Teachers often find it difficult to get their students to engage with education outside the classroom. Homework is seen as nothing more than a tedious effort by many students, so why not make it fun? Technology is a fantastic way of capturing a child’s attention and imagination, so why not make use of the tablet computers found in most of their homes to advance their education? These hand picked educational apps for students will have your children raving about lessons learned right from their phone or tablet, allowing them to interact with the course material in a way they are familiar with and can understand.
Five Best Educational Apps for Students
Evernote
Available on anything from iPads to laptops running Windows, Evernote brings the twenty year old dream of the paperless office into reality. Once you begin to organize your notes with Evernote’s remarkably intuitive interface you will never go back to ring binders and file blocks. Linking Evernote with Safari will improve your experience even further, allowing you to ‘clip’ web pages, and even recordings of your lectures, to your corresponding notes. Evernote is a free software, and so perfect for students on a tight budget. Although there is a Premium version for more intensive users most students will be more than content with the features available with the free version. Never be without your notes again with the synchronization feature provided, allowing notes to be available between your computer’s Evernote package and your iPhone or iPad.
Goodreader
If you require a powerful yet elegant pdf reader for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch look no further than Goodreader. With the ability to type text or add hand-written notes directly onto the document, to add moveable sticky-notes, to draw shapes and arrows and even to highlight important areas of text, you really couldn’t ask for more in your pdf reader. The icing on the cake is that Goodreader will open any kind of file, from word document to video file, eliminating the need for a plethora of apps to open the myriad different file types available. Coming in at just over £3, this powerful file reader is a bargain buy!
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SimpleMind
If you think in terms of mind maps, making and archiving complex mind maps just got easier. The beauty of this app it its simplicity; just tap and type. The no frills interface makes this app popular among students, as well as businessmen who are always on the go. Both a free version and a paid version (for around £3) are available.
EasyBib
With this app you will have at your fingertips the ability to generate impressive reference lists with nothing more than your iPad’s camera. Citing a book has never been easier; use EasyBib’s bar code reader to scan your book and have your citation just the way you want it within seconds, ready for export to your document. This handy app will shave vital hours off a student’s essay writing time, and best of all it’s free!
iStudiez Pro
Countless students all across the country find it hard to keep on top of deadlines. Remembering what to do when, as well as keep on top of your classes and any extra curricular activities you are engaged in proves too much for many, leading to skipped classes and missed deadlines. This fact is of crucial importance if you are at university with no teachers to pressure you for work or extend deadlines. At less than £1 this tool will vastly streamline your organization for classes and assignments. Integration with your device’s calendar and notifications will make sure you never miss a class or a deadline again.
With these educational apps for students at hand there really is no reason for a child not to be inspired to learn, and encouraged to reach their full potential through the technology at their disposal. Making the most of a child’s time in terms of education can become a reality today with these devices available like never before.
Author Bio: This post was created on behalf of World Class Teachers, a top London teaching agency.
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