In this digital era, smartphone could well be your best tutor-all thanks to a plethora of education apps. With the increasing stress of exams and parents worrying about extensive use of cellphones by their wards which may be distracting, educational apps may make their use more productive. Some are providing online courses in various fields, some are providing career advice. While some are merging education with Virtual Reality to change how education is perceived in the country.
With the upcoming technology, many educational tech platforms offer live streaming programs to simplify complex subjects.
The educational apps also help kids to enhance certain skills :
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Emotional Skills
Academic skills often take center stage when we talk about kids and learning, but part of developing the whole child is helping kids learn emotional skills. Kids can learn about handling stress, empathy, self-awareness, and overcoming obstacles with apps.
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Responsibility and Ethics
Having a strong sense of responsibility and sound ethics will help kids as they navigate their school community, as well as interact with others in the world. Apps can help kids focus on making wise decisions, honoring the community, and learning from consequences.
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Collaboration
The group projects your kids do in school help prepare them for the kind of collaboration they’ll be involved in as they move through college and into their careers. Apps can help them learn to collaborate with others, too.
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Thinking and Reasoning
Puzzle games frequently focus on thinking and reasoning skills, but so do apps in other genres. These apps can help kids learn problem solving, decision making, making predictions, and thinking critically.
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Managing Money and Other Resources
Whether it’s birthday money, an allowance, or income from an after-school job, some kids have money to manage from an early age. It’s never too early for kids to think about financial concepts. Many apps give kids an opportunity to manage virtual cash and resources.
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Self-Direction
Having strong self-direction skills can empower kids and make them more self-aware. Apps can help with goal-setting, personal growth, time management, and working efficiently.
- Animation
Animation is just one way that apps can help kids unleash their creativity. Kids can use these apps to explore digital creation.
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Drawing
Whether kids are beginners learning basics or skilled artists looking to hone their craft, they can use apps to learn and create.
Learning is as fun as you make it
Apps are designed with primary input from educators and curriculum developers, or shown in educational research to be an effective learning tool.
Making child’s screen time educational is a must in home, and these apps are great resources. Whether counting, practicing math facts, or adding fractions, learning new language, reading skills, child won’t even realize all the learning he’s doing.
Preschoolers and Kindergarteners
Counting Caterpillar
This counting app is perfect for preschoolers and kindergarteners learning to count. It teaches the basics of counting by ones and then increases to the concept of skip counting by 2, 5, and 10. The app is colorful and creative, and your child will love earning beautiful butterflies.
Kids Academy
Kids Academy app is one of the most innovative and engaging program for young learners. Their unique learn-through-play program combines the most advanced in adaptive technology, artificial intelligence, personalized learning, and gamification to help kids put their best foot forward and get the education they deserve.
Math Learning Center
Math Learning Center offers 10 free apps based on visual models for a wide range of ages from grades pre-K to 7th. These visual models are great tools to help children see how math works and better understand it. The apps include fractions, number frames, math vocabulary cards, number lines, pattern shapes, and more.
Reading Eggs
Reading Eggs is a complete learn to read system for children aged 2-13 and covers the five essential components of reading: phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.
Primary Classes
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News-O-Matic EDU
News-O-Matic is the first daily newspaper just for students. It provides an exciting and engaging nonfiction experience for students, complete with valuable literacy tools for the classroom. Thanks to its unique combination of editorial and technology, News-O-Matic creates innovative solutions to help children become tomorrow’s responsible citizens. It gives young readers a window into the world — and a reason to love reading news.
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NASA
Students can learn just about anything they ever wanted to know about the solar system and about NASA’s missions by navigating through the videos, photos, live feeds, and loads of text in NASA App. For kids with a big appetite for learning about the solar system, NASA App provides a wealth of information. However, given the amount of text and information, young users may need more focus than the app provides.
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Star Chart
Star Chart lets you to see the stars and planets in the skies accurately by pointing their Android device towards the sky. This astronomy app makes it easy for you to learn more about the objects you are viewing by tapping the star or planet. One of the amazing features is Time Shift that allows you to go back and forth in time to see past and future celestial placement patterns.
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Google Earth
Google Earth offers the means to display geographic data from a wide variety of sources together in a geospatial context. This data includes imagery for the entire globe at varying resolutions that contains a great deal of interpretable visual information. Students can use it to find their homes, schools, and other locations that are familiar to them. They can make inferences by comparing familiar places to other locations.
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Splash Math
Splash Math (ages 5 – 10) is a comprehensive app that covers many topics. It’s fun and interactive, and allows for math practice at an individual pace. Topics covered are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, geometry, time, money, fractions, decimals, and much more. Teach your child new ways to tackle math problems with Math Appeal, a rhyme-filled, visually engaging book that’ll teach him four new principles he can use on any math problem he encounters.
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Reflex Math
Reflex Math (ages 7 -12) is one of the best math apps around for teaching children math facts (+, -, x, ÷). The app focuses specifically on math fact fluency and being able to recall math facts from memory quickly. The app teaches ways to memorize each fact and practice them through fun games. 
Secondary Classes
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Google Classroom
Google Classroom is an excellent tool for any classroom that frequently uses G Suite products like Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets. The ability to create and manage assignments is the core component of Google Classroom.
- Google Docs, Sheets, Slides: A suite of applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.
- Google Calendar: A calendar that can be used to enter events with the potential to be shared with others.
- Google G-Mail: Allows students to send messages to other students and teachers. This application can be managed so only internal communication is allowed or be made open to communicate with others outside of our district.
- Google Hangout: Allows people to join a session through sharing video and voice.
- Google Sites: A web page software that allows the user to build a site to display and share information.
- Meritnation
This app is like a one-stop solution for the students of classes 6-12. Whether it comes to homework help, doubt clearing session, textbook solutions, video lessons, sample papers, mock test, easy revision notes for class 6-12, previous year board papers and even study material for national olympiads as well.
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Byju’s
This app is already considered as one of the best education apps in India. It has very engaging video lessons which help in adaptive learning. This app also has complete mock tests and sample papers for class 7-12 for all the board exams which help in preparing for competitive exams like IIT-JEE, CAT and NEET. Its detailed performance analysis feature helps students to improve their performance.
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myCBSEGuide
This app has all the features a CBSE student will need. It has sample papers, mock tests. Video lessons, chapter wise questions, NCERT solutions for class 3-12. One of the best features of this app is it has quizzes which you can play with your friend while learning and it also provides a gamified learning solution.
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Vedantu
Vedantu is India’s one of the largest tutoring company started by three IITiian friends, which helps the student to learn online by providing them with some of the best-curated teachers. This app is very interactive for both students and teachers because it has features like two-way audio, video and whiteboarding tools where both teachers and students are able to see, hear, write and interact in real-time. It has online classes for grades 6-12, competitive exams and co-curricular courses.
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Toppr
Toppr provides a wide range of courses to K12 students. Its one of the best feature is its live classes feature which very much helps the students to clear their doubts in real-time. It also provides a time table to students so that they can be aware of the classes.
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Khan Academy
This app is founded by an American Educator Salman Khan. This is a complete non-profit app and its sole purpose is to provide better learning tools to students. This app has more than 10,000 video lectures on different academic subjects majorly focused on Mathematics and science.
Mobile learning allows for flexibility by eliminating the need for learning to happen at a particular time and place. Mobile learning takes learning flexibility to another level by making instructional content like videos, podcasts, and other multimedia formats available on smartphones and devices. If you’re not taking advantage of the above mobile learning apps, you’re missing out!
