Pew Resesearch Center survey of almost 2,500 Advanced Placement and National Writing Project Teachers re: impact of digital technologies on middle school and high school student.
The best app for digital language experience that I have seen yet. Take pictures of experience with your iPad/iTouch/iPhone, import them into Click n' Talk, add text, record a student or anyone else reading the text or talking about the picture. Voila, personalized book in minutes for emergent or beginning reader.
Gallaudet's Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) storybooks in app form. Stories are told in ASL and English. Built on bilingual learning principles.