Apps for Learning

How to teach "generation app"

This first book in a three-book series offers a wealth of strategies for integrating 40 of the most effective applications—or apps—for the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone into K–12 classrooms to cultivate 21st century fluencies. The authors show how to use them to enhance teaching and learning and to address curricular objectives in an engaging, relevant, real-world environment. Written by practitioners for practitioners, key features include:

• Apps with an extended shelf life, such as Pages, Keynote, iMovie, and Google Earth
• An overview of each app′s cost, application type, curriculum area, basic functions and features
• Examples for using each tool in practice