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See Saw is a kid-friendly social media app that is used much like Facebook, where the teacher/students can post and upload pictures and text on what they have done in class. This application can be used across a wide range of year levels and content areas, for example: a kindy teacher can take and post photos of the creative arts posters the students have made, and parents are able to see what their child is doing in class in real time. An advantage of this app is that teacher (as the admin of the page) needs to approve every comment/image/text post, which means that any inappropriate content can be filtered, and incomplete work can be sent back to the student for editing before posting. The disadvantage of this is that it takes a lot of time to approve posts if every child is submitting their own work.

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This an app that is designed to be a template for students to create their own online books; it is best suited for students in years 2 and up. This is a literacy based app, but can be used in a range of topics such as mathematics or science to present information or findings. The advantage of this app is that students are scaffold to create and publish their work into a final product. The disadvantage of this app is that it is so limited in what it does, as you cannot change the format from a book.

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Mathletics is a K-12 numeracy based application that supports student learning  through prepared instruction and activities as well as fun live competition. Mathletics is great for fast finishing students to help them consolidate their knowledge or can  be used as guided practice or modelling in lessons with the teacher. Some benefits of mathletics is that it  offers a wide variety of activities covering most parts of the Australian curriculum, as well as being engaging for students and providing helpful hints for teachers. However, because of some of the games like elements,  students may be focused on the game aspect and lose sight of  learning.

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Mathletics is a K-12 numeracy based application that supports student learning  through prepared instruction and activities as well as fun live competition. Mathletics is great for fast finishing students to help them consolidate their knowledge or can  be used as guided practice or modelling in lessons with the teacher. Some benefits of mathletics is that it  offers a wide variety of activities covering most parts of the Australian curriculum, as well as being engaging for students and providing helpful hints for teachers. However, because of some of the games like elements,  students may be focused on the game aspect and lose sight of  learning.

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IXL is an app which provides a variety of mathematics questions that align with the Australian Curriculum. There are a range of questions for each year group.

One advantage of this app is that it enables students to use it independently.

One disadvantage is that it can be difficult for students with English as a second language to use as they may find it difficult to understand the questions.

This app can be used for students to practice the specific numeracy skills that were looked at in a unit.

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IXL is an app which provides a variety of mathematics questions that align with the Australian Curriculum. There are a range of questions for each year group.

One advantage of this app is that it enables students to use it independently.

One disadvantage is that it can be difficult for students with English as a second language to use as they may find it difficult to understand the questions.

This app can be used for students to practice the specific numeracy skills that were looked at in a unit.

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IXL is an app which provides a variety of mathematic questions that align with the Australian Curriculum. There are a range of questions for each year group.

One advantage of this app is that it enables students to use it independently.

One disadvantage is that it can be difficult for students with English as a second language to use as they may find it difficult to understand the questions.

This app can be used for students to practice the specific numeracy skills that were looked at in a unit.

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IXL

IXL is an app which provides a variety of mathematic questions that align with the Australian Curriculum. There are a range of questions for each year group.

One advantage of this app is that it enables students to use it independently.

One disadvantage is that it can be difficult for students with English as a second language to use as they may find it difficult to understand the questions.

This app can be used for students to practice the specific numeracy skills that were looked at in a unit.

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IXL is an app which provides a variety of mathematic questions that align with the Australian Curriculum. There are a range of questions for each year group.

One advantage of this app is that it enables students to use it independently.

One disadvantage is that it can be difficult for students with English as a second language to use as they may find it difficult to understand the questions.

This app can be used for students to practice the specific numeracy skills that were looked at in a unit.

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Canva: Extension app for Literacy or numeracy 

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Canva: Extension app for Literacy or numeracy 

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Jack Niddrie
Canva is an app that allows students to create a visual poster or other image. This supports a range of year groups, specifically focussing on year 4 (incorporating a focus on the audience and readers interest within creative writing pieces). Students can make a visual ‘book cover’ as an extension or multi-curricular task, linked to the visual arts. This adds depth to their work and emphases their target audience.

One advantage is the ease of use and student control. Students get to control the layout, background images and everything that is on the page. With this comes the disadvantage that on the app, many components cost money to use, including images, backgrounds, text styles and a limited upload capacity.

