The New Media Consortium recently published the Horizon Report K-12 Edition. The K-12 Edition examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in pre-college education environments. In its time-to-adoption horizon of one year or less, the Report lists cloud computing, creation of collaborative environments, mobiles and apps, […]
Being in the top 25 in the App Store is the most important thing for an apps developer. On May 16, 2012 a mobile app store analytics firm Distimo published a blog in which it provided statistics as to how many downloads are required to get an app into the top 25 list per category. […]
All Thai First Grade Students enrolled in public schools are now receiving tablets this academic year under the “One Tablet PC Per Child” initiative. The Thai government is supplying 900,000 such tablets this year. 7th Graders are scheduled to get theirs during the next academic year. The Education Ministry is holding a training on the […]
Cynthia Chiong, PhD, reviews and rates educational apps for children. Ms. Chiong recently posted her wish list of what she would like to see in a children’s app. Here are the highlights. First, Ms. Chiong wants to see apps that are more than just a drill. She looks for apps that teach strategy and reasoning, […]
In April 2011, several groups of parents, whose kids spent hundreds of dollars on in-app purchases while playing “free” games, filed a class action lawsuit against Apple. Is Apple to blame for what happened? On one hand, it does appear deceptive to call a game “free” when in fact playing it requires making in-app purchases. […]
The Gates Foundation has recently issued a report “Technology and Effective Teaching” that surveyed 400 teachers across the United States. According to the report, 67% of teachers use technology in class. 20% of the teachers said that they felt that technology should not be used in the classroom. In general, teachers remained skeptical that […]
In February 2012, the FTC issued a report which focused on mobile apps available for children. The FTC found that there was lack of information available to parents prior to downloading mobile apps regarding the data collection and sharing practices of the apps. It was not clear from the description of the apps on the […]
Apple Inc. recently announced iBook textbooks for iPads. If successful, this new development can shape the future of education. Light backpacks, textbook interactivity and constantly updated content can become features of tomorrow’s classroom. However, the transition to digital textbook might not be smooth. Disparity in family incomes means that not all students will have iPads. […]
For those who are just beginner developers in this fast-evolving world of apps creation, this following post might be quite handy. As per Jordan Golson at www.macrummors.com, Stanford University is offering the iOS 5 edition of its well-regarded iPhone and iPad application development course for free. This course is offered at Stanford, but without the […]