iPad App Review Assignment

Lindsay Evens

EDU 571: Technology for the Elementary Classroom

Medaille College

Mary Beth Scumaci

August 5, 2017
 1. ELA Reading App
Subject Area: English Language Arts: Reading
App Title: Story Patch
App Price: $2.99
Languages: English

Rationale: Story Patch helps users to create and tell stories in a fun way. There are lots of different illustrations
and customizations available. This application allows students to easily tell stories and to be creative by
creating story lines, and developing characters. This app is ideal for prereaders and early readers, making it
suitable for Grade 1. Using this app to support students story telling will help to engage more students. Some
students may be very successful using traditional story development methods, but by enhancing this experience
through technology teachers can engage students who prefer visuals and those who may struggle with writing
by providing a fun and interactive experience.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
6b Creative Communicator: Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by
creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

ISTE Standards for Teacher

6c Facilitator: Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and
computational thinking to innovate and solve problems.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Literature [RL]
Grade: 1
Topic: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Item number and statement: 7. Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its
characters, setting or events.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Reading
Grade: 1
Overall Expectations: By the end of Grade 1, students will: 1. read and demonstrate an
understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies
to construct meaning.
Specific Expectation: Reading for Meaning Demonstrating Understanding 1.4 demonstrate
understanding of a text by retelling the story or restating infromation from the text, including the
main idea (e.g., retell a story or restate facts, including the main idea and important events, in
accurate time order; role-lay or dramatize a story or informational text using puppets or props).
 2. ELA Writing App
Subject Area: English Language Arts: Writing
App Title: Writing Challenge for Kids
App Price: Free
Languages: English, Spanish

Rationale: This app is fun and easy to use to support students when planning and writing stories. This app
prompts students with various ideas to get them started on their stories. The app refers to different means used
to develop their stories such as setting or character to help their ideas continue to flow! This free app will be a
great way to help students who are encountering writers block or those who are having trouble getting their
stories started. It will also help to engage students who enjoy working with technology.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
1c Empowered Learning: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves
their pactice to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

ISTE Standards for Teacher

5b Designer: Design authentic learning activities that alighn with content area standards and use
digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Writing Standards K-5 [W]
Grade: 1
Topic: Text Types and Purposes
Item number and statement: 3. Write narratives in which they recount two or more
appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal
words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Writing
Grade: 1
Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 1, students will: 1. generate, gather, and organize
ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
Specific Expectation: 1. Developing and Organizing Content Developing Ideas 1.2 generate
ideas about a potential topic, using a variety of strategies and resources (e.g., ask questions to
identify personal experiences, prior knowledge, and information needs; brainstorm ideas with the
class).
 3. ENL App
Subject Area: English Language Arts: Speaking
App Title: Duolingo
App Price: Free
Languages: English, Arabic, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified
Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Rationale: This app is very easy to use. Once you download it, it will begin to assess your current level within
a language and guide you through your learning from there. There are different modules within each language
course that are grouped together and form your skills. Throughout, user progress is celebrated and shared. The
app will prompt you regularly to ensure you stay on track and reminds you to login regularly to stay on top of
your learning. This app will help students to reinforce the language learning that they experience in the
classroom and also comes in a kids-specific version and teachers can now track student progress!

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
1c Empowered Learner: Students use technology to seek feedback atht informs and improves their
practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
ISTE Standards for Teacher
5a Designer: Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster
independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Speaking and Listening Standards K5 [SL]
Grade: 1
Topic: Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Item number and statement: 4. Describe people, places, things and events with relevant
details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Language Oral Communication
Grade: 1
Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 1, students will: 2. use speaking skills and strategies
appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
Specific Expectation: Appropriate Language 2.4 choose appropriate words to communicate
their meaning accurately and engage the interest of their audience (e.g., choose words relevant to
the topic from the full range of their vocabulary, including new words used regularly in the
classroom; use descriptive adjectives to larify and add interst to a narrative; use inclusive
language that conveys respect for all people).
 4. SWD App
Subject Area: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies
App Title: First Then Visual Schedule
App Price: $9.99
Languages: English

Rationale: Although the price is high, this app could be greatly beneficial to students who need some additional
support with time management, staying on task, being motivated by what comes next, and those who benefit
from knowing the sequence of events. This app has a variety of viewing options which helps all users, but
especially those with a visual impairment. Users can leverage the countdown and interval timers for the
completion of an entire schedule or each step of a schedule. This app allows you to create and use different
visual supports, including: visual schedules, boards, choice boards, video models, stories and task analyses.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
1a Empowered Learner: Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies
leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning
outcomes.

