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For iPad for iPad on the iTunes App Store\nLearning over 300 Dolch Sight Words or "High Frequency" Words will help your child learn to read better, and in most schools, it is a requirement for the kids to know these without sounding them out.\n\nThe POWER in this learning tool is the ability to change the setting to fit your child's learning level and style and design to grow with your child. Use this to design your own custom learning lesson plans.

For iPhone for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nBlackboard Mobile Learn works with Blackboard's Web-based teaching and learning software. Given all the important and secure information in your school's Blackboard system, Blackboard Mobile Learn must be enabled by your school before the app will work on your device. There are several eligibility factors (all versions of Blackboard software aren't yet supported, for example) which could impact the timing for your school.

Welcome to the iPads for Learning website.  This website is for educators, students and parents wanting to learn about using iPads in education.  Here you will find information about the Victorian school iPads for Learning trial including the specially selected apps, classroom ideas and technical tips.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n3D SOLAR SYSTEM: play with the 3D model by moving around the Solar System. Zoom in, zoom out, investigate it from different angles. You can observe not only the current position of planets in our solar system but also learn their position at a definite period of time in the past or in the future! For this use Time Machine feature.\n\nFLY to the PLANET: having chosen a planet from a far, tap an image of a "rocket" to fly straight to the planet. Enjoy a beautiful and realistic image of a planet!\n\nREAD INFO about the planet: by tapping the "i" button you learn general info about the planet, its name, its mass, radius, distance to the sun, internal structure with the picture and science missions.\n\nTIME MACHINE: click on the clock icon and date and time will be displayed. Slide your finger on the scale and the sky will start moving accordingly. Touch year, month and time and change them depending on what you want to see, the display will adapt accordingly to show you how planets were aligned at that time.\n\nMOONS of DIFFERENT PLANETS: select a planet like Earth, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars or Urano and observe how many moons they have and their track around the planet. Select one of the moons and learn.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nThis guide is an attempt to systematically build up the grammatical structures that make up the Japanese language in a way that makes sense in Japanese. It may not be a practical tool for quickly learning immediately useful Japanese phrases (for example, common phrases for travel). However, it will logically create grammatical building blocks that will result in a solid grammatical foundation. For those of you who have learned Japanese from textbooks, you may see some big differences in how the material is ordered and presented. This is because this guide does not seek to forcibly create artificial ties between English and Japanese by presenting the material in a way that makes sense in English. Instead, examples with translations will show how ideas are expressed in Japanese resulting in simpler explanations that are easier to understand.

MindSnacks Spanish is a one-of-a-kind language learning game\n\n * Six games covering vocabulary, reading, writing,\n listening and conversation skills\n * 50 Spanish lessons designed by Ivy League instructors\n * 1400+ words and phrases to master\n * 1400+ native speaker audio clips\n * Full library of images\n * Personalized learning algorithms to maximize retention\n * 16 fun challenges to keep you motivated\n * Keeps track of your high scores and learning progress

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nLearn or refresh your French, anytime and anywhere with your own personal language lab.\n\nThe FUN way to learn a language!\n\n24/7 Tutor French goes beyond the simple talking phrasebook or flashcard programs, providing a set of engaging, interactive study tools that help you really learn the language. FREE French Tutor Lite Edition (LE) is a fully functional version containing a useful subset of vocabulary and phrases drawn from several of the learning modules in the 24/7 French series.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nLearn or refresh your Spanish, anytime and anywhere with your own personal language lab.\n\nThe FUN way to learn a language!\n\n24/7 Tutor Spanish goes beyond the simple talking phrasebook or flashcard programs, providing a set of engaging, interactive study tools that help you really learn the language. FREE Spanish Tutor Lite Edition (LE) is a fully functional version containing a useful subset of vocabulary and phrases drawn from several of the learning modules in the 24/7 Spanish series.\n\n- NATIVE SPEAKER audio for all words\n- Priority based optimization system\n- Entertaining PUZZLE GAME\n- WRITE IN quiz to test language recall\n- Manual & automatic FLASH CARD method\n- Self contained, network access not required\n- MULTIPLE CHOICE quiz

PP presentation on uses of apps to foster literacy learning

"In this excellent 3 part article series, Principal David Mahaley shares lessons learned from the 1:1 iPad program that he has overseen in his role as Principle of The Franklin Academy. David has written several excellent articles for EmergingEdTech, and is the author of the eBook Teaching and Sharing with the iPad: Instructor Quick Guide. I am delighted to publish this series of posts in which he shares the perspective of the Administrator, the Teacher, and the Student, after nearly 3 years of experience with integrating the iPad into the Academy's curricula. "

"The apps recognized as Best Apps for Teaching & Learning are of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. The apps foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration and are user friendly to encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. "

great site on iPad for learning trial program.

"Mobile devices such iPads, iPods and iPhones have taken the world by storm and are increasingly used in teaching and learning, and/or in therapy, to support learners with additional support needs, as well as for personal use. We are aware that people are all at different levels of experience in their use of iPads. We hope this Guide will provide you with helpful information and resources to help you on your way. "

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nGrammar Up was designed to replicate questions with a business focus commonly found in the popular TOEIC (TM) English proficiency test.\nGrammar Up can help learners to improve their grammar, word selection and vocabulary.\nCustom timer setting can assist learners to improve response times under exam time constraints.\nResearch suggests that kids and adults learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error-feedback.\nGrammar Up provides learners with an opportunity to improve strategies for grammar success. "

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nStack the States makes learning about the 50 states fun! Watch the states actually come to life in this colorful and dynamic game!\n\nAs you learn state capitals, shapes, geographic locations and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated states anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of states that reaches the checkered line to win each level.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nPractice letter name recognition and sound-letter association in iKnowthat's Phonics - ABCs! Based on the popular children's learning site, iKnowthat.com, iKnow Phonics-ABCs uses engaging animation and sound to make learning the names of letters and the sounds they represent fun! Each animation, accompanied by a child voice-over, reinforces the sound a letter makes. Choose from three related activities: Letters, Letter Match, and Letter Search. Earn completion certificates to track progress. Fully develop early reading skills using the other four iKnow Phonics apps.

   Evernote has a new free app on the App Store which makes use of the Smart Cover to help with learning.  With Evernote Peek,  can fold back the cover to reveal questions and then even further to reveal the answers.       This is great for students who wish to create flashcards to help practice information. To create new practice materials, they simply need to create a new note and add the questions to the title and the answers to the body text. 

In this four-part series, we are using the Someday/Monday concept to explore four dimensions of using tablets, such as iPads, in educational settings. We will do this by examining how teachers can take students on a journey from the consumption of media to curation, creation, and connection. In the first part of this series, we used the Someday/Monday template to explore Consumption. During the second, we examined Curation and the evolving role of the teacher as a curator of learning objects. This week, we will address Creation, examining what is possible when we empower students and teachers as innovators with iPads and other mobile devices.

iPad resources that can support STEM

iPad resources that can support STEM