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Posted on January 31, 2017 by rbsupadminnextjssite

A new e-comic called the Invasion of the Alien Zombies launched to educate students about the immune system and the role of immunization against illness.

Along with Dr. Kumanan Wilson, four senior students from Algonquin College’s Health and Wellness Research Center worked on the project of the digital comic.

Dr. Wilson is the founder of the Ottawa Hospital mHealth Research Team and creator of CANImmunize. This is a mobile immunization tracking system that allows people across Canada track their family’s immunizations through their smart phones.

The new e-comic will be available online and through CANImmunize funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. Almost 170,000 Canadians have already downloaded the app available on iTunes and Google Play.

The e-comic approaches in immunization education from a child’s perspective and is the best way to engage and educate students about science.

The Immunity Warriors: Invasion of the Alien Zombies is now available in English through CANImmunize on Android and iOS and the French version will be available in the coming months.

Posted on January 17, 2017 by rbsupadminnextjssite

Google to launch a new storytelling app called ‘Toonastic 3D‘ that will help kids create their own cartoons.

The new app allows kids draw, animate and narrate 3D cartoons which they can use to tell stories or use for school reports. Kids can make animations using a set of built-in characters or create their own, using app’s editor and camera.

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Children can choose things like ‘idea lab’ or ‘science project’ to get inspired and this can help them with their school projects.

Google compares Toonastic 3D to a ‘digital puppet theater’ for kids can get into the interactive 3D world, choose among the dozens of customizable characters available or draw their own and even set the mood with music.

Children between 8 and 10 years are considered to be apt for using this app, but, since there is no age limit on creativity, adult kids can also join and have fun.

Toontastic 3D aims to inspire kids to be improvisational and is available for both Android and iOS devices.

Posted on November 17, 2016 by rbsupadminnextjssite

Educational apps help a great deal in laying the foundation about the basic concepts in every field of education even for very small children. They can instigate the passion to learn.

Here are the top learning apps for kids between the ages five and eight.

1. Crazy Gears

Crazy gears is a free game, which will train young minds in problem solving and critical thinking areas. The STEM-themed learning app for kids will introduce them to early physics lessons and other STEM based topics.

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2. Disney Animated

Disney Animated app is a fail-proof way of engaging kids, as every kid is typically attracted to Disney characters and movies. Kids can get an in depth knowledge about the history of Disney animation studios; right from early hand drawing practices to today’s computer animations.

3. DragonBox Algebra 5+

DragonBox Algebra 5+ is an app developed for kids who had begun learning how to solve algebraic equations. The concepts are made clear through innovative games and fun learning methods.

4. Faces iMake – Right Brain Creativity

Faces iMake helps kids enhance their creativity. Children can create different faces using the collage materials provided. They can then share them with friends, family, and other users through the service’s gallery, FaceWorld, via mail and social media.

5. Handwriting Without Tears: Wet-Dry-Try Suite for Capitals, Numbers, & Lowercase

“Handwriting Without Tears: Wet-Dry-Try Suite for Capitals, Numbers, & Lowercase” is an app version of the popular program of the same name. The app is modelled for beginners and has a three step system to teach handwriting.

6. LOOPIMAL by YATATOY

LOOPIMAL will teach your kids to create music loops with music blocks, thereby teaching the basic lessons of rhythm and melody in music. There are cute animal characters with movements attached to each music block. They will dance based on the music sequences that will add fun to the whole activity.

7. Monkey Word School Adventure

Monkey Word School Adventure is an early reading game app for preschoolers and elementary students. A cute monkey will guide the young learners through the adventure. Kids have to recognise letters and basic words to begin using this app.

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8. Plum’s Creaturizer

Kids can use the Plum’s Creaturizer app to create funny and amazing creatures and then take pictures after placing them in various habitats. They can take up to four pictures of a single creature and save them in their device’s gallery. From there, the images can be shared with whomever you choose.

9. Princess Fairy Tale Maker – by Duck Duck Moose

Princess Fairy Tale Maker learning app for kids will shape the young storyteller in your kid. There are features like audio, coloring, drawing, writing, and animation which will make creating fairy tales amusing. Kids can use their own photos and background images along with the characters and stickers provided in the app.

10. Barefoot World Atlas

Barefoot World Atlas gives your kid the first introduction to the animals, indigenous people, and more interesting things from around the world through descriptions and photos.

11. The Earth by Tinybop

The Earth is a geology learning app from Tinybop. The interactive model teaches various concepts related to the Earth’s history and changing landforms such as, volcanoes, glaciers, etc. The app is also available in various other languages apart from English.

