Mobile Apps for Research & Education: iPads

Jodie Deinhammer, a science teacher in Coppell, Texas, has always used innovative methods to teach her Anatomy and Physiology class. Using iPad, iTunes U, digital textbooks, and a suite of apps, she’s discovered amazing new ways to help her students understand and demonstrate the complexity of the human heart.

For the past decade, Sophie Post has taught Tudor history at Falkner House School. The War of the Roses is a complicated topic for fourth graders, spanning 118 years. By providing her class with interactive books and apps, her students are empowered to lead the lesson — turning a complex timeline into a hands‑on experience.

Enter the World of Tomorrow and experience the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair through the collections of The New York Public Library! Biblion: The Boundless Library is designed to take you — all but literally — into the Library's legendary stacks, opening up hidden parts of the collections and the myriad story lines they hold and preserve. In this free app you will hold documents, images, films, audio, and essays directly from the collections right in your hands.