Category: Technology
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Never thought I’d download a kid’s app like this…..
I’m a bit of a snob when it comes to kids apps and often boast ‘you’ll only find educational apps on my phone/ipad’. I even have them in folders; Literacy, Numeracy, Big Books, etc. You won’t find Angry Birds, Ninja Fruit or any farting animals! However, during the school holidays, I started to look for…
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Sneak HD – iPad App for kids
Do you worry about your kids sitting like lumps in front of the iPad? Then this app ‘Sneak HD’ by Made in Me (£1.49), is for you. It gets them up off the sofa moving around, perfect for the looming school holidays. It does what it ‘says on the tin’. There are 5 monsters that…
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Why I pay for Apps?
One of the biggest reasons I tend to pay for Apps is to avoid the advertising. Plus, I’ve heard of children managing to download full versions at great expense to their parents. This happened to one of my neighbors but he did manage to get a £70 credit from Apple and he has now changed the…
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Apps We Love! Ladybird: I’m Ready for Phonics
I’ve been on the hunt for a decent Phonics App for quite some time and if I’m honest the ones I’ve found have been crap. Being Canadian I can overlook American accents, but many of them use the wrong font, wrong pronunciation, wrong level and don’t reflect how kids are being taught Phonics in school. Thanks to…
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Apps we love! Doodlecast
I absolutely love this app, bar the music at the beginning. At first, Doodlecast (£1.99) just looks like another drawing app which we have many, but if I’m honest we prefer paper and crayons for that. What I really love about this one is that the children can record their own narrations whilst drawing the…