12. Angry Birds Space

Angry Birds Space features the same challenge and fun as the original version of the game and can be used as a learning app for kids. The entire game now takes place in a new scenario – the outer space. The game makes physics puzzles come alive by controlling objects through gravitational pull.

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Posted on October 14, 2016 by rbsupadminnextjssite

School re-openings are a sense of relief phase for every parent. After the long days of relentless turmoil, yelling, and edification classes with your kids, you could finally recline into your favorite happinesses and necessities in life or just relax and enjoy your peaceful moments.

But, there is another set of concern that might fret some of you and will destroy your state of inner peace on the go – the concern of getting your kids back on track when the holidays are over. Fortunately, a fairly designed app can put them back into mainstream learning more easily.

Do try out from our list of the 9 best back to school kids educational apps.

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1. Endless Worldplay

Endless Worldplay is a very popular brand among kids, who developed a series of kids educational apps for learning language before Endless Worldplay. This app from the series deals with teaching kids spelling patterns and word building through rhyming puzzles and animated sequences. In this app a friendly Alphabot and delightful monsters help your kids learn word meanings along with its contexts, and also teach them how to count.

2. The Everything Machine

Make Everything Machine your child’s first introduction to the digital world and they will surprise you with excellent working micro-electronics models in no time. The app permits your kid to control and use a lot of your phone’s features including camera, torch, microphone, and gyroscope using a simple programming language. They can build anything from a simple electronic switch to a complex thief catcher. If you want your imagination to fly high, you can pay a visit to the maker’s YouTube channel and become inspired. They also provide a free PDF guide that explains the basic concepts along with a number of good examples.

3. Tynker

Tynker is a coding learning platform suitable for your kids to start learning programming. Tinker helps your kids to create apps, games, Minecraft mods, control external hardwares and much more. There are coding lessons that children can learn online at their own pace. They need to place blocks of codes in the right places and then run the results to understand what they perform.

4. Toca Lab

Toca Lab introduces science as magic. Children can meet and learn about all the 118 elements of the periodic table in a fun-filled way. There are interesting tools to learn cause and effect relationships and chemical experiments such as heat, wheel, freeze, waves, and blend. There is also the added advantage of safety in using this app.

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5. Hopster

Hopster exploits the educational potential of popular kid’s shows, songs, and games. There are 800 plus TV show episodes (Sesame Street, Bob the builder, Teletubbies, etc.), and 100 plus rhymes and songs that will entertain your kids even while they are offline. All contents are carefully chosen by curriculum experts.

6. Safari Tales

With Safari Tales your children can explore the African wildlife. There are five cute baby animals to play with – a leopard, a lion, an elephant, a rhino, and a crocodile. Animal orchestra, personalized adventure storybook, Berry blaster, Word wheel, etc. are activities included in this wonderful kids educational app.

7. DragonBox Algebra

DragonBox Algebra is a fun and exciting way to learn everything in algebra including solving linear equations. There are two versions; one suitable for children above the age of five and the other for those who are above twelve. DragonBox Algebra 5+ gives your child basic lessons of junior level algebra, while DragonBox Algebra 12+ includes more levels and complicated equations.
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8. Cursive Writing Wizard

Cursive Writing Wizard would become your child’s best mate to work on handwriting. It covers tracing practice, Montessori based crosswords, and other related activities that would suit to your child’s early literacy education needs in the appropriate way. The app also has a customising option that will allow you to update additional words into the database. Additionally, you will be able to evaluate your child’s writing and understand if there needs to be any corrections or improvements by replaying the tracing.

9. Teach Your Monster To Read

Kids would love to use Teach Your Monster To Read app because learning to read is fun here. For children, this is an app where monsters are taught to read and not themselves. The app starts right from letter sounds and progress towards full sentences.

Posted on September 15, 2016 by rbsupadminnextjssite

Apple has officially announced Swift playground for iPads.

Swift Playground is an app that teaches kids to code. When you open this app for the first time, you can see a number of basic coding lessons and challenges.

Apple is making use of a special keyboard having number of shortcuts and many features that help kids to enter the code easily on the iPad.

This app is not for experienced programmers. It is for kids who want to learn the basics of coding.

The developer preview of Swift Playgrounds has been launched today, and the final version will ship with iOS 10 in the fall.

The app will be available for free.

Posted on September 7, 2016 by rbsupadminnextjssite

Educational apps can be used to develop a variety of skills in the students. There are educational apps that help in boosting student creativity. Here are the top 14 apps in this category.

1. Educreations

Educreations is an interactive whiteboard, where the iPad will record what you scribble on it. This app allows to create short video tutorials. It includes features like adding animation and text, video editing, online storage etc.

