Teachers Prefer Teaching Applications on iPad to teach kids ‎

Educational resources and tools are finding are finding their way ‎into smart-phones and handsets enabling the teaching fraternity to ‎access information easily.‎

Twitter, the social networking service is one common platform ‎teachers find easy to set-up their own personal learning networks ‎and connecting with other teachers to share advices, ideas and ‎resources. A good education tool would require no more than three ‎clicks to access the required information or assistance.‎

Classdroid, is an app that allows teachers to capture the details of ‎the work performed by students, grade them and upload them to ‎online blogs.

For carrying out revisions in GCSE and A-level tests in English, Science and Maths is ‎possible using applications developed by companies like Inquizitor and education apps ‎that include quizzes, games and questions.‎

Bullying UK has provides valuable advice for teachers. The anti-bullying poster artwork ‎helps developing an anti bullying policy.‎ Wikimobile Encyclopedia enables one to freely carry more than 2m Wikipedia articles on ‎an Android handset.

Keynote Remote from Apple lets one to control Keynote and ‎PowerPoint presentations using iPhone.‎ For maths, reading and writing, Townfield Primary school in Birkenhead has ‎developed some applications on the iPhone. ‎

Date: Monday January 17, 2011