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The iPhone Could Be The Ultimate Study Machine

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Highlighted by benoud

We’ve all heard about the incredible growth of the App Store, which has seen more than 500 million downloads across over 15,000 applications. Much of the innovation (or at least, money) has come from games and other entertaining apps like Smule’s Ocarina and Pandora Radio. But the iPhone is also poised to make huge strides in a somewhat less glamorous space: study guides.

Highlighted by willrich

With gigabytes of storage, dimensions comparable to traditional note cards, and a full color screen, the iPhone is the ultimate study companion. And, unlike many of its smartphone competitors, the iPhone and iPod Touch have huge appeal for the younger crowds that generally flock to study materials.

Unfortunately the current state of the ‘Education‘ section of the App Store leaves something to be desired - many of the top apps are poorly designed, and some of the best-selling applications in both the ‘paid’ and ‘free’ sections have fewer than 100 total reviews.

Highlighted by paulreid

In the meantime, a number of smaller publishers have released their own applications, spanning everything from basic flash cards and SAT vocabulary to memorizing the amino acids (a rite of passage for every pre-med student). Many of these apps seem to work well, but they may be overtaken once the aforementioned “trusted names” start establishing a larger presence.

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Many of these students are so driven that, with a large enough selection, the App Store’s Education section could lead them to buy an iPod Touch or iPhone when they wouldn’t have gotten one otherwise.

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on 2009-02-15 by paulreid

This will happen when the device is seen as perfect for research and not just one way access. The podcast download/subscription model is still one way. Snow Leopard will offer greeater synchronisity with OSX server and there are many other apps that provide for collaborative learning. Take Evernote as a collaborative research tool.

on 2009-02-15 by paulreid

Very useful for the adhoc nature for inquiry based learning. Ideas and class memes are nound by tags.

on 2009-02-15 by paulreid

See a collection of potential learning apps on this aggretion of links I've come accross in the last year http://iphoneined.com