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Future of the Classroom

Emerging Technologies

In 2016, Carlee Walker explained in her YouTube video the 9 Useful Apps for educators. She describes how

these nine mobile apps can help teachers to engage students in the class through entertaining fun of learning

using mobile phone technologies. Referring to the SAMR Model by Ruben Puentedura, the techniques used

to integrate into the classroom with four levels of degree started with Substitution, Augmented, Modification

and Redefinition.

The first example of an app that can easily use in class is Notability Application. This application help

students to take note via mobile with the integration of Google account. Moreover, this note-taking app also

has a feature that enables students to take note in handwriting mode. The limitation of this app is that it is

only available for IOS user, and the user needs to pay for the app.

Various technologies have been developed since the last five years back that is still available to support the

classroom nowadays. Below is among the app that used to foster teaching and learning experience:

Table 1: The list of applications to enhance classroom experience (Carlee Walker, 2016)