop Empathy and Cultural Humility","nprByline":"\u003ca href “https://www.commonsense.org/education/users/danny-wagner>Danny Wagner, Common Sense Education\u003c/a>","path":"/mindshift/49609/4-tools-to-help-kids-develop-empathy-and-cultural-humility","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Humility is not necessarily about modesty or pretending to be less than you are. In fact, people who are humble often have a high sense of self-worth; it's just that they can recognize their own strengths and limitations. Research about humility also suggests a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439760.2012.671348\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">strong connection between being humble and being generous\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For kids growing up in a media-driven world that often rewards narcissism, humility has become a way to stand up and stand out, like this valedictorian student who used a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/15/valedictorian-anonymous-instagram_n_7571462.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">secret Instagram profile\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to sing the praises of his peers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there’s a specific aspect of humility that’s especially relevant today: cultural humility. This is when we recognize that we have biases and limitations to our knowledge regarding another’s culture. Whether they are seeking to relate to someone of a different race, age, or gender, kids who can better keep themselves in perspective and practice cultural humility are more likely to value the contributions of others to their lives -- a necessity when fostering truly collaborative, forward-thinking societies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out these picks to help kids reflect on their own views and work toward the welfare of others. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/global-oneness-project\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-160x160.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-240x240.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-375x375.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/global-oneness-project\">Global Oneness Project\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This site showcases multicultural life stories through short videos and photo essays. Kids can view a film about the effects of climate change on a local community or explore an article uncovering a culture on the edge of extinction. Once kids have had a chance to observe experiences outside their everyday reality, challenge them to go out into their own neighborhood, find an unexpected or inspiring story, and create a video that captures their own community in a new light.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/gapminder\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-160x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-150x150.png 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/gapminder\">Gapminder\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With Gapminder, kids can analyze data from interactive, animated charts to compare regions of our planet based on topics like health, fertility, literacy, debt, and more. Have kids try out Dollar Street, a feature that contains photos and information for 264 families across 50 countries -- all sorted by income. Kids can compare their own families to ones across the world who live at the same income level. They’ll get to reflect on everyday life and how it looks similar and different, as well as acknowledge any stereotypes they may have.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/big-history-project\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49612\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-160x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory-150x150.png 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/bighistory.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/big-history-project\">Big History Project\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This fascinating site looks at science, history, and the meaning of life from a broad lens and ultimately asks questions such as, \"Why are we here?\" The goal is to step back and look at Earth’s pivotal moments and people from a wider perspective so that the smallest details begin to make more sense. Kids and adults alike will appreciate the opportunity to look beyond themselves, and through discussion with each other, can begin to make predictions about the next transformative event in Earth’s future.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/parable-of-the-polygons\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49613\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-160x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-160x157.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-240x235.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/parableicon.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/parable-of-the-polygons\">Parable of the Polygons\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through an interactive simulation, Parable of the Polygons stimulates thought around the connection between people’s biases and segregation. Kids drag and drop shapes that represent different racial groups to show how individual choices about where to live can drive others away from diverse neighborhoods. After analyzing the scenarios, the site asks us to challenge our own biases through our actions moving forward. Kids can also reach out and donate to diversity causes like Black Girls Code.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article’s content is an extension of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/we-all-teach-sel-inspiring-activities-for-every-classroom\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We All Teach SEL\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> blog series from Common Sense Education. Check it out for a complete look at social and emotional learning in the classroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/49609/4-tools-to-help-kids-develop-empathy-and-cultural-humility","authors":["byline_mindshift_49609"],"categories":["mindshift_195"],"tags":["mindshift_20912","mindshift_20525","mindshift_962","mindshift_20583","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_943"],"featImg":"mindshift_49620","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_49063":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_49063","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"49063","score":null,"sort":[1504283102000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"4-digital-tools-to-help-students-increase-appreciation-and-self-worth-in-any-classroom","title":"4 Digital Tools to Help Students Increase Appreciation and Self-Worth in Any Classroom","publishDate":1504283102,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As teachers, we sometimes forget that little, everyday actions in the classroom have a huge impact on our students' lives. Just a small offering of appreciation can transform relationships and boost student self-worth. Simple tokens of gratitude, such as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.clickorlando.com/education/students-protest-osceola-county-teachers-firing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">students voicing their appreciation for a fired teacher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, can shift the climate of entire schools and strengthen the bonds among teachers, kids, and the community. But it’s not just about recognition -- it's also about supporting and inspiring others. Studies have shown that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.umkc.edu/facultyombuds/documents/grant_gino_jpsp_2010.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when someone gets appreciated, they feel more socially valued, and this can lead to prosocial behavior\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In other words, when someone receives thanks, they are more likely to pay it forward. The more teachers express and practice gratitude, the more inclined students will be to do the same, leading to a more supportive and equitable world.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out these picks to help students develop a greater sense of self-worth and inspire a positive classroom culture. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/this-i-believe\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/this-i-believe\">\u003cb>This I Believe\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This inspirational site focuses on the writing, sharing, and discussing of people's core beliefs through short essays. Students can practice listening to or reading essays about what others have to say. After spending some time in the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://thisibelieve.org/theme/gratitude/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gratitude\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> section, students can then compose and publish their own self-reflective essay on the site. Guide students towards understanding that success often depends on not letting others force you to break your own core beliefs and values.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/diy\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/diy\">\u003cb>DIY\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DIY site gets kids \"making.\" Whether they're \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://diy.org/skills/beekeeper\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">harvesting honey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://diy.org/skills/circuitbender\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">building a circuit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://diy.org/skills/filmmaker\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">creating their own film\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, kids complete challenges in various skill areas by posting their creations online and getting helpful feedback. Have students practice expressing thanks for any comments they receive, and further reciprocate kindness by commenting on others’ creations. Letting others know you’re grateful and demonstrating openness to receiving feedback can be integral factors in developing self-worth.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/mindprint-learning\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0.jpg 458w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/mindprint-learning\">\u003cb>Mindprint Learning\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students take online assessments to measure their strengths and challenges -- like processing speed or verbal reasoning. Teachers can use Mindprint's \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress_uploads/site/uploads/2014/04/SharingMindprintwithaChild-1.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">advice\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to discuss the results with each student, helping them appreciate the assets they’ve been given.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> With this assessment, kids can learn to self-advocate for their own success by making a plan to build on their strengths, while also addressing any weaknesses. Hopefully students will believe in themselves a little more, and be more willing to pick up new skills.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/seesaw-the-learning-journal\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/seesaw-the-learning-journal\">\u003cb>Seesaw: The Learning Journal\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seesaw's digital portfolio allows students to submit a variety of work, such as videos, pictures, or drawings. They then can reflect on their learning through a voice recording. Have students practice describing their work to parents and teachers. Teachers can help students take pride in their achievements, and work with parents to send encouraging notes back to students. Through the tool, educators are able to facilitate communication that is supportive and builds student confidence.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article’s content is an extension of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/we-all-teach-sel-inspiring-activities-for-every-classroom\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We All Teach SEL\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> blog series from Common Sense Education. Check it out for a complete look at social and emotional learning in the classroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The ability to appreciate others can spread positive experiences to oneself and others. Common Sense Education reviewed four apps that can help students and teachers develop and express gratitude. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1504283102,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":523},"headData":{"title":"4 Digital Tools to Help Students Increase Appreciation and Self-Worth in Any Classroom | KQED","description":"The ability to appreciate others can spread positive experiences to oneself and others. Common Sense Education reviewed four apps that can help students and teachers develop and express gratitude. 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Just a small offering of appreciation can transform relationships and boost student self-worth. Simple tokens of gratitude, such as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.clickorlando.com/education/students-protest-osceola-county-teachers-firing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">students voicing their appreciation for a fired teacher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, can shift the climate of entire schools and strengthen the bonds among teachers, kids, and the community. But it’s not just about recognition -- it's also about supporting and inspiring others. Studies have shown that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.umkc.edu/facultyombuds/documents/grant_gino_jpsp_2010.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when someone gets appreciated, they feel more socially valued, and this can lead to prosocial behavior\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In other words, when someone receives thanks, they are more likely to pay it forward. The more teachers express and practice gratitude, the more inclined students will be to do the same, leading to a more supportive and equitable world.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out these picks to help students develop a greater sense of self-worth and inspire a positive classroom culture. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/this-i-believe\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/this-i-believe\">\u003cb>This I Believe\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This inspirational site focuses on the writing, sharing, and discussing of people's core beliefs through short essays. Students can practice listening to or reading essays about what others have to say. After spending some time in the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://thisibelieve.org/theme/gratitude/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gratitude\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> section, students can then compose and publish their own self-reflective essay on the site. Guide students towards understanding that success often depends on not letting others force you to break your own core beliefs and values.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/diy\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/diy-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/diy\">\u003cb>DIY\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DIY site gets kids \"making.\" Whether they're \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://diy.org/skills/beekeeper\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">harvesting honey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://diy.org/skills/circuitbender\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">building a circuit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://diy.org/skills/filmmaker\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">creating their own film\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, kids complete challenges in various skill areas by posting their creations online and getting helpful feedback. Have students practice expressing thanks for any comments they receive, and further reciprocate kindness by commenting on others’ creations. Letting others know you’re grateful and demonstrating openness to receiving feedback can be integral factors in developing self-worth.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/mindprint-learning\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0.jpg 458w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/mindprint_0-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/mindprint-learning\">\u003cb>Mindprint Learning\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students take online assessments to measure their strengths and challenges -- like processing speed or verbal reasoning. Teachers can use Mindprint's \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress_uploads/site/uploads/2014/04/SharingMindprintwithaChild-1.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">advice\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to discuss the results with each student, helping them appreciate the assets they’ve been given.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> With this assessment, kids can learn to self-advocate for their own success by making a plan to build on their strengths, while also addressing any weaknesses. Hopefully students will believe in themselves a little more, and be more willing to pick up new skills.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/seesaw-the-learning-journal\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/Seesaw-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/seesaw-the-learning-journal\">\u003cb>Seesaw: The Learning Journal\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seesaw's digital portfolio allows students to submit a variety of work, such as videos, pictures, or drawings. They then can reflect on their learning through a voice recording. Have students practice describing their work to parents and teachers. Teachers can help students take pride in their achievements, and work with parents to send encouraging notes back to students. Through the tool, educators are able to facilitate communication that is supportive and builds student confidence.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article’s content is an extension of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/we-all-teach-sel-inspiring-activities-for-every-classroom\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We All Teach SEL\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> blog series from Common Sense Education. Check it out for a complete look at social and emotional learning in the classroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/49063/4-digital-tools-to-help-students-increase-appreciation-and-self-worth-in-any-classroom","authors":["byline_mindshift_49063"],"categories":["mindshift_194","mindshift_195"],"tags":["mindshift_20912","mindshift_20583","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21133","mindshift_21134","mindshift_943"],"featImg":"mindshift_49159","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_48902":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_48902","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"48902","score":null,"sort":[1502953427000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"digital-note-taking-strategies-that-deepen-student-thinking","title":"Digital Note Taking Strategies That Deepen Student Thinking","publishDate":1502953427,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Beth Holland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As digital devices become more common in classrooms, teachers and students are discovering that what worked in the analog world may not be as effective in the digital one. Nowhere is this more clear than with note taking, a long-standing and important practice in most classrooms. For this reason, few empirical studies may be more detrimental to encouraging the use of technology in education than Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) \u003ca href=\"http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581?journalCode=pssa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard\"\u003c/a> as well as Carter, Greenberg and Walker’s (2016) \u003ca href=\"https://aefpweb.org/sites/default/files/webform/41/CarterGreenbergWalker_AEFP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Effect of Computer Usage on Academic Performance.\" \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both studies claim that students in lecture-style courses perform worse on assessments \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/08/18/taking-notes-is-the-pen-still-mightier-than-the-keyboard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">when allowed to use devices for note taking\u003c/a>. When note taking serves as the primary use of technology in the classroom, these studies become a harbinger for technology opposition. University professors have used these data as a rallying cry to ban laptops in their classes, and K-12 teachers have cited these studies in arguments against 1:1 programs in schools. However, none of these studies question the teaching methods used in the classes themselves or whether teachers are recognizing the power of digital devices for students to create, share, connect and discover information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers behind these studies acknowledge that the act of note taking can be beneficial to student learning when used to summarize, synthesize, or draw conclusions; they also argue that it is not helpful when used to capture content verbatim -- a practice that often happens when typing on a laptop. While both of these studies make wide generalizations about the detrimental impact of technology on education, neither offers any recommendations, such as those presented below, to help students take advantage of all the ways their devices could actually improve their ability to organize, make connections and synthesize information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Digital Organization and Content Curation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organization is a critical academic skill and one that many students struggle with in both the physical and digital worlds. Parents and teachers already help students get organized and now need to extend that to the digital world. Given the influx of technology in their academic lives, students need to develop an effective organizational system for their digital notes, projects and thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much like students understand the concept of binders, notebooks and notes in the physical world, they need a similar system in the digital one. Whether working with dividers and subjects in a tool like \u003ca href=\"http://gingerlabs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notability\u003c/a> or sections and pages in \u003ca href=\"https://www.onenote.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OneNote\u003c/a>, students need to build vocabulary to support how they house their learning. All note taking tools search typed content, and many also search handwriting, so students can not only find information quickly, but they can also focus on making connections to previous ideas instead of wondering where they put their notes. These familiar paradigms allow students to digitize existing organizational processes, but then add powerful capabilities such as searching and tagging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through thoughtful tagging, students can easily search across their notes, regardless of where they might be digitally organized. Traditionally, students and teachers may think of tags like keywords. Students in a history course might tag content by event (e.g. Civil War or Treaty of Versailles). And yet, content could also be tagged with study strategies, overarching themes or essential questions debated in class. When teachers build this type of critical thinking into note taking instruction, they can help students to engage more deeply with their notes. Tagging this way not only helps students stay organized, but it could also help them to examine trends across courses or even semesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a doctoral student, I use OneNote. First, I create a new digital notebook each year. Inside that, I add sections for each term as well as my different courses. Finally, my notes get organized into individual pages within the sections. When I can recall the precise location where I put a particular set of notes, I navigate directly to that page. However, on the numerous occasions when an author, vocabulary term or concept seems familiar but I cannot recall the precise moment when I took notes, then the search function becomes critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I can search across sections and notebooks to quickly access content, I have more time and mental capacity to connect seemingly disparate pieces of content and engage in a deeper synthesis of ideas. This is exactly the type of thinking that Mueller and Oppenheimer advocated for in their paper, \"The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard.