When the tablets appeared in 2010 with the launch and boom of Apple’s iPad in the market, nobody stopped to think about how it could affect the children’s sector. At that time, this meant giving a young child a high-end device, not cheap at all, and whose screen can be broken so easily.

However, more and more parents have been entrusting this touch and mobile device to their children. An intuitive interface has made tablets and smartphones replace the classic video game consoles. In the same way, in the markets there have been proliferating games and mobile apps for children. Parental concern has also been increasing: How to educate children if they spend hours absorbed in the screen of the tablet or smartphones? The solution has arrived thanks to mobile applications aimed at children, like the ones we present in this top 6 of apps.

Even entire brands have created products focused on the children’s market. And it is precisely also the developers for iPad, iPhone, Android and other platforms that have before their eyes a new market oportunity that opens its doors. A market that will require a key specialization  and will require working side by side with education specialists to achieve educational mobile applications for children, suited to their target.

Nowadays, children’s brands and companies in the same sector compete to find the magic formula that keeps children glued to the screen of the mobile device for more than 5 minutes. It is complicated to make an educational mobile application for children get high engagement. Precisely in a moment like in which we live now, more and more frequently in the school and in the educational world more new technologies are used to learn. And studies indicate that these trends will continue to grow in schools and universities. In fact there have already been cases of applications of Augmented Reality in the education sector.

So, how to develop educational apps for children to use at home? In this post we show you a top6 of mobile educational applications for children that achieve their purpose:

iCuadernos by Rubio

Rubio’s classic notebooks already have their version for mobile devices, both iOS and Android, with the iCuadernos app. They come in blank booklet format and we can select the content, between ‘Math Operations’, ‘Math Problems’ and ‘Early Childhood Education’. In addition to making the duties more entertaining with an interactive system and much more visually attractive, they will have additional help from the Owl-tutor who guides the child explaining the exercises and correcting them in the moment.

In addition, the system of medals and achievements will help to gamify the duties of the child allowing him to be entertained and to increase the engagement. They turn learning into a game. used0 \lsdprior

Geometria Montessori

The second in our top of mobile educational applications is the one that bears the name and honors the scientist Maria Montessori, is Montessori Geometry. It is an educational mobile application aimed at the children of the house who have to improve in geometry. With this tool children from 4 to 8 years old can play and learn geometric shapes from an iOS mobile device screen. More than that, the objective is for children to learn to develop logic through the categorization and hierarchization of geometric shapes. In it we find the simplest and most basic forms up to the most complex ones. In addition we also find a section called games in which to apply what we learned in the app.

Children’s Day Map

The Children’s Day Map mobile app is an app designed to learn English for the little ones. It is a very basic app that we can download for free in the markets. In it, the youngest can learn how to say the main daily routines in English. They will learn the days of the week, the months, the seasons, the clothes, concepts of time (today, tomorrow, etc.) among other terms. An app very useful as introduction or smooth review of the subject of foreign language. Very simple, useful and intuitive to use for both parents, teachers and children.

BioMio

This application BioMio seeks to generate interest in children by the biology of the world around them. Besides being a fun and entertaining app, will lay the foundation for this school subject.  Through it, they know the most basic things about animals, plants, different habitats, the food chain, climates, etc. Leave aside the complicated and boring texts to apply the knowledge of biology to a fun and play environment.

Thinkrolls

Strategy games are the ones that are lately achieving more downloads and more use by users. Now comes Thinktrolls that applies this strategic technique to the little ones, making them exercise their mind, their memory and their logical capacity. This type of educational mobile applications are perfect for children from 3 to 8 years old to learn the mechanics of trial and error. There are two modes, the easy and the advanced, and 180 screens to be overcome by the child.

ABC Kit Letters

ABC Kits Letters is composed of two different applications, but whose objective is the same. These educational mobile applications are intended to help in the learning of the little ones. That is, they intend to create simple, honest and fun apps for children to learn in a fun and effective way.

 It is divided into two educational mobile applications, the first one is ABC Kit a literacy app: In it we will find 26 words with which children will learn the basics of literacy,the section of parents, the pack of animals, food, spring and soon the toys. You know, the best is always reserved for the end. It is intended that infants relate each sound with a certain letter. This process is carried out in three activities: know, listen and write. This app for children from 2 to 4 years old places special emphasis on phonetics and letters individually rather than on words.

While the other app developed by Montessori, ABC Kit for 5, aims to help children learn full words. It is a continuation of ABC Kit, and is intended for children from 3 to 6 years. You can also practice writing. But also to compose words and to spell out them. Both make use of gamification in apps to improve children’s engagement and prevent them from giving up after five minutes, a technique that ends up turning education into a fun and entertaining game.

SOURCE: Yeepli. (2014). Las 6 Mejores Aplicaciones Móviles Educativas para Niños. Obtenido de https://www.yeeply.com/blog/top-6-mejores-aplicaciones-moviles-educativas-para-ninos/ M