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Alanah

Purpose – Mathletics is an educational app which provides children with educational activities and challenges based upon the mathematics curriculum content for all years from foundation to year six.

Activity – Mathletics can be utilised for whole class instruction though the use of activities such as addition and subtraction on the number line for the foundation year (as an example); where students can see the number line on the IWB and count the necessary amount and choose the answer to the question.

Advantage – It can be a very versatile app as it can be utilised for whole class activities, group work and for students to work individually as well; which can provide useful insights into the students understanding of the topic being taught.

Disadvantage – It does not explain the ‘why’ if an answer given is incorrect, it merely leaves the answer as wrong and the person using it moves on; which is confusing if a student is independently utilising it as they are not having potential misconceptions addressed.

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Mathletics is an educational application that builds numeracy skills in students from Kindergarten to Year 6. This app can be used in the classroom as a rotation activity for individuals, by the teacher to model a concept or it can be set as homework for students to complete on their own. The advantage of Mathletics is the guided instruction that supports students to complete the tasks without needing the teacher to explain it. Thus, students can develop independence. However, the questions in the Mathletics activities are textbook standard. There is not opportunity for students to think creatively, to construct their own questions or to respond to open ended questions.

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Designed for students to practice and develop math skills, usually after instruction from the classroom teacher previously. This app would be useful for Maths rotations across the grades. The variety of activities is beneficial because once students are familiar with Mathletics, they can use it with other mathematical concepts. Students may become distracted by activities online which they perceive to be more fun, so clear expectations and goals will need to be set by the teacher.

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Application: IXL- https://au.ixl.com/

This application is aimed at every age/year group, it is designed to assist students in strengthening either their english skills or mathematical skills by providing activities relating to specific topics as well as thorough explanations for those who lack the understanding of the concept being looked at.

if looking at the concept of sentence structure in year 3, this app has a range of activities that helps the student to familiarise themselves and gain an understanding. It goes from working out if the sentence is either a statement, question, command or exclamation to whether or not the sentence is either simple or compound.

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Duolingo is a language learning program that allows the learner to develop their vocabulary in a specific language. It can be used as a tool to develop vocabulary in a specific area of language such as family or animals, in conjunction to a relational means of using that vocabulary within the classroom through varying means of communication. Duolingo is highly successful in developing retention of words in hearing and reading in a new language. It is not effective at developing the learners speaking of said words as there are no effective methods for the program to support the learner to improve their pronunciation. It also does not allow for the words learned to be used in a wide variety of sentences or contexts. Overall, Duolingo is effective at developing vocabulary that is understood when read or heard, but the learner needs supporting resources for them to effectively be able to speak.

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SeeSaw is used in many classrooms of a large range of ages as a source of sharing and presenting work from all curriculum areas for teachers, students, peers and parents to see. I have seen app used successfully for student to follow a link to a website, answer questions that were given to them, submit this to the teacher and the teacher is able to provide timely and relevant feedback.

The advantage to this app is the opportunity to share and receive feedback as well as the important factor of peer-learning; I have even seen student post videos teaching their peers about an overseas holiday whilst still on holiday. One of the disadvantages is that it needs to be closely monitored for appropriateness as it is almost like a class social media.

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See all the wonderful things Mary Sargeson has made

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Purpose: The purpose of “Story Box Library” is to provide students, teachers and families with a variety of quality picture books, which are read by a variety of Australians usually accompanied by an animation.

Activity: The website provides activity ideas which align with the Australian Curriculum, and promotes discussion in the classroom. For example: this resource may be used when using a specific book during a unit of work (provided it is on the website) or for daily reading.

Advantage: Local stories, huge variety, quality literature

Disadvantage: $$$$ the subscription can be costly…

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Imagine the best stories being read aloud to you by our favourite storytellers - well that's Story Box Library!

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The literacy shed assists students in building their understanding and ability of creative writing. The website is suitable for all grades, however is better targeted for grades 4+, as activities can be applied to content taught throughout these grades. The website provides different topics for students and the teacher to select, with both written and visual content available. However, the website does not always differentiate according to student ability, rather the teacher would need to scaffold for lower-achieving students.