\" However, they argued that this was the main benefit of taking notes by hand instead of recognizing it as a strategy regardless of device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nMultimodal Notes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways digital notes differ dramatically from paper notes lies in the ability to capture information in multiple forms. With most tools (Notability, OneNote, Evernote, etc.), students can not only capture typed and handwritten notes but also incorporate photos, audio and even video. These versatile capabilities allow students to customize their note taking process to meet their learning needs. Consider these possibilities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Students may take notes on paper, add photos of those papers into a digital notebook, synthesize their thinking with audio or written notes, and then tag their digital notes for later retrieval.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Students might use audio syncing -- a feature that records audio and then digitally syncs it with whatever the student writes or types -- to capture the context of the class discussion or lecture. When reviewing their notes, students could click or tap on their notes and then jump directly to that point in the audio recording.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Teachers might provide students with their presentation slides or other note taking guides as PDF files. Now, students can focus on taking notes — using any modality — for synthesis, elaboration, reflection or analysis rather than in an attempt to capture content verbatim.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In 1949, neuropsychologist \u003ca href=\"http://can-acn.org/donald-olding-hebb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Hebb\u003c/a> famously wrote, “Neurons that fire together wire together.” When scaffolded for students, digital note taking has the power to transcend the traditional definition of what has been typically considered “notes.” By encouraging students to focus their note taking on building deeper connections instead of just capturing content verbatim, then they create a more integrated neural network around the ideas. With the right support from teachers, digital note taking can be so much more than just capturing a lesson. It can encourage students to actively engage in the note taking process and also reflect on their own development as learners. They might even tag their notes as such!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Concept Mapping\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johns Hopkins professor \u003ca href=\"http://scienceoflearning.jhu.edu/about-us/our-experts/dr-mariale-hardiman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mariale Hardiman\u003c/a>, concept mapping helps students to build deeper connections, more easily recognize links between content elements, and increase their conceptual understanding of the topic. She compares providing a concept map to students with using the picture on the box of a jigsaw puzzle -- it’s the “big picture” for how seemingly disconnected pieces of information fit together. Teachers can offer concept maps at the beginning of a unit as a way to frame the learning, but students can also make their own concept maps to visualize connections across content areas through \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/15/making-learning-visible-doodling-helps-memories-stick/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diagrams or sketch notes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the powerful components of digital note taking is that the pages never end, and a full page isn’t an artificial barrier to limit thinking. Students can work on an infinitely expanding canvas to include as much information as they need. For example, concept mapping tools such as \u003ca href=\"https://coggle.it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coggle\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://padlet.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Padlet\u003c/a> allow students to create networks of ideas using text, links, images and even video without ever running out of room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ever-expanding canvas removes all physical constraints on students’ thinking and connecting ideas. To illustrate this concept, \u003ca href=\"http://www.askmsq.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sabba Quidwai\u003c/a>, former director of innovative learning for the physician assistant program at USC's medical school and now K-12 development executive at Apple, shared the image below from an anatomy student. The student constructed a concept map in Notability using sketches, screen shots and handwriting to illustrate key points about the circulatory system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_48903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-48903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A medical student's digital concept map for anatomy class. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sabba Quidwai )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visible Thinking Routines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, students of all ages struggle to make connections to the content as they read and write, regardless of the note taking medium. Whether asking an elementary school student to pick out the main idea in a passage or a high school student to synthesize across multiple sources, all students need scaffolding for their thinking and reflection. \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visible Thinking routines\u003c/a>, sets of questions designed by researchers at Harvard’s Project Zero, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/03/31/when-kids-have-structure-for-thinking-better-learning-emerges/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">encourage thinking\u003c/a> and support student inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the potential of using \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03c_Core_routines/SeeThinkWonder/SeeThinkWonder_Routine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See-Think-Wonder\u003c/a>, one of those routines, to focus notes about a reading or a presentation. Instead of directing students to “take notes,” teachers could suggest that they create three columns on a page, or nodes on a concept map, and then take note of what they see, what they think, and what they wonder. Not only does this guide their note taking but it also encourages them to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/12/08/how-dissecting-a-pencil-can-ignite-curiosity-and-wonderment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ask questions about the content\u003c/a> as they record it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, students might use another routine, \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03d_UnderstandingRoutines/ConnectExtendChallenge/ConnectExtend_Routine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connect-Extend-Challenge\u003c/a>, to summarize notes at the end of the day and reflect on their learning. This thinking routine asks students to connect new content to prior knowledge, acknowledge what has extended or pushed their thinking in a new direction, and then address what they still find challenging or confusing. Whether completed on paper and then added to a digital notebook as a photo, or constructed completely digitally, visible thinking routines provide concrete strategies to help students engage with the information they are capturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often, educators project their own note taking habits onto their students, applying paper-based strategies to digital tools. With that mindset, it becomes far too easy for short-sighted studies to confirm previously held biases against technology. However, as students progress in an increasingly digital and connected world, one challenge for educators will be to view digital note taking as a unique, necessary and completely different skill set to be taught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If teachers recognize the power of digital tools, and their responsibility to help students learn to use them, then digital note taking isn’t just “one more thing to do.” Instead, it becomes an important skill that could help students to engage with ideas, synthesize concepts and build the critical thinking skills that they will need to be successful learners in the future.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Debates over note taking tend to focus on whether devices are helpful or harmful, rather than on strategies students can use to make connections between ideas regardless of the format.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1502953427,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1748},"headData":{"title":"Digital Note Taking Strategies That Deepen Student Thinking | KQED","description":"Debates over note taking tend to focus on whether devices are helpful or harmful, rather than on strategies students can use to make connections between ideas regardless of the format.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Digital Note Taking Strategies That Deepen Student Thinking","datePublished":"2017-08-17T07:03:47.000Z","dateModified":"2017-08-17T07:03:47.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"48902 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=48902","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/08/17/digital-note-taking-strategies-that-deepen-student-thinking/","disqusTitle":"Digital Note Taking Strategies That Deepen Student Thinking","path":"/mindshift/48902/digital-note-taking-strategies-that-deepen-student-thinking","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Beth Holland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As digital devices become more common in classrooms, teachers and students are discovering that what worked in the analog world may not be as effective in the digital one. Nowhere is this more clear than with note taking, a long-standing and important practice in most classrooms. For this reason, few empirical studies may be more detrimental to encouraging the use of technology in education than Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) \u003ca href=\"http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581?journalCode=pssa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard\"\u003c/a> as well as Carter, Greenberg and Walker’s (2016) \u003ca href=\"https://aefpweb.org/sites/default/files/webform/41/CarterGreenbergWalker_AEFP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Effect of Computer Usage on Academic Performance.\" \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both studies claim that students in lecture-style courses perform worse on assessments \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/08/18/taking-notes-is-the-pen-still-mightier-than-the-keyboard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">when allowed to use devices for note taking\u003c/a>. When note taking serves as the primary use of technology in the classroom, these studies become a harbinger for technology opposition. University professors have used these data as a rallying cry to ban laptops in their classes, and K-12 teachers have cited these studies in arguments against 1:1 programs in schools. However, none of these studies question the teaching methods used in the classes themselves or whether teachers are recognizing the power of digital devices for students to create, share, connect and discover information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers behind these studies acknowledge that the act of note taking can be beneficial to student learning when used to summarize, synthesize, or draw conclusions; they also argue that it is not helpful when used to capture content verbatim -- a practice that often happens when typing on a laptop. While both of these studies make wide generalizations about the detrimental impact of technology on education, neither offers any recommendations, such as those presented below, to help students take advantage of all the ways their devices could actually improve their ability to organize, make connections and synthesize information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Digital Organization and Content Curation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organization is a critical academic skill and one that many students struggle with in both the physical and digital worlds. Parents and teachers already help students get organized and now need to extend that to the digital world. Given the influx of technology in their academic lives, students need to develop an effective organizational system for their digital notes, projects and thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much like students understand the concept of binders, notebooks and notes in the physical world, they need a similar system in the digital one. Whether working with dividers and subjects in a tool like \u003ca href=\"http://gingerlabs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notability\u003c/a> or sections and pages in \u003ca href=\"https://www.onenote.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OneNote\u003c/a>, students need to build vocabulary to support how they house their learning. All note taking tools search typed content, and many also search handwriting, so students can not only find information quickly, but they can also focus on making connections to previous ideas instead of wondering where they put their notes. These familiar paradigms allow students to digitize existing organizational processes, but then add powerful capabilities such as searching and tagging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through thoughtful tagging, students can easily search across their notes, regardless of where they might be digitally organized. Traditionally, students and teachers may think of tags like keywords. Students in a history course might tag content by event (e.g. Civil War or Treaty of Versailles). And yet, content could also be tagged with study strategies, overarching themes or essential questions debated in class. When teachers build this type of critical thinking into note taking instruction, they can help students to engage more deeply with their notes. Tagging this way not only helps students stay organized, but it could also help them to examine trends across courses or even semesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a doctoral student, I use OneNote. First, I create a new digital notebook each year. Inside that, I add sections for each term as well as my different courses. Finally, my notes get organized into individual pages within the sections. When I can recall the precise location where I put a particular set of notes, I navigate directly to that page. However, on the numerous occasions when an author, vocabulary term or concept seems familiar but I cannot recall the precise moment when I took notes, then the search function becomes critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I can search across sections and notebooks to quickly access content, I have more time and mental capacity to connect seemingly disparate pieces of content and engage in a deeper synthesis of ideas. This is exactly the type of thinking that Mueller and Oppenheimer advocated for in their paper, \"The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard.\" However, they argued that this was the main benefit of taking notes by hand instead of recognizing it as a strategy regardless of device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nMultimodal Notes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways digital notes differ dramatically from paper notes lies in the ability to capture information in multiple forms. With most tools (Notability, OneNote, Evernote, etc.), students can not only capture typed and handwritten notes but also incorporate photos, audio and even video. These versatile capabilities allow students to customize their note taking process to meet their learning needs. Consider these possibilities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Students may take notes on paper, add photos of those papers into a digital notebook, synthesize their thinking with audio or written notes, and then tag their digital notes for later retrieval.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Students might use audio syncing -- a feature that records audio and then digitally syncs it with whatever the student writes or types -- to capture the context of the class discussion or lecture. When reviewing their notes, students could click or tap on their notes and then jump directly to that point in the audio recording.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Teachers might provide students with their presentation slides or other note taking guides as PDF files. Now, students can focus on taking notes — using any modality — for synthesis, elaboration, reflection or analysis rather than in an attempt to capture content verbatim.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In 1949, neuropsychologist \u003ca href=\"http://can-acn.org/donald-olding-hebb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Hebb\u003c/a> famously wrote, “Neurons that fire together wire together.” When scaffolded for students, digital note taking has the power to transcend the traditional definition of what has been typically considered “notes.” By encouraging students to focus their note taking on building deeper connections instead of just capturing content verbatim, then they create a more integrated neural network around the ideas. With the right support from teachers, digital note taking can be so much more than just capturing a lesson. It can encourage students to actively engage in the note taking process and also reflect on their own development as learners. They might even tag their notes as such!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Concept Mapping\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johns Hopkins professor \u003ca href=\"http://scienceoflearning.jhu.edu/about-us/our-experts/dr-mariale-hardiman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mariale Hardiman\u003c/a>, concept mapping helps students to build deeper connections, more easily recognize links between content elements, and increase their conceptual understanding of the topic. She compares providing a concept map to students with using the picture on the box of a jigsaw puzzle -- it’s the “big picture” for how seemingly disconnected pieces of information fit together. Teachers can offer concept maps at the beginning of a unit as a way to frame the learning, but students can also make their own concept maps to visualize connections across content areas through \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/15/making-learning-visible-doodling-helps-memories-stick/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diagrams or sketch notes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the powerful components of digital note taking is that the pages never end, and a full page isn’t an artificial barrier to limit thinking. Students can work on an infinitely expanding canvas to include as much information as they need. For example, concept mapping tools such as \u003ca href=\"https://coggle.it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coggle\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://padlet.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Padlet\u003c/a> allow students to create networks of ideas using text, links, images and even video without ever running out of room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ever-expanding canvas removes all physical constraints on students’ thinking and connecting ideas. To illustrate this concept, \u003ca href=\"http://www.askmsq.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sabba Quidwai\u003c/a>, former director of innovative learning for the physician assistant program at USC's medical school and now K-12 development executive at Apple, shared the image below from an anatomy student. The student constructed a concept map in Notability using sketches, screen shots and handwriting to illustrate key points about the circulatory system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_48903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-48903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A medical student's digital concept map for anatomy class. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sabba Quidwai )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visible Thinking Routines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, students of all ages struggle to make connections to the content as they read and write, regardless of the note taking medium. Whether asking an elementary school student to pick out the main idea in a passage or a high school student to synthesize across multiple sources, all students need scaffolding for their thinking and reflection. \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visible Thinking routines\u003c/a>, sets of questions designed by researchers at Harvard’s Project Zero, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/03/31/when-kids-have-structure-for-thinking-better-learning-emerges/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">encourage thinking\u003c/a> and support student inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the potential of using \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03c_Core_routines/SeeThinkWonder/SeeThinkWonder_Routine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See-Think-Wonder\u003c/a>, one of those routines, to focus notes about a reading or a presentation. Instead of directing students to “take notes,” teachers could suggest that they create three columns on a page, or nodes on a concept map, and then take note of what they see, what they think, and what they wonder. Not only does this guide their note taking but it also encourages them to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/12/08/how-dissecting-a-pencil-can-ignite-curiosity-and-wonderment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ask questions about the content\u003c/a> as they record it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, students might use another routine, \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03d_UnderstandingRoutines/ConnectExtendChallenge/ConnectExtend_Routine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connect-Extend-Challenge\u003c/a>, to summarize notes at the end of the day and reflect on their learning. This thinking routine asks students to connect new content to prior knowledge, acknowledge what has extended or pushed their thinking in a new direction, and then address what they still find challenging or confusing. Whether completed on paper and then added to a digital notebook as a photo, or constructed completely digitally, visible thinking routines provide concrete strategies to help students engage with the information they are capturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often, educators project their own note taking habits onto their students, applying paper-based strategies to digital tools. With that mindset, it becomes far too easy for short-sighted studies to confirm previously held biases against technology. However, as students progress in an increasingly digital and connected world, one challenge for educators will be to view digital note taking as a unique, necessary and completely different skill set to be taught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If teachers recognize the power of digital tools, and their responsibility to help students learn to use them, then digital note taking isn’t just “one more thing to do.” Instead, it becomes an important skill that could help students to engage with ideas, synthesize concepts and build the critical thinking skills that they will need to be successful learners in the future.