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TinyTap is a new iPad application designed for kids which introduces a different angle on the “record-your-own-voice” storybooks craze, by offering a playable book or game you and your kids can customize with your own photos, camera shots, music, narration, and more.
Here is a list of excellent books for parents, teachers and librarians to share with kids who are learning to read.
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I grew up reading Choose Your Own Adventure books. My favorite was Space and Beyond. My love of science fiction and geeky topics was established early in life. So I was very excited to receive an email telling me that there are now ten Choose Your Own Adventure books available in the iBookstore.
According to this article for Huff Post, U.S. high school students are reading at a level that hovers around 5th grade. One of the many concerns here is a lack of development of "critical reading skills", the kind that help students master many aspects of the 21st Century Fluencies.
Collection and resources for fiction reading - including a Kids Read section
These pages are intended to stimulate critical thought and discussion about Information and Communication Technology, and whether it is enabling a social movement. Perhaps we could start this discussion with a consideration of what literacy means today, and how the choices we make in tools, and policies we use to govern practice with those tools, affect those have on the development of that literacy.
Children's Books Focusing on Special/Exceptional Need
It all begins here. Suppose someone took every meaningful detail from all the books you love. Every song mentioned, every person, every food or place or movie title. And what if they did that for all the books everyone else loves, too. The ones you’ve never heard of. Suddenly you’ve got a whole world of seemingly random people, places and things, all gathered in one place.
An old friend of mine, Dr. Barry Newell, is an astrophysicist who was once director of Australia’s national observatory. In his spare time (back in 1988), he wrote two classic books on Logo programming and mathematics, Turtle Confusion and the accompanying book for educators, Turtles Speak Mathematics. Turtle Confusion features 40 challenging turtle geometry puzzles in a mystery format and Turtles Speak Mathematics helps educators understand the mathematics their students are learning.
At GeekDad we are committed to helping you raise geek generation 2.0, and we believe few things that you do are more important than reading to your kids early and often. The social science is in, vocabulary is a major predictor of cognitive development in your children. Reading to them is a great way to get them using the language centers of their brain. Plus some of the best times we have had with our children have come while watching their eyes glisten as Harry looks in the Mirror of Erised or listening to their giggles as they discover the joys and absurdities of Shel Silverstein’s poetry. Reading aloud to your kids can be a blast.
Why iPad Textbooks Are Still Too Expensive for Schools [INFOGRAPHIC]
Complete Livebinder with resources for digital storytelling and Flip Books creation
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Self-Publish a Book
Welcome to ABookandaHug where young readers can now write their own reviews of their favorite books.
If your students have access to a cell phone (or any digital device i.e. iPad, laptop) that can take and send/email pictures, they can make and publish their own books quickly and easily using Flickr. This is a great way to bring student books to life by publishing them digitally in a format that can be easily shared with the world or printed as a book for the classroom or school library.
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In honor of Digital-Storytime’s recent makeover, this top ten list is a based on the books that scored high in a new category - Educational. These are all top picks for iPad books that make learning especially fun.
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