Is anyone using iPad for kids?

[FlashMom11]

Hello!

We just bought yesterday an iPad for our 5 year old. We are very excited because it has a lot of educational applications for kids. They even have some applications for babies, like flashcards, ABCs, colors and shapes, animals, etc.

I was wondering if anyone has an iPad that are using as an educational tool for kids, and if you can recommend any good educational applications.

And for the Brillkids Team, do you have any plans on making an application in the near future for iPads?

Thanks!!

[msac]

hello
i am from germany.
i was going to buy the kindle dx but waited a little bit and the the ipad was introduced.
so i "decided" to buy the ipad but i never was 100 percent sure if i should.
now after the idea for using ipad for baby edication im 100 percent sure.

which apps are u using?

[waterdreamer]

I used the iPhone for the educational kids apps for my son

[DadDude]

My little boy, now 4, begs me to get the iPod out so he can play with various things on it, most of them educational.  KidCalc is my favorite educational app.  Our iPad will soon arrive.  But, you know, I know from personal experience that this sort of thing is insidious.  The question is, do we want to spend so much of our lives staring at screens?  I don't care if it's TV, computer screens showing the Internet, video games, or handhelds which combine all three of these...their siren call is seductive and must be resisted, or else we end up being drawn in and endlessly distracted.  This is true of far too many young people today, including myself (age 41).

Your child will learn most from books, and books look less and less attractive the more a child plays with the attractive bells & whistles of iThingies.  I was in Portland, Oregon recently and went to Powell's.  Book-lover's heaven.  I barely got started and still bought $110 worth of used kids' books.  We don't read everything I buy--well, eventually, I guess we do, there's only a few things that go unread long-term--but the high availability of attractive books

[KL]

And for the Brillkids Team, do you have any plans on making an application in the near future for iPads?

Definitely.  Will be looking this sooner rather than later.  It's almost the perfect tool for what we do!

[DadDude]

And for the Brillkids Team, do you have any plans on making an application in the near future for iPads?

Definitely.  Will be looking this sooner rather than later.  It's almost the perfect tool for what we do!

KL, I couldn't agree more.

[jaydee]

My baby uses my iPhone every time and at 1.5 yrs old she can navigate the iPad on her own. There's a lot of apps for her.  Just press free toddler/educational games for free apps. But for paid apps we bought the one created by duck duck moose. They have old McDonald, itsy bitsy spider, the wheels on the bus.  Free apps like baby sitter, abc phonics, abc swap flashcard, balloons, ibabybuddy, letter quiz, baby flash cards, abc trace lite, Disney, dress chica, farm friends, doodle buddy, coloring, letter peek, baby piano, koi pond, 123 color, tozzle lite, itotcards, 1st alphabet, my first words, fw animals, learn to talk, Elias zoo, kid's zone, balloonimals, peekaboo, preschool tap, I hear ewe are some of the free apps she enjoyed.

[DadDude]

There do seem to be quite a few decent baby apps, but not so many for the stage my son is at now (age 4)...

[DadDude]

Found a great dot-to-dot app yesterday.  Kid got very excited about it.  Good for reinforcing numbers up to 20-30, and even the order of letters in the alphabet.  Hey just because he can do some sums and can read very well, that doesn't mean this more basic stuff still doesn't need reinforcement too.

[DadDude]

I am now planning to make a giant souped-up "DadDude reader"--like my presentations, but much bigger and better.  My essay will be used to announce this.

I told Henry this--I said, "I'm going to make a new website.  It will have all the 'books for Henry' [that is what we call them] and many, many more, and it will be even better."  His reply: "No, Papa, don't put it on the computer.  Make it an app."  Already a technical designer and business consultant!

[2010BEBES]

My baby uses my iPhone every time and at 1.5 yrs old she can navigate the iPad on her own. There's a lot of apps for her.  Just press free toddler/educational games for free apps. But for paid apps we bought the one created by duck duck moose. They have old McDonald, itsy bitsy spider, the wheels on the bus.  Free apps like baby sitter, abc phonics, abc swap flashcard, balloons, ibabybuddy, letter quiz, baby flash cards, abc trace lite, Disney, dress chica, farm friends, doodle buddy, coloring, letter peek, baby piano, koi pond, 123 color, tozzle lite, itotcards, 1st alphabet, my first words, fw animals, learn to talk, Elias zoo, kid's zone, balloonimals, peekaboo, preschool tap, I hear ewe are some of the free apps she enjoyed.

Wowwwwww. So young and navgating  ¡¡¡¡ 
What Ipad would you recomend if its going to be used a lot by a child.?
Where do you buy applications and are they expensive?

[rhovs]

Try this nice app for teaching good habits to kids:

Link to iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/little-steps-to-good-habits/id411404110?mt=8

'Little Steps to Good Habits' is a storybook series with adorable characters that help your children learn some of the good and essential habits. If kids got to learn the habits (and they do), this is a good way to do it.

Features:
- Four interactive stories with real life scenarios.
- Stories that kids can relate to and learn.
- Parents can record their own voice to narrate or teach.
- 'Read it to Me' feature has voice that can narrate story to kids.
- Excellent use of colors and illustrations in HD (High Definition).

[early learning17]

Sorry, maybe a beginner´s questions, but would be good to know the following:

I got excited by all those applications for ipad listed in another tread and had a look at one in the shops today....Isn´t it a big disadvantage that they only offer 64GB and you cannot insert any memory card/usb stick??
How do you use all those educational apps for the ipad - all just online from the website? I mean with 64GB you hardly have space on the ipad to download them I would imagine or am I mistaken?

Thanks for helping me getting started.

ISA

[NewMom27]

I am planning to buy ipad but not decided yet.
I am thinking will it be ok for a small screen like an iad have for the baby because currently i am connectining my laptp to the TV which is 40 inches to show the ppt .

Will it be ok for the baby from 40 inches to an iad. I am still not sure about it.

[KL]

Just a reminder that you can now use LR on the iPad:

http://forum.brillkids.com/little-reader/little-reader-available-on-the-ipad-today!/

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