Monday, February 6, 2012

Frame/Context

The App Store is a digital application distribution platform created by Apple Inc. The application allows any apple user to navigate through millions of applications and to download whatever application that you need. Depending on the application you wish to download some of them are free and others require you to pay a certain amount of money in order to download them and be able to use them. The App Store is a user friendly software, it is designed in a way where it is easy for the consumer to understand and navigate the App Store without having to go through any learning curves. In addition, the store has a really wide range of categories from games to entertainment to business to childcare to education etc... The layout of the store is extremely simple and not so overwhelming, which follows apple's simple designed software's. The applications available often save people a lot of time, and energy for example instead of trying to do conversion or calculate a tip, you have some applications available that allow you to do that with a click of a button instead of wasting the time to do it mentally, however this can also bring in the factor that technology these days is only making our brains work less. Doing everything electronically these days helps the environment, almost everything is being computerized or done electronically in order to reduce the use of paper.
However, let's try to evaluate the App Store within a different context, what if the app store was used for children's educational purposes? how would it work? and how would it be different from the original app store?
The software would be targeting elementary and middle school students, teachers and parents, it would be designed professionally in order to advance the use of effective digital media in teaching and learning with a special section for children with any sort of disability. The software is created in order to enhance teacher and children's education and a more "modern"approach to the learning and healthy development of children in elementary and middle school. 

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