Cooney Center Looks at Education Apps
The increasing availability of free or cheap apps for education have made the devices a popular choice among some techie teachers, and even helped some schools and districts move toward 1-to-1 computing. But with 100,000 apps out there, how’s a teacher to find, review, and decide which ones will work best with students?
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop recently released a content analysis of the education section of the Apple Apps Store to help answer that question. The “iLearn” report, by Carly Shuler, looks at the 100 top-selling education apps and codes them by the age-group they target, the subject they address, and their price. It does not assess their quality or effectiveness.
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