iPads in 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.

Google announced a new education program that will help teachers manage and push out apps and other educational content to classroom Android tablets.

"PE Apps is your one stop shop for PE Teachers.

A simple pocket reference guide for the latest apps useful for the PE, Sport, Coaching & Training. Featuring over 100 Apps for Physical Educators with descriptions and explanations as to how and why they can be included in your practice. This is the definitive reference guide you cannot miss.

Featuring the following categories of apps - Anatomy Apps - Active Gaming Apps - Assessment Apps - Video Analysis Apps - Video Apps - Photo Apps - Training Apps - Resource Apps - Fitness Testing Apps - Coaching Apps - Measurement Apps - Data Analysis Apps - Utilities"

Writing books with or for young children supports literacy skills and creative thinking.

iPads and other tablets are being used every day for productivity tasks once reserved for laptops. Walt Mossberg looks at apps that attempt to emulate the features of Office.

I took a chance and tried using Nearpod in my classroom. What happened next has changed my classroom forever.

"The iPad is perhaps the most talked-about piece of technology in teaching. Enthralled by tales of educational potential and egged-on by technophile staff, head teachers might be forgiven for investing in the trendy tablets without fully considering how they should be used."

"Flowboard is another great storytelling tool.

"After watching the whole of my tutor group playing 4 Pics 1 word app on their iPhones and iPods and getting very enthusiastic about finding out the answer I decided to try and use the concept of the game in one of my lessons.

For those of you that do not know the app, it is a very basic app but has become very popular with my students. Basically, 4 pics are displayed and the player must link them all with one word. Easy!"

Healthy Heroes is a free iPad app designed to help children learn about healthy snacks and meals. In the free app students feed healthy foods to a friendly monster. Before each activity students are shown a few healthy foods and they’re told a bit about the nutrition and calories of the foods.

"Google has long been in a perfect position to dominate the realm of chat. The Hangouts service is the gold standard of video messaging. It's incredibly easy to add up to 10 people to a chat, and more importantly, to do fun stuff with them — share your screen, watch a video together, even wear silly hats and disguises."

Perhaps you want to broadcast a tutorial or e-learning resource to your students or maybe create a collaborative task that can be viewed by the whole class.

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...

Parents of preschoolers can finally let go of "iPad guilt" - the term that refers to that terrible feeling you get when you use the iPad as babysitter.

Beth and Shawn take a look at the often-overlooked question of when to put the tech away in a classroom that has boatloads of electronics everywhere.

"In the last several months, the iOS versions of Evernote have undergone a significant overhaul of their user interfaces, closely mirroring the design and features of the counterpart web and Mac applications. We have added the iOS versions of Evernote to our Best of iPad Apps, and Best of iPhone Apps pages where they sit alongside our other picks for the platform.

Evernote is a free universal app that works on the iPhone and iPad."

"By now, you’ve probably see Commander Chris Hadfield’s tear-jerking farewell to the International Space Station: a cover of David Bowie’s classic space song, Space Oddity, filmed and performed by Hadfield himself in zero-g. In case you haven’t, we’ve embedded it above: it’s hard not to be proud of humanity after watching it.

But do you know how Hadfield actually recorded it? With his iPad, of course."