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These brain training mobile apps promote lifelong learning

Learning beyond the classroom should be a no-brainer for capable students. While many educational apps inherently improve cognitive reasoning and memory retention, there are…
See the world in 3D with these educational apps

In the last few years, 3D has moved beyond movie theaters and flat screen TVs to handheld and tablet devices. These mobile applications all…
A Starter’s Guide to Flipped Parenting

By now, you may have heard all about how iPads and other devices are creating ‘flipped classrooms’. This is when lessons and lectures, formerly…
Listen up: Educational podcasts are here to stay

Before there were iPhones, iPads and the App Store, Apple was already serving up educational and instructional content on mobile devices to anyone who…
Go global with these back-to-school social studies apps

Whether your kid is studying civics, geography or history, there are a plenty of mobile applications that complement and help visualize traditional social studies…
Students will bond with these back-to-school science apps

Many developers work tirelessly to provide stunning scientific mobile applications that offer massive sets of information. With these five apps, students of all ages…
Add these math apps to your back-to-school shopping list

Beware of traditional approaches to math education as the days of old math are now numbered. Thankfully, touchscreen technology is here to help. Here…
Bookmark these back-to-school English and literature apps

Summertime is coming to an end for most students across the country. Yet technology offers new beginnings. English teachers are increasingly using an array…
A primer on educational technology: Five terms parents need to understand

This back-to-school season, students more than ever are arriving to classrooms equipped with digital devices and learning tools.
Why we created appoLearning

My son was born about a month before the debut of the iPad, and has quite literally grown up alongside touchscreen devices. As a…
Appolicious debuts appoLearning to help parents find great educational iPad apps for their kids

Appolicious today unveiled appoLearning, which helps parents, teachers and students discover and learn more about the best educational apps available for the iPad.