With 1.5 million apps on the App Store we expect you’ll find one not on the LTP Provided and Recommended list that you may want your students to download. Before you start planning that amazing lesson plan that will require this new app you’ll need to make sure of a few things.1 To help you with that our team wrote a 1-pager to help guide teachers through the steps of what they need to do to meet the district guidelines for using 3rd party apps and web services.
Just the other week Westview Middle School initiated a process that provides a systematic way to ensure teachers meet these guidelines. This came out of a conversation about iPad expectations for students during their tech team meeting. Stemming from a desire to be clear with students and parents about what apps are allowed on devices they decided to have a “whitelist” document that includes all the apps students are approved to have on their device.
Patrick Mount, Cindy Thompson (Westview’s Teacher Librarian & BTC), and myself created a Google Form that teachers will need to fill out in order to get the app approved. Once they do this both the principal and AP are alerted and will approve or disapprove the app. Here’s a copy of the form.
Please reach out to the ITCs if you’re interested in making one for your school.
- Especially when you consider what the company may be asking from the students and what some of them may do with their data.
