Long are the days of pencil and paper at home while sitting on the floor trying to figure out a math problem while your mom is cooking dinner. Technology has now become the forefront of learning in today’s society, and moving to online learning has become the new norm for most parents looking to escape the old brick and mortar technique for their child. Whether you like it or not, learning online is here to stay and is progressing extremely fast.
Projections show the e-learning market worldwide is forecast to surpass 243 billion U.S. dollars by 2022.
So let’s take a look at the top educational apps for children with and without disabilities.
ABCmouse
One of my favorite online technology tools for children ages preschool and up. This app features four main subjects in their curriculum such as reading, math, science and social studies. I like this app because it helps teaches our students the foundation and basics of learning before moving onto the higher grade levels. This app also has over hundreds of interactive games that focuses on numbers, shapes, letters, and sounds.
EPIC
I love EPIC! and have used it numerous times inside my self-contained behavioral emotional emotional classroom. Epic reading app is an educational tool for ages 2-12 and features a read to me option, or your child can choose to read on their own. The website also offer videos in real life that goes along with the book and also has games geared towards some of the books.
Hit the Button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Every Friday our 5th grade team would all the 5th graders gather inside one of the 5th grade classrooms and have a 5th grade class challenge on chrome-books to see which students was the fastest at their multiplication facts. Not online can this educational site be played on laptops but also on your phone. This websites works on the early stages of learning on multiplication (e.g. times tables) and division facts. Hit the Button is an interactive math game with quick fire questions on number bonds, times tables, doubling and halving, multiples, division facts and square numbers.
Kahoot!
hhttps://kahoot.com/mobile-app/
No really that’s their name, Kahoot!. Which is also one of my all time favorite educational platforms that we use with my upper grade students. Kahoot is a tool used by teachers to administer quizzes, discussions or surveys. It is a game based classroom response system played by the whole class in real time. Multiple-choice questions are projected on the screen. Students answer the questions with their smartphone, tablet or computer.
Brain Pop
One of my all time favorite websites that I use for my students is Brain pop. BrainPop is a standard-bearer for quality, self-directed online educational content for younger and older school-age kids. This interactive site includes videos, audio prompts, graphics, games, and use-what-you-learned activities in a blended format that will be very familiar to most kids. Kids can spend hours on this site exploring many of the main topics that contain more sub-categories, like the science and math sections. There is also a jr.brainpop and ell.brainpop for English language learners and mindfulness activities for kids.
Please comment below more websites that you like to utilize inside your classroom or at home.
