In the realm of educational technology, the majority of apps for tablets and smartphones aim to improve students’ and teachers’ educational experiences. On the App Store and Google Play Store, there are tens of thousands of educational apps that cover everything from math and English to science and history. Education apps are making the learning experience more dynamic, immersive, and engaging both inside and beyond the classroom.
BrainPOP
It’s a one-stop-shop for learning: Hundreds of animated educational videos, as well as interactive quizzes, activities, and games, are available.
Science, social studies, math, English, arts and music, health and socio-emotional development, and engineering and technology are among the topics covered by the app. The key distinction between BrainPOP and Khan Academy is that Khan Academy caters to high school students, whereas BrainPOP caters to upper elementary and middle school students.
BrainPOP Jr. is strongly aimed at children in kindergarten through third grade, whereas BrainPOP ELL is aimed towards English-language learners. BrainPOP, like Khan Academy, includes Spanish and French versions, and many school systems use it to enhance learning because it is related to the Common Core and state requirements.
The cost of BrainPOP for a household subscription is roughly $16 per month, which may put some families off. Many children, on the other hand, maybe able to acquire access through their school or through a teacher’s licence. It’s also a great alternative for homeschooling children.
Fortunately, there are some free BrainPOP apps for mobile devices, including BrainPOP’s Featured Movie (also available in Spanish and French), BrainPOP Jr.’s Movie of the Week, and BrainPOP ELL.
Quizlet
Quizlet is one of the most successful educational apps for material that a student will be tested on. Self-directed study is an important ability for high school students, and Quizlet is one of the most effective educational applications for material that a student will be assessed on.
Teachers and students can build study sets and flashcards on a variety of topics, including the periodic table, presidents of the United States, and vocabulary terms. Quizlet Learn offers a variety of testing options, including true-false questions and multiple-choice questions. It also gets more challenging over time as the user’s performance improves. Quizlet is especially useful for learning a foreign language.
Quizlet has approximately 500 million study sets already made and archived by existing users, so new users can search to discover if resources that match their needs have already been created.
The study sets, like Wikipedia, aren’t fact-checked, so users should be aware that they could contain inaccuracies. However, because it is a free and inexpensive resource (the Quizlet Plus membership, which provides users access to all features, costs roughly $4 per year), users should measure the advantages against the disadvantages.
