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Ken Burns’ new app takes his docs to digital

Full disclosure before talking about the new Ken Burns app: I’m a big Ken Burns fan. For nearly 40 years, the award-winning historical documentarian has been telling beautiful, expansive, influential stories on film about everything from the Brooklyn Bridge and the...

Learning to count (and laugh) with the Lonely Beast 123 app.

by Shari | Educational Apps For Kids

Lucky kids. In the olden days, we learned numbers from boring flashcards, but our fortunate progeny have a sweet monster floating in a bathtub wearing a shower cap as their instructor right from an iPad. Just as we loved The Lonely Beast ABCs for alphabet learning,...

3 of our favorite Presidential apps for Presidents’ Day

by Christina Refford | Educational Apps For Kids

Along with enjoying a nice day off from school, I want my kids to spend at least some time on Presidents’ Day learning about our Commanders-in-Chief of yore. So I’ve rounded up three great apps for Presidents’ Day that will teach them a few things...

Zoobean kids’ book subscriptions go digital. Way to get more kids reading.

by Kate Etue | Educational Apps For Kids

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...

Endless Reader app: Even more endless love for one of our favorite apps

by Kate Etue | Educational Apps For Kids

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 Endless...

Wordplay Shakespeare: ebooks that make ye olde Shakespearean text clearer than ever.

by Kate Etue | Educational Apps For Kids

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 “Fie, my lord, fie, a...

The 10 best apps for kids: Editors’ Best Tech of 2013

by Cool Mom Staff | Editors' Picks of the Year

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 the crop when it...

Geography Drive Arcade: Is this app your ticket to a happy road trip this Christmas?

by Kate Etue | Educational Apps For Kids

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 main app, with four...

The Little Scholar Tablet: a smart educational option for young kids

by Kate Etue | iPads + Tablets

Tablets are at the top of so many kids’ wish lists this Christmas, even for the littlest ones in our homes. For the preschool set who is just starting to learn about technology, the intuitive design of touch-directed devices are amazing. They’re able to...

A to Sea: Dive deep with this beautiful new ebook for children

by Kate Etue | Educational Apps For Kids

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...

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