The guide particularly focuses on five key factors teachers should attend to when selecting and assessing apps to use in class: These are: engagement, developmental appropriateness, instructional design, motivation, and accessibility. For each of these factors teachers are provided with a set of questions to help guide their selection process. For instance, to evaluate an app's engagement level teachers should be able to ask the following questions:
- "Is the app inviting and does it give a good first impression?
- Is the app intuitive?
- Is the app one that students will return to often?
- Does the app open up new ways to learn? How does it let students do things they haven’t been able to before?"
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Screenshot source: Apps in the Classroom
