Apps
Gr 8 Up—Although readers may purchase this title as a conventional novel, an eBook, or as an audiobook, it's hard to imagine a better container for the complex story than the app format...
The Google Expeditions Pioneer Program launched today. In an email update this morning, the team shared: Expeditions is hitting the road! Expeditions teams will visit selected schools around the world, starting with The United States, Australia, New Zealand, The United Kingdom, and Brazil. Each team will bring a complete Expeditions kit with everything the teachers […]
Studying parody or William Shakespeare's Hamlet in class? Looking for retelling of a classic with an unusual twist? Don't miss "Ryan North's To Be or Not to Be," now in digital.
Tiggly Words mixes touch-screen apps with real-world manipulatives to deliver a hybrid learning experience focused on long and short vowels.
Dash and Dot, by Wonder Workshop, are two robot “buddies” that arrive ready to play and program out of the box. Chad Sansing takes them for a test drive and considers their potential application in the classroom.
With no desire to thrust himself "into the vanguard of digital innovation," Iain Pears nonetheless finds himself there with publication of "Arcadia." The author notes, "...I undertook the project because I had reached the limit of my storytelling in book form and needed some new tools to get me to the next stage."
Many readers know Toca Boca's "play studio" apps designed for preschoolers. Here is something from them that's a little different. It combines sandbox activities with a subtle ecological message.
(Video by David Petro) As you get ready to reconnect with your favorite science teachers this fall, you’ll want to share two fabulous apps by the augmented reality developer DAQRI. Elements 4D This is a different kind of block play likely to engage new fans of chemistry. Using either paper or wood six-sided blocks inscribed […]
Torben Kuhlmann’s picture book, Lindbergh, the Tale of a Flying Mouse was published last year to glowing reviews. The recent release of the iBook version, with visual and audio enhancements, offers more to praise.
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