While games continue to deluge the App Store by an insane frequency, the iPhone is slowly emerging as an innovative new medium for learning and education. One of my colleagues have found it already that the sleek look and touch-sensitivity of the iPhone/iPod touch is a sure shot way to make his kid interested in learning math, through the FlashMath app.
Let’s look at another math app that will probably hook the kids even more towards the mystic world of mathematics and (also to the iPhone/iPod touch!)
This app does the same thing –i.e. helps in understanding the four basic mathematical functions Read More...
An iPhone Education app to prepare for your Driving License Test.
Are you preparing for one of those driving license tests and just do not want to go through one of those hugely boring preparatory lessons? You can skip that now, if you own an iPhone/ipod touch.
The Driving Test app is sure to provide you with some ready references to be used for preparing for the driving test. The app contains over 250 test questions with multiple choice answers. It simulates the written test and then provides you a detailed score-sheet that can be e-mailed to yourself from your iPhone/iPod touch.
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An iPhone education app to help out teachers and parents in hooking kindergarten kids to arithmetic.
Ever tried teaching math to kids? Most of the kindergarten teachers will agree with me if I say that teaching maths to kindergarten kids is one of the toughest things in the world. Nothing is more challenging.
No, I have never tried teaching maths in kindergarten. But I did not enjoy learning the cryptic figures called numbers and even more, the cryptic relationship between them called functions (subtractions, division, multiplications and so on) at that age.
And I guess that's what happens with almost all the Read More...
Night Before Christmas -Talkie Book is an Education app for iPhone and iPod touch that presents the 1823 classic poem Clement C Moore and Jessie Willcox Smith by the same title.
Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!
What about seeing these all familiar lines dancing all around your iPhone and re-living the age-old story of St. Nicholas in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer, entering a man's house through the chimney and filling up the children's stockings hanging by the fire and wishing them Merry Christmas?
After “The Shadows Never Sleep ”, we have Read More...
An iPhone education app to prepare for pilot tests.
Can the iPhone be used to learn flying?
It can be. At least theoretically. You can prepare for five different pilot tests –Private Pilot, (airplane), Sport pilot (airplane), Recreational Pilot (airplane), Commercial Pilot (airplane) and Instrument rating (airplane).
The app is basically a question bank, a test paper rather, for preparing for these 5 FAA tests. You can take choose for any of these tests, select your answers through a quiz format and then see the result. The result shows both correct and incorrect answer. For incorrect answers, you have the option to Read More...
iSign is an ASL app for iPhone/iPod touch users with more than 800 animated signs for almost every practical usage.
We have seen numerous usages of the iPhone as a media platform. You can communicate in multiple ways, from simple calls to e-mails, to complex social networking, blogging and even use its GPS and map features to communicate with buddies set up a dinner in the best place in Arizona.
Now, the iPhone has just gone one step beyond. It has become the platform through which you can communicate with the world of the deaf.
I have an older friend that became deaf Read More...
App Store without weirdness is a myth. Now here is something that’s slightly weird to be categorized under "Education". You have this cluster of three applications in the education category at App Store. These education apps work only with network connection. What they do is that they check the population of Australia, New Zealand and of course our dear old USA. ( US Population Clock , Australian Population Clock , New Zealand Population Clock )The clock ticks on and updates the population details in these countries, sometimes with crazy details like how many people are born per second, how Read More...
Blanks is an education app for the iPhone to sharpen your vocabulary in English through an innovative UI where you drag and drop in words instead of typing them.
Blanks is an iPhone education app to learn and enhance your English vocab. How does this app function?
Once you tap on the screen you see a definition in the middle of the screen, a hole somewhere near the top left of the screen and four options to choose from to fill in the whole as per the definition. You need to drag in the choices to fit them in the whole.
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Lingo is an iPhone education app through which you can learn a word everyday in English, Spanish, German, French and Italian. The app also provides innovative ways to teach you the usage of that word. Find out how...
What is the best way to get familiar with a new word? Simple. Learn a word a day and use it over and over again. And on that point, won’t it be nice, if your iPhone had an App that would let you do exactly that?
The Lingo App at the App Store, under the Education category, lets you do exactly that. Brush up Read More...
Graphing calculator is an education app for the iPhone that enables you to draw graphs of various functions on your iPhone. This app supports multiple graph displays, both portrait and landscape view, zooming in and out options and a customized keyboard for keying on equations.
This is one of the most innovative education apps for the iPhone. What can you do with this application? Well a lot.
1. Use the graph tab to graphically examine your equations. Move the graph by touch and drag. Zoom the screen by pinching. Once you are zoomed into the area of interest, double tap Read More...
