Thanks to Richard Byrne at free technology for teachers, I just found a great resource for early childhood learning apps for iPads, iPhone, and iPod. KinderTown is a free learning app clearinghouse for parents and educators. It develops, tests, and promotes apps for all types of skills and knowledge development. Every app is reviewed by educators so you won’t find nonsense QUOTE learning games, or apps that just don’t help kids. Its free, so check it out and increase your App-itude. Now if we can just get those developers to make games that grow with kids.
Hello John,
I stumbled upon your blog while doing some related outreach for the Early Education for Every Child Foundation. You may be interested to know that through our Little Learner Initiative, EEECF offers a literacy software grant program that is open to schools and other charitable groups. Just last month, the entire 12 month, 3,000 word curriculum was made Ipad compatible. In general, we typically work with at-risk children roughly between 6 months and 6 years old, as well students with special needs of any age, so HeadStart/EHS children fall into this group.
Just drop me a line for more information: tonya(at)eeecf.org. Thanks!