What’s App?

When looking through the list of articles, the one that stuck out to me the most was “Using apps to support disciplinary literacy and science learning” by Beach and Castek. Within the use of the apps, looking past the technological features, the article puts emphasis on affordances of using the apps. Affordances is defined as “those specific disciplinary literacy practices or tools that mediate the relationships between students and learning goals.” The disciplinary literacy for science is more complex than that of a historian literacy or a mathematical literacy. One of the ways that using the apps in the science class can be to have apps that students can take notes and be able to share them to other students. By sharing these note takings with other students, the goal would be for the other students to benefit off of one another and expand their focus. With having the students using apps, they can collaborate with other students on certain work to share ideas with one another. I believe that that using apps is a good way for students to be able to communicate with their peers even if they are not face to face with one another.