The second wave of educational apps is here! In our piece Putting Education back in Educational Apps, we suggested that the current crop of so-called “educational apps” was proliferating in a landscape that was like the Wild West. In their outstanding book “Tap, Click, Read,” Lisa Guernsey and Michael Levine talked about the adventurous settlers (call them developers) of the first wave of education apps who rushed to get apps to market hoping to strike gold. The modus operandi—take whatever existed already in books and games in the non-digital world and plop it into the most current and popular digital device. The result? Apps and e-books never really used the full potential of the digital world to help children reach beyond the covers and screens or to expand the possibilities of an educationally rich world.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/education-plus-development/posts/2016/07/17-pokemon-reimagine-learning-hirsh-pasek-golinkoff
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