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iPads have certainly become a highly desired commodity in education. Apple is reporting that schools are purchasing iPads by a ratio of 2:1 over MacBooks. However, that rush to purchase the latest technologies often precedes the careful planning and preparation that’s crucial to their success as educational tools. Stated simply, technology alone doesn’t have the capacity to improve education. It needs to be woven into a holistic approach to education that encompasses thorough planning and ongoing review of the skills and competencies required by the rapidly changing society that characterizes life in the 21st century.
Via Nik Peachey
My students publish a variety of work on their iPads and use different apps throughout the writing process. When it comes to typing up their final product we often use PaperPort Notes. Before they ...
Get Sight Words & Spelling with Pixopop HD on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
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Get KOMA KOMA for iPad on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
FREE app April 18th: My Friend Isabelle is a charming story about two young friends, told with simplicity and grace. Charlie and Isabelle are the same age and share a love of drawing, dancing, playing at the park and snacks!
FREE app April 19th: Snuggle Mountain- Inside the snuggly cave at the very top of Snuggle Mountain is a two-headed giant who’s fast asleep, caught in the Sleeping Spell that has made it forget all about breakfast...
FREE app April 19th: Grendel’s Great Escape is a cute interactive storybook app telling the story of a kid named Martin trying to find his escaped ferret Grendel in school
FREE app April 19th: Little Writer is a tracing app that's done just right. Little Writer is super fun and so easy to use that your kids will think letter tracing is a game vs. a boring chore.
Free app April 19th: Children are taught to identify letters by dragging and dropping colorful puzzle pieces together.
FREE app April 19th: Let’s kids compose animals using alphabet letters: move, rotate, flip, turn and resize letters and combine them to create a Lion (12 real animals included) or an Edufefeo (12 fantastic beasts included) or your own Happipet...
Get iReadWrite on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
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It's that time of day parents and kids alike dread most -- homework time. From fighting over getting the work done to finding the necessary supplies, it can drive even the calmest among us into a frenzy.
In classrooms with just one iPad there are lots of apps that you can use to create presentations (Educreations, Doceri, ScreenChomp, Haiku Deck). If you have access to 1 to 1 technology you have t...
There are loads of apps out there. But only a handful are of the high quality like these science apps for elementary students. Worth seeing.
FREE app April 25th: Teach Me Toddler- First time ANY app from the multi-award winning TeachMe series has ever gone FREE!!
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FREE app April 18th: Ordered Fractions provides a comprehensive tool that offers an innovative method of learning about comparing and ordering fractions.
FREE app April 18th: The Chicken and the Egg by Allan Plenderleith is the beautiful and touching fully-interactive storybook about a little chicken called Flo who just can't lay an egg.
FREE app April 19th: Sentence Key: WHO is DOing WHAT....Beginning language learners create a sentence with words or picture symbols, then see the sentence animated!
FREE app April 19th: The Pig's Day- In a little village east of Rome, Italy, a tradition passed down for generations continues to be celebrated.
Free app April 19th: Phonics Make a Word supports both Phonics and Spelling. The application is for children just beginning to read. The words all have short vowel sounds.
FREE app April 19th: Animals I Mix- is a quality designed, simple to operate ,flip game that improves children's reading, writing and pronunciation skills, in an imaginative, playful and amusing manner.
Independent reading is a key factor in reading success. But what exactly does independent reading mean? Independent reading is when a child is reading for pleasure at his/her comfort level.
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Great video to talk to 1st or 2nd graders about the Internet.