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/48902/digital-note-taking-strategies-that-deepen-student-thinking","authors":["4354"],"categories":["mindshift_195","mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_20678","mindshift_20583","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_21123","mindshift_381","mindshift_125"],"featImg":"mindshift_48915","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_46044":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_46044","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"46044","score":null,"sort":[1470726592000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"four-stem-tools-to-get-kids-learning-and-exploring-outdoors","title":"Four STEM Tools to Get Kids Learning and Exploring Outdoors","publishDate":1470726592,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Getting out of the classroom can benefit everyone -- both teachers and students. Fresh air and fresh perspectives combine to allow for new types of creativity, for play, and for a chance to connect learning to life. The best of these apps help harness what kids are learning outside so they can bring it back into the classroom for further study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/4-tips-for-managing-the-pokemon-go-craze-in-your-classroom\">the \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/4-tips-for-managing-the-pokemon-go-craze-in-your-classroom\">Pokémon Go craze\u003c/a> hasn’t just been dominating the imaginations of monster hunters everywhere, but also sparking debate among educators around the game’s potential for learning. Sure, Pokémon Go has an inherent ability to get kids outside, observing the world in ways they hadn’t before. But, if you’re looking to help students take their hunt for learning beyond the walls of your classroom, there are plenty of other options to consider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four STEM apps below all get kids moving in different ways, whether by looking up at the sky, analyzing how their own bodies move, discovering unique objects to photograph, or getting muddy at their local watershed. Sure, they may not be capturing that next rare Pokémon, but these apps will still help students appreciate the diversity of the world they inhabit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/ready-jet-go-space-explorer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-46048 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer.jpg\" alt=\"readyjetgospaceexplorer\" width=\"1278\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer.jpg 1278w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1278px) 100vw, 1278px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/ready-jet-go-space-explorer\">\u003cstrong>Ready Jet Go! Space Explorer\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A free first step to exploring the sky, Ready Jet Go! introduces young students to planets and constellations. Teachers can turn on location services to have the app generate a virtual sky to match the sky seen from any location. Students will be able to see the stars above them even when not visible by day. While it is magical to see the real sky on the screen, going outdoors and pointing the app toward the sky is what really keeps kids enthralled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/playground-physics\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46047\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground.png\" alt=\"playground\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground-768x576.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground-1180x885.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground-960x720.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/playground-physics\">\u003cstrong>Playground Physics\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playground Physics is an inexpensive, intuitive way to get students out of their chairs and learning about physics in real and tangible ways. Students use an iPad to shoot video of any motion, whether it’s their friends running around, or tennis balls flying across the schoolyard. The program then measures variables like speed, position, direction, energy, and force. Any controlled experiment is fair game, with the potential to empower kids’ learning and encouraging curiosity. Younger students can have fun tracing motion, while older students can work out the calculus involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/123d-catch\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-46045\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch.png\" alt=\"123dcatch\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch.png 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-768x576.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-1440x1080.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-1180x885.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-960x720.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/123d-catch\">\u003cstrong>123D Catch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This simple app lets students go into the world and take photos of everyday objects to create 3D models. Be it a tree, a car, or a building, students only need to point, click, and wait. After collecting photos from multiple angles, the 3D files can be exported to a variety of other applications; for annotation, labeling, remixing, or even 3D printing. What’s more, this kind of real-world-to-digital connection can help students make meaningful connections in their STEAM classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/diy-lake-science\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-46046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome.jpg\" alt=\"diyhome\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/diy-lake-science\">\u003cstrong>DIY Lake Science\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get students outside and investigating their local watersheds with this app’s activities. Experiments include measuring the murkiness of a water sample, or finding how many organisms live in a habitat. Furthering the scientific practices, students can use the guides to gather genuine data, and compare samples with others. Overall, there’s a strong effort to keep kids active while bridging the school-to-home connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Danny Wagner is a manager of STEM content at \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\">Common Sense Education\u003c/a>, which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\">Common Sense Education\u003c/a> for free resources, including full reviews of digital tools.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The four STEM apps get kids moving in different ways, whether by looking up at the sky, analyzing how their own bodies move, discovering unique objects to photograph, or getting muddy at their local watershed. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1470726592,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":608},"headData":{"title":"Four STEM Tools to Get Kids Learning and Exploring Outdoors | KQED","description":"The four STEM apps get kids moving in different ways, whether by looking up at the sky, analyzing how their own bodies move, discovering unique objects to photograph, or getting muddy at their local watershed. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Four STEM Tools to Get Kids Learning and Exploring Outdoors","datePublished":"2016-08-09T07:09:52.000Z","dateModified":"2016-08-09T07:09:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"46044 http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=46044","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/08/09/four-stem-tools-to-get-kids-learning-and-exploring-outdoors/","disqusTitle":"Four STEM Tools to Get Kids Learning and Exploring Outdoors","nprByline":"Danny Wagner, \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/\">Common Sense Education\u003c/a>","path":"/mindshift/46044/four-stem-tools-to-get-kids-learning-and-exploring-outdoors","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Getting out of the classroom can benefit everyone -- both teachers and students. Fresh air and fresh perspectives combine to allow for new types of creativity, for play, and for a chance to connect learning to life. The best of these apps help harness what kids are learning outside so they can bring it back into the classroom for further study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/4-tips-for-managing-the-pokemon-go-craze-in-your-classroom\">the \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/4-tips-for-managing-the-pokemon-go-craze-in-your-classroom\">Pokémon Go craze\u003c/a> hasn’t just been dominating the imaginations of monster hunters everywhere, but also sparking debate among educators around the game’s potential for learning. Sure, Pokémon Go has an inherent ability to get kids outside, observing the world in ways they hadn’t before. But, if you’re looking to help students take their hunt for learning beyond the walls of your classroom, there are plenty of other options to consider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four STEM apps below all get kids moving in different ways, whether by looking up at the sky, analyzing how their own bodies move, discovering unique objects to photograph, or getting muddy at their local watershed. Sure, they may not be capturing that next rare Pokémon, but these apps will still help students appreciate the diversity of the world they inhabit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/ready-jet-go-space-explorer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-46048 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer.jpg\" alt=\"readyjetgospaceexplorer\" width=\"1278\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer.jpg 1278w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/readyjetgospaceexplorer-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1278px) 100vw, 1278px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/ready-jet-go-space-explorer\">\u003cstrong>Ready Jet Go! Space Explorer\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A free first step to exploring the sky, Ready Jet Go! introduces young students to planets and constellations. Teachers can turn on location services to have the app generate a virtual sky to match the sky seen from any location. Students will be able to see the stars above them even when not visible by day. While it is magical to see the real sky on the screen, going outdoors and pointing the app toward the sky is what really keeps kids enthralled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/playground-physics\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46047\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground.png\" alt=\"playground\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground-768x576.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground-1180x885.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/playground-960x720.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/playground-physics\">\u003cstrong>Playground Physics\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playground Physics is an inexpensive, intuitive way to get students out of their chairs and learning about physics in real and tangible ways. Students use an iPad to shoot video of any motion, whether it’s their friends running around, or tennis balls flying across the schoolyard. The program then measures variables like speed, position, direction, energy, and force. Any controlled experiment is fair game, with the potential to empower kids’ learning and encouraging curiosity. Younger students can have fun tracing motion, while older students can work out the calculus involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/123d-catch\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-46045\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch.png\" alt=\"123dcatch\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch.png 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-768x576.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-1440x1080.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-1180x885.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/123dcatch-960x720.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/123d-catch\">\u003cstrong>123D Catch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This simple app lets students go into the world and take photos of everyday objects to create 3D models. Be it a tree, a car, or a building, students only need to point, click, and wait. After collecting photos from multiple angles, the 3D files can be exported to a variety of other applications; for annotation, labeling, remixing, or even 3D printing. What’s more, this kind of real-world-to-digital connection can help students make meaningful connections in their STEAM classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/diy-lake-science\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-46046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome.jpg\" alt=\"diyhome\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/08/diyhome-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/diy-lake-science\">\u003cstrong>DIY Lake Science\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get students outside and investigating their local watersheds with this app’s activities. Experiments include measuring the murkiness of a water sample, or finding how many organisms live in a habitat. Furthering the scientific practices, students can use the guides to gather genuine data, and compare samples with others. Overall, there’s a strong effort to keep kids active while bridging the school-to-home connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Danny Wagner is a manager of STEM content at \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\">Common Sense Education\u003c/a>, which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Go to \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\">Common Sense Education\u003c/a> for free resources, including full reviews of digital tools.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/46044/four-stem-tools-to-get-kids-learning-and-exploring-outdoors","authors":["byline_mindshift_46044"],"categories":["mindshift_195"],"tags":["mindshift_20912","mindshift_20583","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_391"],"featImg":"mindshift_46051","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_44166":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_44166","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"44166","score":null,"sort":[1457618373000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lesson-study-theres-an-app-for-that","title":"Lesson Study? There's an App for That","publishDate":1457618373,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>One of the standards for mathematical practice in the Common Core is to \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Practice/MP3/\" target=\"_blank\">construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.\u003c/a>” That’s a tall order for students used to sitting quietly in a math classroom passively receiving instruction. Knowing that improving the quality of math discussion in their classrooms won’t be easy, educators are applying the \"lesson study\" technique to improve their craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a \"research lesson,\" only one teacher will deliver instruction, but other teachers in the lesson study group will be present to observe how students react, what sorts of solutions they come up with, and how they interact with one another. This is very different from many classroom observations that focus primarily on how the teacher delivers the lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a research lesson, the observers helped develop the instruction ahead of time, and are gathering data that can give them insights into how well the lesson worked so they can discuss it later. “The key to having a good discussion is to have good data about how the lesson impacts the student,” said Tom McDougal, one of the main advocates behind the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lsalliance.org/\">Lesson Study Alliance\u003c/a>, a non-profit working to promote lesson study practice. “To get that data you have to be watching the students, not the teacher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the planning phase, the lesson study group is thinking about all the small steps that might enable them to teach a little differently. For example, when it comes to discussing math arguments and critiquing one another, teachers know kids are often afraid to put their ideas forward. So one way to structure the lesson could be to ask students to put their solutions on a whiteboard. That makes their thinking visible, but they may feel less vulnerable. And there are bound to be differences in problem solving when all those ideas are out there, a good jumping-off point to critique one another’s thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the group of lesson study teachers are thinking through the research lesson, they’re asking themselves: Will the lesson they’ve designed together elicit the kinds of errors they hope to see? Will it make students curious? In what order should the ideas be presented? How are they going to make sure the student ideas are visible to everyone in the class? It sounds like minutia, but these details could be the difference between the lesson going well or poorly. These teachers are trying to look into the future and predict how the lesson will go.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It gives you a chance to really think through all the details and address all the problems, and you do it with the moral and intellectual support of your colleagues and it's not evaluative.'\u003ccite>Tom McDougal, Co-Founder Study Lesson Alliance\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To help them take accurate, helpful notes that can be discussed later, teachers are using an app called \u003ca href=\"http://www.lsalliance.org/lessonnote-classroom-practice-app/\" target=\"_blank\">Lesson Note\u003c/a>, developed by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lsalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Lesson Study Alliance\u003c/a> in Chicago. Proponents of lesson study have found that many teachers new to the method don’t know what to look for when observing a classroom and they tend to sit in the back and focus on the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The iPad app presents an observer with a seating chart of the classroom, with the option to add names of students. Sitting at the sides of the rooms, or intermingled with the students themselves, observers can use the app to select a student when he or she says something in class, and write a note. The same can be done when the teacher speaks, and a timer immediately starts when a note is opened to help give an overall sense of how much class time is spent on the teacher talking and how much spent on students talking. The notes are also time-stamped, “so you could actually say at such and such a time this student was still confused,” McDougal explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44167\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44167\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonNote_timeline_screenshot-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"The color coded bar along the right margin indicates when and how much time was spent on whole class instruction (orange), individual work (green), and group work (blue).\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonNote_timeline_screenshot-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonNote_timeline_screenshot.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The color-coded bar along the right margin indicates when and how much time was spent on whole class instruction (orange), individual work (green), and group work (blue). \u003ccite>(Tom McDougal/Lesson Study Alliance)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The app also allows observers to note when a state change happens in class. They can choose between whole class, individual time, group work or other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can look at the distribution both in terms of how much time is whole class versus individual versus group, and when that time is occurring,” McDougal said. In more traditional instruction, the teacher often lectures for the first half of class and then lets students work in groups or individually for the second half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different model would be a quick five-minute introduction to the task, 10 minutes of group work and then a whole class discussion about the work. “At the end of it you can see a timeline of what the lesson looked like in terms of how the lesson was distributed,” McDougal said. Many educators are recognizing that the best learning happens when students themselves are grappling with problems, and are seeking ways to shift class time toward that type of inquiry. The Lesson Note app helps make class time distribution very obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, observers can take photos of student work and upload them to a note. For example, an observer might snap a photo of wrong work, or an interesting way of approaching the work, before it is erased to show where a student was at that moment in class. Or, observers might take notes about how student A helped student B with a specific concept. The notes are more useful after the lesson if they are very specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that it helps promote better post-lesson discussions. That’s certainly our goal,” McDougal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he observes a lesson he’ll often take 90-100 notes, flagging the most important ones along the way. After the lesson, all the observers and the teacher get together to look through the student data they collected and analyze how well the lesson went. They think about what could be done differently in a future lesson to better meet the specific goal they are working on, like improving the quality of discussion that kids are having.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a school dedicated to lesson study, teachers from other classes might also observe. While teachers at a grade level might be involved in workshopping a lesson in this intensive way only twice a year, they would observe other grade levels working on the same mathematical practice at various points throughout the year. In this way, the whole school moves toward improving instruction on one thorny problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-44202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Several teachers observe one lesson, taking notes on Lesson Note or paper if they are newer to the process.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several teachers observe one lesson, taking notes on Lesson Note or paper if they are newer to the process. \u003ccite>(Peggy Baker/Lesson Study Alliance)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Lesson Study Alliance developed this app as a tool to improve the quality of observations and discussions they are having with a group of Chicago schools engaged in this practice regularly. In an effort to boil down the essential components of the process, McDougal and Dr. Akihiko Takahashi have developed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lsalliance.org/clr-a-powerful-form-of-lesson-study/\" target=\"_blank\">Collaborative Lesson Research\u003c/a> (CLR) which explores how lesson study could be implemented in an American context. Other educators have tried to use lesson study, but have implemented it unevenly to varied results. CLR is an attempt to map out the most important elements that should be part of any program like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDougal said he feels the Lesson Note app meets his nonprofit’s mission to improve teaching. That’s why the base level app is available for free. But at the request of administrators around the country, McDougal asked the developers to add a Web-based product that costs $150 per license and allows observers to upload the data to a server or the cloud, aggregate it in one place and make printouts. The app is not available for Android devices because the nonprofit did not have the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a teacher were using this Web-based feature, he or she could also look back at all the data taken throughout the year and search for one student’s name. Then all the notes over time would pop up, helping provide a sense of that student’s development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lesson study is a specific way of collaboratively working to improve teaching practice and is not meant to evaluate teachers. But even districts that aren’t explicitly engaged in lesson study are finding the Lesson Note app useful for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coaches for a consortium of schools in Humboldt County, California, are using Lesson Note to deepen the feedback they give to teachers. Several schools in the area are part of a partnership to integrate STEM into the curriculum. They received a grant to develop teaching materials, receive extra training and release time to collaborate with colleagues. These districts have opted to do most of their professional development through coaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the teacher invites the coach in, the idea is this is a new STEM-integrated lesson and they want to get feedback from the coach,” said Michael Kauffmann, director of \u003ca href=\"https://fesd-ca.schoolloop.com/hisi\" target=\"_blank\">Project HISI\u003c/a> and a math and science intervention specialist. He and other coaches are using Lesson Note to facilitate their observations and make it easier to show the teacher his or her patterns in a post-lesson discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can map out during the class period how much time was spent on lecture, how much time was spent on student-to-student interaction, which in many ways is the direction Common Core is going,” Kauffmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likes having the interaction data in front of him when he’s conferencing with a teacher post-lesson because often the teacher won’t realize how long he or she spent lecturing. And, Kauffmann has even helped design and teach follow-up lessons based on the misconceptions he documented with the app while walking around the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Chicago, a few teachers are even using the app as part of daily data collection. Third-grade teacher Gustavo Soto wrote in an email: “As groups are working I go around and take notes on the app which I can later use for assessing student work and student engagement.” Soto’s school, Daniel Boone Elementary School, is part of the Lesson Note Alliance, and Soto says he mostly uses the app when he’s participating in research lessons as an observer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHY DO LESSON STUDY?