Category: tablet

My first Android app

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I have been toying with App Inventor off and on since it was first opened on the Google website and was very excited to hear that the project was being open-sourced and moved to MIT’s Center for Mobile Learning. It is still in limited, beta release there and I am now able access this tool… Continue reading My first Android app

Jessica Prois: In World of Education Apps, Tech Owes Teachers Some Media Literacy

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Tablet PC by pascal79 on May 25, 2005 fromhttp://www.sxc.hu/photo/299974 Here’s an essay by a teacher-turned-writer Jessica Prois that makes some excellent points about the unfocused excitement for apps that is drawing the attention of some educators. “The panel and audience discussed whether software is being created and tossed out there with no way for parents… Continue reading Jessica Prois: In World of Education Apps, Tech Owes Teachers Some Media Literacy