I use Diet Coda to edit and maintain websites through FTP. Students can create applications and test them directly from the Codea interface.ĭiet Coda is the miniature version of Coda for Mac. A tutorial guides students through the basic controls and motions.Ĭodea is the only fully fledged coding and programming application on the iPad. Hopscotch is an introductory coding app for the iPad. Showbie is easy to setup and use in the classroom and adds tremendous functionality for the teacher. I was looking for apps that will help teachers go paperless when I stumbled upon Showbie. Showbie allows educators to share and grade student work directly on their iPad. The artistic focus drives the majority of features and makes this a great app for aspiring artists of all ages. The app was designed for artists to digitally showcase their work. Paper by 53 allows students to draw freely. Users select articles or threads that they want to "Read Later" and Pocket will store them for later offline viewing. Pocket is a social media and blog reader for your iOS Device. Students gain in-depth understanding about how diseases spread. The goal is to kill the entire human race. Students control the evolution and epidemiology of deadly pathogens. is based upon a simple Flash Game called Pandemic. One of my favorite ways to learn about space. Students must hit targets while entering different gravity fields and orbiting planets. Each level and assignment teaches your ninja new moves.Īngry Birds space is a great teacher of gravity. You progress through training missions that allow you to level a small ninja fighter. Teachers and students can use the app to grade and evaluate assignments.Ĭlumsy Ninja is a great application to teach students about gravity and simulation. Skitch allows you to edit PDF documents from any workstation or tablet. Skitch is yet another app owned by Evernote. Installing the app allows learners to access their materials from any device. My students are GAFE users and we use Google Drive to share resources in my classes. Google Drive is a cloud storage solution provided by google. If you have an Evernote Premium account you are given access to a wide range of paper from design (grids) to tablature. Penultimate is an app that allows you to jot down your own hand-written notes. Learners can use it to draw story boards or create basic outlines for later use in iMovie. Each level teaches students a new command and how to execute that command to achieve the desired Result.īitstrips allows learners to create comic strips on their iOS Device. Learners begin by progressing through various levels of a tutorial. Move the Turtle is an app that was designed to teach kids how to code. This app is initially free but you will want to purchase the $4.99 in app scanner upgrade to access additional features. This scanner analyzes real world data about stellar phenomenon and weather in a simple interface. Google Maps allows users to see the entire world from their fingertips. Students level their robot by fighting with other robots and completing missions. Hakitzu elite teaches students to code in Javascript by giving them control of a fighting robot. iStudiez is rated as a 5+ app because it can be difficult to get all of the features setup correctly. I used iStudiez Pro in my Graduate Classes at Hopkins. IStudiez Pro is an application that allows students to track their own courses and grades. In my world where I constantly download and pilot new apps, that is a big accomplishment. What finally made me create a list is the fact that most of these apps have been on my iPad for at least a year. If you do not want your children playing games, go to some other list ( like Tony’s very cluttered lists… nothing against Tony – he does good work – but come on! Read “ design for hackers” already or buy a better layout). You will see that I include games on my list. If you are a parent or educator and are going to purchase an iPad for your “little learner” I highly recommend the following Apps. Instead of constantly circling emails and google doc’s, I decided to bite the bullet and create my list. In my professional life, I am almost constantly asked which apps I would recommend at each grade level. I have always tended to shy away from the “Best Ten-Million Apps for Education” craze that has been happening over the past few years (seriously people – get better titles or I may do a talk called “50 iPad Apps… Talks for Stabbing Yourself in the Eye”). Now that iPads have such a huge following, my class can accomplish any task that we set our minds to – as long as we have an app for that. Back when I first started using the iPads in class, it was difficult to get anything to work correctly – there was just not that much out there. Over the past five years, I have been lucky enough to work with students (grades 1-12) and with iPads.
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