There are many great educational tools for kids out there, but some are more fun then others. Education strategiest Dwayne Matthews shares his top tech picks for learning disguised as fun! From apps to games, here are a few ways you can get your kids to learn and have fun.
Starfall
Read, learn and play with fun activities, games and songs on Starfall! This app covers reading, math, music and more—preschool to third grade. Starfall's playful open format intuitively guides children through sequential learning objectives for reading, math, art, music, and social subjects like kindness and caring. This app is research-based, teacher-tested and kid-approved. Try it for free or subscriber to gain access to hundreds of additional activities!
Shop the Starfall app on the App Store and Google Play
Tody
This is an app for doing household chores. This app is set up like a project management tool, it helps to keep track of who does what chore. It's important to encourage collaboration and to get their minds around project management in a consistent and easy way.
Shop the Today app on the App Store and Google Play
TrailMakers
This game is based on a world where players can design, build and adapt all kinds of vehicles. The best part is that the vehicles are generally physics-based so it somewhat mimics the way the vehicle might act in the real world. Kids get to design them, test them and iterate their design. This game also uses an MVP process where the first iteration won't be perfect so kids need to make small adjustments and be persistent for the vehicles to work. This game teaches growth mindset, aspects of design thinking, MVP mindset,which is so important when learning or building anything that is challenging.
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Google Tilt Brush
Tilt Brush lets you paint in 3D space with virutal reality. Your room is your canvas. Your palette is your imagination. This product is available for Vive, Oculus, Oculus Quest, Windows Mixed Reality, Valve Index, and Playstation VR.
Shop the Google Tilt Brush on Google
Mission ISS
Take a trip into orbit and experience life on board the International Space Station! In this Emmy-nominated simulation, learn how to move and work in zero-gravity using your controllers. Dock a space capsule, take a spacewalk,and let real NASA astronaut guide you on the ISS through informative videos and images.
Shop the Mission ISS game on Occulus
Allegori
Allegori is an online digital platform that uses neuroscience and artificial intelligence to drive academic successes and peak performance. This platform uses evidence-based neurotraining and portable EEG headsets to help adults and kids play a gamified program that teaches people how to focus and control their neural activity in order to improve cognitive performance and reduce mental fatigue.
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