Fantastic for Current Events...but Great Potential for Problems

How I Use It

We originally used this as an app for current events reading and the kids thoroughly enjoyed it. All that was done to get students started was encouraging them to download the app and we gave them a brief overview of how the app works, though I don't even think that was necessary. Kids created their own magazines that were of interest to them and were off and running to the point that reading was being done during every break in class in many instances as the kids really enjoyed the design and content that was available to them. What didn't work was some of the filtering that we would have liked to have. Certain searches (i.e. "gifs") returned content that was not school appropriate and even after modifying our filter there were still some inappropriate material that, while it couldn't be totally blocked, was available too easily for students in a compiled fashion.