Are “Educational” Apps Educational? Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D. Our children are in the midst of a vast, unplanned experiment, surrounded by digital technologies that were not available but five years ago. At the apex of this boom is the introduction of applications (“apps”) for tablets and smartphones. So-called “educational apps” – which stand at approximately 90,000 in the App Store, are largely unregulated and untested. This talk offers a way to think about the potential educational impact of current and future apps by building on research from the Science of Learning.