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My son was born about a month before the debut of the iPad, and has quite literally grown up alongside touchscreen devices. As a parent and longtime app reviewer, I can tell you with conviction that most educational apps for the iPad stink. While there are countless educational apps that claim to t ... Full Article »
Appolicious today unveiled appoLearning, which helps parents, teachers and students discover and learn more about the best educational apps available for the iPad. At launch, the site curates the five best apps for nearly 100 different subjects across four distinct age groups including: Early Child ... Full Article »
In times of stricter policies related to children’s online interactions, how a Pre-K teacher is creating new app services through Juddly, which was designed to protect children’s privacy while empowering them to share with family online. Based in the model of parent/teacher conferences, upcomin ... Full Article »
Dana Morgan is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Melody Book, a company that develops musical and educational applications, including A Jazzy Day and Jazzy ABC, for iOS. Their wonderful apps have been showcased in Apple’s “New and Noteworthy” section, plus they have received a Children’s Technol ... Full Article »
I’m a big proponent of visiting museums and doing hands-on crafts with children, but once in a while a creative app comes along for the iPad that is so good, it makes me feel more than OK about screen time. MoMA Art Lab, by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is one such app. True, it won’t re ... Full Article »
Creativity in the classroom is more abundant than ever as teachers and students are using iPads in amazing ways. Whether it is the process that engages your students or the finished product that is evidence of their creativity, the purposeful utilization of iPads can "Flip" your iPads from consumpti ... Full Article »
It would have been a surprise if a game released by the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media had been anything less than stellar. Alien Assignment lives up to the expectation. In the simple storyline the Gloop family's spaceship has a mishap with a wayward satellite and crashe ... Full Article »
Going to graduate school, especially going back to school as an adult, can be a very daunting task. But continuing your education could be just the tactic you need to stand out from the competition in today’s job market. Don’t let fear stand in your way. Simply use your iPhone to help you get or ... Full Article »
Flashcards are so last-century. Decimals: Addition is a new game for the iPad that helps kids learn to add decimals via fun, space-themed activities. It’s certainly more fun than a calculator. Open the game and create a profile (the game allows for more than one, so more than one user can get in ... Full Article »
People worry about the future of publishing in our new digital era. I don’t. Why not? Because great literature has endured technological shifts more profound than the advent of e-ink and virtual pages. Homer and Ovid survive from an oral tradition and most major religious texts predate, in some fa ... Full Article »
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