20 learning apps for stir-crazy kids - MW
The closure of schools across the UK has led many parents and caregivers to be surprised and unexpected when they become home teachers. Schools are providing support where they can, but there are still a lot of smartphone and tablet apps that can be used as part of learning.
It may be difficult to make some kids find these devices better than TikTok, Fortnite and (adults) YouTube, but the positive side is that the best learning apps are interesting enough - perhaps with a bit of pity. Original - Attract children. Here are 20 apps that can help parents get off to a good start. Children's apps for kids are best suited for preschoolers and elementary school children, while older apps for older kids are for primary and early school age than.
For young children
Go Explore from CBeebies (Android/Apple/Amazon – free)
The entire range of the BBC’s CBeebies apps will be getting heavy usage in the coming weeks, clearly. They quite all good, but this is the one focused on learning games, from phonics and geography to feelings and self-care, all based on the parent channel’s shows and characters.
Khan Academy Kids (Android/Apple/Amazon – free)
Khan Academy is a collection of free educational courses for all ages, but it has an app for children ages two to seven focusing on math, reading and social and emotional skills. contact. It has a large and growing archive of learning videos, digital books and simple but engaging exercises.
For young children who will miss some of the formal lectures at preschool this year, this beautifully crafted app can be a great help. From math and pronunciation to music and early coding, its colorful exercises never feel dry or dull. It costs £ 5.49 a month.
Teach Your Monster to Read (Android/Apple/Amazon – free)
This usually costs £ 4.99, but was made free due to school disruptions. No matter how you feel after a few days at home, the tiny monster is not your child. Instead, this makes children create a monster and then teach it to read - a great way to learn on their own.
This is one of a growing number of kids-based apps - seen as a more reliable model than in-app purchases and / or ads. Aimed for preschoolers, it has a collection of other learning games, but also has videos, animations and songs from TV shows. It costs £ 4.99 a month.
After a rocky start when some non-child-friendly videos made it through the filters, YouTube has worked hard to make its official children’s app something parents can trust. It includes a dedicated learning category collecting great videos about science, nature, space and other topics.
It’s been out for a few years, but this is still one of the best maths apps for children that feels genuinely educational. It’s built around a range of maths exercises and progress tests. Separate versions cover children up to the age of 11, and there’s a spelling series, too.
“Big A, little a. What begins with A?” Well, augmented reality does, for a start. Dr Seuss’s inimitable alphabet book has been turned into an AR app, with animated characters appearing in the room around your child. The learning aspects include tracing the letters to learn their shapes for (non-AR) writing.
Scratch is a programming environment that a lot of kids will be familiar with going to school. ScratchJr is an application version designed for children aged five to seven, although older children can also have fun with it. It uses coding blocks to create programs for games, animation, music and other creative tasks.
For older children
This recently released math game challenges children in fast sums, increasing their difficulty if they continue to get the correct answer. They write the numbers on the touch screen with their fingers instead of touching buttons. It is free to try, with a £ 3.99 in-app purchase that unlocks everything.
Field trips and museum tours may be out of bounds for a while, but the Google Culture & Culture app has at least the virtual tours of more than 1,200 museums and galleries. Children can look and read as well as organize their own list of favorite artwork to share.
There are many great code learning apps for kids, but Mimo is a special one that feels most connected to the professional programming world. At £ 8.49 per month, it provides fast but fun exercises in languages including Python, Java and Swift.
Elevate is one of a clutch of quality brain-training apps (see also: Peak or Lumosity) full of mini-games designed to sharpen your memory, maths skills, focus and other mental skills. Like those other apps, it uses a subscription - £ 38.99 a year - but with a week’s trial to test it out.
If music lessons are out of the window, Simply Piano is one of the best alternatives. It helps children (or adults!) Learn songs and then listen to them play on any real piano or keyboard to give feedback. The two courses are free, but then they cost £ 83.99 a year - expensive for an application, but not too much for piano lessons.
This is a history app focused on a range of famous women who "helped us to understand our world better, and to make it a better place to live in." Rosa Parks, Marie Curie, Malala Yousafzai and Amelia Earhart are among the women profiled through animation and storytelling.
Duolingo isn’t just a fun and popular way to learn languages that children already study at school. It covers more than 30, including Arabic, Hindi, Hebrew and Welsh. It’s well designed, rewarding short daily sessions of practice. It’s free, but in-app purchases remove ads and unlock some extra features.
Let's go! isn Just an application, it is also a website: a large collection of quizzes created by other users. It will truly become its own when schools are closed. It is also a good group learning experience: one who organizes a game and others competes on their own devices.
The TED talk archive is a great food store for all ages - including older children. Search history, science, nature - anything - and see what happens. The conversations are not all suitable for children, but many are.
Swift is Apple’s own programming language, and Swift Playgrounds is its app for teaching people how to use it. Appar for adults as well as children, but distinct certainly accessible for the latter, with its lessons presented as coding puzzles that will give people the skills needed to start making their own apps and games. Appar on Apple’s iPad, but not (yet) its iPhone.
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