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Article with descriptions of best Apple and Android apps for education in 2013

"Android Apps for Learners with Dyslexia / Reading and Writing Difficulties"

"At Apps.Search.Yahoo.com you can search for Android and iOS apps. You can filter results according to OS, price, and category. "

"A New York-based educational technology startup on Wednesday releases the first device that could answer that question, introducing an Android-powered touchscreen tablet designed for kids both to take to school and bring home. For sale only to schools for now, the Amplify tablet comes pre-loaded with virtually everything a student will encounter during the school day, including all the textbooks, lessons, tests and e-books she might be assigned"

" I tested three different voice-input keyboards: Jelly Bean's default (Google voice typing), Swype, and TouchPal. Each of these keyboards offers voice recognition which you can use to dictate emails, text messages, notes, and anything else you can think of. The feature is very easy to use in all these apps - simply tap the voice icon and start talking."

"Go Read is a FREE accessible eBook reader for Android phones and tablets. Download, listen, and enjoy all your favorite Bookshare books… wherever you want. "

"SnaPanda is a free Android app that could help students expand their vocabulary. With SnaPanda installed on your phone you can point it at any clearly printed word on a page in a book, in a magazine, or on a sign and get the definition of that word."

"PaceRecorder is a simple Android app that records your voice and gives you instant feedback about the pace with which you are speaking."

"I decided to put together a list of 29 of my favorite apps that I think educators and students should try over the next month. The list is embedded below as a Google Docs presentation."

"he two newest additions to our Read&Write family, Read&Write for iPad and Read&Write for Android are easy-to-use alternative keyboards with integrated features to help with writing content for emails, social media and even interacting with online forms. They're great for anyone who needs a little support with their reading and writing."

"The purpose of the Making Cognitive Connections (formerly PDA 4 Memory) project is to provide training materials for individuals living with brain injuries and other cognitive challenges. Training relates to the use of a smart mobile device (such as a iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Android device) as a memory and cognitive prosthetic device. The training materials include books, videos, and quick reference guides designed with the specific needs of those living with brain injury and other cognitive challenges in mind."

"Mindwave Mobile is the world's least expensive research-grade EEG headset available. It interfaces with mobile devices (iOS and Android) and your desktop computer and can be used to play a variety of games, brain trainers, and educational apps. It's the ultimate introduction into the world of brain-computer interface. Can you control a game with only the power of your mind?"

BridgingApps is a volunteer community of parents, therapists, doctors, and teachers who share information on how we are using the iPad®, iPhone®, iPod Touch® and Android® devices with people who have special needs

Readability is a free web and mobile app with a simple purpose: to deliver a great reading experience. It turns virtually any web page into a clean, comfortable reading view. You can also sync articles for reading later as you surf around the web. Readability works on your web browser, iPhone, iPad and Android smartphone, giving you the flexibility to read anytime, anywhere.

"While originally designed for IPod apps, of course it works with IPad apps as well. In fact any mobile technology apps, including android apps, can be evaluated using this rubric. "

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"With over 300,000 apps it's easy to become overwhelmed by the number of app choices. It's also easy to spend a small fortune on a lot of useless apps. As a special needs parent I wanted to get right to the "good stuff" and figured you did too. Check out our guide that breaks down the best of the apps by skill set so you can easily find and buy apps that most benefit your child. Great for kids with autism, ADHD, apraxia, learning disability, sensory issues and more. Included are apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and some Android apps. Get started right now by clicking on a category. "

"Chrome Virtual Keyboard will popup automatically when the user clicks on an input field such as textboxes and textareas. Futhermore, the keyboard will disappear automatically when no longer needed. This extension is ideal for touch screen devices. This keyboard works like an iOS/Android/Windows 8 touch virtual keyboard."

"Greetings and welcome to the Digital Wish eBuilder, Beta Testing Program! We're excited to have you be among the first to try out the eBuilder, a new digital authoring tool that lets anyone publish books, lesson plans, and content for both Apple and Android mobile devices! With the tool, authors can easily bring instructional content to their mobile devices with just a few easy steps."

"Convert your phone into a mobile text scanner What the Text Fairy can do * perform OCR (optical character recognition) * Edit extracted text * copy extracted text into the clipboard for use in other apps * convert the scanned page into PDF * recognizes printed text from more than 50 languages"