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I learned about lesson study I was like, oh, this is so much better than what I’ve been doing,” McDougal said. He was a longtime high school math teacher and then a K-8 math coach, but now he’s devoted himself to lesson study. He remembers going to traditional professional development sessions where ideas were presented, and he was expected to go back to his classroom and immediately implement them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My own experience as a teacher is that when I go back to do it, the forces aligned to keep me doing what I’m doing are pretty significant,” McDougal said. Time, the textbook and student expectations all make it much easier to continue all the same path. “It’s really really hard to change instruction by that model,” McDougal said. “The evidence is that teachers are still teaching much the way they taught 100 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/JMiRIRro86E\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lesson study, on the other hand, feels hopeful and doable to him. He believes this model could change teaching for the better -- much like Japan has done since the 1960s -- but only if U.S. schools are willing to drop the traditional professional development model and try something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives you a chance to really think through all the details and address all the problems you are trying to address,” McDougal said. “And you do it with the moral and intellectual support of your colleagues and it’s not evaluative.” The focus is on designing better lessons, which changes the whole dynamic of the endeavor and makes teachers much more open to the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDougal said very few people in the US are trained in this method, which is a large barrier to the method spreading. Only \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/09/14/lesson-study-technique-what-teachers-can-learn-from-one-another/\" target=\"_blank\">four to five schools in Chicago participate\u003c/a>, and everyone benefits from the experience of Takahashi, a DePaul University math education professor and an expert on the technique. In a formal research lesson, a “knowledgeable other” helps the group navigate the process. McDougal says the number of people who could act as “knowledgeable others” is small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really only a handful of people in the US who know lesson study and know content and know teaching, and are really good at analyzing the lesson and giving remarks at the end of the lesson,” McDougal said. But a transformation is not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, Japanese elementary education was very teacher-centered and rote. But over the past few decades the system has changed completely through lesson study, which ironically was imported from the US Now, all aspects of Japanese elementary school teaching (even PE and lunchtime monitors) use this method to continually improve their practice. The Japanese system is set up to support that work, paying teachers for the time they spend collaborating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the barriers, McDougal is working to spread this idea to more schools and teachers. The Lesson Study Alliance holds public research lessons on the weekends when teachers from the area can come and observe the process. And, while he knows one exposure isn’t enough to give teachers and administrators all the skills they need to implement lesson study well, he hopes it opens their eyes to a new way of collaborating that could actually change math instruction to focus on problem-solving, a goal the US has claimed is a priority since the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Lesson study is a technique used to improve teaching by observing the students. An app helps teachers do lesson study so they can improve how they teach. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1457618373,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://www.youtube.com/embed/JMiRIRro86E"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":2358},"headData":{"title":"Lesson Study? There's an App for That | KQED","description":"Lesson study is a technique used to improve teaching by observing the students. An app helps teachers do lesson study so they can improve how they teach. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Lesson Study? There's an App for That","datePublished":"2016-03-10T13:59:33.000Z","dateModified":"2016-03-10T13:59:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"44166 http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=44166","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/03/10/lesson-study-theres-an-app-for-that/","disqusTitle":"Lesson Study? There's an App for That","path":"/mindshift/44166/lesson-study-theres-an-app-for-that","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the standards for mathematical practice in the Common Core is to \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Practice/MP3/\" target=\"_blank\">construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.\u003c/a>” That’s a tall order for students used to sitting quietly in a math classroom passively receiving instruction. Knowing that improving the quality of math discussion in their classrooms won’t be easy, educators are applying the \"lesson study\" technique to improve their craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a \"research lesson,\" only one teacher will deliver instruction, but other teachers in the lesson study group will be present to observe how students react, what sorts of solutions they come up with, and how they interact with one another. This is very different from many classroom observations that focus primarily on how the teacher delivers the lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a research lesson, the observers helped develop the instruction ahead of time, and are gathering data that can give them insights into how well the lesson worked so they can discuss it later. “The key to having a good discussion is to have good data about how the lesson impacts the student,” said Tom McDougal, one of the main advocates behind the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lsalliance.org/\">Lesson Study Alliance\u003c/a>, a non-profit working to promote lesson study practice. “To get that data you have to be watching the students, not the teacher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the planning phase, the lesson study group is thinking about all the small steps that might enable them to teach a little differently. For example, when it comes to discussing math arguments and critiquing one another, teachers know kids are often afraid to put their ideas forward. So one way to structure the lesson could be to ask students to put their solutions on a whiteboard. That makes their thinking visible, but they may feel less vulnerable. And there are bound to be differences in problem solving when all those ideas are out there, a good jumping-off point to critique one another’s thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the group of lesson study teachers are thinking through the research lesson, they’re asking themselves: Will the lesson they’ve designed together elicit the kinds of errors they hope to see? Will it make students curious? In what order should the ideas be presented? How are they going to make sure the student ideas are visible to everyone in the class? It sounds like minutia, but these details could be the difference between the lesson going well or poorly. These teachers are trying to look into the future and predict how the lesson will go.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It gives you a chance to really think through all the details and address all the problems, and you do it with the moral and intellectual support of your colleagues and it's not evaluative.'\u003ccite>Tom McDougal, Co-Founder Study Lesson Alliance\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>To help them take accurate, helpful notes that can be discussed later, teachers are using an app called \u003ca href=\"http://www.lsalliance.org/lessonnote-classroom-practice-app/\" target=\"_blank\">Lesson Note\u003c/a>, developed by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lsalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Lesson Study Alliance\u003c/a> in Chicago. Proponents of lesson study have found that many teachers new to the method don’t know what to look for when observing a classroom and they tend to sit in the back and focus on the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The iPad app presents an observer with a seating chart of the classroom, with the option to add names of students. Sitting at the sides of the rooms, or intermingled with the students themselves, observers can use the app to select a student when he or she says something in class, and write a note. The same can be done when the teacher speaks, and a timer immediately starts when a note is opened to help give an overall sense of how much class time is spent on the teacher talking and how much spent on students talking. The notes are also time-stamped, “so you could actually say at such and such a time this student was still confused,” McDougal explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44167\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44167\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonNote_timeline_screenshot-400x533.jpg\" alt=\"The color coded bar along the right margin indicates when and how much time was spent on whole class instruction (orange), individual work (green), and group work (blue).\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonNote_timeline_screenshot-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonNote_timeline_screenshot.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The color-coded bar along the right margin indicates when and how much time was spent on whole class instruction (orange), individual work (green), and group work (blue). \u003ccite>(Tom McDougal/Lesson Study Alliance)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The app also allows observers to note when a state change happens in class. They can choose between whole class, individual time, group work or other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can look at the distribution both in terms of how much time is whole class versus individual versus group, and when that time is occurring,” McDougal said. In more traditional instruction, the teacher often lectures for the first half of class and then lets students work in groups or individually for the second half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different model would be a quick five-minute introduction to the task, 10 minutes of group work and then a whole class discussion about the work. “At the end of it you can see a timeline of what the lesson looked like in terms of how the lesson was distributed,” McDougal said. Many educators are recognizing that the best learning happens when students themselves are grappling with problems, and are seeking ways to shift class time toward that type of inquiry. The Lesson Note app helps make class time distribution very obvious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, observers can take photos of student work and upload them to a note. For example, an observer might snap a photo of wrong work, or an interesting way of approaching the work, before it is erased to show where a student was at that moment in class. Or, observers might take notes about how student A helped student B with a specific concept. The notes are more useful after the lesson if they are very specific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that it helps promote better post-lesson discussions. That’s certainly our goal,” McDougal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he observes a lesson he’ll often take 90-100 notes, flagging the most important ones along the way. After the lesson, all the observers and the teacher get together to look through the student data they collected and analyze how well the lesson went. They think about what could be done differently in a future lesson to better meet the specific goal they are working on, like improving the quality of discussion that kids are having.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a school dedicated to lesson study, teachers from other classes might also observe. While teachers at a grade level might be involved in workshopping a lesson in this intensive way only twice a year, they would observe other grade levels working on the same mathematical practice at various points throughout the year. In this way, the whole school moves toward improving instruction on one thorny problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_44202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-44202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Several teachers observe one lesson, taking notes on Lesson Note or paper if they are newer to the process.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2016/03/LessonStudy3-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several teachers observe one lesson, taking notes on Lesson Note or paper if they are newer to the process. \u003ccite>(Peggy Baker/Lesson Study Alliance)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Lesson Study Alliance developed this app as a tool to improve the quality of observations and discussions they are having with a group of Chicago schools engaged in this practice regularly. In an effort to boil down the essential components of the process, McDougal and Dr. Akihiko Takahashi have developed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lsalliance.org/clr-a-powerful-form-of-lesson-study/\" target=\"_blank\">Collaborative Lesson Research\u003c/a> (CLR) which explores how lesson study could be implemented in an American context. Other educators have tried to use lesson study, but have implemented it unevenly to varied results. CLR is an attempt to map out the most important elements that should be part of any program like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDougal said he feels the Lesson Note app meets his nonprofit’s mission to improve teaching. That’s why the base level app is available for free. But at the request of administrators around the country, McDougal asked the developers to add a Web-based product that costs $150 per license and allows observers to upload the data to a server or the cloud, aggregate it in one place and make printouts. The app is not available for Android devices because the nonprofit did not have the funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a teacher were using this Web-based feature, he or she could also look back at all the data taken throughout the year and search for one student’s name. Then all the notes over time would pop up, helping provide a sense of that student’s development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lesson study is a specific way of collaboratively working to improve teaching practice and is not meant to evaluate teachers. But even districts that aren’t explicitly engaged in lesson study are finding the Lesson Note app useful for their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coaches for a consortium of schools in Humboldt County, California, are using Lesson Note to deepen the feedback they give to teachers. Several schools in the area are part of a partnership to integrate STEM into the curriculum. They received a grant to develop teaching materials, receive extra training and release time to collaborate with colleagues. These districts have opted to do most of their professional development through coaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the teacher invites the coach in, the idea is this is a new STEM-integrated lesson and they want to get feedback from the coach,” said Michael Kauffmann, director of \u003ca href=\"https://fesd-ca.schoolloop.com/hisi\" target=\"_blank\">Project HISI\u003c/a> and a math and science intervention specialist. He and other coaches are using Lesson Note to facilitate their observations and make it easier to show the teacher his or her patterns in a post-lesson discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can map out during the class period how much time was spent on lecture, how much time was spent on student-to-student interaction, which in many ways is the direction Common Core is going,” Kauffmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likes having the interaction data in front of him when he’s conferencing with a teacher post-lesson because often the teacher won’t realize how long he or she spent lecturing. And, Kauffmann has even helped design and teach follow-up lessons based on the misconceptions he documented with the app while walking around the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Chicago, a few teachers are even using the app as part of daily data collection. Third-grade teacher Gustavo Soto wrote in an email: “As groups are working I go around and take notes on the app which I can later use for assessing student work and student engagement.” Soto’s school, Daniel Boone Elementary School, is part of the Lesson Note Alliance, and Soto says he mostly uses the app when he’s participating in research lessons as an observer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>WHY DO LESSON STUDY?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I learned about lesson study I was like, oh, this is so much better than what I’ve been doing,” McDougal said. He was a longtime high school math teacher and then a K-8 math coach, but now he’s devoted himself to lesson study. He remembers going to traditional professional development sessions where ideas were presented, and he was expected to go back to his classroom and immediately implement them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My own experience as a teacher is that when I go back to do it, the forces aligned to keep me doing what I’m doing are pretty significant,” McDougal said. Time, the textbook and student expectations all make it much easier to continue all the same path. “It’s really really hard to change instruction by that model,” McDougal said. “The evidence is that teachers are still teaching much the way they taught 100 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/JMiRIRro86E\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lesson study, on the other hand, feels hopeful and doable to him. He believes this model could change teaching for the better -- much like Japan has done since the 1960s -- but only if U.S. schools are willing to drop the traditional professional development model and try something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives you a chance to really think through all the details and address all the problems you are trying to address,” McDougal said. “And you do it with the moral and intellectual support of your colleagues and it’s not evaluative.” The focus is on designing better lessons, which changes the whole dynamic of the endeavor and makes teachers much more open to the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDougal said very few people in the US are trained in this method, which is a large barrier to the method spreading. Only \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/09/14/lesson-study-technique-what-teachers-can-learn-from-one-another/\" target=\"_blank\">four to five schools in Chicago participate\u003c/a>, and everyone benefits from the experience of Takahashi, a DePaul University math education professor and an expert on the technique. In a formal research lesson, a “knowledgeable other” helps the group navigate the process. McDougal says the number of people who could act as “knowledgeable others” is small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s really only a handful of people in the US who know lesson study and know content and know teaching, and are really good at analyzing the lesson and giving remarks at the end of the lesson,” McDougal said. But a transformation is not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, Japanese elementary education was very teacher-centered and rote. But over the past few decades the system has changed completely through lesson study, which ironically was imported from the US Now, all aspects of Japanese elementary school teaching (even PE and lunchtime monitors) use this method to continually improve their practice. The Japanese system is set up to support that work, paying teachers for the time they spend collaborating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the barriers, McDougal is working to spread this idea to more schools and teachers. The Lesson Study Alliance holds public research lessons on the weekends when teachers from the area can come and observe the process. And, while he knows one exposure isn’t enough to give teachers and administrators all the skills they need to implement lesson study well, he hopes it opens their eyes to a new way of collaborating that could actually change math instruction to focus on problem-solving, a goal the US has claimed is a priority since the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/44166/lesson-study-theres-an-app-for-that","authors":["234"],"categories":["mindshift_195","mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_1028","mindshift_20583","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_20911","mindshift_96"],"featImg":"mindshift_44200","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_42895":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_42895","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"42895","score":null,"sort":[1448526889000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"four-inventive-games-that-show-us-the-future-of-learning","title":"Four Inventive Games That Show Us the Future of Learning","publishDate":1448526889,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tanner Higgin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/\">Graphite\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think of contemporary art as a kind of futurism. Artists tinker away in their studios like engineers, making challenging (often weird) things that reframe what’s possible. In the process, they pioneer new ideas and technologies that sometimes get realized on a mass scale years later. Look no further than Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” which borrowed heavily from James Turrell’s work, or Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyIJJr6Ldg8\">Hole in Space\u003c/a>,” which staged a New York to Los Angeles Skype-like video chat in 1980. Art is nothing if not ahead of its time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As contemporary artists, game designers can show us what’s to come. This is especially true of so-called indie designers who work alone or in small teams, often on projects that are riskier and more conceptual. These indie designers invent and prove concepts that more and more often get adapted on a larger scale and for a broader market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re now seeing some of these artists experimenting in the learning space, and it’s time we started listening to what they have to say. Sure, these quirkier games and designers might sit outside of ed-tech circles. They also might not be tuned precisely to the needs of the classrooms today. But if we constrain ourselves by how classrooms look today, we’ll never truly redefine classrooms for tomorrow. In this spirit, here are a few examples of bold games that I think light the way for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/earth-primer/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Earth Primer\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Designed by Chaim Gingold, a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz, indie developer and designer of Spore’s creature creator, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/earth-primer/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Earth Primer\u003c/a>\" is a reinvention of the textbook. Unlike the all-too-familiar “interactive textbooks” that are little more than pictures and animations tacked on to traditional text, \"Earth Primer\" starts from the ground up. It’s elegantly presented and paced. It’s also intelligently focused