{"id":696,"date":"2016-12-13T16:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crescerance.wpdevcloud.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2018-03-19T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T09:09:43","slug":"students-are-making-appsthatmatter-mad-about-mattering-begins-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/students-are-making-appsthatmatter-mad-about-mattering-begins-january-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Students are Making #appsthatmatter: MAD about Mattering Begins January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mad-about-mattering.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mad-about-mattering.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"839\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mad-about-mattering.png 839w, https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mad-about-mattering-300x44.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mad-about-mattering-768x112.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mad-about-mattering-552x80.png 552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/a>The amount of time your students are spending using different apps on their phone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/health\/number-hours-teens-are-spending-smartphones-may-surprise-you-t53651\" rel=\"nofollow\">can add up to a full time job<\/a>. What if they started learning the skills to be the creators of apps instead of just using them? What if those apps were about things that <strong><em>mattered<\/em><\/strong>, and students could learn about social entrepreneurship? What if your students could be creators of social change through apps that they make? That\u2019s the idea\u00a0behind MAD about Mattering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madaboutmattering.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">MAD about Mattering<\/a>\u00a0is a social initiative lead by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\">MAD-learn<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolcatteacher.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cool Cat Teacher<\/a>\u00a0Vicki Davis with the help and partnership\u00a0to\u00a0encourage and empower students to use\u00a0compassion-driven innovation and collaborative\u00a0teamwork to develop mobile apps that matter.<\/p>\n<p>This project combines the work and passion of long-time technology director and educator Vicki Davis and the creative genius of MAD-learn, the creators of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mad-learn.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">MAD-learn<\/a>, a mobile app development curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Our goal is\u00a0to ensure that students know and understand the power of the technology that they\u2019re using each day, and how they can be empowered to create technology that actually matters, and can envision strategies to help the world. That\u2019s why we use compassion-driven innovation and collaborative teamwork to develop apps that matter. We want to be able to connect students with the same passion to think of apps that can change the world and spark new life into a movement.<\/p>\n<p>Cohorts of 4-5 classrooms from all over will be formed, and the students from each classroom will brainstorm about app ideas that match this year\u2019s theme: \u201cWhat makes your heart <strong>beat<\/strong>?\u201d The most common ideas will be adopted by\u00a0teams and students from different classrooms and schools will create and app together about their topic. Students will work online asynchronously to create an app and a pitch to present at the MAD-shark tank in May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>If this sounds like something you\u2019re interested in bringing to your classroom, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madaboutmattering.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">click here to check out the website and sign up for more information<\/a>. Be sure to follow our journey on Twitter by following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MADLearn\" rel=\"nofollow\">@MADlearn<\/a> or by checking out the hashtag #appsthatmatter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of time your students are spending using different apps on their phone can add up to a full&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[101,9,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8213,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/8213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mad-learn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}