Awesome Android™ Apps for Education
Tech news sites love to debate Apple® apps versus Android™, and just about everyone you ask (your students included!) will have an opinion on which is better. Apple® products gained an early foothold in education, but Android™ is not far behind and they’re gaining fast.
Google Play now offers a wide variety of excellent education apps for Android™ smart devices. Here are a few worth sharing with your students:
- Oregon Trail: American Settler– If you grew up playing this classic game in your elementary school computer lab, you’ll be glad to see that many of the original features and obstacles are still there, but the updated version introduces players to the difficulties pioneers encountered after the trail. Build a town, meet historical figures, and protect townsfolk from bandits and buffalo stampedes!
- Sky Map– If you’re anything like me you don’t exactly look at the night sky and go, “Ah, yes, that right there is Cepheus, right above Cassiopeia.” Enter Sky Map! Point your device at the sky to see the stars, planets, and constellations in front of you all neatly labeled, with applicable dots helpfully connected (bonus: follow the Sky Map development team on Twitter!).
- Algebra Tutor– Includes both prealgebra and algebra concepts with step-by-step walkthroughs to help students see where they made any mistakes.
- CueBrain – Helps users learn foreign language vocabulary using interactive flashcards. Includes a whopping nineteen different language options! A couple commenters mentioned that you can import your own cards from Excel and expand your personal CueBrain database.
- Wordle – Includes 3,500 puzzles to help build vocabulary and improve spelling!
Are you aware of other Android ™ apps that would be great to introduce to students? Please share! We would like to note them on our PowerSchool Tumblr page—where we love to highlight resources for students!
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miriam wrote on October 26, 2012 at 2:13 pm:
There is a great website for apps, http://www.educationalappstore.com, which specialises in educational apps for young kids, parents, students and teachers. It is the one I always use when I want to find an educational app, and also the main store for my friends to buy good apps for their kids.
cuebrain wrote on November 3, 2012 at 8:59 am:
Thanks for mentioning us! See http://www.cuebrain.com for more details on how to import your own cards and lots of great tips. There’s also a Windows Phone app now too – this is a beautiful smartphone platform if you haven’t checked it out yet
- aephid
Clinton White wrote on December 1, 2012 at 10:57 am:
We launched our first education and learning mobile game a few weeks ago, named “Coins in a Flash”. The game is glorified flash cards of US coins showing different goals in the form of cents. The objective is to click the correct coins to add up to the goal amount. As the coins are clicked they fly out onto the stage and collide with other coins and the edges of the screen.
Our second app for coins is called “Coin Quiz”. In my opinion either one can really help teachers show kids how to add up coins and count.
Let me know what you think and please consider giving our app a review.
You can see the apps at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=scriptMicro
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A475BZ8
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A475BZ8
Please check them out I think you will be happy you did.
Thanks
Clinton
Aaron Morrison wrote on December 11, 2012 at 4:52 pm:
Thanks Clinton. Our division of Pearson provides Instructional Improvement Systems and Student Information Systems. The group you should provide this to is the FWD group http://fwd.pearson.com.
Thanks!