on using simple interactions and innate curiosity as a path to scientific complexity, inviting players to tinker with the core systems that make up our world. The result is an experience that feels entrancing rather than instructional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/116182914\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/metamorphabet/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">\u003cstrong>Metamorphabet\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Smith, the designer behind \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/metamorphabet/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Metamorphabet\u003c/a>,\" is like the games equivalent of a toymaker. He’s been creating delightful digital mini-sandboxes for years, each enlivened by his uniquely comic point of view and a pervasive sense of surprise and magic. With \"Metamorphabet,\" like a lot of Smith’s work, you poke, prod, tap, yank and swipe, but this time it’s to excavate the letters of the alphabet. Learners are compelled along, uncovering the little morsels of delightful animation, metaphor and character Smith has placed along the trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IWZk86iYD0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/game/extrasolar/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Extrasolar\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money and time are the two most common barriers to using games in the classroom. \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/game/extrasolar/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Extrasolar\u003c/a>\" solves both while also striking pedagogical gold: authentic, self-motivated learning. It’s a free alternate reality game (ARG) that mimics the day-to-day life of a rover driver exploring an alien planet for a mysterious space agency. Rather than placing players in some fantastical world, they interact with what looks like a typical desktop interface, giving their rover commands, and waiting to receive photographs and data from the alien world as well as messages from their employer. Each bit of play requires only a few minutes of activity. The wait builds tension, and when matched with the relatively mundane interface and tasks, it doesn’t feel like a game -- which is kind of the point. Best of all: It’s all based in real science and, like with any good ARG, has a healthy dose of mystery to give players a reason to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uS23BEURww\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/website/twine/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Twine\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twine isn’t a game, so I’m cheating a little bit. It is, however, a wonderful tool for making games and telling stories that has been instrumental in giving hundreds of indie game designers a means to express themselves. While at first glance it’s not the most inviting design, and you might find it intimidating: Stick with it. \u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/website/twine/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Twine\u003c/a> strikes a wonderful balance between ease of use and creative possibility. At the most basic level, designers string together bits of text and build in choices for how a player might move through the bits of text. More adept designers can play with advanced styling and interactions that add flavor and depth. What results are choose-your-own-adventure stories that foster reading and writing skills and make both players and designers think in new ways. Even better, Twine will expand how many players think about and define games. Looking for a place to start? Check out Dan Waber's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.logolalia.com/hypertexts/a-kiss.html#\">a kiss\u003c/a>,\" a deep dive into the minutiae and poeticism of a moment in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"il\">Tanner\u003c/span> Higgin is senior manager, education content at \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\">Common Sense\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\"> \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\">Education\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization and creator of \u003ca href=\"http://www.graphite.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Graphite ™\u003c/a>, a free service that \u003cem>helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with ed-tech and connect with expert educators.\u003c/em> This post is part of a series featuring highly rated games on Graphite. Go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.graphite.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Graphite\u003c/a> to read the full reviews of games and find out how teachers use them for learning in class.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Independent artists who design video games and apps are getting into the educational space and reimagining games that can help students learn. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1448526889,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":968},"headData":{"title":"Four Inventive Games That Show Us the Future of Learning | KQED","description":"Independent artists who design video games and apps are getting into the educational space and reimagining games that can help students learn. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Four Inventive Games That Show Us the Future of Learning","datePublished":"2015-11-26T08:34:49.000Z","dateModified":"2015-11-26T08:34:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"42895 http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=42895","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/11/26/four-inventive-games-that-show-us-the-future-of-learning/","disqusTitle":"Four Inventive Games That Show Us the Future of Learning","path":"/mindshift/42895/four-inventive-games-that-show-us-the-future-of-learning","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tanner Higgin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/\">Graphite\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think of contemporary art as a kind of futurism. Artists tinker away in their studios like engineers, making challenging (often weird) things that reframe what’s possible. In the process, they pioneer new ideas and technologies that sometimes get realized on a mass scale years later. Look no further than Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” which borrowed heavily from James Turrell’s work, or Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyIJJr6Ldg8\">Hole in Space\u003c/a>,” which staged a New York to Los Angeles Skype-like video chat in 1980. Art is nothing if not ahead of its time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As contemporary artists, game designers can show us what’s to come. This is especially true of so-called indie designers who work alone or in small teams, often on projects that are riskier and more conceptual. These indie designers invent and prove concepts that more and more often get adapted on a larger scale and for a broader market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re now seeing some of these artists experimenting in the learning space, and it’s time we started listening to what they have to say. Sure, these quirkier games and designers might sit outside of ed-tech circles. They also might not be tuned precisely to the needs of the classrooms today. But if we constrain ourselves by how classrooms look today, we’ll never truly redefine classrooms for tomorrow. In this spirit, here are a few examples of bold games that I think light the way for learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/earth-primer/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Earth Primer\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Designed by Chaim Gingold, a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz, indie developer and designer of Spore’s creature creator, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/earth-primer/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Earth Primer\u003c/a>\" is a reinvention of the textbook. Unlike the all-too-familiar “interactive textbooks” that are little more than pictures and animations tacked on to traditional text, \"Earth Primer\" starts from the ground up. It’s elegantly presented and paced. It’s also intelligently focused on using simple interactions and innate curiosity as a path to scientific complexity, inviting players to tinker with the core systems that make up our world. The result is an experience that feels entrancing rather than instructional.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"vimeoLink","attributes":{"named":{"vimeoId":"116182914"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/metamorphabet/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">\u003cstrong>Metamorphabet\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Smith, the designer behind \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/metamorphabet/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Metamorphabet\u003c/a>,\" is like the games equivalent of a toymaker. He’s been creating delightful digital mini-sandboxes for years, each enlivened by his uniquely comic point of view and a pervasive sense of surprise and magic. With \"Metamorphabet,\" like a lot of Smith’s work, you poke, prod, tap, yank and swipe, but this time it’s to excavate the letters of the alphabet. Learners are compelled along, uncovering the little morsels of delightful animation, metaphor and character Smith has placed along the trail.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/8IWZk86iYD0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/8IWZk86iYD0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/game/extrasolar/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Extrasolar\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money and time are the two most common barriers to using games in the classroom. \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/game/extrasolar/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Extrasolar\u003c/a>\" solves both while also striking pedagogical gold: authentic, self-motivated learning. It’s a free alternate reality game (ARG) that mimics the day-to-day life of a rover driver exploring an alien planet for a mysterious space agency. Rather than placing players in some fantastical world, they interact with what looks like a typical desktop interface, giving their rover commands, and waiting to receive photographs and data from the alien world as well as messages from their employer. Each bit of play requires only a few minutes of activity. The wait builds tension, and when matched with the relatively mundane interface and tasks, it doesn’t feel like a game -- which is kind of the point. Best of all: It’s all based in real science and, like with any good ARG, has a healthy dose of mystery to give players a reason to return.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3uS23BEURww'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3uS23BEURww'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/website/twine/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Twine\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twine isn’t a game, so I’m cheating a little bit. It is, however, a wonderful tool for making games and telling stories that has been instrumental in giving hundreds of indie game designers a means to express themselves. While at first glance it’s not the most inviting design, and you might find it intimidating: Stick with it. \u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/website/twine/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Twine\u003c/a> strikes a wonderful balance between ease of use and creative possibility. At the most basic level, designers string together bits of text and build in choices for how a player might move through the bits of text. More adept designers can play with advanced styling and interactions that add flavor and depth. What results are choose-your-own-adventure stories that foster reading and writing skills and make both players and designers think in new ways. Even better, Twine will expand how many players think about and define games. Looking for a place to start? Check out Dan Waber's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.logolalia.com/hypertexts/a-kiss.html#\">a kiss\u003c/a>,\" a deep dive into the minutiae and poeticism of a moment in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"il\">Tanner\u003c/span> Higgin is senior manager, education content at \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\">Common Sense\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\"> \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\">Education\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization and creator of \u003ca href=\"http://www.graphite.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Graphite ™\u003c/a>, a free service that \u003cem>helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with ed-tech and connect with expert educators.\u003c/em> This post is part of a series featuring highly rated games on Graphite. Go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.graphite.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Graphite\u003c/a> to read the full reviews of games and find out how teachers use them for learning in class.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/42895/four-inventive-games-that-show-us-the-future-of-learning","authors":["4354"],"categories":["mindshift_20788"],"tags":["mindshift_20583","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_548","mindshift_20913"],"featImg":"mindshift_42913","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_41826":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_41826","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"41826","score":null,"sort":[1441006216000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"6-storytelling-apps-that-get-english-language-learners-talking","title":"7 Storytelling Apps That Get English Language Learners Talking","publishDate":1441006216,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>For English language learners (ELLs) in the classroom, speaking English in front of others -- particularly native speakers -- can cause tremendous anxiety. In fact, the dread of speaking can actually interfere with students’ ability to learn. Even with the most well-planned, immersive, real-world learning opportunities, the brains of students with high anxiety won’t be receptive to learning, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdkrashen.com/content/books/principles_and_practice.pdf\">Stephen Krashen’s\u003c/a> “Affective Filter Hypothesis” (and the brain \u003ca href=\"http://www.edutopia.org/blog/neuroscience-behind-stress-and-learning-judy-willis\">research\u003c/a> that supports it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can we design speaking activities that don’t make our students’ hearts race and palms sweat? Digital storytelling can be an effective way for ELLs to practice speaking English without the stress of being “on stage.” Apps and tech tools allow students to practice in the comfort of their own home by themselves or with a caregiver. With digital storytelling tools, students can spend time formulating their stories, self-reflect and self-assess, collaborate with peers of differing skill levels, and in the end, feel confident in their abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few digital storytelling tools to help get your ELLs talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kid-in-story-book-maker-create/id594403164?mt=8\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41829\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker.png\" alt=\"Kid in Story Book Maker\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker.png 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/kid-in-story-book-maker/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Kid in Story Book Maker\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Elementary\u003cstrong>)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids use green screen-like technology to put photos of themselves (or others) into a story template, then add text and voice recording. In-app templates focus on social stories, like visiting a new place, getting a haircut, or holidays. For ELLs, the templates offer a useful foundation for building social language skills. Plus, the app’s voice recording feature offers low-stakes speaking practice since kids can record themselves talking, then can listen and re-record as many times as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/tell-about-this\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41834\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Tell-About-This-e1441001761640.png\" alt=\"Tell About This\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/tell-about-this/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Tell About This\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Elementary)\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This versatile pre-writing or publishing tool is easy for young storytellers to use. Dozens of photos sorted into categories including culture, people, family and fun, serve as inspiration for prompts. Kids can tell stories using the in-app recording feature. Teachers can also create custom prompts with their own images and voice. Giving ELLs a safe space to tell stories about their lives and experiences validates their unique contributions to the class community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://get-puppet.co/education/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41831\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU.jpeg\" alt=\"Shadow Puppet EDU\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU.jpeg 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-75x75.jpeg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/shadow-puppet-edu/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">ShadowPuppet Edu\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Elementary/Middle)\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can create impressive video slideshows using research resources built right into the app. They can capture screengrabs from an interactive map, safely search for images from the Web and access image archives from trusted sources like the Library of Congress. Kids put the slides in order, add text, music and narration, and then export the final project as a video file. Shadow Puppet Edu supports ELLs in developing academic vocabulary in both collaborative groups and independently. Students can use it to review new concepts, present research, track progress, explain their thinking and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/toontastic-3d\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49603 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/toontastic-3d\">Toontastic 3D\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Elementary/Middle)\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just as with the original Toontastic app, Toontastic 3D is a storytelling app that's inspired by puppetry, theater, and animation.\u003c/span> \u003c/strong>It employs a \"Story Arc\" with five sequential scenes to guide story structure (setup, conflict, challenge, climax and resolution). Kids move characters around each scene as they record narration and dialogue. For ELLs, Toontastic 3D can be an invaluable tool for building writing skills or practicing story analysis. Students can storyboard a piece of original writing or a story they read in class, and then bring it to life with fun settings and quirky characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/website/voicethread\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41833\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Voice-Thread-e1441001887395.png\" alt=\"Voice Thread\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/website/voicethread/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">VoiceThread\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Elementary/Middle/High)\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students or teachers can create and share media projects that incorporate video, image, voice, or even drawings. Once posted, projects can be open to text, voice or video comments from a select group or from all VoiceThread members. It's a natural fit for a range of student presentations and projects such as explaining research or retelling a story with original artwork. Alternately, teachers can create a VoiceThread to solicit student commentary. For ELLs who sometimes are hesitant to speak up in class, VoiceThread gives them a chance to thoughtfully craft their presentations or comments and contribute their ideas with confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/explain-everything\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41830\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything.png\" alt=\"Expain Everything\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything.png 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/explain-everything/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Explain Everything\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Middle/High)\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This formidable tool is like a superhero version of PowerPoint. Users can import photos, PDF files, movies and more from many sources to use in a presentation. Students can learn how to present information using multiple forms of expression (images, text, video and audio) through digital technology. Students can edit the audio in their presentations, which gives ELLs a chance to self-assess and revise before presenting to their peers and teacher. Plus, allowing students to create multimedia presentations can take some of the focus off the speaking task, and can give creative, tech-savvy students a chance to shine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/sutori\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49604 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-160x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/sutori\">Sutori\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Middle/High)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sutori* is a tool for creating interactive timelines and stories. Students can craft multimedia projects with text, images, videos, “Did You Know” call-out boxes, click-to-reveal text links, and multiple-choice quiz questions. Sutori offers collaboration features, allowing students to co-create stories for group projects as well. Teachers and students can access pre-made stories and view or contribute to a collection of community submitted stories. Sutori is another great option for empowering ELLs to share their stories and knowledge without the stress of an oral presentation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erin Wilkey Oh is Executive Editor of Education Content for \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\">Common Sense\u003c/a>, creator of \u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org\">Graphite\u003c/a>, a free service for educators in search of the best apps, games and websites for learning. Tools included here have received high ratings on Graphite by educators and by the editorial staff at Common Sense. Go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.graphite.org/\">Graphite\u003c/a> to read full reviews of digital tools and how teachers use them for learning in class.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*This post has been updated to include Sutori. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Learning English in a public setting can be a daunting experience. Apps can help kids break past some of the hang-ups that come with learning something new in front of a classroom. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1509656432,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":945},"headData":{"title":"7 Storytelling Apps That Get English Language Learners Talking | KQED","description":"Learning English in a public setting can be a daunting experience. Apps can help kids break past some of the hang-ups that come with learning something new in front of a classroom. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"7 Storytelling Apps That Get English Language Learners Talking","datePublished":"2015-08-31T07:30:16.000Z","dateModified":"2017-11-02T21:00:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"41826 http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=41826","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/08/31/6-storytelling-apps-that-get-english-language-learners-talking/","disqusTitle":"7 Storytelling Apps That Get English Language Learners Talking","nprByline":"Erin Wilkey Oh, \u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/\">Common Sense Graphite\u003c/a>","path":"/mindshift/41826/6-storytelling-apps-that-get-english-language-learners-talking","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For English language learners (ELLs) in the classroom, speaking English in front of others -- particularly native speakers -- can cause tremendous anxiety. In fact, the dread of speaking can actually interfere with students’ ability to learn. Even with the most well-planned, immersive, real-world learning opportunities, the brains of students with high anxiety won’t be receptive to learning, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdkrashen.com/content/books/principles_and_practice.pdf\">Stephen Krashen’s\u003c/a> “Affective Filter Hypothesis” (and the brain \u003ca href=\"http://www.edutopia.org/blog/neuroscience-behind-stress-and-learning-judy-willis\">research\u003c/a> that supports it).