Education in the Knowledge Society (Dec 2015)

Learn to read and write: app for the literacy learning

  • Raquel GÓMEZ-DÍAZ,
  • Araceli GARCÍA-RODRÍGUEZ,
  • José Antonio CORDÓN-GARCÍA

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14201/eks2015164118137
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 4
pp. 118 – 137

Abstract

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Increasing tablets and educational apps aimed at kids made necessary, besides analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of their use in the classroom, have a better understanding of the applications themselves, their characteristics, business models, etc. The article focuses on the apps intended for literacy learning, and offers, along with a typology, and a selection of some of them. Finally, it includes a list of sources that will help teachers in the task of selecting the most suitable for the needs of pupils’ applications.

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