How to help your child learn better with a tablet

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

In some schools, teachers select thematic films on subjects to make it more interesting for students to perceive knowledge, in other educational institutions they continue to use only textbooks. If the teachers were unable to interest the child in the subject, you can do it yourself with the help of educational films and applications. Read below for where to find learning resources for students of all ages.

Earlier we already wrote at what age you can introduce a child to smartphones and tablets. In principle, some children get acquainted with gadgets already in the second year of life, and by the first grade they are already well oriented in them.

You can let the child's communication with the tablet take its course or take control of this process. In the first case, he will have a lot of pleasure from games and funny videos, in the second - new knowledge that you will not get at school. Below I will give several ways to provide your child with additional education using a smartphone or tablet.

Watch educational videos

Where to look for videos that will help children better navigate in different subjects? In the same place where you are looking for films, clips and educational videos for yourself: on YouTube and on the VKontakte social network.

You can watch YouTube videos from the native hosting app, but if it gets stuck, you can try Freedi YouTube Player for iOS and Android.

In it, the video does not slow down or stutter, and a convenient player makes it easy to scroll and watch videos from anywhere. True, it has a minus - the abundance of advertising bothers you.

Keep in mind that you can search for playlists where you can often stumble upon themed selections for schoolchildren. There are a lot of educational playlists on YouTube, both on specific subjects and mixed training sets.

The latter is often found in selections for primary school age. For example,. Here, in the form of a colorful cartoon, basic knowledge is given in various subjects: geography, world history, arithmetic, natural history, English, physics, etc.

For older schoolchildren, there are also resources that have collected everything, for example TED educational videos in the group.

There are many interesting videos from Naked Science magazine translated from English, such as “How to tell the truth from lies in the news?”, “The Great Silk Road”, “The Carbon Cycle” and other videos on a variety of topics.

Just watch the video yourself first to decide whether it is right for your child or not. They are short and interesting, maybe you will learn something new yourself.

If your child loves comics (and has already grown up from primary school age), you can try Narr8 … This cross-platform app for iOS and Android brings together many interactive comics, including educational ones.

For example, "Biography" with biographies of famous people, "Alma Mater" with knowledge of biology and anatomy, "Eureka!" with exact sciences, etc.

I liked the original presentation of information: you see pictures with moving objects, when you click on them, new windows with information pop up. A fair amount of humor also attracts. The only pity is that not all comics here are free, for some you have to pay around 35 rubles.

If you want to spend time with your child in an interesting and educational way, try application "Labukap" … There are fun experiments in biology, chemistry, physics and anatomy.

On the back of the experience cards, there is an explanation of why this happens.

Now let's go through the applications that will help arouse interest in learning and deepen the knowledge gained in school.

Applications for different school subjects

While researching the App Store and Google Play, I found many apps that are just tutorials. There is a table of contents and text on a plain white or colored background.

In my opinion, they are not of interest, as are the cheat sheets and reshebniks that your children will find and download themselves when they grow up.

I will only talk about those applications and videos that I found interesting and that I think in my school years would have made me study with great interest.

Geography

YouTube channels

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These small cartoons with a bear will help primary school children learn interesting facts about different regions of Russia.

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Here you can find out interesting facts about Europe that are not included in the school curriculum.

Android Apps

Geography

With this application, you can learn a little about each country in the world: flag, area, population, official language, currency. But the main thing here is to test the already acquired knowledge.

There are several tests: write the country by the flag, the capital of the country, etc. By the way, you can check your knowledge at the same time.

Geography of the game

In this application, you can also test your knowledge, but there are not only countries and capitals that need to be marked on the map, knowing their approximate location, but also natural objects - mountains and rivers.

There are also achievements and records that only fuel interest in the game.

IOS Apps

Where is it?

This application helps you to learn well all the countries of the world, their capitals, cities and states, as well as mountains and other objects.

What's useful is that every location in the app has a link to Wikipedia, so you can read about an unfamiliar country or city. There are records among the players, which makes you want to keep playing and take a good place in the ranking.

Physics

YouTube and VKontakte

There is a YouTube channel «» … There you can see the history of various inventions and videos on the topic "electronics and electrodynamics". True, they are not as colorful and artistic as from the BBC.

The social network "VKontakte" has a children's section with cartoons and simple explanations of various phenomena.

Maths

Android Apps

Multiplication table

Here, the child can learn the multiplication table through simple games. Fun and useful.

Cool school

There is a trial version and a full one - paid. The child will perform for a while simple tasks on symmetry for the development of logic and the simplest mathematical operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

IOS Apps

King of Mathematics

This is a beautiful time game, thanks to which the student will learn to count quickly in his head, and in the pursuit of records his training will become exciting.

Literature and Russian

IOS Apps

Liters: For School

Application with works of literature of the school curriculum. In principle, they can be downloaded on the Internet, but in order not to search for books and a convenient reader, you can get all this in one application. For the convenience of searching, the works are divided into classes. Unfortunately, some books are paid.

Word of the day

A beautiful application in which the child learns a lot of new difficult words.

Spelling

The application is implemented as a game. The player is given cards with excerpts from works of different authors, and you need to fill in the missing places correctly. The number of errors is counted, the rules are given. There are in-app purchases.

Android Apps

Word of the day

Dictation

With this application, your child will be able to prepare well for the dictation.

Biology and Anatomy

Android Apps

Classical Anatomy

A beautiful game in which you can take tests by guessing the names of bones, muscles and internal organs. There is a minus - you have to buy additional tests.

3D internal organs

Here it is much easier to understand where the internal organs are located and how they look than in the flat pictures in the textbook.

Human Bones 3D

Here you see the location and description of the bones. Clear and simple.

IOS Apps

Classical Anatomy

Foreign languages

LinguaLeo

This app is great for kids. There are thematic collections of words with pictures and voice acting, grammar courses, dictionaries, listening, books, stories and articles.

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Quizlet

This application is for the older age. If your child is tired of gaming applications, you can download a more serious one - Quizlet. You can use it as an interactive dictionary, listen to pronunciation, take tests and track your progress.

History

YouTube videos

Playlists by subject, for example "" in several parts, "" in 3D cartoons, "" and other thematic collections.

IOS Apps

Horizon

In this application, you can pass tests on knowledge of the main historical events and learn new historical facts that are not in textbooks.

There is no single system in the presentation of knowledge, and the application is positioned as education for adults, but if a child is interested in history, you can give him additional interesting information, each of which can be analyzed separately.

Tsars and Emperors of Russia

A colorful application listing the kings of the Russian Empire, family tree, coat of arms and other information. Suitable for exam preparation.

Android Apps

In general, there are a lot of useful apps, collections and channels. Maybe you are using some cool educational apps not listed above? If so, please share in the comments.