Seven new iPad apps to know about. Here are our first seven ‘apps of the week.’
Last month, we launched a brand-new feature called “App of the Week,” in which our editors highlight a new educational app every week. Here are the first seven apps we’ve featured. All of these apps are for Apple’s iPad, but in the future we’ll mix in coverage of Android apps as well. Do you have any suggestions for educational apps of your own that you’d like to share with readers? Tell us about them in the comments section below.
Name: Voice Dream Reader – Text to Speech What is it? Best for: All students Price: $4.99 (this 50 percent off price is for a limited time only) Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Rated: 4+ Features: 60 voices in 20 languages from Acapela and NeoSpeech available through in-app purchase. Link: Education - Apps. Technology to Promote Thinking. Apps For Mathematics. IPAD Activities Examples. iPads can’t improve learning without good teaching Pt 1. Clearly there is a lot of buzz around iPads in schools at the moment.
You can’t log on to the Web without reading about another school or entire district or department investing massive coin in a sparkling set of the Wonder Tablets, excited that they will cure all the ills of the current education systems around the world. From reading my blog, you would be no doubt convinced that I am very much in this Pro-iPad camp. Make no mistake I am. However, no matter how versatile and potentially powerful a product the iPad is, it is merely an extremely expensive placemat without creative, well planned teaching behind its use. Before committing to an iPad implementation of any size, schools need to thoroughly think through how these technological marvels are going to enhance the teaching and learning process. iPad and STEM Resources. I reached out looking for apps that would support STEM in high school and middle school to our Apple representatives and WOW did they come through!
I took the emails and brought them here to share! Thanks Mike and Adair!! Solving the STEM Education Crisis from eSchool News Cathleen Richardson’s site: And click on “Macs and STEM” ISTEM: Lesson Plans. STEM Resources. Tips for the One iPad Classroom, and a Free iPad Rules Download! Do you have an iPad in your classroom?
Are you wondering how you can make use of it when there is only one device for all of your students to share? Well, never fear, I have tons of ideas for you right here, and a “Rules for the iPad” free download, too! And for those of you that may be new to my blog, this post focuses on using the iPad in the young children’s classroom, such as Pre-K, Kindergarten, First Grade, etc. Before you get started using the iPad in any manner, make your expectations on how to use the device clear. Here are my rules for the iPad. Rules for the iPad: Carry the iPad with two hands. Sit down while using the iPad. Hold the iPad from the base, not the cover. No banging, slamming, or hitting the iPad. Share nicely and stop when your turn is over. I made a poster for the rules with picture cues to help the children, and I am sharing it with you here today! Be sure that you physically demonstrate how to share the tablet. Sand timers make it easy for little ones to share. 1.
iPad for Teaching & Learning.