Apps
Tell me if you’ve seen this happen. A classroom teacher or a teacher librarian friend attends a workshop or a webinar about a certain app, masters it and tries to use it, a lot. There are likely better tools for the various tasks at hand, but they aren’t easily discoverable. Pre-service training does not prepare [...]
Find out what Moonbot Studios, that "secret zero-gravity colony inhabited by interstellar beings" in Shreveport, LA, has been up to. Once again, it defies reality.
Confession: I love my iPhone and I thought I knew how to use it, until I attended Michelle Luhtala’s latest edWeb webinar. I couldn’t make the session live, but I am actually kinda glad I watched it first in archived form. The recording allowed me to pause and take a good look at the features [...]
Lately when I think about how I am going to accomplish a digital task, I find that I automatically consider the task as a creative process, a process that makes me dig into my digital toolkit or examine my digital palette, usually more than once, to discover new synergies. I’ve come to discover what I’ve [...]
Sergueï Prokofiev’s 'Peter and the Wolf' is often a child's first introduction to the orchestra. This delightful production of that musical story that can be enjoyed by those miles away from a concert hall....
When it comes to children under the age of two and screen time, early learning specialists and the American Academy of Pediatrics don’t recommend it. For ages two to five? Most experts agree that limited, “intentional and developmentally appropriate” use is acceptable. Here are our recommendations of a few apps that meet that criteria.
On Saturday, two hard-working AASL committees presented juried lists of resources. While I try my best to keep up with this stuff, these two darn committees just filled my summer with new explorations. I take that back. They’ve actually significantly narrowed the field by pointing to the learning tools most worthy of exploring and integrating [...]
Readers of 'Kids Discover' magazine know that it is packed with fabulous photos, fascinating facts, and amusing activities; this app, which was adapted from an issue of the magazine, contains all those features, and more.
Parental love is celebrated in two apps for the preschool crowd from Snappyant. With Father's Day on the horizon, these may be just the apps for the family iPad.
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