The Padagogy Wheel

Apps are so useful for today's technological generation.  There are apps for almost anything you could image such as cooking, games, magazines, newspapers, etc... The Padagogy wheel - while using Bloom's taxonomy- is an example of the many apps that educators can utilize in classrooms and with their students.  Although these activities are online based, the underline meaning of the activities are helpful and useful to students and teachers.  Just to list a few, these activities help develop critiquing, graphing, editing, mind mapping, social networking, storytelling, and the list goes on.  Of the many apps on the Padagogy wheel, the Toontastic app and the MindMash app are the two apps that stood out to me the most.


Toontastic is an app that allows children to draw, animate, and share their cartoon stories with family and friends.  I like this app because art is being taken for granted in classrooms today.  Art is barely introduced to children at a young age which hinders their creativity outlet.  With this app, children are able to spark that creativity outlet and run wild with their imagination.




MindMash is a brainstorming and note-taking app.  It allows students and/or other users to create any ideas mash-up by combining and manipulating text, images, and drawings in a visual and free-form manner.  I like this app because I know from firsthand experience that taking notes and trying to decipher it later that evening is hard.  I would have notes along the side of the paper, inbetween lines, and pictures with no textual reference.  With this app, students can easily take notes and brainstorm in a neat and fun way.