Short and sweet Teens-on-the-Tenth today – mostly because I’d love to hear your feedback. I ran across a great piece on asha.org about apps that target high school related skills. It got me thinking about a common thread that winds throughout almost every TOTT post – age appropriateness. I cringe when my students play those preschool themed alphabet apps – why do I even have that on our class iPad? There has to apps that aren’t sung in a high pitched toddlers voice. I revamped my iPad a bit and gave it a good teenager approved spring cleaning. I – of course – let things like “The Monster at the End of the Book” stay because I personally think it is hilarious. Preschool themed? Maybe. Still appropriate for all ages? Definitely.
Along with the age appropriate issue, is that our high schoolers often need to be working on a completely different set of skills. In the wonderful world of apps – which ones can help us target these skill areas?
I ran across a few awesome ideas and then would love to hear yours. One site- otsiwthapps.com (how was I not following this website??) – gave a list of so many creative and brilliant apps that I almost want to ditch my classroom of tweens for the big guys because I had so many teaching ideas from this list of apps. Seriously cool.
Any recommendations? What great apps target high school based skills?
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Oh my gosh that is an awesome site! Thanks for sharing it! The Conover company makes a number of functional skills apps that include video modeling that I like and you can buy just the ones you want. Don’t know if it is included in the site you have because I haven’t made it all the way through it yet–there are so many great ideas!
Chris
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I know! I was SO pumped when I found it. Thanks for the app recommendation 🙂
Thanks for the info! I agree sometimes you need to do a little spring clean on your i Pad! It is hard to fine apps that cater to the upper grade bands. I think I may have found a helpful one called rainbow sentences and they have several other apps as well!
Ooo – I will have to check that out! Thanks for sharing 🙂