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16 iOS Apps for Schools
Do you use iOS devices in your classroom? Read this to discover 15 fantastic educational apps that can support learning!
Apps in Education
Use the new Apps in Education site to discover recommended education apps for your iPhone / iPod / iPad and other mobile devices.
Purpos/ed
Read about a new project which aims to kickstart a debate around the question: What’s the purpose of education?
New Educational iPhone / iPod apps
Lucky Gecko Apps are a relative new company who have developed two educational apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. www.luckygeckoapps.com Their apps (so far) are: Balancing Equations Pack 1 – Designed to help exercise children’s mental maths. The object of this multiple choice game is to find the number that is missing in the given [...]
Shared Search – crowd sources search engines for different topics
Tom Barrett has started a new collaborative project called ‘Shared Search‘… the aim is create a set of search engines related to specific topics, where the results have been contributed by educators. Tom has started the first one, which is linked to the topic of sealife. You can find out how to add sites to [...]
Educational apps from Encyclopædia Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica has recently launched a brand new series of educational and engaging iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad apps for children, aged 8-12. The interactive apps have been designed to keep kids busy for hours on end with exciting facts, maps, memory games, puzzles, quizzes and videos and are a fantastic tool to help [...]
1Goal – Send My Friend to School
World leaders have promised that all children will have a primary education by 2015 but with only 5 years left to go, there are still 75 million children missing out on an education completely. 1Goal, organized by the Global Campaign for Education, aims to get more children around the world a school place. The theme for 2010 [...]
This week’s Education News (27/3/10)
Here are links to some education related news articles from this week: Fewer practical experiments in Science lessons – The ‘demands of the curriculum, tests and badly behaved pupils’ are resulting in lesson practical Science experiments taking place. Truancy levels in England rise – Truancy levels are now at the highest levels ever recorded. Presents [...]
This week's Education News (13/3/10)
Here are a selection of links to education-related news articles from this week: Scrapping the 50% university student target – A report outlines why the government target of getting 50% of people under 30 into higher education should be scrapped. £10m lottery money to get students playing more sport – Universities are to be given [...]
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