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This article is about mobile education through mobile apps.  I think this is a good read for any schools considering innovating some education techniques.

This article specifically is revolved around using mobile apps in Chemistry class and such.  It regards to an app that is useful to chemistry.

This article shows the ever changing world involving apps and such.  It says how there is an app for everything and most of them are useful.  Very good read.

This is another university using apps to connect the students to everything going on at their school.  This certain one is about Stanford's class teaching how to make an app and also is about the school app they have currently.  Very interesting!

Stanford University has created a class where students are taught to create their own Ipod Apps

This article called, "There's an App for that" is very interesting in telling us that there is an app for almost everything you can think of.  A good read for anyone who is trying to understand mobile apps further.

These are the top 40 apps that are best used in a high school classroom.  They are very interesting and maybe I will try some out! Shows that apps and education can be used.  This can also be considered innovation in the classroom.

A video about mobile apps and education with children.

3. Education There are two opportunities for schools and universities, and the first doesn't really directly concern the latest iPad. Instead, it is the impact that the new iPad will have on the iPad 2, as the expected price reduction will make this tablet much more accessible for finance-restricted education establishments. Of course, there is also an opportunity with the new iPad for those with bigger budgets. The additional apps for movie making could make Apple's latest tablet a great tool for subjects like media studies, or in higher education, broadcast journalism training.

Cleveland State University has created an app in which touristic information is given. This was created for a competition.

an app that gives you the ability to connect to Princeton University's resources through a free download

University of Michigan has created an app in which social events, contact information of other students, menus, bus schedules, news on campus, and building locations are accesible.

This is a list of 7 things one should take into account before or while making an app.

Cool website that actually lets you create an app

Tells us how we can actually change our apps

helps clear up what exactly freedom means

talks about how it is exploring new ideas

talks about how it can be used

This source describes the boom in mobile apps. Apps are going to start being mass customized at a mass production price. This will allow people to customize their own devices and application to fit their own personal style. 

This page talks about certain apps.

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South Koreans realize that technology doesn't always bring progress. Not going as ebook as planned according to this washington post article. "But South Korea, among the world's most wired nations, has also seen its plan to digitize elementary, middle and high school classrooms by 2015 collide with a trend it didn't anticipate: Education leaders here worry that digital devices are too pervasive and that this young generation of tablet-carrying, smartphone-obsessed students might benefit from less exposure to gadgets, not more. Those concerns have caused South Korea to pin back the ambition of the project, which is in a trial stage at about 50 schools. Now, the full rollout won't be a revolution: Classes will use digital textbooks alongside paper textbooks, not instead of them. First- and second-graders, government officials say, probably won't use the gadgets at all."