Education Resources
Explore resources and tools reviewed by our teachers to inspire creativity, encourage hands-on learning, and equip your students with digital skills.
Nubba app is a Spanish audio service, directed at children, which gives you an alternative to managing screen abuse and addiction among minors. You can listen through hundreds of authentic Spanish audio content, from fairy tales to story series to radio broadcasts running twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and three-hundred sixty-five days a year. The visuals complement the lovely, endearing stories that will keep you and your children enraptured and enthralled for hours upon end. You can select tracks to relax to, to stir the imagination, to help you learn, and to sing and dance the day and night away with your loved ones. Give Nubba a download to bring a little real-world Spanish fun into your home.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
"We Can Books" app is a good resource to create leveled books for beginning readers and special needs learners. It allows user's to easily make a customized book with either pictures from the user's device or pictures on the app. This is a great way to increase comprehension of sight words across 3 different levels and would be a useful supplement to any reading program or curriculum.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
iScanner grants free access to Educators iScanner team wants to help educators take to the new hybrid system of teaching like a duck to water. We are thrilled to announce the iScanner for Educators program—our new initiative to grant free access to iScanner PRO to professional educators and support staff. At the moment, the programme only works for educational institutions within the US, UK, Canada, Germany, and France. All you need to do is hit the JOIN button and activate your promo code that will be emailed to you.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
1Question Screen Time Control lets parents restrict kids' screen time playing certain types of apps. Kids work for the chance to play their favourite games by answering questions and viewing educational videos in 1Question - every correct answer earns them time. The app's educational material covers math, English, science, and life skills for kids aged 5 to 13. 1Question supports iOS and Android devices and works equally well on kids' own devices or if they share yours. At the time of this review, 1Question's premium option is entirely free, but this will change in the future.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Talk Tales: Simple Words, is designed to support children in saying specific target words. This is achieved through an interactive story book with teaching videos to show how to say the words. There is also a catchy song that accompanies the story. This app will benefit all toddlers and children learning to say first words, it is designed based on motor learning theory to help children with childhood apraxia or an autism spectrum disorder. The app is designed for 0-5 and 4+. It is compatible with iOS 15.1 or later and Mac 12.0 or later. It costs £11.99 to purchase.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Talk Tales, Simple Sounds is specifically designed by a speech therapist to support non-verbal or low-verbal children with childhood apraxia or autism spectrum disorder. It is aimed at children between 0-5 years of age but could be used beyond if required. It allows for continuous repetition through an interactive storybook as well as movie to watch including all the taught sounds. There is a one-off payment of £11.99. It works on Android, IOS and Mac 11 or later.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Zigazoo brings the short-form video social media experience to kids in a safe and human-controlled app. Kids who are supervised and join Zigazoo with their parents' approval can create videos, respond to challenges, and view their friends' creations within a safe and positive environment. Zigazoo's app is free to download on iOS and Android. It is fully functional, giving kids access to the creation and viewing section but includes optional extras available as in-app purchases and NFT collectibles.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Leafsnap is a free smartphone app employs a visual detection algorithm to assist in identifying plant species based on images of their foliage. Beautiful high-resolution photos of leaflets, blooms, fruit, stems, seeds, and timber may be seen at Leafsnap. Leafsnap presently contains trees from the Northeast United States and Canada, but it will eventually expand to have included trees from around America.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
NOVAKID ENGLISH SCHOOL is an app aimed at users wanting to learn the English language through real lessons in an online learning environment. As it is aimed at helping users learn English it fits nicely into the English as an Additional Language market but instead of lessons being made up of games it is instead through online classes with English speakers that the learning takes place. The app allows users from all over the world to access lessons and all the teachers who run the lessons are certified ESL specialists and all have online teaching experience too meaning that they are able to run the lessons in the best way possible to maximise the learning for students on the other end of a screen. The lessons are aimed at 4-12 year olds as the developers explain that this is the best age for this type of learning to take place especially as the developers have taken into account the learning characteristics of this age range. Lessons start with simple things but then increase gradually with the level of complexity. As the lessons are run by an individual teacher it means that they can also be tailored