Schools apps

According to New Yorker contributor and best selling author Malcolm Gladwell, Asian kids have a distinct advantage over the rest of the world when it comes to maths. Whereas some have purported the theory that there is an IQ differential along racial and ethnic lines, Gladwell claims that it has more to do with structure and methodology than anything else. His theory is based around the much simpler concept that Asian names for numbers are shorter than their English equivalent - meaning it is easier for them to remember more. Going down those lines, it's pretty easy to see that he believes ...  More

Let's get this straight from the start. I'm big on good grammar. Anything that can be done to improve the writing capabilities of our students has got to be a good thing. If you are a reader, you will know that there is a big difference between the quality of writing of people like Bill Bryson, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling and John Grisham compared with lesser writing mortals like James Patterson and E.L. James. While we are not suggesting that a grammar checker will propel your prose to those heady heights, Grammar Checker Academic HD is an iOS education and language application that will ...  More

The image that immediately comes to mind when thinking of planning and preparing teaching lessons is of the kindly teacher, laboriously trudging through large amounts of paper and mapping out the direction of the upcoming lesson. Oh, hang on...that was a Dickens book i was reading. Well, its either that or you can update it to the 20th Century by imagining the same scenario with its modern day equivalent - Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. Now it's time to move on from those efficient but bad old days and move into the next generation of lesson planning. Common Core is a great new ...  More

If you have ever read any of Malcolm Gladwell's books you will appreciate the vagaries of the general public. For a start, you can ask yourself why a game like Sudoku took off in such a short amount of time. One minute the only thing that you would find, apart from Peanuts and Hagar The Horrible, on your newspaper's funnies' page was a couple of crosswords. Suddenly, there was a rather taxing little numbers game that sucked everyone in. Now there's at least one Sudoku puzzle in every newspaper. The only trouble is, Sudoku can be a little challenging for some people - especially on the ...  More

The idea behind Stuora is to provide a simple question and answer arena for students that will eventually turn out to be the only place to go to when you need to find specific information fast. It aims to take the place of websites like Blackboard, Moodle and Wikipedia and become your one-stop place-to-go when needing answers to any course related question. This free knowledge and learning application is designed specifically for university students and the questions and answers submitted are all the product of the students themselves.   Stuora is the ultimate question and answer ...  More

Do you remember those organizers that you always used to HAVE to have before the new academic year began to plan out proceedings. It had great little personalized sections with pockets for all sorts of things and came enclosed in a very cool leather-looking pouch. Student T.A. Is the modern day equivalent to the old organizer. It's essential that you have one and it's the perfect gift for the students amongst us for balancing your academic, social and personal lives. Student T.A. is up there with the best personal organizers on the app market and it's absolutely free.   The life of a ...  More