iPad Apps for Education

Top 3 new iPad educational apps, released in Q1 2013, that are informative, interactive, as well as extremely well-designed.

"Since I first saw it last fall, Haiku Deck, the free iPad for creating presentations, has impressed me. The app makes it easy for anyone to design a good-looking slide presentation. The latest update to Haiku Deck allows you to add speaker notes to your slides. You can also add notes for public viewing when your presentation is shared online. Learn how to use these new features in the videos below."

`In continuation of last week’s article, Part 1: 44 Better Ways to Use Smartphones in Class http://ow.ly/lA1iY ; here is a new list of thirty-six additional ideas to help leverage the power of these tech gadgets in the learning environment. In this blog post, I have attempted to avoid any redundancies. Please join me in helping educators everywhere creatively use smartphones by contributing any overlooked uses and supportive responses via this survey."

This presentation includes apps for mobile learning in science using ipods and ipads.

For authors who want to use their own home equipment to narrate an audio version of their own books, or if you want to record your kids reading their favorite stories for posterity, you can do it with a microphone, and iPad and GarageBand.

"Frog Dissection for iPad is an app that is popular with biology teachers. The latest version of the app includes more labels, quizzes, and videos. Of course, the main purpose of the app still remains. That purpose is to provide a virtual environment in which students can dissect a frog just as they would if they had a frog and a scalpel in your classroom. The app provides step-by-step directions for students to follow as they virtually dissect their frogs."

Mind mapping is a method that works for quite a lot of people. Brain storming, idea mapping, thought generation, think tanks – call it what you will. Traditionally done on large pieces of paper, why not use your iPad to create mind maps? You could use these for your own purposes, or “convert” those large flip charts into a smaller, digital version.

"How do you learn best?  For me, it depends on what I am learning.  Sometimes I need to take notes, other times I need to think out loud.  Some things are easier to learn with another person while with other things, I need to be alone.  My guess is most of us have different styles for learning depending on what it is we are working on."

"The easiest way to integrate iPads in the classroom is to think about changing 1 element of your lesson."

`The following is a list, written in the first-person, of ideologies or stances from a Terrible iPad Teacher:"

iOS 7 is coming soon, but will the new features be enough to keep people excited about iOS devices? Read this article by Jason Parker on CNET.

Check out just how much of an influence studies show iPads in the classroom are having on education.

If you find a book you think a friend might like, iBooks gives you an easy way to share a link directly to that book for them to check it out and purchase it if they choose.

"If you love to keep your apps organized, we have a great tip for you today. By going to Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Home Screen Layout, your iPad will not only reorganize all stock apps to their default positions, but also organize all non-stock apps in alphabetical order."