Xperica is an educational iPad application targeting high school students and teachers, launched today by IL&FS Education & Technology Services Limited (IL&FS Education). The free version of the application, which we tried, features four interactive science experiments; the paid app is priced at $3.99. Xperica is available in English on iPads running iOS 3.0 or higher and all iPad 2 devices (iTunes link). IL&FS does infrastructure projects in Public Private Partnership formats in India, and has done projects on Technology enabled Learning in the country, including on mobile enabled English learning, and Voice* based Sex education tips. We played around a little with the all four experiments - Specific Heat of Water, Oscillations, Law of Moments, and resistance in series, and Xperica really is impressive - it's the iPad 2 equivalent of a science lab, and takes experiments out of labs...though the purists may argue that ambient and measurement device issues might yield slightly different results, which students also need to be aware of. However, a significant limitation of the app is, that you can do the experiments, but there is no way of understanding what you're doing. It doesn't go beyond the experiments. I don't remember much of Science class in school, and the application doesn't tell me why I should learn about the specific heat of water, and what the implications are. Unless it moves from experiments to learning, it will remain just a teaching aid. The apps are fairly intuitive, IL&FS says that they'll add experiments from…
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