Mitosis

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Cost: Free

UDL Guideline (1.3) offer alternative for visual information
Mitosis allows high and middle schools students to learn the process of cell division by providing interactive images, video, or text. It provides more description ( text).

General Critique
This app provides physical object which student can zoom the pictures, and it has an interactive model . It also represents the information in many ways.

Base Ten Number Blocks

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Cost: $0.99



UDL Guideline 5.2- Use multiple tools for construction and composition
Base Ten Number Blocks app provides opportunities for students to reach success through virtual manipulatives in learning place value concepts, regrouping in ones, tens, and hundreds places by providing alternatives in offering students' choices in resources and challenge. Blocks may be regrouped by dragging a virtual manipulative and double-tapped to separate into smaller units.

General Critique
This app provides an alternative tool for hands-on-math using base ten blocks to explore place value, addition, subtraction as well as number theory. This simple app is excellent for illustrating sometimes difficult concepts and preparing students for the future with current tools.

Doodle Buddy

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Cost: Free




UDL Guideline 5.1 - Use multiple media for communication
Doodle Buddy app provides various methods for student response including painting, stamping with or without sounds, creations using photos, chalk, glitter, stencils, text to speech, as well as multiple modes for sharing creations. Interactive alternatives allow all learners to express themselves.

General Critique
Students can easily navigate in this simple to use app providing alternative media for the manipulation of backgrounds, photos, photography, text, speech, and much more.

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Oregon Trail

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Cost: 4.99



UDL Guideline 8.2 Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge
Oregon Trial is an excellent app for varying demands and resources to optimize challenge. This app allow students to engage in risk-taking, decision-making, and problem-solving fun while learning historical facts and concepts. Students are able to differentiate the degree of difficulty throughout gameplay, and this app emphasizes competition and rigor.

General Critique:
Students using this app are active in their learning process. They can manipulate their journey during gameplay and connect the concepts to real-world experiences and problems. Finally, students can connect and collaborate via Facebook during and after gameplay.

U.S. Geography by Discovery Education

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Cost: $.99

UDL Guideline 2.5 - Illustrate through multiple media
U.S. Geography by Discovery Education is a good app for presenting U.S. Geography information to students through multiple media. This app gives students text, audio, and video options for their learning.

General critique
Navigation in the app is simple and easy, as U.S. Geography by Discovery Education has fixed tools at the bottom of the interface.

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School Time

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Cost: Free


UDL Guidelines 7.3 Minimize threats and distractions
School time is a perfect app for minimizing threats and distractions in the learning environment. This app help students with their schedule, their exams and assignment due dates, and important notices concerning their education. The alerts on this app help students anticipate changes in their schedule, create routines, and have visible cues for their daily activities.

General Critique:
This app is an amplification of a generic classroom planner but goes beyond this concept due to the push notifications that send visible and audible reminders for students prior to their due dates. The simplicity of the design of this app allows multiple users to track their schedules and assignment due dates.

Animal Math

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Cost: Free/ in app purchases available



UDL Guideline 7.2 Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity
Animal Math is an excellent app for optimizing relevance with preschool and elementary age students as it provides activities that are socially, age, and ability appropriate. This app allows children to play with 100 math games full of music, animation, and positive reinforcers.

General Critique:
This app allows students to be active in the learning process. This app acts as the instructor, but teachers or parents can adjust the difficulty and other settings to scaffold instruction. The curriculum expands in the app as students master concepts, and while this app has concepts that are fundamental in nature, the digital components amplify these arithmetic concepts in a simple mobile application.