Khan Academy

One of the apps available in Chrome's Elementary Education Pack is Khan Academy. This app has proven itself very useful as we have started our fraction unit. Khan Academy is a huge resource for all educators and students with a large amount of short, educational instructional videos found in one easy to access location. I have successfully used Khan Academy in the past. I would show a video during class if I could find the subject matter I was looking for. I was presently surprised when I had the students use their own Chromebook, log into their app, and watch the videos independently. They could pause and rewind to watch them at their own pace of understanding and then the app allowed them to practice the concept taught. The kids loved it because it was like a video game and they could receive a badge if they mastered the skill worked on. The videos that we watched were "Understanding Fractions". This section contained two videos and task performance questions relating to what was mentioned in the video. We will be using this app frequently for the remaining of the school year and I hope to make my students' parents aware of this resource to have for homework help at home.