TEACHER'S AIDE LEARNING WHAT'S BEST

摘要

When a school gets laptops or tablets for students, a new problem crops up: what to use them for. From apps that use dragons to teach algebra to Google's Art Project, which enables people to browse museum collections, the choices can be overwhelming. A new web guide called Graphite, built by Common Sense Media, helps instructors separate the good from the bad. Sure, Graphite has a rating system, but it wants to be more than just CNET for educational software. Users can create, share, and follow "boards," curated pages of reviews by other educator-users-think Favorite Physics Stuff or Creative Play in Early Childhood. By the end of November, Graphite will make school-and district-specific boards too-hopefully ensuring that no teacher will get left behind.