APPs in the School

In this entry, I would like to talk about the use of Apps in class and its application in different projects. Being these a useful resource to approach students to new concepts and knowledge in a interesting ans funny way for them.

On the one hand, I want to introduce an App that is used to measure distances, height and width of objects. It is called "Smart Measure" and is available with Android an iOS operating system. I want to focus in its use to measure distances and height, and how we can apply this in our classroom.

I remember that in my student period I had to measure the height of the principal build of my school. I found this so interesting that I still can remember it. So, I think that we can use this App to create an activity related to this one. For example, we can make students to do a map of the school, using this App to measure the distances and heights of the build of the school.

In the other hand, I would like to say that there are lots of Apps to measure things that we can't imagine, and I think that these ones are the most interesting from students. For example, I found so attractive an App to measure the noise, "Decibel X", because we can do a consciousness-raising project in which students hace to measure the noise in the different spaces of school, so, in this way, they would know where they should talk louder.