Tech
At Launch Kids, a full day devoted to children's publishing at the Digital Book World Conference, Warren Buckleitner, editor and founder of "Children’s Technology Review," noted that after a few years of invention and originality, app innovation had begun to level off. There are always exceptions, of course, and Tinybop is one.
"Osmo is part app and part iPad, with a little physical hackery thrown in," writes Chad Sansing, who considers the new gaming platform's potential for the classroom in his review.
The release of Dawn Publications's "The Prairie that Nature Built" a new app based on Marybeth Lorbiecki's the book of the same title (2014), continues the publisher’s strong commitment to environmental education.
In this "fun introduction to big concepts in astronomy," students will engage in a variety of interactive experiments, illuminated by the lucid text.
You don't have to go far to find a truck or construction site enthusiast in the under-five crowd. Since it was published in 2011, Sherri Duskey Rinker's picture book 'Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site' has been a favorite with this group. Now there's an app.
Through detailed diagrams, informative animations, and a few exercises, two colorful apps offer students up-close, interactive looks at human body systems.
It's here! A list of some of our favorite apps, reviewed over the last 12 months in SLJ’s “Touch and Go” column. The 10 that made the list represent the range and variety of material available to both children and their educators. Enjoy!
The five of us in the Robot Test Kitchen all came to this project from different comfort levels with technology. Some of us couldn’t get enough of it, some of us were skilled at it, some of us were dragging our heels, and some of us were curious but trepidatious. Some of us were a [...]
One of the features on the Robot Test Kitchen is a True Confessions series. In it, we discuss our personal experiences in this brave new world of integrating technology programming into our libraries. Sometimes it’s triumphant, sometimes it’s scary, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. The point of our True Confessions is to illustrate [...]
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