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SUPER WHY! for iPad. Nearpod: An App To Help Teachers & Students Work Together Using iPads. iPad devices have great potential to help out teachers and students in the educational learning process. But without the proper apps to use, the iPad would not be of much educational value. Here to offer a way to help teachers and students with the use of iPad devices in the classroom is a free application called Nearpod. Nearpod is a free to use smartphone app compatible with iPad devices. The app is sized at 5 MB and requires iOS version 4.1 or later. The app has wonderful potential and will definitely benefit a classroom being run with iPads. Features: A user-friendly smart-device app.Compatible with the iPad.Helps teachers and students interact with their iPad devices.Assists learning in the classroom.Delivers content from the teacher to the students in real-time. Check out Nearpod @ Motion Math. 10 Best Apps 4 Teachers.

Most of what we do is for the students. The focus of this and many other blogs and websites is about learning, and rightly so, but there are also apps that will make our jobs easier too. I am talking about that catergory of apps that are designed specifically for the classroom teacher. Those apps that will assist us in the everyday little jobs that need to be done, often on the run and often while 10 other things are also happening in the room. There are plenty and I am sure as more and more teachers gain the confidence to design their own apps, there will be more suitable one to come. Here is a list of apps that you can use to make your job easier. Keynote: $9.99 Keynote for iPad is almost as powerful as the desktop application. Since one of the first jobs you have to do each morning is to take the role Attendance is a great solution for the iPad. TeacherTool saves grades and makes suggestions for grades. iAnnotate is a PDF reader and annotation tool for the iPad.

GradePad: $2.99. Top 10 Sites for Educational Apps. The wave of the future is here especially for education. Terms like 21st Century Computing, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), and Cloud Computing, are mainstream. The introduction of mobile devices, iPods, netbooks, and more specifically the iPad has brought technology to more students then ever before. A 1 to 1 environment(1 student per 1 technology device) is not only a possibility but a reality in more school districts then people realize. W/ all that being said I have decided to create a list of my 10 favorite sites for finding educational apps. Top 10 Sites for Educational Apps APPitic - Is a great site w/ over 1300+ reviews done by Apple Distinguished Educators. These apps have been tested in different grade levels w/ different instructional strategies.Mind Leap - Mind Leap is an excellent site w/ reviews built on a 5 star scale.

Bonus - Teach with your iPad - Is a wonderful wiki that lists a ton of apps by subject, type, and grade level. 1,000 Education Apps Organized By Subject & Price. How Students Benefit From Using Social Media 13.56K Views 0 Likes A lot of criticism has been leveled at social media and the effect it has on the way students process and retain information, as well as how distracting it can be. However, social media offers plenty of opportunities for learning and interactivity, and if you take a moment to think about it, it's not too hard to see how students benefit from using social media. 10 African-American History Month Teaching Resources 1.27K Views 0 Likes This week’s Featured Ten Learnist boards are dedicated to African-American history month. 3 Tech Tips Your Grandma Could Teach You 2.06K Views 0 Likes Those who have been using technology, in some form, have a few tech tips you should know about.

iPad Apps. How do I get Apps to this device? Or If you are new to the mobile world, what is an App? App or an application is a program that can be installed on to the device. The app will have an icon associated with it. An app can be purchased through iTunes App Store on your computer or through the App Store app on the iPad (If you need to download iTunes, click here). An iTunes account/Apple ID will be needed to download apps. Notes on Selecting Apps: When selecting an app, there is not one app that is perfect for everyone. MathBoard. Dr. Seuss's ABC. iPad Apps for Kids with LD « Smart Kids With LD. Kid Safe Browsers for iPad and iPhone. By Natalie Parents know that it’s not safe to allow children unrestricted access to the internet. You wouldn’t let little Jimmy run around all willy-nilly in a strange city and you surely wouldn’t allow anything of the sort in cyberspace, right?

The issues with internet access and children come in many forms. Your child may be young enough that they accidentally stumble upon inappropriate content ranging from nudity to foul language, leaving you to explain the human anatomy at a much sooner time than you had imagined. Or, perhaps the kids are at an age of curiosity or rebellion and are purposely seeking out off-limits topics online. With the growing popularity of internet access to mobile devices like the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, monitoring internet activity isn’t so easy as plopping the computer in the living room and keeping a watchful constant eye over young shoulders.

