Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Habits Pro

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Cost: $4.99

UDL Guideline 9.1- Promote expectations and beliefs that optimize motivation
Habits Pro assists in developing self-assessment and reflection strategies for students, and builds a more collaborative classroom environment. Students can keep track of their individual participation and reflect (reflection journal feature) on how a classroom discussion went with labeling its pros and cons. This provides students with personally setting appropriate goals that take into account both strengths and weaknesses. Another helpful feature is that students can graph their achievement of a skill over time. Students could graph this progress with a partner in the classroom to further receive feedback from both peers and teachers.
General Critique
Habits Pro is a versatile app that can be used to schedule, evaluate,and reflect on an event or an entire day. It can be used in the classroom to monitor progress of a skill that the student has a goal of mastering.  This should be modeled by a teacher on tracking and how to use. As a class, a goal or two should be targeted, and classroom discussion should be incorporated in the process. At the end of the lesson each student should have time to reflect. This individual progress can eventually be graphed (using the graphing feature) over time (as goals may take days, weeks, or months to achieve).

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