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can we design speaking activities that don’t make our students’ hearts race and palms sweat? Digital storytelling can be an effective way for ELLs to practice speaking English without the stress of being “on stage.” Apps and tech tools allow students to practice in the comfort of their own home by themselves or with a caregiver. With digital storytelling tools, students can spend time formulating their stories, self-reflect and self-assess, collaborate with peers of differing skill levels, and in the end, feel confident in their abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few digital storytelling tools to help get your ELLs talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kid-in-story-book-maker-create/id594403164?mt=8\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41829\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker.png\" alt=\"Kid in Story Book Maker\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker.png 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Kid-in-Story-Book-Maker-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/kid-in-story-book-maker/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Kid in Story Book Maker\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Elementary\u003cstrong>)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids use green screen-like technology to put photos of themselves (or others) into a story template, then add text and voice recording. In-app templates focus on social stories, like visiting a new place, getting a haircut, or holidays. For ELLs, the templates offer a useful foundation for building social language skills. Plus, the app’s voice recording feature offers low-stakes speaking practice since kids can record themselves talking, then can listen and re-record as many times as they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/tell-about-this\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41834\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Tell-About-This-e1441001761640.png\" alt=\"Tell About This\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/tell-about-this/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Tell About This\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Elementary)\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This versatile pre-writing or publishing tool is easy for young storytellers to use. Dozens of photos sorted into categories including culture, people, family and fun, serve as inspiration for prompts. Kids can tell stories using the in-app recording feature. Teachers can also create custom prompts with their own images and voice. Giving ELLs a safe space to tell stories about their lives and experiences validates their unique contributions to the class community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://get-puppet.co/education/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41831\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU.jpeg\" alt=\"Shadow Puppet EDU\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU.jpeg 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Shadow-Puppet-EDU-75x75.jpeg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/shadow-puppet-edu/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">ShadowPuppet Edu\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Elementary/Middle)\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students can create impressive video slideshows using research resources built right into the app. They can capture screengrabs from an interactive map, safely search for images from the Web and access image archives from trusted sources like the Library of Congress. Kids put the slides in order, add text, music and narration, and then export the final project as a video file. Shadow Puppet Edu supports ELLs in developing academic vocabulary in both collaborative groups and independently. Students can use it to review new concepts, present research, track progress, explain their thinking and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/toontastic-3d\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49603 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/toontastic3d.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/app/toontastic-3d\">Toontastic 3D\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Elementary/Middle)\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just as with the original Toontastic app, Toontastic 3D is a storytelling app that's inspired by puppetry, theater, and animation.\u003c/span> \u003c/strong>It employs a \"Story Arc\" with five sequential scenes to guide story structure (setup, conflict, challenge, climax and resolution). Kids move characters around each scene as they record narration and dialogue. For ELLs, Toontastic 3D can be an invaluable tool for building writing skills or practicing story analysis. Students can storyboard a piece of original writing or a story they read in class, and then bring it to life with fun settings and quirky characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/website/voicethread\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41833\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Voice-Thread-e1441001887395.png\" alt=\"Voice Thread\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/website/voicethread/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">VoiceThread\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Elementary/Middle/High)\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students or teachers can create and share media projects that incorporate video, image, voice, or even drawings. Once posted, projects can be open to text, voice or video comments from a select group or from all VoiceThread members. It's a natural fit for a range of student presentations and projects such as explaining research or retelling a story with original artwork. Alternately, teachers can create a VoiceThread to solicit student commentary. For ELLs who sometimes are hesitant to speak up in class, VoiceThread gives them a chance to thoughtfully craft their presentations or comments and contribute their ideas with confidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/explain-everything\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41830\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything.png\" alt=\"Expain Everything\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything.png 175w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Expain-Everything-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org/app/explain-everything/?utm_campaign=GraphiteMindshift%20&utm_medium=blogpost&utm_source=mindshift\">Explain Everything\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>(Middle/High)\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This formidable tool is like a superhero version of PowerPoint. Users can import photos, PDF files, movies and more from many sources to use in a presentation. Students can learn how to present information using multiple forms of expression (images, text, video and audio) through digital technology. Students can edit the audio in their presentations, which gives ELLs a chance to self-assess and revise before presenting to their peers and teacher. Plus, allowing students to create multimedia presentations can take some of the focus off the speaking task, and can give creative, tech-savvy students a chance to shine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/sutori\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49604 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-160x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/08/Sutori-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/sutori\">Sutori\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Middle/High)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sutori* is a tool for creating interactive timelines and stories. Students can craft multimedia projects with text, images, videos, “Did You Know” call-out boxes, click-to-reveal text links, and multiple-choice quiz questions. Sutori offers collaboration features, allowing students to co-create stories for group projects as well. Teachers and students can access pre-made stories and view or contribute to a collection of community submitted stories. Sutori is another great option for empowering ELLs to share their stories and knowledge without the stress of an oral presentation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erin Wilkey Oh is Executive Editor of Education Content for \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\">Common Sense\u003c/a>, creator of \u003ca href=\"https://www.graphite.org\">Graphite\u003c/a>, a free service for educators in search of the best apps, games and websites for learning. Tools included here have received high ratings on Graphite by educators and by the editorial staff at Common Sense. Go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.graphite.org/\">Graphite\u003c/a> to read full reviews of digital tools and how teachers use them for learning in class.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*This post has been updated to include Sutori. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/41826/6-storytelling-apps-that-get-english-language-learners-talking","authors":["byline_mindshift_41826"],"categories":["mindshift_195","mindshift_20788"],"tags":["mindshift_20525","mindshift_20583","mindshift_20851","mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040"],"featImg":"mindshift_41837","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_41165":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_41165","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"41165","score":null,"sort":[1438174801000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teacher-recommended-50-favorite-teaching-apps","title":"Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom Apps","publishDate":1438174801,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Educators and students are quickly becoming more comfortable with classroom technology, allowing them to shift from thinking about the technical side of integrating a new tool to focusing on how it improves learning. While the sheer number of education apps is still overwhelming, increasingly teachers have found what works for them and are sticking to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conversations I had were radically different than they were a year ago,” said \u003ca href=\"http://mluhtala.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Luhtala\u003c/a>, the librarian for New Canaan High School and host of an Emerging Tech webinar on \u003ca href=\"http://home.edweb.net/\" target=\"_blank\">edWeb\u003c/a>. She tapped her professional learning network of educators, teaching all grades and located all over the country, to share their favorite tech tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If it doesn’t feel different than it did a year ago, that's alarming. It should feel the same, but better.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A year ago people felt like it was this new thing that was so overwhelming,” Luhtala said, “and now it really seems much more comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators have become proficient with their favorite classroom apps and are getting more creative with using them to achieve teaching goals. “You are giving them an opportunity to improve their own expectations because they aren’t just dealing with the technology,\" Luhtala said. \"They are thinking about how to best integrate the innovation with content.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than picking an app and trying to find a place for it in the classroom, Luhtala is hearing educators and their students describe what they want to do and then how they chose a tech tool to make that happen. “They’re talking about what kids are doing in the classroom far more than they are about the devices and the apps,” Luhtala said. “That’s where we want to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luhtala has also noticed some app fatigue among her colleagues. If they are using something that works well, they’ll probably stick with it, even if another slightly better product comes along. Learning is hard and change is even harder, so once teachers have found a tool that meets their learning goals, they are unlikely to shift without a good reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to get the teachers on board with this at all, so to say we’re going to do it differently next year is a tough sell,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of apps that educators favor this year shares some commonalities with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/11/apps-that-rise-to-the-top-tested-and-approved-by-teachers/\" target=\"_blank\">last year’s favorites\u003c/a>. Teachers tend to drop apps if they become too expensive or sometimes if the updates are so overwhelming that they no longer know how to use the product. Luhtala explained it’s a delicate balance: “If it doesn’t feel different than it did a year ago, that’s alarming. It should feel the same, but better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The repeat apps that have made it to \u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/shelf/qzufyn3-edwebet59/\" target=\"_blank\">this favorite list\u003c/a> added functionality without doing so too quickly. They also tend to target younger students -- high school students mostly use their phones for personal computing and their laptops for school. The emphasis in the higher grades is still on reading and typing -- teachers give students fewer opportunities to express their learning in creative ways, so the tools of choice tend to be basic. High school kids use Google Apps because they can easily collaborate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>APPS TO ACQUIRE INFORMATION\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41311\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype.png\" alt=\"Skype\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype.png 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/skype/\" target=\"_blank\">Skype\u003c/a>: Educators love simple tools that they can use in multiple ways. Skype is a great way to virtually bring experts into the classroom and to help students make real-world connections to what they’re learning. “If we are talking about acquiring knowledge, Skype is brilliant,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Google-hangout-e1438028060143.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-41312 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Google-hangout-e1438028123180.png\" alt=\"Google hangout\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/google-hangouts/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Hangouts\u003c/a>: Similarly, Google Hangouts is a great tool for connecting with other educators, students and classes. It’s easy to integrate with other Google products like Google Calendar and easy to send notifications inviting people to the conversation. “It is a highly utilitarian tool because of all the functionalities,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41341\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio.jpg\" alt=\"junaio\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/junaio/\" target=\"_blank\">Junaio\u003c/a>: This augmented reality app is a great way to connect digital media content to a physical object. Unlike similar products, it will scan both QR codes and bar codes. It can be used in connection to maps, to find local events and in any number of other creative ways. “It’s really a cool way to discover your world,” Luhtala said. It works only on iPhones, but is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Screen-shot-2015-07-27-at-2.50.43-PM-e1438033977831.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41337\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Screen-shot-2015-07-27-at-2.50.43-PM-e1438033977831.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-07-27 at 2.50.43 PM\" width=\"140\" height=\"136\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/layar/\" target=\"_blank\">Layar\u003c/a>: Another augmented reality tool, several elementary school teachers found it worked better for little kids than Aurasma, which requires individual accounts that can get complicated with young learners. Luhtala has used augmented reality to attach student-created video book reviews to titles in the library. Compatible with iPhones and iPads, this app is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41338\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn.jpg\" alt=\"ilearn\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/ilearn-us-states/\" target=\"_blank\">iLearn United States\u003c/a>: This game-like app has a learn mode and a game mode. Students acquire facts about a state like its state flower and flag and then use that information in a game, scoring points against a clock. It works on iPhone and iPad and the lite version is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41339\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates.jpg\" alt=\"stackstates\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/stack-the-states/\" target=\"_blank\">Stack the States\u003c/a>: This app allows kids to play with virtual flashcards in a fun easy way. Once they know the information, they put them in their “stack.” It works on iPhones and iPads and the lite version is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Kahoot-e1438028199416.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41316\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Kahoot-e1438028199416.jpeg\" alt=\"Kahoot\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/kahoot/\" target=\"_blank\">Kahoot\u003c/a>: This app allows teachers to create quizzes that are more fun and interactive than what can be done simply in Google Forms. “Kahoot is an opportunity for teachers to create much more engaging materials,” Luhtala said. It also allows teachers to customize quizzes for students’ needs, changing details down to a very granular level. It is Web-based and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Plickers-e1438028309526.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41317\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Plickers-e1438028309526.png\" alt=\"Plickers\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/plickers/\" target=\"_blank\">Plickers\u003c/a>: One easy way many educators are using technology in the classroom is to have students respond to short questions during a lesson to test for understanding. That works fine when all kids have a smartphone or device, but Plickers is a solution for more low-tech classrooms. Teachers issue cards with choices on them (A,B,C,D). The teacher poses the question and students hold up the card corresponding to the answer they want to give. The teacher then uses her phone or iPad to scan across the room. Plickers registers the results and feeds it all into a database. It can be used on iPhone and Android devices as well as on the Web and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya.jpg\" alt=\"ABCya\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/abcya-com/\" target=\"_blank\">ABCya\u003c/a>: This app offers an interactive game-based learning environment for language. It is designed for grades K-5 and features beautiful design and crisp graphics. It’s also Web-based and uses Flash, but students can log in at home as well. This tool is Web-based and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Spelling-City.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-41308 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Spelling-City-e1438028148232.jpeg\" alt=\"Spelling City\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/vocabulary-spellingcity/\" target=\"_blank\">Spelling City\u003c/a>: The app offers 25 online spelling games. “It’s totally customizable so [the teacher] can have control over how to tie the word into a sentence,” Luhtala said. Teachers love this because they can connect the vocabulary to other classroom content and share what’s going on in class with parents. It is Web-based, as well as available on iPad and iPhone. The basic version is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41343\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic.jpg\" alt=\"epic\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/epic-books-for-kids/\" target=\"_blank\">Epic!\u003c/a>: This is essentially a huge e-book library. “They have amazing stuff,” Luhtala said. The collection includes everything from picture books to graphic novels and even junior novels. One teacher described Epic as “Netflix for kids books” because it offers thousands of titles. The books are for ages 4 and up and are fairly interactive. It is free and works on iPads and iPhones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Biblionasium-e1438028345921.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41318\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Biblionasium-e1438028345921.jpeg\" alt=\"Biblionasium\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/biblionasium/\" target=\"_blank\">Biblionasium\u003c/a>: Part learning management system, part conversation starter, Biblionasium is like GoodReads for elementary and middle school students. Teachers can create classrooms within the site, monitor students’ reading and see conversations around a book. This is a great way for younger kids to practice interacting in an online forum that is designated for them and their books. The site is Web-based and FREE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>APPS THAT HELP MAKE MEANING\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apps in this section help organize or share information that students or teachers have already found. “This is when we start shifting the knowledge around and owning it,” Luhtala said. “It’s not just ingesting knowledge, it’s manipulating it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Symbaloo-e1438028379372.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41319\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Symbaloo-e1438028379372.png\" alt=\"Symbaloo\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/symbaloo-edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Symbaloo\u003c/a>: Many teachers love this organizational tool. It allows a librarian or teacher to create accounts featuring a group of apps appropriate for each group of students. Kids can get comfortable with the apps and sites the teacher expects them to use without distractions. “This has been highly effective in the elementary library,” Luhtala said. This app is available on the Web, Android phones and iPhones. It’s free for individual use, $34.99/year for a librarian or teacher account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41344\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees.jpg\" alt=\"pearltrees\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/pearltrees/\" target=\"_blank\">Pearltrees\u003c/a>: Luhtala loves this app as an organizational, bookmarking and social tool all at once. It’s a bit like a Livebinder and allows users to share lists of resources easily. Luhtala’s one complaint is that she can’t duplicate a Pearltree and modify it without modifying the original. It’s available for iPhone, iPad and Web with flash and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Seesaw-app-e1438028409114.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Seesaw-app-e1438028409114.jpeg\" alt=\"Seesaw app\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/seesaw-the-learning-journal/\" target=\"_blank\">SeeSaw\u003c/a>: This is an easy portfolio tool that allows teachers, students and parents to see and access video, audio, photo and text artifacts of learning. It’s easy to set up and even kids at the lowest level can use it. “You can watch the growth of the student and collect that formative assessment evidence through their progression,” Luhtala said. It's compatible with iOS devices and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41345\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote.jpg\" alt=\"evernote\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41346\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability.jpg\" alt=\"notability\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/evernote/\" target=\"_blank\">Evernote\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/notability/\" target=\"_blank\">Notability\u003c/a>: Both these apps are often mentioned. Evernote is free and cross-platform, but tends to compartmentalize. Notability has a charge associated with it ($1.99 per download) and is only for iPads. However, that allows it to integrate elements of Apple apps into the experience. Luhtala’s sophomore students experimented with both apps and liked Notability better for school work. Luhtala believes the apps could have separate purposes, and users don’t have to choose one or the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/padlet-e1438028444487.