to the students thus maximising the learning that takes place as well as being personalised. Although the app is free to download there is a cost for each lessons however these can be purchased in packages to allow savings to be made. There is also the option to try for free allowing users the ability to see if it works for them before signing up to the lessons themselves. The developer’s website has a lot of information on it from a well-developed blog which looks at many aspects of online learning, childhood and parenting to in-depth information about the program itself, how it works, why it works and more information on costing. Users can enter the app at different levels and the website also have a section dedicated to this. The app itself is the centre point for all the learning with the lessons saved on there, allowing it to be revisited, new lessons to be booked and the ability to see the upcoming lessons too. There are also extended learning opportunities through games that users can work through against other users as well as books to read within the app too.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
CoSpaces is a creation app built for the classroom which helps young learners develop virtual content. They design, implement, and code their ideas within the multi-format app to produce augmented and virtual-reality creations. The app directly addresses STEM subjects, but its website provides examples of it being used across the world in support of topics as diverse as history and social-emotional development. CoSpaces is entirely usable by students on free-to-download mobile apps or using the web app. While designed for school and classroom use, home schoolers and other parents can still use it by signing up for a single-teacher account. Teachers have access to more admin tools when they use the web. Trial code: CoSEduAppTrial Promo code: CoSEduAppPromo for 10% off on any CoSpaces Edu Pro online purchase until June 3, 2023.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Lingvano is an app that aims to teach British Sign Language (BSL) to beginners. The app contains a variety of lessons, each of which focuses on a different aspect of signing. The lessons cover topics such as alphabet, numbers, common phrases, and grammar. There are also videos included in the app that show native BSL signers using the language in everyday situations. Lingvano is free to download and use, but there are in-app purchases available for additional features such as progress tracking and extra practice materials. Lingvano is available for both iOS and Android devices.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
SodaPDF is a fully-featured and competitively-priced PDF editing app. Its feature set covers all tasks users might typically want to use with PDFs, including editing, merging, splitting, and converting. It includes collaboration features. Available as a downloadable desktop app on PC, there is also a capable web app accessible under the same user account. A free to try version and a 30-day money-back guarantee provide reassurance for anyone wanting to test SodaPDF after reading this app review.
Devices: Web
All NCERT books from Class 1 to 12 are available in PDF format in English, Hindi, and Urdu, and can be utilised in OFFLINE mode as well. Students will also get crucial topics from CBSE, NEET, JEE, and CISCE in the app.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Braille Tutor is an app that provides an interactive learning experience for a sighted or blind braille learner.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Curbsmart App is a mobile application that provides real-time information about parking availability, regulations, and payment options. The app is designed to make parking easier and more convenient for users by allowing them to find available parking spots, reserve parking spots in advance, and pay for parking within the app.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Minecraft Education is a game-based learning platform that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving through blocks or text-based coding with Python. Minecraft Education is available for free to download on iOS, Android, Mac and WIndows devices.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad , Windows
NCalc is an app that supports scientific calculations and makes the best features available to all users.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Cleaver Kids is an educational app designed for children between the ages of 2 and 7. It offers a range of features and benefits that make it an ideal tool for parents and educators who want to provide a fun and engaging learning experience for young children.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Kids Listen is a podcast app designed specifically for children, offering a safe and fun way for kids to listen to their favourite shows.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Kinedu is an app designed to help families and caregivers engage in personalized, science-backed activities with their young child, is offering its services free. The company, which has been funded and supported by MIT Solve, provides a proprietary developmental assessment, as well as a daily activity plan tailored to each child's development. Kinedu is available to download for free on iOS or Android device.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Doubtnut is an education app based on a very unique concept. If a student has doubt in any math problem, he can click a picture and upload it and within a few seconds, he will get a video solution to his question. They have Mathematics courses for NCERT(class 6-12) and IIT-JEE which includes videos, books and PDFs as well. Doubtnut is an excellent app for IIT JEE preparation and to solve your doubts regarding board exams.
Devices: Android