Evaluating Apps for Educational Purposes...

The old days when teachers relied on books, paper and pencils to teach are long gone. Modern technology has reached our classrooms making the learning experience for our students more interactive and engaging. We have so many options to choose from, whether we only have access to desktop computers or tablets there are thousands of apps to help us teach according to our lesson plans and activities. Now I don't know about you but this sounds amazing to me!
The first app I evaluated with the help of this article called "iPad in Education: Evaluating Apps for the classroom" is called Duolingo. I had a lot of fun using Duolingo, this app allows your students to learn real life situations in any language. I chose Spanish because that's the language I'm interested in learning so I worked on different levels. Duolingo lets you chat about real life situation and listen to native speakers talk about them. Students can access this fun app at home and work on their iPads or cell phones if they can. For the second app I used an article called "Educational Apps: 4 Pillars for Evaluating Classroom Technology"  it's called FluentU this app wasn't as fun as the other one. FluentU is more formal, it's more for older students I would say. It uses a lot of videos and then it quizzes you on their content. You learn a lot don't take me wrong, but if your students get easily bored this is not the app for your class.