This is a "just-in-time" resource for preK-3rd grade teachers at Central School. These resources are aligned to NETS-T national standards and support the district's goals of technology integration and increased rigor in the classroom.
This free app from McGraw Hill is great for elementary school students to work on building their vocabulary. Students can either play on their own or with a partner. Bluster works on rhyming, prefixes & suffixes, synonyms, homophones, adjectives, and over 800 vocabulary words.
Common Sense offers great reviews and advice to parents as well as educators. Their new Beta site - Learning with Technology - reviews apps, games, and other media for kids in terms of learning.
This claims to be the first browser created by a doctor that is just for kids. The idea is that parents and educators curate content and students then can only access what they have identified. An interesting concept to present curated vs. filtered content.
"Lexico-Cognition is an App to develop language understanding, vocabulary building, cognitive, memory and auditory skills in a playful way. It was developed and tested by qualified speech therapists. "
This is a great article about the evolution of reading. Given the influx of iPads and eReaders into classrooms, the concept of "books" is certainly changing.
Great blog post about the implementation of an iPad pilot program in a 5th grade classroom. The focus of the article is on student learning rather than technical configuration.
This app goes with the FREE service provided by littlebirdtales.com. Students can create stories with their own artwork and audio recordings either from an app or on the web. The completed tales can be downloaded as either a PDF or mp4 with audio.