iPads, MakerEd and More in Education

"Unleash your students creativity with this updated collection of awesome iPad apps. These are drawing apps we curated from iTunes App Store specifically for middle school students.  You can use these applications with your students to engage them in a wide variety of creative and multimodal activities that include drawing, sketching, painting, doodling and many more. We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback. For more apps for middle school students check out this page."

It’s long been known that drawing something helps a person remember it. A new study shows that drawing is superior to activities such as reading or writing because it forces the person to process information in multiple ways: visually, kinesthetically, and semantically. Across a series of experiments, researchers found drawing information to be a powerful way to boost memory, increasing recall by nearly double.

Myra Fernandes, Jeffrey Wammes, and Melissa Meade are experts in the science of memory—how people encode, retain, and recall information. At the University of Waterloo, they conducted experiments to better understand how activities such as writing, looking at pictures, listening to lectures, drawing, and visualizing images affect a student’s ability to remember information.

Below is a collection of iPad apps we have particularly curated for art lovers.  Students can use these applications to unleash their expressive power and enhance their creative thinking skills.  The apps feature a wide variety of tools and features (e.g.,built-in  brushes, fonts, stencils, text, shapes, and more) that make art-making a fun and engaging activity. Students can use them to doodle, draw, and sketch their artwork and share them with others.