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/padlet-e1438028444487.jpeg\" alt=\"padlet\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/padlet/\" target=\"_blank\">Padlet\u003c/a>: “I’ve shared this multiple times and will continue to share,” Luhtala said. The simple app is a great way to crowdsource info, essentially collecting notes from lots of people in one place. Padlet is Web-based and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41347\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit.jpg\" alt=\"postit\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/post-it-plus/\" target=\"_blank\">Post-it Plus\u003c/a>: This app is offering a solution to that moment at the end of a workshop when the whiteboard is covered in individual Post-it notes that need to be captured. Take a snapshot of the board with the app, and it recognizes each individual small Post-it as a separate message. The user can then reorganize and share. This app is iOS compatible and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo.png\" alt=\"Mindomo\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo.png 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/mindomo/\" target=\"_blank\">Mindomo\u003c/a>: This graphic organizing tool allows students to collaboratively create “mind-maps” of ideas. Luhtala used this tool with sophomores. “They were able to web out all their thinking and connect links to the major ideas around this one book,” she said. The free version allows a user to make three maps. After that a teacher license is $69/year. It is Web-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Desmos-e1438028498199.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Desmos-e1438028498199.png\" alt=\"Desmos\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/desmos/\" target=\"_blank\">Desmos\u003c/a>: This company has essentially replicated the functionalities of graphing calculators online, so all kids can have access. “Every kid should have access to amazing tools that makes math fun,” Luhtala said. Graphing calculators are often one of the most expensive things on a back-to-school list, making this software very useful. It is Web-based, works on iPads and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41348\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud.jpg\" alt=\"wordcloud\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/word-clouds-by-abcya-com/\" target=\"_blank\">Word Clouds\u003c/a>: Teachers use this app instead of Wordle if they use iPads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41349\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo.jpg\" alt=\"classdojo\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/classdojo/\" target=\"_blank\">ClassDojo\u003c/a>: This tool is a fun and easy way to keep track of student behavior, allowing teachers to take attendance quickly and give positive or negative reinforcement, depending on a child’s actions that day. Each student gets a critter and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/10/24/what-works-in-tech-tools-spotlight-on-classdojo/\" target=\"_blank\">some teachers find it very effective\u003c/a>. It works on iPhones and iPads, as well as Android phones and the Web. It is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41350\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind.jpg\" alt=\"photomind\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/photomind/\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoMind\u003c/a>: Luhtala loves this tool because she relies on pictures to document her life. It lets her set a reminder on a photo. “This is a great way to remind myself of things I need to do,” she said. It costs $2.99 and works on iPhones and iPads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Puffin-e1438028530611.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Puffin-e1438028530611.jpeg\" alt=\"Puffin\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/puffin-web-browser/\" target=\"_blank\">Puffin Web Browser\u003c/a>: Educators using iPads have trouble running any program with Flash or Javascript. This Web browser allows both and is a good workaround if there’s a Web-based tool that has been out of reach because of platform incompatibility. It also has fast load times. There is a free version that works with Android and iOS products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER APPS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids have ingested information, they’ve found ways to manipulate the information, and now they are ready to create something,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skitch-e1438028561697.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41325\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skitch-e1438028561697.png\" alt=\"Skitch\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/skitch/\" target=\"_blank\">Skitch\u003c/a>: This app allows students to take a picture, write on it, decorate it, direct it to someone else, even use emojii on it. It's another way to mix media to show understanding or add knowledge. Available for Android and iOS products for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/aviary-e1438028591427.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/aviary-e1438028591427.png\" alt=\"aviary\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/photo-editor-by-aviary/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Editor by Aviary\u003c/a>: This is a powerful photo editing tool with many rich options to tweak and share images. It works on both Android and iOS devices and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41351\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart.jpg\" alt=\"piktochart\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/piktochart/\" target=\"_blank\">Piktochart\u003c/a>: An easy app to creates beautiful infographics. It's free for the most simple templates and $39.99/month for over 100 themes. It is Web-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41352\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway.jpg\" alt=\"sway\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway.jpg\" alt=\"realsway\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/adobe-slate/\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Slate\u003c/a>: While similar to its competitor Microsoft Sway, some educators reported this presentation tool to be more engaging. “When I did this webinar a year ago, I didn’t feel there was a presentation tool that worked for me,” Luhtala said. “Now there are.\" Adobe Slate works on iPads and is free. \u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/sway/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Sway\u003c/a> is free and Web-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice.jpg\" alt=\"voice\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/adobe-voice/\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Voice\u003c/a>: This iPad (only) app allows users to attach a voice recording over images. It is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Tellagami-e1438028621364.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41327\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Tellagami-e1438028621364.jpeg\" alt=\"Tellagami\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/tellagami/\" target=\"_blank\">Tellagami\u003c/a>: This app has long been a favorite of many educators. It’s a quick and easy way to create and share animated messages. “Kids really like them in the lower school,” Luhtala said. It works on iPads, iPhones and Android devices, and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/30-Hands-e1438028659562.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41328\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/30-Hands-e1438028659562.png\" alt=\"30 Hands\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/30hands/\" target=\"_blank\">30Hands\u003c/a>: This storytelling app has been particularly successful with elementary kids who are still struggling to write all that they know. Instead, a student or teacher can narrate presentations or images, sharing their learning that way. This is for iOS devices and has a free version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Little-bird-tales-e1438028688119.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41329\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Little-bird-tales-e1438028688119.jpeg\" alt=\"Little bird tales\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/little-bird-tales/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Bird Tales\u003c/a>: Multiple educators wrote to Luhtala highlighting this favorite app. It’s another simple-to-use, voice-capture tool for storytelling. It's free, works on iOS devices and has a Web-based version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/powtoon-e1438028715242.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41330\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/powtoon-e1438028715242.jpg\" alt=\"powtoon\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/powtoon/\" target=\"_blank\">Powtoon\u003c/a>: This Web-based tool allows students to create animated presentations. Luhtala acknowledges that it has a steeper learning curve than some tools, but the payoff is pretty cool. There is a free version and an expanded educator version for $6.25/month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41356\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster.jpg\" alt=\"glogster\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/glogster/\" target=\"_blank\">Glogster\u003c/a>: This poster-making tool has been around for a long time, but recently got a huge overhaul. Now students can embed audio, video and music. Unfortunately, it is no longer free. Teacher light licenses start at $29.99/yr for 50 accounts. It works on the Web, iPads, iPhones, and Google Chrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi.jpg\" alt=\"prezi\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/prezi/\" target=\"_blank\">Prezi\u003c/a>: This is a good, free presentation tool for high school students. While some people complain it makes them dizzy, many still use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Scratch-e1438028775598.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41331\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Scratch-e1438028775598.jpeg\" alt=\"Scratch\" width=\"140\" height=\"151\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/scratch/\" target=\"_blank\">Scratch\u003c/a>: Lots of elementary school teachers use Scratch to teach rudimentary coding. This tool built at MIT Media Lab allows students to make neat programs, enhancing their coding knowledge as they go. It is Web-based and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code.jpg\" alt=\"made-with-code\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/made-with-code/\" target=\"_blank\">Made with Code\u003c/a>: This free Google product is meant to entice girls into making code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41358\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato.jpg\" alt=\"cato\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/catos-hike/\" target=\"_blank\">Cato’s Hike\u003c/a>: This is a game that teaches programming by expecting kids to figure out the rules to a new world as they make their way through it. As students play, they must use code to create a path around obstacles Cato faces on his adventure. Lite version is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Hopscotch-e1438028810674.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41332\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Hopscotch-e1438028810674.png\" alt=\"Hopscotch\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/hopscotch/\" target=\"_blank\">Hopscotch\u003c/a>: Another coding tool that many elementary school teachers use to expose students to the beginning of computational thinking and code. The tool allow students to build animations and games using a visual programming language. It works on iOS devices and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Pixel-Press--e1438028839174.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41333\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Pixel-Press--e1438028839174.png\" alt=\"Pixel Press\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/pixel-press-floors/\" target=\"_blank\">Pixel Press Floors\u003c/a>: One teacher described this game as a bit like Mario Brothers. Students can draw a blueprint for a video game and the app turns it into code. The game changes, depending on how they lay out their titles, and kids can share their tiles, essentially crowdsourcing ideas and collaboratively building. Then games can be published to the Arcade. This app is iOS compatible and is free (for now).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/green-screen-e1438028867916.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41334\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/green-screen-e1438028867916.jpeg\" alt=\"green screen\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/green-screen-by-do-ink/\" target=\"_blank\">Green Screen\u003c/a>: This app has been around for several years, but educators are still using it often. “Everyone who has iPads is using this,” Luhtala said. It’s only for iPads and it costs $2.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets.jpg\" alt=\"sock-puppets\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/sock-puppets/\" target=\"_blank\">Sock Puppet\u003c/a>: A video creator with sock puppet characters, students can lip sync their own videos. Only for iPhone and iPad and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia.jpg\" alt=\"knowmia\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/knowmia/\" target=\"_blank\">Knowmia\u003c/a>: Many teachers use this tool for flipping their lessons. The software offers lots of tools to design short video lessons. They can assign the video to their class and track who has watched it. Additionally, other people have access to the lesson. “It’s a way to have a larger audience and create tools you need,” Luhtala said. This is a Web-based tool and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41361\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia.jpg\" alt=\"camtasia\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/fuse-for-camtasia-relay/\" target=\"_blank\">TechSmith Fuse for Camtasia Relay\u003c/a>: This app is for the high-level video editor. It allows users to upload video and audio from an iPhone or iPad videos to a personal server, where they can edit and publish. It's free, but only works on iPads and iPhones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41363\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate.jpg\" alt=\"abcya-animate\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/abcya-animate/\" target=\"_blank\">ABCya Animate\u003c/a>: This versatile platform is so easy to use that kindergartners can make animations on it. It's Web-based and compatible with iPads, but costs $1.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41364\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk.jpg\" alt=\"DoInk\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/do-ink-animation-drawing/\" target=\"_blank\">Do Ink Animate and Draw\u003c/a>: A similar app for animating, this is better for older kids. It's only for iPad and costs $4.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41365\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix.jpg\" alt=\"chatterpix\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/chatterpix-kids/\" target=\"_blank\">Chatter Pix Kids\u003c/a>: Students can take photos or other images and easily create a voice over. It's free and iOS compatible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego.jpg\" alt=\"lego\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/lego-movie-maker/\" target=\"_blank\">Lego Movie Maker\u003c/a>: Students can create their own version of a Lego movie by building a scene and then capturing it with an iPad or iPhone. It's then easy to add and delete frames, adde a soundtrack, and even change the color filter. “This is just one more tool your kids will get jazzed about because who doesn’t love Legos?” Luhtala asked. It's free and iOS compatible.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Educators from around the country shared their favorite teaching apps.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1438127114,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":64,"wordCount":3168},"headData":{"title":"Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom Apps | KQED","description":"Educators from around the country shared their favorite teaching apps.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom Apps","datePublished":"2015-07-29T13:00:01.000Z","dateModified":"2015-07-28T23:45:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"41165 http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/?p=41165","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/29/teacher-recommended-50-favorite-teaching-apps/","disqusTitle":"Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom Apps","path":"/mindshift/41165/teacher-recommended-50-favorite-teaching-apps","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Educators and students are quickly becoming more comfortable with classroom technology, allowing them to shift from thinking about the technical side of integrating a new tool to focusing on how it improves learning. While the sheer number of education apps is still overwhelming, increasingly teachers have found what works for them and are sticking to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conversations I had were radically different than they were a year ago,” said \u003ca href=\"http://mluhtala.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Luhtala\u003c/a>, the librarian for New Canaan High School and host of an Emerging Tech webinar on \u003ca href=\"http://home.edweb.net/\" target=\"_blank\">edWeb\u003c/a>. She tapped her professional learning network of educators, teaching all grades and located all over the country, to share their favorite tech tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If it doesn’t feel different than it did a year ago, that's alarming. It should feel the same, but better.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“A year ago people felt like it was this new thing that was so overwhelming,” Luhtala said, “and now it really seems much more comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators have become proficient with their favorite classroom apps and are getting more creative with using them to achieve teaching goals. “You are giving them an opportunity to improve their own expectations because they aren’t just dealing with the technology,\" Luhtala said. \"They are thinking about how to best integrate the innovation with content.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than picking an app and trying to find a place for it in the classroom, Luhtala is hearing educators and their students describe what they want to do and then how they chose a tech tool to make that happen. “They’re talking about what kids are doing in the classroom far more than they are about the devices and the apps,” Luhtala said. “That’s where we want to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luhtala has also noticed some app fatigue among her colleagues. If they are using something that works well, they’ll probably stick with it, even if another slightly better product comes along. Learning is hard and change is even harder, so once teachers have found a tool that meets their learning goals, they are unlikely to shift without a good reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to get the teachers on board with this at all, so to say we’re going to do it differently next year is a tough sell,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of apps that educators favor this year shares some commonalities with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/11/apps-that-rise-to-the-top-tested-and-approved-by-teachers/\" target=\"_blank\">last year’s favorites\u003c/a>. Teachers tend to drop apps if they become too expensive or sometimes if the updates are so overwhelming that they no longer know how to use the product. Luhtala explained it’s a delicate balance: “If it doesn’t feel different than it did a year ago, that’s alarming. It should feel the same, but better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The repeat apps that have made it to \u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/shelf/qzufyn3-edwebet59/\" target=\"_blank\">this favorite list\u003c/a> added functionality without doing so too quickly. They also tend to target younger students -- high school students mostly use their phones for personal computing and their laptops for school. The emphasis in the higher grades is still on reading and typing -- teachers give students fewer opportunities to express their learning in creative ways, so the tools of choice tend to be basic. High school kids use Google Apps because they can easily collaborate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>APPS TO ACQUIRE INFORMATION\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41311\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype.png\" alt=\"Skype\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype.png 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skype-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/skype/\" target=\"_blank\">Skype\u003c/a>: Educators love simple tools that they can use in multiple ways. Skype is a great way to virtually bring experts into the classroom and to help students make real-world connections to what they’re learning. “If we are talking about acquiring knowledge, Skype is brilliant,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Google-hangout-e1438028060143.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-41312 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Google-hangout-e1438028123180.png\" alt=\"Google hangout\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/google-hangouts/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Hangouts\u003c/a>: Similarly, Google Hangouts is a great tool for connecting with other educators, students and classes. It’s easy to integrate with other Google products like Google Calendar and easy to send notifications inviting people to the conversation. “It is a highly utilitarian tool because of all the functionalities,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41341\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio.jpg\" alt=\"junaio\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/junaio-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/junaio/\" target=\"_blank\">Junaio\u003c/a>: This augmented reality app is a great way to connect digital media content to a physical object. Unlike similar products, it will scan both QR codes and bar codes. It can be used in connection to maps, to find local events and in any number of other creative ways. “It’s really a cool way to discover your world,” Luhtala said. It works only on iPhones, but is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Screen-shot-2015-07-27-at-2.50.43-PM-e1438033977831.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41337\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Screen-shot-2015-07-27-at-2.50.43-PM-e1438033977831.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2015-07-27 at 2.50.43 PM\" width=\"140\" height=\"136\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/layar/\" target=\"_blank\">Layar\u003c/a>: Another augmented reality tool, several elementary school teachers found it worked better for little kids than Aurasma, which requires individual accounts that can get complicated with young learners. Luhtala has used augmented reality to attach student-created video book reviews to titles in the library. Compatible with iPhones and iPads, this app is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41338\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn.jpg\" alt=\"ilearn\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ilearn-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/ilearn-us-states/\" target=\"_blank\">iLearn United States\u003c/a>: This game-like app has a learn mode and a game mode. Students acquire facts about a state like its state flower and flag and then use that information in a game, scoring points against a clock. It works on iPhone and iPad and the lite version is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41339\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates.jpg\" alt=\"stackstates\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/stackstates-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/stack-the-states/\" target=\"_blank\">Stack the States\u003c/a>: This app allows kids to play with virtual flashcards in a fun easy way. Once they know the information, they put them in their “stack.” It works on iPhones and iPads and the lite version is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Kahoot-e1438028199416.