We offer you a list of the 10 educational apps that are giving the best results during this especially atypical year in everything that has to do with education.
Mathematics, English, organizing, offering classes, learning to program… Almost anything is possible with this list of 10 educational apps that can be used by students of all levels of learning in various subjects, both to improve their educational experience and to organize their day. They are these:
- Casio Class Pad. A calculation application that does not need to be connected to the internet and that allows, through the mobile screen, to perform all kinds of complex operations, as if we were operating with a conventional calculator. This educational app is suitable for both students who are taking their first steps in mathematics and for university students. In its free version, in addition to the calculation functions, you can create graphs and statistics. The paid version includes spreadsheets, 3D graphics, and geometry. It is available on both Android and iOS.
- Grasshopper. From the hand of Area 120, one of Google’s incubators, comes this educational app created to teach us programming in a curious and different way. It consists of overcoming challenges and problems posed by it in order to improve as programmers. It is an application valid for all school levels and is also suitable for adults who want to learn, practice or adopt programming as a new hobby or vocation. It is exclusive to Android.
- Habit Hub. Organization is one of the battles that the student, whatever grade he is, has to fight with more drive. This free educational application will allow a student to organize the day-to-day of their studies, manage their free time and use to-do lists to take advantage of all the hours of the day. Comfortable, with an attractive interface and very easy to use, it is one of the discoveries of this 2020. The downside? It is only available for Android.
- Loom. An app that until recently was paid for and can now be purchased for free. It was previously only available for iOs and now there is a version for Chrome that is most apparent. It has a desktop version, for the computer and Ipad version. Loom allows you to screen record all the interactions you make with web page content, text documents, and more. A simple way to have videos of non-face-to-face classes that you can then share via email. A perfect tool for teachers who are quickly incorporating themselves into the creation of a liquid educational system that is between face-to-face and distance learning.
- Aurasma. An app with a commercial vocation that uses augmented reality as a tool, but which, nevertheless, has a lot of educational material created to inspire its own projects. A platform that allows total interaction with the environment and create our own augmented reality to illustrate class work or to design complete teaching units. Very useful and very easy to handle. It can be used from your mobile phone as well as from your tablet or iPad. It is available on iOS and Android
- Quizz your english. Gamify your knowledge of English and self-assess your knowledge of the language of Shakespeare. That’s what Cambridge English, creator of this fun app, proposes to us, offering us games and competitions for all ages and learning levels. As if that were not enough, we can compare our results with friends and acquaintances, as well as with other users since it has world ranking rankings. It is available for iOS and Android.
- Wunderlist. One of the most complex things that exist is to organize yourself when doing group work. This application gives the possibility of creating lists of tasks to be shared so that, in this way, everyone is aware of the evolution of their colleagues’ work. An education app that was born to improve the quality of time and maximize the performance of all the people involved. It is available, free of charge, for iOS and Android users.
- Squid. A great note-taking app. Yes, something like a virtual blog of notes where you can take notes, draw sketches, capture ideas quickly, solve problems, etc. In short, ideal for writing down everything that comes to mind while studying or while we are in class with the tablet or mobile. On top of that, we can end up organizing our notes in separate notebooks. Only available on iOs.
- Khan Academy. A good educational operation that combines videos, interactive exercises and information on very diverse subjects. With this education application we can evaluate our learning thanks to the tests of the application itself and download content to review it later without the need to be continuously connected to the Internet. It is available for iOS and Android users.
- Mindomo. An educational application designed for a young audience, not for children, that will make it easier for us to create mind maps in a very simple way that will help us clarify our ideas and bring them to a complete presentation. Perfect for delimiting terms, simplifying notes and improving the reading comprehension of any student from secondary school to university education. Available for iOS and Android users and is free.
And this is the list of the 10 educational applications that, in our opinion, have given the best results in this year 2020, which will be marked for history as that atypical year and where we had to put all our effort into accelerating the implementation of distance learning (even surpassing any notion we had about e-learning) and try to incorporate all the technological tools that made it possible.
