MyArtZoo starts with the animals, then introduces the paintings they’re in Introducing great works of art to children is a tricky business – it’s hard to hold their interest in paintings or sculptures that don’t move, beep or perform when you swipe them. Penck Publishing, the German company behind MyArtZoo, has decided to tackle [...]
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We at SMATOOS love it when museums produce apps, and when we find an educational app that goes beyond ABC-123. Museum apps are a wonderful way to learn about something that’s not right in your backyard (read more about this in our post on virtual field trips), and we were excited to find this [...]
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Fotopedia has created a bunch of visual travel apps and with Wild Friends has turned its attention to the animal kingdom. A must-download for those interested in photography and/or animals, Wild Friends also makes an excellent teaching tool. With over 2,400 photographs of wild animals, the app is home to numerous “stories” about [...]
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Just released by one of our favorite developers, Learn the States is a geography app that combines 21st-century technology with a gorgeous 1950s aesthetic. We took a quick look at the app to see what we could learn. We found a great geography learning supplement for kids! The retro colors and design charmed us [...]
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As proponents of online learning, we love Khan Academy. Now they’ve gone and made us love them even more by creating an iPad app. The app, just released yesterday, brings the Academy’s 2,700 educational videos to the tablet, where you can learn anything from how to prepare for the SAT to the steps of [...]
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Geo Walk HD – 3D World Fact Book lets you travel the globe on your iPad and learn as you go. Vito Technology has a track record in producing beautiful educational apps, and they’ve done it again with Geo Walk HD – 3D World Fact Book, a stunning concise encyclopedia that allows [...]
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American History Time Line is both an interactive and informative textbook for students. If you’re one of those students who simply cannot stay alert in history class, then this is the app for you. Created by McGraw Hill Education, a renowned company that publishes textbooks for all age groups, this app [...]
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Image captured from HowStuffWorks Discovery’s How Stuff Works team provides an endless stream of useful info. Can you avoid paying bank fees? When is the cheapest time to fly? How do tablets work? These are just some of the questions you get the answers for from a great new app developed by the Discovery [...]
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Biblion allows users to take their own unique journey through the records of the New York Public Library When New York’s World Fair closed for the final time in 1940, its organizers presented their detailed records to the New York Public Library (NYPL) for safekeeping, and it’s a good thing for us they did [...]
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In a release that coincides nicely with the birth of the seven billionth human being, the National Geographic Society has launched its 7 Billion app for the iPad. With gorgeous photos, videos, text, infographics and interactive features, the app is a font of information on what seven billion people means for the earth. It [...]
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