Successful story: STORY WRITING: the website provides examples of sentence starters and images which students can use to write a creative story.

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IXL is a website and app that allows students of all ages to practice and learn topics of both numeracy and literacy. Students are able to select and choose topics that are connected to their grade and curriculum, practicing questions and activities that support the chosen topic such as capital letters in kindergarten and persuasive writing in year 5. An advantage of this app is that if a student gets a question or activity wrong the app explains to the student where they got it wrong and how to do it correctly. The disadvantage is that if students may feel like they are lower achieving because they are not completing topics within their year level.

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Kahoot! is an interactive quiz app that allows the teacher to create specific curriculum based questions with the students responding on their own device.

It can be used across all curriculum areas. For example it can be used in numeracy to identify the probability of a given coloured spinner.

Benefits of Kahoot include: teacher can instantly see students’ results and miss-answers, it is highly interactive and student focused and it adds an element of fun into the classroom.

Disadvantages include: it is competitive, it is time based and answers are irreversible making it hard for the teacher to discern between intentional and accidental mistakes.

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Duolingo is a free app designed to teach a second language to users. It is most suited to the upper primary years, and sits within the languages strand of the Australian Curriculum. It can be used in literacy to assist students in gaining a better understanding of the dynamics of the English language. It is easily accessible and has a points system which equate to levelling up. Its disadvantages lie in it not providing explicit instruction

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Quick maths Junior is an App to reinforce K to year 1 maths skills.  The App is particularly useful to reinforce place value, subitising and initial addition skills.  One advantage is the ability to replay the App multiple times.  Each activity is also linked to the Australian curriculum and a report of the student’s activity can be sent through to the teacher.  One disadvantage is that is does not provide any teaching around mistakes made and students could continue to add the icons into the spaces to eventually get the correct answer.

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Purpose of Kahoot is to quiz people on knowledge using multiple choice or short answer. Teachers can use existing quizzes made by other people or create one specific to the task.

It is useful for the conclusion of a lesson to see the retained knowledge of students. You are able to see the data for correct or incorrect answers. However, it is anonymous so you are unable to see which students are answering incorrectly. Students could guess without knowledge and may not have retained any understanding. It is also limited to close ended questions, which cant explore student understanding.

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Chatterpix is an iPhone application that requires students to take a photo of something, draw a ‘mouth’ on it, then record their voice for 30 seconds which can be sent and played back as a talking object. Suitable for all ages, this app can address various curriculum areas including literacy, as students practise speaking, listening and viewing skills, e.g. talking about the features of a mammal. An advantage of using this application is that writing and reading skills can also be incorporated, as students can create short scripts (writing) and proof read them, before recording their voice, which develops their fluency. A barrier for learning could be technological difficulties.

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Reading Eggs Learn to Read App (ages 2-13)

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Reading Eggs Learn to Read App (ages 2-13)

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An educational app designed by teachers and sponsored by the ABC to promote literacy and aide students learning to read. The activities focus upon phonics, spelling, vocabulary and sight words. One advantage of this application is it flexibility for use on the go; it allows for a child’s participation and engagement in a range of situations and environments, without the targeted assistance of an adult. However, one disadvantage is that it the use of the app on an iPad, Android or iPhone device removes the special social experience of reading with a parent or loved one.

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Quick maths Junior is an App to reinforce K to year 1 maths skills.  The App is particularly useful to reinforce place value, subitising and initial addition skills.  One advantage is the ability to replay the App multiple times.  Each activity is also linked to the Australian curriculum and a report of the student’s activity can be sent through to the teacher.  One disadvantage is that is does not provide any teaching around mistakes made and students could continue to add the icons into the spaces to eventually get the correct answer.

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The website can be used to search for current news to allow students to apply their reading skills

Literacy activity: Students practice reading multimodal texts i.e. using images, captions, titles, written text, videos in comprehending text

Advantage: The website allows students to practice reading skills such as skimming, summarising, reading on, etc

Disadvantage: The website could be challenging to use for struggling readers. They would most likely need to complete the activity in a group

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Chatterpix Kids