Tech Play 4 - Content Objects

I choose Content Objects option over Information Literacy option because I thought content objects would be more useful for me and my students, and another reason I really enjoy researching different apps, websites, tools, games for my classes. This week I researched MIT's App Inventor web app. I consider this as drill and practice website. I teach computer science to my junior/seniors. I was looking for a web-based application that I can teach mobile app developing to my students. Thanks to this class, I researched and found this great website.

MIT App Inventor is a blocks-based programming tool that allows everyone, even novices, to start programming and build fully functional apps for Android devices. MIT App Inventor supports a worldwide community of nearly two million users representing 195 countries worldwide. The tool’s more than 85 thousand active weekly users have b

uilt more than 4.7 million android apps. The great thing about this app is its open source and cloud based, my all students can benefit from this for free.

I believe it is very useful not just in programming classes. History, Geography, Math, English and Spanish. Students will be able to increase their learning by creating apps that can aid them in solving problems. According to The New York Times. A nursing student at Indiana University created an app that would call an emergency number if someone fell. The program used the phone's accelerometer to sense a fall and if the person didn't get up in a short while or press the onscreen button, it would automatically make the call.

This content object support TPACK model, engage students to by creating a student-centered environment. Students use this tool to have a knowledge about how to use App Inventor as an design and programming tool to enhance their constructive learning in Computer programming.