A Collection Of Early Education Apps That Are COPPA-Compliant by TeachThought Staff & Sponsored by Drawp, a collaboration app for creativity COPPA-Compliance isn’t usually the first thing a teacher–or parent–consider when looking for an app. The “big data” movement started off sinister enough, with app developers quietly requiring extraordinary permissions and access to user files,…
From RSS readers to social readers, this list has to have something that can improve the efficiency of what you do.
Apps Are Better Than Textbooks. Here Are 10 Examples. We’ve theorized before that apps are the new textbook. That was back in 2012, and this hasn’t proven true for a variety of reasons. Not every classroom has tablets. Textbooks, while stagnant, are chock full of information and content. Further, some apps are pretty bad. Buggy. All flash…
20 Apps For Writing On The iPad Though the tablet, in form, tends towards consumption, the iPad can also serve as a capable word processor. How capable depends on how demanding you are about your word processing. Whether or not you have a physical keyboard (Logitech makes a very functional–and very thin–bluetooth keyboard) also matters,…
Literacy, Creativity, & Play: 12 Apps That Should Be On Elementary School iPad So this collection wasn’t as easy to curate as it’d seem. It wasn’t a matter of simply choosing the best apps across content areas–math, science, social studies, etc. The title says “every iPad,” which seems to imply universal needs. Every. iPad. Same…
50 Apps That Represent 50 New Ways To Learn by TeachThought Staff Modern learning is in a state of flux as it struggles to find out what it wants to become. Schools continue to merely “add on” learning, while technology strongly suggests new possibilities for inside and beyond the classroom. From learning simulations and mobile…
5 Apps To Help Students Organize What They Learn contributed by Justin Boyle Most students need all the help they can get when it comes to planning big projects. Here’s a list of apps that can help them stay organized when they’re working on group presentations, research papers or other big tasks that might take…
These Apps Can Help Turn Your Students Into Makers The Maker Movement is one of creativity and invention. Of Do-It-Yourself ingenuity. Of making things with your own hands. Building something from scratch can shift a lesson from a lecture into an experience. Students can play, diverge, tinker, make mistakes, help each other, and express themselves…
STEM Apps For Learning: The Amazing Digestive Journey Apps For Learning: The Amazing Digestive Journey Platform: iOS Price: $1.99 Grade Levels: K-12 Content Area: Science; STEM; Biology Developer Description: “With The Amazing Digestive Journey, users easily pilot through a virtual simulation of the systems and structures of the mouth, esophagus, intestines and other organs, all depicted in detailed…
The following iPad apps for drawing, painting, and art education a great place to start your iPad art collection.
The Sandbox is a game that allows students to directly interact with STEAM concepts by solving problems and responding to scenarios.
Game-Based Learning Apps: Universe Sandbox App: Universe Sandbox Platform: PC Price: $9.99 on Steam (though they often have sales–put it in on your wishlist and they’ll notify you when it goes on sale) Grade Levels: Ages to 5 to however old you are Content Area: Science, Math, Astronomy What Is It? Technically this isn’t a game, but an actual…
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