iBooks and iTunes U Updated With iOS 7 Redesigns

Apple has released newly updated versions of the iOS iBooks and iTunes U apps, bringing a clean look and feel to the app and getting rid of the wooden bookshelf look that has been a hallmark of the app since it was released.

App Maker Kidaptive Debuts “Parent’s Pad,” A New Way To Track A Child’s Educational Development On iPad

Parents of preschoolers can finally let go of “iPad guilt” – the term that refers to that terrible feeling you get when you use the iPad as babysitter.

Bitsboard – A Super iPad App for Spelling and Reading Practice

Bitsboard is a great iPad app for young students that Joanne Villis recommended to me. Bitsboard is a free iPad app that provides word games, memory games, spelling games, and reading practice activities, and dozens of other activities in one place.

Five Free iPad Apps for Creating Video Lessons

One of the things that I’m often asked about is creating explanatory videos on the iPad. Whether you want to create these videos for students to watch as part of a “flipped curriculum” or you want students to create the explanatory videos to demonstrate what they know, these apps are good choices for reaching those ends.

Ask3 – An iPad App for Creating Flipped Video Lessons Your Students Can Actually Respond To

Ask3 is a free iPad app from TechSmith. TechSmith is probably best known as being the company that produces Jing and Camtasia screen capture software. Ask3 is a tool that teachers can use to create short instructional videos that are shared directly to their students’ iPads. Students can use Ask3 to ask questions about the video, mark the video with drawing tools, and create their own audio comments about the video.

Bookboard Launches App To Encourage Children To Read More By Limiting Their Choices

Bookboard, a subscription service for children’s books, has launched its iPad app, which gives parents and children streaming access to its library of books. Like many kids apps startups, three former Adobe employees, Mike Fitzpatrick, Nigel Pegg, and Fang Chang, founded the company out of personal needs as parents. They came together to develop a service that encourages and develops a child’s love of reading.

One small app (Moon Globe)

Andy Cripe

Oregon State University junior electrical and computer engineering student Chris Vanderschuere wrote an app for the iPhone called Moon. Here the app is displaying the next full moon in Corvallis which will be March 27 at 2:28 am. (Andy Cripe | Corvallis Gazette-Times)

It’s been downloaded by more than 1 million

Best Apps for 5 Year Olds

The KinderTown review team of early childhood education experts, parents, and kids spent the last month reviewing their favorite educational apps for 5 year olds. They’ve narrowed it down to their favorite four apps in various educational categories including math and language. The full list is below.

Interactive App: Fantastic Dinosaurs HD – Encyclopedia (Get Apps FREE Promo Codes)

This interactive app is one of the coolest encyclopedias around on the subject of dinosaurs. Fantastic Dinosaurs HD features multiple languages (English and French), a top-notch user interface and 130 dinosaurs, pterosaurs and prehistoric animals for you to discover.

AP Psychology Prep [Free Apps]

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Improve your AP Psychology knowledge FASTER than with any other Psychology app on iTunes. Applying the latest in cognitive science techniques, Brainscape helps you efficiently learn over 1,000 dynamic flashcards covering the topics and psychologists listed on the College Board's official AP Psychology outline.