2. Popplet

Popplet is a simple app to show your ideas visually. It is a very quick tool, which will help you in generating ideas, sorting them visually, and finding relationships between them to create new ideas. This app is widely used by professionals as well.

3. Ideament

This app helps you to instantly draw diagrams such as a flow chart and change them in text outlines and vice versa. Ideament helps you to illustrate concepts, plan presentations, share ideas etc. with ease.

4. Draw Free for iPad

Draw free app helps you to paint stunning pictures without being an artist. It’s simple interface is equally useful for professional as well as amateur painters. This app allows you to use any tool – pencil, brush, crayon, or bucket – to complete your artwork.

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5. Animation Creator HD

With Animation Creator you can be a director super easy. This app helps you to bring your ideas into life like animations with powerful drawing tools, brilliant color options, and simple frame management.

6. I Tell A Story

I Tell A Story, educational app can be used for story narration and recording. You can edit and save the narrated stories in the files. There are also a collection of funny sounds like the bark of a dog and cricket sounds to make the story more interesting.

7. Storybuddy

Storybuddy is an app that can create story books, page by page, complete with paintings, photos, and texts. You can then share it with family and friends. The app comes with the option for multi-touch.

8. Explain Everything

Explain Everything, app is an interactive whiteboard like Educreations, but more advanced and slightly different in its use and functions. It is extremely helpful in creating videos and classroom projects. It comes with real time collaboration and great drawing features.

9. ShowMe

ShowMe is a tool to add voice-records to whiteboard tutorials. It is very simple to use and comes with features such as pause and erase.

10. Strip Designer

Strip Designer, take photos and make it into your own personalized comic strip with the help of this app. There are a lot of comic page templates and balloon shapes to choose from. Add effects with a collection of comic symbols like “Boommm” “Powww” etc.

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11. Puppet Pals HD

Puppet Pals HD allows you to create animated shows in real time. You can create your actor from a photo or choose from the available characters in your app. You can also set the photo as a backdrop for your story. Zoom, rotate, flip, audio record etc. are some of the main features of this app.

12. Skitch

Skitch comes to your aid when you suddenly see something inspiring that sparks you with a new idea. You can take a photo, mark it up using stamps, shapes, texts etc. and instantly share it via social networks, email, or SMS.

13. PicCollage

PicCollage is an easy to use collage maker that lets you create grid collages within seconds. You can add stickers, backgrounds, texts, borders, cutouts and GIF images.

14. Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck is a presentation and slideshow app. The final presentation can be exported to PowerPoint & Keynote.

Posted on July 8, 2016 by rbsupadminnextjssite

There are more people in the world who own a mobile phone than there are people who own a toothbrush. A two year old knows how to hold an iPhone properly and how to lock/unlock it. Mobile apps became the most successful innovation in the field of mobile technology and creative minds found its implementation in the field of education as well.

As learning app are getting in demand, new ones are flooding all the major digital stores everyday. Any parent or concerned teacher could easily be confused about choosing one. Hence, there is much importance in acquiring the skill needed for selecting the proper learning app for your kid and this skill depends greatly on understanding the common features of good learning apps.

The most important thing that an educational app for kids should have is the fun factor. Kids should be able to accomplish tasks and learning activities without even realizing that they are learning a thing or two! Even when it seems that an app is engaging in nature and your kid wants to use it again, one cannot conclude that the app could be educative. Being attractive and being educative are two totally different concepts.

This infographic lists 12 features every good learning apps for kids should possess.

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Posted on July 5, 2016 by rbsupadminnextjssite

With so many benefits brought to the field of education, adopting learning apps in the classrooms is a smart choice. But one could often be confused about which among the thousands of apps available in the market should be adopted. This blog will help to ease the worry by providing a list of the most popular iOS learning apps for kids.

1. Book Creator

Book Creator helps in creating a personal iBook, through simple steps. It allows users to import information in the form of images, audio, video, and text.

Download : iOS

2. Slideidea

This is a tool for creating presentations. Slideidea allows students and teachers to add audio into their presentations. Other features include attaching annotations to the slides, or embedding polls.

3. iMovie

iMovie is an app that comes preloaded on all Apple devices. It allows users to watch videos and tell stories. The app is a very good tool that could be used in conjunction with other learning apps for kids to permit better understanding of concepts.

Download : iOS

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4. Rover

Rover is an educational browser that provides kid safe content and is free for use. Many sites that doesn’t function well with the Safari browser like BrainPOP will work correctly in Rover.

5. 3D- Brain

3D-Brain will help to get a better insight on the structure, functioning and disorders of the human brain. Teachers can present these topics in a more graspable way with the help of case studies and use website links that connects to modern research.

