Mobile and Tablet Applications

There are many apps that are now available on mobile smart phones and tablets that are for education. There are many apps that can be researched, here are a couple that I could see myself using in my future classroom.

1. Wattpad: a literature app that allows access to 1,000's of poems and narratives and other types of literature, and allows students to upoad their own work.

 2. Formulas Lite - this app helps with memorization from common mathematical and scientific formulas

(picture and info from http://www.onlinedegrees.org/top-25-android-apps-for-education/)






3. Wolfram algebra course assistant: a math app that helps students with their algebra problems. 

4. Grammer up: an app that helps students can use to improve their grammer skills. 

5.Britannica Kids: Volcanoes, and other apps from this provider. These apps seem to be very interactive and bring to life the topics of science that we will be studying.

(Picture and info from http://www.apple.com/education/apps/ )



Apps are very fun! but they can also be very addictive which can very easliy take away from very other important parts of life. One of the biggest things to be careful is to not let apps take over the time for things in our life. I believe that this is not really the fault of any app, or anything for the matter, but the problem is with us. There is a lack of self-disciple in our society nowadays and the important thing is to grow in the fruits of the spirit so that we are able to grow in self-discipline and enjoy many things in life and not lose sight of our responsibilities. As it says in Galatians 5:22-23 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." Here we are told to take off the things of the world and put on these things of the spirit in which self-control and self-discipline are apart of.  

Copyright

Music must be properly downloaded

Copyright laws are frustrating and they seem tedious and not worth our time. However, they are laws of our land and they do need to be followed. Even when things seem like it's not worth it and we probably won't get caught or in trouble. As Christians we are called to a life of integrity which is in relation with others and in secret as well.

1 Corinthians 4:1-3 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

Therefore, it is important to judge ourselves and be trustworthy with what we have been entrusted with. As educators we have been entrusted with the upbringing with our children and setting a good example. We have also been entrusted with the resources and media in order to bring about that education. So whether we are brought to the judge or not, we are to hold ourselves to a higher standard and judge ourselves.