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Students create apps in classroom
Creativity and technology are buzzwords for today’s classroom and McAllen ISD seventh-graders are incorporating both as they create their own computer applications, known in today’s parlance simply as apps.
Apps are everywhere today and students at Alonzo De Leon Middle School jumped at the chance to create their own. Some created apps for their favorite sports team while other focused on subjects they studied in school -- everything from volcanoes to Van Gogh.
The apps cannot be uploaded for the public to use since there are procedures and fees one has to pay to do that but they are viewable in the classroom. Mr. Bridges can see the day, not too far ahead, when apps and computers will supplant textbooks.
“I believe were definitely headed in that direction,” he said. “Textbooks are expensive, often outdated as soon as they are published, and the content is always current online.”
It is an elective requirement for International Baccalaureate (IB) schools like De Leon. McAllen ISD was the first school district in the Rio Grande Valley to establish IB schools at the elementary, middle school and high school level.
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Carolina Rodriguez, a seventh-grader at McAllen’s Alonzo De Leon Middle School, examines images in an app she created on the painter Vincent Van Gogh. Students at De Leon are learning to design and create apps as part of an assignment in their Technology Applications class.
Armando Galvan, a seventh-grader at McAllen’s Alonzo De Leon Middle School, examines images in an app he created on Native Americans. Students at De Leon are learning to design and create apps as part of an assignment in their Technology Applications class.
Armando Galvan, a seventh-grader at McAllen’s Alonzo De Leon Middle School, examines images in an app he created on Native Americans. Students at De Leon are learning to design and create apps as part of an assignment in their Technology Applications class.
Lincoln Middle School wins state PE award
McAllen’s Abraham Lincoln Middle School is one of just 10 schools in Texas to win a 2011-12 Level III Exemplary School award from TAHPERD (Texas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance). This Exemplary School award is valid for three years. Pictured from left to right are McAllen ISD Interim Athletic Director Mario Reyna, Lincoln Coach Yolanda Morales, Coach Ricardo Romeros, Coach Valerie Garza, Coach Andrew Quintanilla and Lincoln Principal Joe Garza. TAHPERD formed in 1923 and has 4,500 members.
McAllen’s Abraham Lincoln Middle School is one of just 10 schools in Texas to win a 2011-12 Level III Exemplary School award from TAHPERD (Texas Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance). This Exemplary School award is valid for three years. Pictured from left to right are McAllen ISD Interim Athletic Director Mario Reyna, Lincoln Coach Yolanda Morales, Coach Ricardo Romeros, Coach Valerie Garza, Coach Andrew Quintanilla and Lincoln Principal Joe Garza. TAHPERD formed in 1923 and has 4,500 members.
