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May’s Fantastic 4: The Best Apps We Reviewed Last Month

  May was a great month for educational apps – we had tons of fun checking out and reviewing the best! If you don’t have time to read all of the month’s reviews, here are our picks for the four best.   The Singing Alphabet: We made a real song and dance about this utterly [...]

  We reviewed loads of truly fantastic educational apps in April, and had a hard time picking out the six best. Here’s a quick look at the top apps of the month, with links to the full reviews. The fact that almost all of these excellent app are free is just icing on the cake. [...]

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  March saw us review a plethora of great apps for learners of all ages. If you don’t have time to read all our reviews…make time! Alternately, just check out this cheat sheet.     Barefoot World Atlas: The most fun you’ll have learning geography this year. Barefoot World Atlas is interactive, useful and jam-packed [...]

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  We reviewed some fantastic educational apps this month, from flash cards for babies to astronomy for enthusiastic science nerds. Here are five of the ones we’ve added to our regular rotation. Hit the links for the full reviews.       InstaMatch: Fun+learning+Instagram = InstaMatch. Matching games have been a children’s favorite forever, but [...]

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  The free app from NASA offers the latest climate data by uploading information supplied by Earth’s satellites.   Science geeks are likely to get a huge kick out of the Earth Now application developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Data sets provided by the application include carbon dioxide amounts, current air temperature, ozone levels, [...]

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  An addictive learning app for the iPad that will polish your geography skills.   Geomaster 2 is the latest and best update in the Geomaster series of apps designed to help you improve your geography skills. Updating features from previous versions, as well as adding some interesting new puzzles, the simple appearance of this [...]

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    Sure, your iPhone comes with an alarm, but how effective is it at getting you out of bed and to class or work on time? If you’re hitting the snooze button and waking up in a panic day after day, it might be time to try something new. Here are five of the [...]

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  Google released Google Currents on December 8, bringing its own app to join Flipboard, Zite and others in the newsreader fray. Currents is designed for both iOS and Android, and, like its competitors, offers readers a magazine-like reading experience on a mobile device. Tablets, obviously, are the ideal platform for this kind of reading, [...]

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Now that everyone’s back in the swing of things in school and at college, it’s time to settle down and actually start learning something. When it comes to note-taking, whether in class or at home, there are a number of useful tools to help you take notes, then save, sync and organize them for easy [...]

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