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Parents' Guide to

Popplet

By Amanda Bindel, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 13+

Mind-mapping tool's visual "pop" will engage teens.

App iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad Paid Productivity
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A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this app.

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age 8+

Based on 1 parent review

Etamez
Etamez Adult
September 11, 2014
age 8+

Mind mapping made easy!

This is an excellent app to start with your children the concept of mind mapping for taking notes and studying for quizzes/tests. You can easily start organizing information adding "popples" in which students can write, add pictures and select different colors. It´s a fun app!
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What’s It About?

POPPLET is a dynamic organization tool for users to create "Popplets" on a board. These Popplets can be filled with text, drawings, images, or video and then connected to other, related Popplets to create a mind map, similar to an interactive outline of related ideas. The Popplet board can be updated by multiple users in real time, so it's a collaborative tool for planning or discussion. Popplet boards can be shared, too.

Is It Any Good?

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This productivity app has many uses, in business, personal planning and management, and education. It's fascinating and really easy to use. Kids may be drawn to the visual pop the Popplets have, especially when they add images and video and utilize the social aspects of sharing and collaborating in real time. However, the content kids create and share is wide-open -- so Popplet is technology, similar to texting and social media, that parents may want to keep a watchful eye on.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Talk to kids about appropriate uses for Popplets, outlining whether the tool should only be used for educational purposes and what is acceptable to create and share.

  • Show kids some of the organizational methods you used in school (outlines!) and talk about how technology and brain research have created new methods.

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