Top 25 Mobile Apps in Academia Everyone seems to talk endlessly about the role smartphones and other mobile technologies play in today’s classroom, especially when it comes to the best apps to get teachers organized and keep students learning. Higher ed has not inoculated itself against the spread, and ranks from the university president down to the lowliest of fresh meat tote around a smartphone or a tablet these days. Some, of course, benefit the faculty more than others, and the following prove pretty popular among professors these days. Dropbox:Thanks to the magic and wonder of cloud computing, professors on the go can access their files from other devices they’ve connected to their personal networks, meaning they never leave an important digital document at home!Documents To Go:Available for nearly all smartphone and PDA platforms, Documents To Go offers up the full suite of Microsoft Office programs, and saving a file on one device makes changes to all connected ones as well!
Apps for Autism Everyone working with Individuals with Autism can see the amazing potential, and opportunities that successful use of an iPad can bring. And I am sure we are facing some of the same challenges. Finding the time to set the iPad up properly and integrate it across environments. I may not be able to solve ALL of these challenges today, but here is a quick and easy list of apps you may like to check out, for students with Autism. ) to help match the right app to the right student, environment and task. App to help find Apps: Apps to support communication development: Depending on the communication levels of each person, you may need to look at AAC Apps and/or Apps to develop oral language skills Apps for AAC: Here are a few of the AAC apps used extensively by our consultancy team, but please refer to Jane Farrall’s comprehensive list of AAC Apps on our website, or to our Apps for AAC webinars for more information on each App. Apps to develop oral language: Apps for Behaviour: Apps for rewards
The 88 Best iOS Apps For Mobile Learning Mobile learning is here to stay. Students and teachers alike can build entire libraries of apps and web tools that let them learn and do, well, anything. We’ve covered this just about every day and love finding new resources to share. So, if you haven’t yet, follow @edudemic on Twitter !Alright, stupid self-promotion aside, let’s get on with the useful list. Our friends at Online Universities took a recent list of top iOS apps that ran on Edudemic and turned it into a handy visualization that any teacher could refer back to in a time of need. Brain Exercises Take advantage of these games, puzzles, and other brain teasers to build general cognitive skills needed to process and retain necessary information. Brain Blast – Flex Your Brain Muscle : Engage with some fun little brain teasers — mostly math-related — to keep the memory hot and the cognitive process chugging along. Quizzes and Flashcards Math Science Geography and History English and Literature Reference Materials and Open Source
5 iPhone Apps for Students With Disabilities Photo Credit: smh.com.au You may not realize it, but people with disabilities are also at a disadvantage when it comes to education. Studies show that 54 million Americans have disabilities. 28% of those with disabilities aged 25 and above barely even finished high school. More than 16 million people in America have a mental illness or a cognitive function problem while 3 million people have difficulty with speech communication, thus hindering them from learning independently. However, learning can be facilitated, even for people with disabilities, through the help of mobile devices like the iPhone. If you’re a parent of a disabled child or a teacher for disabled students, you can make learning more interesting for them with the help of these apps! ArtikPix One of the best learning methods for children is the use of pictures and graphics, one thing that modern technology such as the iPhone can now offer for free. In My Dreams ADHD Angel TapToTalk Learn Braille Alphabet
The $20 App Starter Package After recently being crowned the 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society, “Apps” have reached an unprecedented level with well over 600,000 currently available on the app store. The tremendous possibility that they bring to the classroom cannot be overstated, with PE Teachers from all over the world investing in and trialling their uses within the classroom. In recent months the level of take up and interest has reached new heights with an over 3000% increase in the number of Google searches related to mobile applications in PE. This search echoes the desire for new users to identify a series of apps that could be considered the PE Apps starter package. Coaches Eye Coache’s Eye is the premier video analysis app available on iPhone/iPad/iPod and Android devices. Easy Assessment The Easy Assessment app has been designed specifically for PE Teachers with an aim of capturing and swiftly assessing student performance in Physical Education. SloPro BaM Video Delay Easy Portfolio
IPad apps for special needs kids The iPad can be an effective tool to help many kids with learning differences or special needs. Here are some of the top special needs apps that help build skills — from identifying emotions to communicating to practicing social and perceptual skills to recognizing word reversals and more. Touch and Learn - Emotions From Innovative Mobile Apps, best for ages 3-up, Free, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch This is a great free app to use with kids who need practice deciphering emotions. Kids play by looking at four photos and then touching the photo of a person showing a specific emotion. Proloquo2Go From AssistiveWare, best for ages 2 and up, $189.99, iPad For speech-impaired kids, "Proloquo2Go" becomes the child's voice. The app provides a pictorial interface for kids to use. LetterReflex - Overcoming Letter Reversals & Backwards Writing in Early Childhood Development & Dyslexic Children From BinaryLabs, Inc., best for ages 4-up, $1.99, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch The Social Express
20+ Classroom Blogs to Enjoy I spent today working with staff at Christ Church Primary School in Brixton, South London – and we were predominantly talking about the use of classroom blogging to support learning. During the day I was tweeting to ask people to share their own class blogs as I was working with different year groups and it was lovely to look back this evening and find so many all across the world that people sent me – so a big thanks to those of you in this list. I have gathered them up and indictaed where the cass blogs are from and thought I would share in a post for everyone to benefit from. And here are the class blogs from Christ Church Priary School too – they would be so pleased if you and your classes dropped by and added a comment or two. Make sure you spend some time exploring the different blogs and look for links to other school blogs they have displayed and I hope you perhaps find a class to link to and share some stories with. Please share your class blog in the comments below
Proloquo2Go Symbol-supported communication app to promote language development and grow communication skills, from beginning to advanced communicators Unique feature combination Proloquo2Go is the only AAC app that combines unique features, such as research-based vocabulary levels, (activity) templates to support motor-planning, ExpressivePower™ to express yourself and full bilingual support. And all that with minimal customization effort! Proloquo2Go is designed to ensure growth of communication skills and to promote language development. ‘AssistiveWare has done a beautiful job of listening to the AAC community's feedback, adding powerful features in Proloquo2Go 5 including Search with guided navigation and automatic backups.’ Who is Proloquo2Go for? Proloquo2Go’s unique features make it the premier Augmentative and Alternative Communication solution for children, teenagers and adults who need symbol support. We have tons of free support materials available.
PrometheanPlanet This article was originally written in Spanish by Andrés Carlos López Herrero and is translated by Leysi Ortiz. An app (short for "application") is a computer program designed to allow the user to perform specific tasks. In general, the term applies to program apps for new mobile devices, tablets and smartphones. The above diagram shows the location and relationship of the front end user, applications and other existing software. Students can reinforce their learning with the many free or low cost educational applications available each day in greater numbers in the market. One of the main features of next generation mobile and multi-touch tablets is that their use and handling is extremely simple and attractive to the younger audience. Apps are designed according to the operating system of the device, so it is best to start your search in the official app store accessible from your device, for example the App Store (for Apple products) or Google Play (for Android devices). Enjoyed this?