Over the last couple of decades, education has undergone a huge transformation. With the arrival of apps, learning has become easily accessible, which makes it much more interesting for pupils of all ages. He are some educational apps which pupils use in school and can be used at home via downloads from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
CodeSpark
CodeSpark is a child friendly way to learn key programming concepts and use them to code their own projects in the Game Maker.
Epic!
Epic! is a digital library for the classroom. Epic! can motivate young readers with badges and rewards. Also remember, you can access digital and audio books via Renfrewshire Library Online for FREE using your library card!
Prodigy
With Scratch and ScratchJr, pupils learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games.
By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of numeracy and literacy.
StopMotion
StopMotion allows pupils to create movies like Wallace and Gromit or those groovy Lego shorts on YouTube. Using any object they can create a simple story line.
Sumdog
Sumdog is a way for pupils to practice math skills while playing fun, math-related games against friends, classmates, or students from around the world. Games are individualized for each pupil’s ability level, so users can play against opponents who have the same skills.
Libby
Libby is a free app where you can borrow ebooks and digital audiobooks from your public library. You can stream books with Wi-Fi or mobile data, or download them for offline use and read anytime, anywhere. Just use your Renfrewshire Library membership details!
Book Creator
Book Creator is one of the few apps that allows for text, images, audio and video to be added to a page, all from one simple menu. Just press + and you can add shapes, comic templates, stickers and emojis to your very own book.
Google Arts and Culture allows virtual class trips and museum visits. It has over 1,200 virtual tours famous museums and galleries. Pupils can look and read as well as curate their own lists of favourite artworks to share.
Duolingo isn’t just a fun and popular way to learn languages that our pupils already learn 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.
Swift is Apple’s own programming language, and Swift Playgrounds is its app for teaching people how to use it. It’s for adults as well as children, but it’s 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. It’s only available on the iPad. If there is any budding parent and pupil programmers in our St James’ Community – let us know!
Other Apps we use are:
Google Classroom and the G suite
Education City
IDL
Topmarks
Kiddle
Oxford Owl
Kahoot
Word Cloud
Marty the Robot App
iMovie
Mathsbot
Nrich
Storyboard That
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