As iPads are being more and more by educators, companies are creating more and more niche apps for use in education. Many of these apps focus on drill and kill functions, but others provide unique ways for students to connect to material.
Polling Apps for Instantaneous Assessment
- Socrative - "Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets."
- Poll Everywhere - Web-app - Poll students using a variety of web-based means, including SMS (text messages).
Textbook Apps
- Google Books - Cost of the book - "The Google Books app offers access to over 3 million Google eBooks on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Take your favorite books with you on the go. Shop in your browser at the Google eBookstore, and read in your app."
- iBooks Textbooks - $15.00 per textbook - "With the Multi-Touch magic of iBooks textbooks, interactive photo galleries bring images to life. Animations burst off the page.
- Inkling - Cost of the book - "Inkling is a platform for interactive textbooks, built from the ground up for iPad. It turns paper-based textbooks into engaging, interactive learning experiences while staying compatible with the print book for classroom use."
Research/Resources
- Discover: Wikipedia in a Magazine - "Discover is a completely new way to explore Wikipedia, inviting you to sit back, relax, and expand your knowledge through a delightful experience that doesn't feel like you're reading an encyclopedia."
- Livebinders - "LiveBinders app version 1.0 for the iPad gives you quick access to all of the binders you've created and those you've collected on your custom shelves. This version uses Safari browser to present and edit these binders."
- Evernote - "Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use." Evernote is the hot new thing in education, particularly 1 to 1 programs. Check out Evernote for Schools for more information.
Flashcard Apps
- iBooks Textbooks with Study Cards - $15.00 per textbook - "All your notes and highlights automatically appear on study cards. Flip them over and find the definition of a glossary term or the note attached to the highlighted passage."
- Evernote Peek
- Flash Card Deluxe
- Mental Case Flashcards HD - $2.99 - "Mental Case is The Study App. It's the premium flashcards app for your Mac, iPhone, or iPad."
Apps for English Language Arts
- iA Writer - $1.99 - With its emphasis on focused, no-frills writing, this app is ideal for students who may struggle with their attention and writing skills.
- Shakespeare by Readdle - Access all of Shakespeare's plays with this app, including detailed scene breakdowns, and font customization. A pro version for $9.99 provides you with search, glossary, facts, and more features.
- Chicktionary - Expand your vocabulary with this game.
- Demibooks Composer - Create your own textbooks with interactive elements using this iPad app.
Apps for Math
- Quick Graph - "Quick Graph is a powerful, high quality, graphic calculator that takes full advantage of the multitouch display and the powerful graphic capabilities of the iPad and iPhone, both in 2D and 3D."
- Alge-Bingo - $0.99 - "Created by a high school math teacher with over 25 years of experience in the classroom. Develop your algebraic equation solving skills through playing a Bingo game. "
- Algebra Touch - $2.99 - This gesture-based app lets students combine equations to refresh their algebra skills.
- Geometry for iPad - $1.99 - This app "offers quizzes, tutorials and flashcards to help you learn Geometry"
- Math Sheet Calculator - This app lets you write down your calculations to keep track of your computations.
- SAS Flash Cards - "With SAS® Flash Cards, you can download and play flash card decks in numerous subjects, create new flash card decks in a variety of question formats, and share your flash card decks with others."
Apps for Social Sciences
- Constitution for iPad - "Senator Sam Ervin pulled one out of his pocket during the Watergate Hearings... Now prepare to own any legal debate with a copy of the US Constitution on your iPad!"
- MyCongress - "MyCongress is a portal to detailed information about your elected U.S. Congressional officials. Track their news, video and Twitter feeds."
- World Book: This Day in History - "This interactive multimedia calendar that displays historical events for the current day or any selected day, along with related media such as photos, illustrations, music, and speeches."
- History Maps of the World - This app collects high-resolution historical maps.
Apps for Science
- LabSolver - $0.99 - "Lab Solver is a bundle of powerful features designed to simplify the day-to-day work of science students and professionals."
- 3D Cell Simulation and Stain Tool - Create your own cell image in order to explore a 3D cell with this app.
- Gas Laws HD Lite - "Beginning chemistry students can use this app to study the various relationships that exist between pressure, volume, temperature and number of particles of a gas."
- 3D Brain - "Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. "
- Video Science - "A growing library of over 80 hands-on Science lessons that are great for home and the classroom. These short videos demonstrate inexpensive and easy to recreate experiments that are designed to inspire and excite kids of all ages."
- Science Glossary - "An extensive glossary of scientific terms and short biographies of key scientists. Formatted specifically for the iPhone and provided by Visionlearning, Inc."
Apps for Spanish
- Learn Spanish Levels I & II with Bueno - "Learn Spanish I & II is the very best Learn Conversational Spanish program in the history of the World. Kind of like Rosetta Stone meets South Park meets Grand Theft Auto. Learn Spanish in 5 weeks (30 classes of 40 minutes each)."
- Spanish-English Translation Dictionary by Ultralingua - $19.99 - "Over 290,000 translations. Conjugates thousands of Spanish and English verbs • Hundreds of usage notes and examples. No internet connection required."
- Rosetta Stone Total eCourse HD - Requires Subscription - "This dedicated iPad® application allows you to take the Rosetta Course lessons anywhere your iPad device is connected. Continue discovering your new language. And voice."
- Conjuverb - "ConjuVerb makes it easy to look up Spanish verbs. ConjuVerb contains over 600 of the most used verbs in Spanish. We don't waste your time with verbs that are rarely, if ever, used. You can focus only on the most important verbs!"
Apps for Inclusion/Differentiation/ESL
- Dragon Dictation - "Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. "
- Reading Trainer - $2.99 - "This app provides everything you need to read texts of all types faster, more effectively and most of all, with better retention."
- Miss Spell's Class - "Miss Spell’s Class is an original word game that lets players test their spelling skills against the most commonly misspelled words on Dictionary.com."
- Proloquo2Go - $189.99 - "Proloquo2Go is for anyone who cannot afford spending thousands of dollars on an AAC device and yet wants a solution that is just as good if not better. SLPs, teachers and parents recommend it for children and adults with autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, developmental disabilities, apraxia, ALS, stroke or traumatic brain injury."
- Language Builder - $7.99 - "Language Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve sentence ideation ; 2) Improve sentence formation; and 3) Improve receptive and expressive language."
- Special Education Edition for iPad: eCOVE Software - "Gather objective data while observing teaching practices and student behavior. Nine very easy to use timer, counter, checklist, and scale tools included with more available."
- English for Kids - "English for Kids is an immersion, 'Rosetta Stone' style, learning game"
- Reading Trainer - $2.99 - "This app provides everything you need to read texts of all types faster, more effectively and most of all, with better retention."
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