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41316\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Kahoot-e1438028199416.jpeg\" alt=\"Kahoot\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/kahoot/\" target=\"_blank\">Kahoot\u003c/a>: This app allows teachers to create quizzes that are more fun and interactive than what can be done simply in Google Forms. “Kahoot is an opportunity for teachers to create much more engaging materials,” Luhtala said. It also allows teachers to customize quizzes for students’ needs, changing details down to a very granular level. It is Web-based and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Plickers-e1438028309526.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41317\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Plickers-e1438028309526.png\" alt=\"Plickers\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/plickers/\" target=\"_blank\">Plickers\u003c/a>: One easy way many educators are using technology in the classroom is to have students respond to short questions during a lesson to test for understanding. That works fine when all kids have a smartphone or device, but Plickers is a solution for more low-tech classrooms. Teachers issue cards with choices on them (A,B,C,D). The teacher poses the question and students hold up the card corresponding to the answer they want to give. The teacher then uses her phone or iPad to scan across the room. Plickers registers the results and feeds it all into a database. It can be used on iPhone and Android devices as well as on the Web and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41340\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya.jpg\" alt=\"ABCya\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/ABCya-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/abcya-com/\" target=\"_blank\">ABCya\u003c/a>: This app offers an interactive game-based learning environment for language. It is designed for grades K-5 and features beautiful design and crisp graphics. It’s also Web-based and uses Flash, but students can log in at home as well. This tool is Web-based and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Spelling-City.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-41308 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Spelling-City-e1438028148232.jpeg\" alt=\"Spelling City\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/vocabulary-spellingcity/\" target=\"_blank\">Spelling City\u003c/a>: The app offers 25 online spelling games. “It’s totally customizable so [the teacher] can have control over how to tie the word into a sentence,” Luhtala said. Teachers love this because they can connect the vocabulary to other classroom content and share what’s going on in class with parents. It is Web-based, as well as available on iPad and iPhone. The basic version is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41343\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic.jpg\" alt=\"epic\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/epic-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/epic-books-for-kids/\" target=\"_blank\">Epic!\u003c/a>: This is essentially a huge e-book library. “They have amazing stuff,” Luhtala said. The collection includes everything from picture books to graphic novels and even junior novels. One teacher described Epic as “Netflix for kids books” because it offers thousands of titles. The books are for ages 4 and up and are fairly interactive. It is free and works on iPads and iPhones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Biblionasium-e1438028345921.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41318\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Biblionasium-e1438028345921.jpeg\" alt=\"Biblionasium\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/biblionasium/\" target=\"_blank\">Biblionasium\u003c/a>: Part learning management system, part conversation starter, Biblionasium is like GoodReads for elementary and middle school students. Teachers can create classrooms within the site, monitor students’ reading and see conversations around a book. This is a great way for younger kids to practice interacting in an online forum that is designated for them and their books. The site is Web-based and FREE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>APPS THAT HELP MAKE MEANING\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apps in this section help organize or share information that students or teachers have already found. “This is when we start shifting the knowledge around and owning it,” Luhtala said. “It’s not just ingesting knowledge, it’s manipulating it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Symbaloo-e1438028379372.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41319\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Symbaloo-e1438028379372.png\" alt=\"Symbaloo\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/symbaloo-edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Symbaloo\u003c/a>: Many teachers love this organizational tool. It allows a librarian or teacher to create accounts featuring a group of apps appropriate for each group of students. Kids can get comfortable with the apps and sites the teacher expects them to use without distractions. “This has been highly effective in the elementary library,” Luhtala said. This app is available on the Web, Android phones and iPhones. It’s free for individual use, $34.99/year for a librarian or teacher account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41344\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees.jpg\" alt=\"pearltrees\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/pearltrees-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/pearltrees/\" target=\"_blank\">Pearltrees\u003c/a>: Luhtala loves this app as an organizational, bookmarking and social tool all at once. It’s a bit like a Livebinder and allows users to share lists of resources easily. Luhtala’s one complaint is that she can’t duplicate a Pearltree and modify it without modifying the original. It’s available for iPhone, iPad and Web with flash and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Seesaw-app-e1438028409114.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41320\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Seesaw-app-e1438028409114.jpeg\" alt=\"Seesaw app\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/seesaw-the-learning-journal/\" target=\"_blank\">SeeSaw\u003c/a>: This is an easy portfolio tool that allows teachers, students and parents to see and access video, audio, photo and text artifacts of learning. It’s easy to set up and even kids at the lowest level can use it. “You can watch the growth of the student and collect that formative assessment evidence through their progression,” Luhtala said. It's compatible with iOS devices and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41345\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote.jpg\" alt=\"evernote\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/evernote-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41346\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability.jpg\" alt=\"notability\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/notability-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/evernote/\" target=\"_blank\">Evernote\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/notability/\" target=\"_blank\">Notability\u003c/a>: Both these apps are often mentioned. Evernote is free and cross-platform, but tends to compartmentalize. Notability has a charge associated with it ($1.99 per download) and is only for iPads. However, that allows it to integrate elements of Apple apps into the experience. Luhtala’s sophomore students experimented with both apps and liked Notability better for school work. Luhtala believes the apps could have separate purposes, and users don’t have to choose one or the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/padlet-e1438028444487.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/padlet-e1438028444487.jpeg\" alt=\"padlet\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/padlet/\" target=\"_blank\">Padlet\u003c/a>: “I’ve shared this multiple times and will continue to share,” Luhtala said. The simple app is a great way to crowdsource info, essentially collecting notes from lots of people in one place. Padlet is Web-based and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41347\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit.jpg\" alt=\"postit\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/postit-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/post-it-plus/\" target=\"_blank\">Post-it Plus\u003c/a>: This app is offering a solution to that moment at the end of a workshop when the whiteboard is covered in individual Post-it notes that need to be captured. Take a snapshot of the board with the app, and it recognizes each individual small Post-it as a separate message. The user can then reorganize and share. This app is iOS compatible and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo.png\" alt=\"Mindomo\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo.png 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Mindomo-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/mindomo/\" target=\"_blank\">Mindomo\u003c/a>: This graphic organizing tool allows students to collaboratively create “mind-maps” of ideas. Luhtala used this tool with sophomores. “They were able to web out all their thinking and connect links to the major ideas around this one book,” she said. The free version allows a user to make three maps. After that a teacher license is $69/year. It is Web-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Desmos-e1438028498199.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Desmos-e1438028498199.png\" alt=\"Desmos\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/desmos/\" target=\"_blank\">Desmos\u003c/a>: This company has essentially replicated the functionalities of graphing calculators online, so all kids can have access. “Every kid should have access to amazing tools that makes math fun,” Luhtala said. Graphing calculators are often one of the most expensive things on a back-to-school list, making this software very useful. It is Web-based, works on iPads and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41348\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud.jpg\" alt=\"wordcloud\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/wordcloud-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/word-clouds-by-abcya-com/\" target=\"_blank\">Word Clouds\u003c/a>: Teachers use this app instead of Wordle if they use iPads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41349\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo.jpg\" alt=\"classdojo\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/classdojo-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/classdojo/\" target=\"_blank\">ClassDojo\u003c/a>: This tool is a fun and easy way to keep track of student behavior, allowing teachers to take attendance quickly and give positive or negative reinforcement, depending on a child’s actions that day. Each student gets a critter and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/10/24/what-works-in-tech-tools-spotlight-on-classdojo/\" target=\"_blank\">some teachers find it very effective\u003c/a>. It works on iPhones and iPads, as well as Android phones and the Web. It is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41350\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind.jpg\" alt=\"photomind\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/photomind-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/photomind/\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoMind\u003c/a>: Luhtala loves this tool because she relies on pictures to document her life. It lets her set a reminder on a photo. “This is a great way to remind myself of things I need to do,” she said. It costs $2.99 and works on iPhones and iPads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Puffin-e1438028530611.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Puffin-e1438028530611.jpeg\" alt=\"Puffin\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/puffin-web-browser/\" target=\"_blank\">Puffin Web Browser\u003c/a>: Educators using iPads have trouble running any program with Flash or Javascript. This Web browser allows both and is a good workaround if there’s a Web-based tool that has been out of reach because of platform incompatibility. It also has fast load times. There is a free version that works with Android and iOS products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER APPS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids have ingested information, they’ve found ways to manipulate the information, and now they are ready to create something,” Luhtala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skitch-e1438028561697.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41325\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Skitch-e1438028561697.png\" alt=\"Skitch\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/skitch/\" target=\"_blank\">Skitch\u003c/a>: This app allows students to take a picture, write on it, decorate it, direct it to someone else, even use emojii on it. It's another way to mix media to show understanding or add knowledge. Available for Android and iOS products for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/aviary-e1438028591427.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/aviary-e1438028591427.png\" alt=\"aviary\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/photo-editor-by-aviary/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Editor by Aviary\u003c/a>: This is a powerful photo editing tool with many rich options to tweak and share images. It works on both Android and iOS devices and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41351\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart.jpg\" alt=\"piktochart\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/piktochart-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/piktochart/\" target=\"_blank\">Piktochart\u003c/a>: An easy app to creates beautiful infographics. It's free for the most simple templates and $39.99/month for over 100 themes. It is Web-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41352\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway.jpg\" alt=\"sway\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sway-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway.jpg\" alt=\"realsway\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/realsway-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/adobe-slate/\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Slate\u003c/a>: While similar to its competitor Microsoft Sway, some educators reported this presentation tool to be more engaging. “When I did this webinar a year ago, I didn’t feel there was a presentation tool that worked for me,” Luhtala said. “Now there are.\" Adobe Slate works on iPads and is free. \u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/sway/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Sway\u003c/a> is free and Web-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice.jpg\" alt=\"voice\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/voice-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/adobe-voice/\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Voice\u003c/a>: This iPad (only) app allows users to attach a voice recording over images. It is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Tellagami-e1438028621364.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41327\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Tellagami-e1438028621364.jpeg\" alt=\"Tellagami\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/tellagami/\" target=\"_blank\">Tellagami\u003c/a>: This app has long been a favorite of many educators. It’s a quick and easy way to create and share animated messages. “Kids really like them in the lower school,” Luhtala said. It works on iPads, iPhones and Android devices, and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/30-Hands-e1438028659562.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41328\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/30-Hands-e1438028659562.png\" alt=\"30 Hands\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/30hands/\" target=\"_blank\">30Hands\u003c/a>: This storytelling app has been particularly successful with elementary kids who are still struggling to write all that they know. Instead, a student or teacher can narrate presentations or images, sharing their learning that way. This is for iOS devices and has a free version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Little-bird-tales-e1438028688119.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41329\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Little-bird-tales-e1438028688119.jpeg\" alt=\"Little bird tales\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/little-bird-tales/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Bird Tales\u003c/a>: Multiple educators wrote to Luhtala highlighting this favorite app. It’s another simple-to-use, voice-capture tool for storytelling. It's free, works on iOS devices and has a Web-based version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/powtoon-e1438028715242.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41330\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/powtoon-e1438028715242.jpg\" alt=\"powtoon\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/powtoon/\" target=\"_blank\">Powtoon\u003c/a>: This Web-based tool allows students to create animated presentations. Luhtala acknowledges that it has a steeper learning curve than some tools, but the payoff is pretty cool. There is a free version and an expanded educator version for $6.25/month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41356\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster.jpg\" alt=\"glogster\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/glogster-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/glogster/\" target=\"_blank\">Glogster\u003c/a>: This poster-making tool has been around for a long time, but recently got a huge overhaul. Now students can embed audio, video and music. Unfortunately, it is no longer free. Teacher light licenses start at $29.99/yr for 50 accounts. It works on the Web, iPads, iPhones, and Google Chrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi.jpg\" alt=\"prezi\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/prezi-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/prezi/\" target=\"_blank\">Prezi\u003c/a>: This is a good, free presentation tool for high school students. While some people complain it makes them dizzy, many still use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Scratch-e1438028775598.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41331\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Scratch-e1438028775598.jpeg\" alt=\"Scratch\" width=\"140\" height=\"151\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/scratch/\" target=\"_blank\">Scratch\u003c/a>: Lots of elementary school teachers use Scratch to teach rudimentary coding. This tool built at MIT Media Lab allows students to make neat programs, enhancing their coding knowledge as they go. It is Web-based and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code.jpg\" alt=\"made-with-code\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/made-with-code-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/made-with-code/\" target=\"_blank\">Made with Code\u003c/a>: This free Google product is meant to entice girls into making code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41358\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato.jpg\" alt=\"cato\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/cato-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/catos-hike/\" target=\"_blank\">Cato’s Hike\u003c/a>: This is a game that teaches programming by expecting kids to figure out the rules to a new world as they make their way through it. As students play, they must use code to create a path around obstacles Cato faces on his adventure. Lite version is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Hopscotch-e1438028810674.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41332\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Hopscotch-e1438028810674.png\" alt=\"Hopscotch\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/hopscotch/\" target=\"_blank\">Hopscotch\u003c/a>: Another coding tool that many elementary school teachers use to expose students to the beginning of computational thinking and code. The tool allow students to build animations and games using a visual programming language. It works on iOS devices and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Pixel-Press--e1438028839174.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41333\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/Pixel-Press--e1438028839174.png\" alt=\"Pixel Press\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/pixel-press-floors/\" target=\"_blank\">Pixel Press Floors\u003c/a>: One teacher described this game as a bit like Mario Brothers. Students can draw a blueprint for a video game and the app turns it into code. The game changes, depending on how they lay out their titles, and kids can share their tiles, essentially crowdsourcing ideas and collaboratively building. Then games can be published to the Arcade. This app is iOS compatible and is free (for now).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/green-screen-e1438028867916.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41334\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/green-screen-e1438028867916.jpeg\" alt=\"green screen\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/green-screen-by-do-ink/\" target=\"_blank\">Green Screen\u003c/a>: This app has been around for several years, but educators are still using it often. “Everyone who has iPads is using this,” Luhtala said. It’s only for iPads and it costs $2.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets.jpg\" alt=\"sock-puppets\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/sock-puppets-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/sock-puppets/\" target=\"_blank\">Sock Puppet\u003c/a>: A video creator with sock puppet characters, students can lip sync their own videos. Only for iPhone and iPad and free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41359\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia.jpg\" alt=\"knowmia\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/knowmia-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/knowmia/\" target=\"_blank\">Knowmia\u003c/a>: Many teachers use this tool for flipping their lessons. The software offers lots of tools to design short video lessons. They can assign the video to their class and track who has watched it. Additionally, other people have access to the lesson. “It’s a way to have a larger audience and create tools you need,” Luhtala said. This is a Web-based tool and is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41361\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia.jpg\" alt=\"camtasia\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/camtasia-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/fuse-for-camtasia-relay/\" target=\"_blank\">TechSmith Fuse for Camtasia Relay\u003c/a>: This app is for the high-level video editor. It allows users to upload video and audio from an iPhone or iPad videos to a personal server, where they can edit and publish. It's free, but only works on iPads and iPhones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41363\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate.jpg\" alt=\"abcya-animate\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/abcya-animate-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/abcya-animate/\" target=\"_blank\">ABCya Animate\u003c/a>: This versatile platform is so easy to use that kindergartners can make animations on it. It's Web-based and compatible with iPads, but costs $1.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41364\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk.jpg\" alt=\"DoInk\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/DoInk-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/do-ink-animation-drawing/\" target=\"_blank\">Do Ink Animate and Draw\u003c/a>: A similar app for animating, this is better for older kids. It's only for iPad and costs $4.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41365\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix.jpg\" alt=\"chatterpix\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/chatterpix-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/chatterpix-kids/\" target=\"_blank\">Chatter Pix Kids\u003c/a>: Students can take photos or other images and easily create a voice over. It's free and iOS compatible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego.jpg\" alt=\"lego\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2015/07/lego-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://edshelf.com/tool/lego-movie-maker/\" target=\"_blank\">Lego Movie Maker\u003c/a>: Students can create their own version of a Lego movie by building a scene and then capturing it with an iPad or iPhone. 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