ISTE Standards for Teacher

5a Designer : Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster
independent learning and commodate learner differences and needs.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Mathematics
Grade: 1
Topic: Measurement and Data: Tell and write time and money.
Item number and statement: 3. Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and
digital clocks. Recognize and identify coins, their names, and their value.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Mathematics Number Sense and Numeration
Grade: 1
Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade1, students will: read, represent, compare, and order
whole numbers to 50, and use concrete materials to investigate fractions and money amounts.
Specific Expectation: Counting use ordinal numbers to thirty-first in meaningful contexts (e.g.,
identify the days of the month on a calendar).
 5. Content Area 1 - Math App
Subject Area: Mathematics
App Title: First Grade Splash Math Learning Practice for Kids
App Price: $9.99
Languages: English, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French,
German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian
Bokml, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish,
Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Rationale: The First Grade Splash Math Learning Practice for Kids app is fun and motivating for students.
Kids can track their progress and achieve aquarium rewards to keep them going. Directions for each activity
are provided in text, aloud or through animation. This app goes into math topics in depth and students are
motivated by earning fish to add to their aquarium. This app is a great way for students to reinforce their in-
class learning and provide additional support to students who are struggling or who would like additional
practice. This is a fun and interactive way to motivate students to learn and enjoy math.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
1c Empowered Learner: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their
practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

ISTE Standards for Teacher

5a Designer : Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use
digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Mathematics Operations & Algebraic Thinking 1.OA
Grade: 1
Topic: Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
Item number and statement: 2. Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole
numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations
with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Mathematics
Grade: 1
Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 1, students will: solve problems invovling the
addition and subtraction of single-digit whole numbers, using a variety of strategies.
Specific Expectation: Operational Sense solve problems involving the addition and
subtraction of single-digit whole numbers, using a variety of mental strategies (e.g., one more
than, one less than, counting on, counting back, doubles).
 6. Content Area 2 - Science App
Subject Area: Science
App Title: GazziliScience
App Price: $1.99
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian,
Simplified Chinese, Spanish

Rationale: GazziliScience is part of the GazziliWorld app family. This app teaches students about science
through their tours where a narrator explains a lesson in sequence with opportunities throughout for students to
pause, interact, and review. GazziliScience is an interactive tool for students to gain an understanding of an
entire lesson through great visuals and activities for reinforcement.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
1a Empowered Learner: Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies
leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning
outcomes.

ISTE Standards for Teacher

5b Designer : Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use
digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning

New York State P-12 Common Core Standards

Standard Strand: Science
Grade: 1
Topic: Standard 1: Analysis, Inquiry, and Design
Item number and statement: The central purpose of scientify inquiry is to develop
explanations of natural phenomena in a continuing, creative process. S1.1 Ask why questions
in attempts to seek greater understanding concerning objects and events they have observed and
heard about. S1.1a observe and discuss objects and events and record observations.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Science & Technology
Grade: 1
Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 1, students will: 2. investigate needs and
characteristics of plants and animals, including humans.
Specific Expectation: 2. Developing Investigation and Communication Skills 2.3 investigate
and compare the physical characteristics of a variety of plants and animals, including humans
(e.g., some plants produce flowers and some do not; most plants have roots; some animals have
two legs, while others have four; all animals have sense organs).
 7. Your Choice Grade 1 App
Subject Area: English Language Arts: Writing, and Mathematics
App Title: TeachMe: 1st Grade
App Price: $1.99
Languages: English

Rationale: This app is part of the TeachMe family of educational apps. This application covers sight words,
spelling, addition and subtraction by identifying and understanding the users written responses. As a result,
writing and spelling are incorporated into the use of the application. There is a coin reward system to keep
users motivated and the coins can be spent on rewards such as a virtual aquarium or making a creative scene in
the art store. Its great that students can integrate and enhance their writing skills while learning about other
subjects such as math.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
1c Empowered Learner: Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their
practice to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
ISTE Standards for Teacher
5b Designer : Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use
digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Reading Standards for Foundational Skills (Fluency) K5 [RF]
Grade: 1
Topic: Fluency
Item number and statement: 4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support
comprehension. 4a Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Reading
Grade: 1
Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 1, students will: 4. use knowledge of wrods and
cueing systems to read fluently.
Specific Expectation: 3. Reading with Fluency 3.1 Reading Familiar Words: automatically
read and understand some high-frequency words and words of personal interest or significance,
in a variety of reading contexts (e.g., the same word in different graphic representations such as:
on the word wall; in shared-, guided-, and independent-reading texts; on shared- and interactive-
writing charts; in personal writing; in a variety of fonts)
 8. Your Choice Math App
Subject Area: Mathematics
App Title: Monster Math
App Price: Free
Languages: English

Rationale: This math game app helps students to practice their math skills by completing math problems to
progress through a story. Users can select what math skills they want to learn about at a given time. Users can
name their monster, and then they use this monster to progress through the story in order to rescue their best
friend. There are multiple levels which will lend itself well to supporting students at varying learning levels at
the same time. Teachers can obtain reports on their students progress and then use this information to focus
their teaching on areas of opportunity for students and customize learning to student needs.

Standards:
ISTE Standards for Students
6d. Technology Operations & Concepts: Transfer current knowledge to learning new
technologies
ISTE Standards for Teacher
5a Designer : Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster
independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
New York State P-12 Common Core Standards
Standard Strand: Mathematics Operations & Algebraic Thinking 1.OA
Grade: 1
Topic: Work with addition and subtraction equations.
Item number and statement: 7. Understand the eaning of the equal sign, and determine if
equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false. For example, which of the
following equations are true and which are false? 6=6, 7=8-1, 5+2=2+5, 4+1=5+2.

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

Standard Strand: Mathematics
Grade: 1
Overall Expectation: By the end of Grade 1, students will solve problems involving the
addition and subtraction of single-digit whole numbers, using a variety of strategies.
Specific Expectation: Operational Sense: solve problems involving addition and subtraction of
single-digit whole numbers, using a variety of mental strategies (e.g., one more than, one less
than, counting on, couting back, doubles).