When I first got iPads, I suffered from App Overload!
What is app overload? That is when the librarian downloads any and every cool free app that has anything to do with education and puts them all out there for the kids. Sure, the students need to see different apps and they do need time to explore the apps and "play" with them before we use them for classwork and assignments. Similiar to how when I taught kindergarten, I let the kids play with the unifex cubes prior to making patterns and doing base ten work, you have to let them explore!
I had a lot of great free apps:
I then came to the understanding that I needed to "weed" my apps and just because one is free doesn't mean that it needs to be used. I cleaned up my iPads and I continue to try to stay on this. You can remove or add an app as you need it for your class. You may not want to leave everything
So the moral of the story is, just because it's free doesn't mean you have to get it!
What is app overload? That is when the librarian downloads any and every cool free app that has anything to do with education and puts them all out there for the kids. Sure, the students need to see different apps and they do need time to explore the apps and "play" with them before we use them for classwork and assignments. Similiar to how when I taught kindergarten, I let the kids play with the unifex cubes prior to making patterns and doing base ten work, you have to let them explore!
I had a lot of great free apps:
- Penguin Math
- Zoom Math
- Wordsearch
- Stack the States lite
- Stack the Countries lite
- Chickanary
- and so on and so on
I then came to the understanding that I needed to "weed" my apps and just because one is free doesn't mean that it needs to be used. I cleaned up my iPads and I continue to try to stay on this. You can remove or add an app as you need it for your class. You may not want to leave everything
So the moral of the story is, just because it's free doesn't mean you have to get it!