3 Educational Applications For Children

Today, a multitude of educational applications are available. We recommend three of them.
3 educational apps for kids

In the middle of the digital age, ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) can be considered ideal pedagogical tools for teaching children. Next, we recommend some educational applications to work and train with children certain cognitive abilities, such as reasoning, attention, memory, visuospatial intelligence, reading speed, etc.

Keep in mind that new generations are born surrounded by electronic devices. These, if used properly can be very beneficial for child development.

3 educational apps for kids

Smile and learn

Smile and Learn is an educational application for children from 3 to 12 years old. It has more than 5,000 activities, organized in 6 areas of knowledge:

Little girl with a tablet using educational applications.
  • Sciences.
  • Space.
  • Logic.
  • Language.
  • Emotions.
  • Art.

In this way, children can practice and develop different intellectual capacities and cognitive skills (comprehension, language, attention, creativity, social skills, etc.), while having fun playing.

In addition, it is an inclusive application, since the activities can be adapted to the special needs of children and their way of learning.

Another advantage of this application is that it records the progress and progress made in the different tasks and provides pedagogical recommendations. Therefore, mothers, fathers or teachers can take advantage of this useful functionality.

Finally, it should be noted that Smile an Learn does not have any type of advertising. Although, if the monthly or annual subscription is not paid, access to the games and activities will be limited.

Kids Logic Land Adventure

Kids Logic Land Adventure is one of the educational applications whose protagonists are a boy named Jack and a girl named Alice. The objective of the game is to help these two characters to find the hidden treasures, traveling through five different islands.

In each of these islands, the little ones have to pass a series of tests, such as:

  • Guess how a figure is perceived from a specific perspective.
  • Do puzzles and puzzles .
  • Continue a sequence of images.
  • Complete sudokus.
  • Find the strange shape with respect to others.
  • Indicate how many elements a given shape is made of.
  • Find the similar images.
    Mother and daughter with a tablet deciding which of the all proposed educational applications they decide to use.

These tasks are designed to train logical reasoning, mathematical skills, visuospatial intelligence, memory and attention, with children 6 to 8 years of age.

Memory and Attention Training for Kids

Memory and Attention Training for Kids is an educational application for children from 4 to 7 years of age to develop:

  • Visual and operational memory : useful for processing diagrams, graphs, diagrams, images and patterns, improving reading speed and making fewer mistakes when reading and writing.
  • Attentional abilities : improving the observation, concentration and impulse control of the little ones.

This application allows you to perform 7 games or activities:

  • Find all the objects that have been previously displayed on the screen.
  • Match each animal with the number that corresponds to it, remembering the numbers that have been previously assigned to it.
  • Mark in ascending order the numbers that appear in a table.
  • Mark all images similar to a certain model.
  • Play card matching.
  • Memorize the order of placement of a series of colors on a palette.
  • Pressing a button to select a central image that is the same as the model.

    Each of these games offers 4 levels, so that  the degree of difficulty of the tasks can be adapted to the age and stage of the child’s maturational development.

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