educational apps

If you haven't tried Zoobean yet, you're missing out. It's a great resource for personalized kids' book recommendations and now we're excited to announce that they've just launched a digital membership option, making it that much easier …

I feel lucky that my daughter is a voracious reader, but her curiosity has a downside: She always wants to know more. So I also feel fortunate to have discovered Duh! books . These fiction e-books, geared toward kids from second to fifth…

My six-year-old came home this week asking about Rosa Parks, impressed with what she knew of her story and, very shocked by it. I feel so fortunate thats she's growing up in such a diverse community, that she couldn't even comprehend a w…

We're huge fans of the Endless Alphabet app around here. I mean, it was created by the same team of people who made Sesame Street's The Monster at the End of this Book , one of my childhood favorites. So I'm excited they've launched the …

If you caught our editor Liz talking with the TODAY show this morning about four of our favorite new apps for kids , here's a little more about them and how to get them. And there's more where that came from: check our entire list of edu…

Studies (and real life experience) show that kids learn foreign languages so much easier than adults do, which is why there are starting to be so many great foreign language apps for kids . I think it has something about their brains bei…

Shakespeare's plays are some of the most difficult pieces of literature your kids will study in school. English has changed significantly over the last 400 years, so try being 10 and having to know what the Bard meant by phrases like "Fi…

We see a lot of apps for kids here at Cool Mom Tech. A lot. Which means when we feature an app on our site, we really love it. Great for you, but tough when we're trying to narrow down our favorite kids' apps for 2013. Here, the cream of…

If your kids are budding creative types, but they still love to get techy with their masterpieces, you'll want to check out this cool new app that allows them to add voiceover narration to their photographs or artwork. Because next Spiel…

The Geography Drive USA app is one of our favorite fun ways for kids to learn about geography, and so we were excited to see the release of their newest educational kids' app— Geography Drive Arcade . This is a mini-arcade version of the…

If you've been eyeing a tablet as a gift for a very special someone, especially someone who has kids, new changes to Kindle FreeTime may just seal the deal for making that Kindle Fire purchase. When the service first launched, we thought…

Bedtime is about to become so much more fun for your kids, should the be Disney fans which at last count is....all of them. Disney, Phillips, and Apple have teamed up to create the incredibly innovative Disney Friends of Hue Storylight .…

My kids don't know much about marine life. I'm not sure why this is—maybe because we're landlocked and don't have regular exposure to the ocean. Or maybe because children's book illustrators tend to favor more cuddly, furry creatures for…

With the iPad Air as one of our top tech gifts of the year, if you've got one coming your way--or hey, even an iPad 2, iPhone 5S or iPod--we wanted to help you out with some of our very favorite must-have apps to get you started. Here ar…

When I started working in children's publishing over a decade ago, I would never have imagined that children's authors would be able to create an interactive book experience for kids like what Hullabalu , creators of the über-successful …

I'm a sucker for Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang, especially at holiday time. Not only do I love the nostalgia, watching the same shows I watched as a child, but the humor and messages never get old. I think I might love the new e-boo…

Remember playing the telephone game when we were kids? That one where you'd sit in a circle and whisper a phrase all the way around, and by the end it was nothing like the original secret? Well, now that game has had a makeover, hit the …

Pretty much every time we find an awesome new pick for toddlers, I sigh about how much I wish I'd had something similar when my own kids were toddlers. I'm especially impressed by the way tech has been integrated into learning and develo…

If you love giving your kids access to ebooks but hate having to buy them a la carte, check out the new ebook library recently launched by Zuuka, one of the oldest and best resources in the ebook world. Over the last few years, iStoryTim…

They say variety is the spice of life, and I've definitely found that to be true where it comes to educational kids' apps. The more awesome kids' apps I load on the iPad, the more likely it is my own kids will keep exploring and learning…

This mom is a writer, so obviously it makes my heart soar when I see my children reading a good, old-fashioned book (you know, one with pages) or writing their own. But since we live in a time when there are more often tablets in their h…

My husband and I really want our kids to learn to appreciate other cultures, which means we have to actively seek out ways to expose them to other cultures, and here's a wonderful new one. One Globe Kids was created by a multi-cultural, …

My second grader is crazy into made up games he creates and customizes himself. Everything from blueprints for Star Warsian buildings to trains crafted from Toca Builders blocks are on his roster of perpetual projects, and creating his o…

We're happy to be celebrating the International Day of the Girl Child today, for the second year in a row. Because this year is themed around improvements in education, it's the perfect opportunity to check your preschool aged daughters'…