The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced their picks for Best Apps for Teaching & Learning 2019. “Apps recognized foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration and are user friendly to encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. “

“Tynker empowers students to learn to code through play. Solve engaging puzzles, modify Minecraft worlds, program robots and drones, create custom games, make drawings, and build and animate characters. Students can unleash their creative potential through this fun, interactive introduction to computer science.”

Platform: iOS & Android  
Grades: K-8
Cost: FREE

Tynker’s Educator page offers free training, coding curriculum, and classroom management. Common Sense Education has this review of the app. Edutopia recommends the app in this article about ways to incorporate coding into any classroom subject. Finally, Cision writes about the app in greater detail in this post.

This one-minute video shows tons of ways Tynker can work with any subject:

If you are interested in the best apps for your library, media center, or classroom, you can read our 2019 series here or find all past apps discussed in our archives.