Download : iOS

6. Edmodo

Edmodo is an app that allows teachers to create and delete groups required for managing the various daily activities in a class. For e.g., groups can be created for conducting discussions, sharing study materials, assignments etc. Edmodo will create an interesting and engaging learning environment. Along with learning, students will also develop various soft skills such as turn taking, helping peers, collaborating, critical thinking etc.

Download : iOS

7. The Elements – A Visual Exploration

The Elements – A Visual Exploration app explains everything about the periodic table elements in a novel and interesting way. The Elements app is based on Theodore Gray’s best selling book with the same name.

Download : iOS

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8. Schoology

With Schoology app, every student can create a personal account and avail a lot of features including an interactive platform for performing class discussions and other collaborative activities. They can also submit assignments, projects, class notes etc. through this app.

Download : iOS

9. History – Maps of the World

History – Maps of the World is an interactive learning app for kids dealing with historical and geographical shifts in the maps, made through the ages. It will make learning important historical events and conquests easier.

Download : iOS

10. MathBoard

MathBoard helps with the easy learning of algebra. Various basic mathematical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, squares, squareroots etc are covered through simple and engaging practices and activities.

Download : iOS

11. LearnEnglish Great Videos

Learn English Great Videos, is an app entirely devoted to teaching English vocabulary, its spelling, and pronunciation. The great thing about this app is that students can learn lessons and refine their speaking skills by watching these videos.

Download : iOS

12. Sushi Monster

Sushi Monster is an educational gaming app for kids. There are a lot of friendly monster characters whom students have to help with completing tasks like getting a target sum or product. Points are rewarded for correct answers, which encourage and motivate students and takes the game forward.

Download : iOS

13. Memrise

Memrise is right for your language class, if you focus on enhancing your student’s memory and vocabulary. There are over 10 languages to choose from and through this app students can explore into an array of activities that simultaneously makes learning quicker and memorizing easier.

Download : iOS

Posted on May 25, 2016 by rbsupadminnextjssite

We often face difficulty in making children learn even the basic lessons. Video games can motivate kids to learn faster.

Kid’s education games are designed to make them more amenable to learning. It can channel their enthusiasm and vigour into productive ways by providing an environment that is conducive to learning. Here are some of the ways that kids education games make them smarter.

1. Games offer fun ways to learn and make kids happier

Today’s children are already familiar with mobile games. One way or other they spend a significant amount of their time playing games on a number of digital devices. This time can be effectively utilized for learning things by using kids education games. Games will let kids involuntarily learn memory-related and practice-related learning of concepts through challenging, engaging and fun ways.

2. Games provide ideal learning environments

Video games provide better learning environments than traditional learning environments. They can seize childrens’ interest and concentration for a longer time by rendering the activities as challenging and pertinent.

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Kids put more effort into learning things unknowingly when provided with an engaging game. Games also allow kids to socially interact, compete and collaborate with each other to perform the tasks given. It is also easy to track their progress and give them feedback instantly.

3. Games route the focus to the challenge

Through kids education games, complex topics can be taught easily, especially if the lesson requires a lot of practice or memorization. Games can incorporate different adaptive methods and approaches based on individual abilities of each student. The pupil will feel that the topic is much more less dense than learning through any other methods. For e.g. the game slice fractions, helps your kids to learn all about fractions through cool games of slicing through ice and lava to clear the mammoth’s path.

4. Games and encouragement

The challenges in games are designed to be encouraging and motivating in nature. Students will feel confident when they advance through each level of the game.

While learning, failure is one thing that will be encountered too many times. But in order to accomplish something, there should be persistence and the will to try again and again until the goal is finally achieved.

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Games are entertaining in itself and so they naturally instigate the necessary stimulus to continue further. Rewards, scores, and advanced levels in the game will force kids to move forward trying different types of techniques and strategies to reach the target.

Also multiple attempts and continuous failure while playing games affect kids lesser than failing in other learning methods. This is because regardless of the results, players get enjoyment from playing the game.

5. Games can simulate processes and phenomenons

A lot of things are learnt better when they are seen. Game simulations can help to re-create processes and phenomenons in the real world that are too costly to build. A lot of abstract and difficult concepts are effortlessly learnt this way.

Students can experience and interact with things more closely while learning a lot of rules and procedures. For e.g., they can safely understand the reaction between chemicals, see what happens in a nuclear reaction, or go on missions to the moon & Mars.

A certain category called epistemic games allow role playing, where the students are required to play specific roles or complete tasks imitating real-world situations. The roles can range from being police officers to businessmen and what not. These games assist in acquiring real life skills and helps to understand various value systems.

6. Global reach

Several games allow the students to socially interact with players from around the world. While building a foundation of skills and interests, these games can give kids exposure to other cultures.

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