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May 2015 | Volume 72 | Number 8
Teaching with Mobile Tech Pages 36-41

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Choosing Apps by Design

Jay McTighe and Tom March

By using a few powerful digital tools, we can help students reach important academic goals.

Not long ago, schools were struggling to provide students with access to computers, the Internet, and advanced software. Today, many students enter our classrooms with all three right in their pockets or backpacks.

How can we take advantage of our new Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) reality? We might look for answers in blog posts and articles bearing titles like "20 Awesome Digital Learning Tools," or "100 Top Apps for Learning." We might pore over online collections like APPitic to find the latest and greatest education apps. But is more technology the answer? Will the newest digital tool really show us the way?

 

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