This list was compiled by L.Estrada and H.Parris-Fitzpatrick. In a very clean three column format, the authors show the icon, the app name and an app brief description. It is broken down by eBooks, Productivity, Organizers, Language Arts, Translators,Math, Social Studies, Science, Music and Art.
This is a list of iPad Apps useful for students who are visually impaired without other disabilities. They are accessible with VoiceOver. Many of the apps are free and the other ones that are paid apps are a few dollars. There are Language Art apps, Math and Science apps, and just for fun apps.
Wolfrom Alpha covers basic mathematics to advanced calculus and statistics.
Calcbot The more advanced, scientific functions are accessible by a swipe and record your history onto a tape that you can email or send values back into the calculator.
Apollonius is a for Geometry students. With it, you can make geometric constructions as if you were using a straightedge and compass. While making constructions, you can move points around to adjust the sizes, angles, and distances to visually see how these changes affect your constructions.
Math Ref is a reference app for mathematics that has over 1,400 helpful formulas, figures, tips and examples of the equations, and concepts.
SkyNumbers is a arithmetic game where you're given a target number while other numbers fall from the sky. You must combine these numbers with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to reach the target number.
Engender Education encourages to draw instead of writing. Creative content is just a matter of your imagination. The apps are all mathematical sorted by grade from K to 12.
This visual tool provides students with instant access to the fraction, decimal, or percentage form of any number. It explores the relationships between percents and decimals to fractions visually.
This app is an organizing tool. It allows you to take a "list" wherever you go. Key features allow you to add and view tasks daily, weekly, or monthly.
This app keeps track of student behavior. It creates an incentive to improve, modify, and encourage students to self-monitor and strive for success. It enables the teacher to compare student's performance versus behavior.
This PDF is from the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA). There are other documents available on the TCEA homepage for educators in other disciplines.
Effective use of iPads addresses three types of use for the ipad:
Teacher to Student, Student to Student and Student Groupwork. Along with this breakdown, the article or blog if you will, addresses three types of applications: interactive, reference, and productivity. This site provides an explanation of the process in developing challenge-based learning experiences, an explanation of what a 21st century learning environment is and provides insight into what best practice in terms of integration is. The apps that are shared are math related which is what I am interested in and I hope will help other math and elementary teachers as well.
Many of you mentioned Districts not being able to support ipads in the classroom. One of the tips mentioned here in the article is called "byod" Bring Your Own Device! Take a survey and see how many of your students have their own ipad or iphone.