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. “

We love to learn about all the exciting apps that AASL recommends, but we especially love it when we find an app that will be particularly useful to school libraries!!

Wakelet “is a one-stop shop for curating resources for your school library.  As an app on your mobile device, you can send links directly into a Wakelet collection for personal or public use.  You can create a collection of resources together with teaching teams for students to use for reference on projects. Collections can be made up of websites, links, notes, tweets, pictures from your device and more.”

Platform: iOS & Android
Cost: FREE
Grades: All

This article from Primary Tech explains how Wakelet lets you create collections of content from around the Web. It has several links to examples of Digital Citizenship topics. The site Ditch That Textbook has this post with several suggestions and videos for ways that students and teachers can use the app. Check out this review of the app from Common Sense Communication. Finally, this article from the UMass.edu blog shares resources, learning activities, and videos for ways to incorporate the app in your classroom.

Watch this 2 min video to see how Wakelet works:

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.