I have recently come across a WEB 2 app called Wordnik. Wordnik is like an online dictionary/thesaurus. You are able to type a word in the search bar and the programme will search the word and give you a meaning of that word and ways in how you are able to use the word you searched for. For me Wordnik is a fabulous new app that I have grown to love and use quite regular. I used Wordnik for my first essay for university, it helped me gain more knowledge of certain words and allow me to be able to search for more appropriate word to use in my assignment. I think Wordnik is great and would be a very handy tool for children to use in education whether they use it to write stories or essay’s or to just finding out what a word means if they are not sure. There are so many ways in how Wordnik can be used in education today, especially as technology has become such a big part of ways of learning in today’s society. Children in schools could be reading, come across a word and want to find out what that word means they can just go off and do their own research. It is a way of children becoming more independent as they are learning to find things out for themselves rather than relying on a teacher. Homework could be set where the child is doing spellings, sometimes it is easier to spell words if you know what it means as it makes more sense to you. Therefore this app is a great app that should definitely be used in education today as children can become more independent. It’s a great app that would be of such use in schools. I love Wordnik and would really recommend it to schools.
http://www.wordnik.com/ To the left is the link to the app that I have used quite a lot and would really recommend for schools to use.
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