Websites available through the browser are determined through a number of factors. Happly For iPad Helps Curious Kids Discover The Web…Safely. iPad guilt? There needs to be a technical term for that feeling in the pit of a parent’s stomach that arises from handing over the iPad to their kids, only to watch them play brain rotting Outfit7 games or level after level of Angry Birds. Fortunately, some startups are focusing on developing more educational content for the iPad to help parents assuage some of their guilt over their kids’ ever-increasing screen time. One such company is Daily Interactive, which is now launching Happly for iPad, a collection of original and curated content for kids, including online videos, games, and stories. And while the content may be deemed educational, the kids might not realize it, given the app’s focus on topics kids love to explore, like dinosaurs, space, sports, animals, how to’s and more.

The company was created by Brian Monnin and Greg Harris, who met back in the 90′s launching and developing interactive products for MSNBC.com. And so, Happly was conceived. The app itself is rather clever. Sounds: The Pronunciation App | English Pronunciation Aid | Macmillan Education. Teaching Kids with iPads – Part 1 of 5 | Elementary School Tech Ideas. #edtech #edchat How to you teach these kids? A few months ago I took a survey of my elementary kids to see what kind of mobile technology they had at home and it turned out that 53% of my students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades had iPads and 82% had iPods!

With over half of my students having iPads, there is no doubt that soon they will be bringing these devices to school — so it go me thinking… How do I teach students with iPads? So I called my friends over at Atomic Learning to brainstorm some ideas and we both agreed that this was a question worth answering. They explained that they are working with classrooms that have iPads and they have been gathering some interesting ideas on how iPad classrooms are a lot different than conventional ones. Planning iPad Projects: The first thing I did to get ready for my iPad Boot Camp was to start designing iPad projects, projects that were designed with a focus on Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and the principles of UbD.

Day One of iPad Boot Camp: 50 Must-Have Educational Apps. It’s time for holiday road trips and you know what that means: driving, flying, cranky kids, and… teaching opportunities! What’s that, you say? Well, there is so much downtime during the holidays where kids and adults spend hours just passing the time… why not try out some new apps on your phone? Many of these apps were found by The Teaching Palette, be sure to check out their fantastic site for more helpful resources! From learning the ABCs to doodling, there’s plenty of terrific apps out there that will pass the time but also educate. If you have other apps you want added to this list, just add them in the comments. *Most of the links below are to the iTunes store which will open another window and/or iTunes.

Great Apps For Kids (And Adults) Alphabet Animals Perfect for your talented toddler, this game is packed with colorful animations, animal sounds, and tons of tips for learning their letters. Mad Libs Just as goofy and fun as your remember. SmackTalk Annoying? Super Why! Plants Vs. 10 iPad Tips for Teachers. Top iPad Apps for Children with Autism.

Apple.com For families of children with autism, we know all too well the challenge of communication between us and the child. Autism affects both receptive and expressive communication skills and can often leave everyone frustrated at the inability to convey a simple request. But Apple has unwittingly revolutionized the autism world with the technology of the iPad (or iPhone or iPod Touch). Coupled with downloadable applications, or ‘apps’, that have been developed to enhance communication between children and their parents (or caregivers, teachers and therapists), the results are nothing short of miraculous as families are able to engage in quality time together.

Culled from several sources and parental input, here is a list of apps that are popular with special needs families: Apps for Communication: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Apps for Parents: 6. 7. 8. Many autistic children also respond well to music and art, and some enjoy fast moving games or interactive storybooks. Disney Books iPad and iPhone Apps | Disney Digital Books.

Best interactive iPad books of 2011 for kids of all ages - iPhone app recommendations - Lisa Caplan. All of these best iPad books for kids use digitization to enhance the reading experience, not divert attention from it. Where there are frills, I prefer to see them focus on education instead of playtime. There are great books for pre-schoolers but also for older kids, a somewhat under-served sector. And, for those aimed at school-aged readers, I primarily looked for educational offerings, since there are iBooks, eBooks and digital comics for fiction fans. Here are eight amazing iPad reading apps for kids from 2011. Another Monster at the End of This Book… Starring Grover & Elmo ($3.99) This classic Sesame Street book is a sequel to The Monster at the End of This Book. The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore ($4.99) This adaptation from the short film which shares its name, was the most delightful surprise of the year.

Auryn - The Little Mermaid ($0.99) The prose is the original by Hans Christian Andersen, so what’s not to love? There’s No Place Like Space! Math Evolve. ScreenChomp. Frog Dissection.