Posted on January 25th, 2016 in Featured, General News

Douglas MacArthur fifth grade teacher, Nicole Swisher, and student, Ryan Ketchem, were recently interviewed for a Wall Street Journal article about the use of the “Heads Up App” in the classroom.  The app, developed by Ellen Degeneres, is usually used as a fun party game.  Miss Swisher uses the app to help students to figure out clues to vocabulary words, multiple meaning words, etc…

The link to the article is below.  Here is an example of the students playing the game.