Education apps keep pupils busy in learning

Gurvinder Singh

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 26

While the summer vacations are on, and residents are not willing to go outdoors in sultry weather, children are learning new skills and lessons indoors these days.

As educational apps are in vogue nowadays, the home tutor apps in the smart phones and tablets have become teachers for children.

Children of different age groups are learning through various mobile apps. From improving language skills to mathematics and science they are taking their knowledge to a next level.

“I like playing a French game. My father says that I should learn other foreign languages as well,” says Parneet, a class-II student.

Academicians also feel that the there are useful tools including apps which can be useful for students. But teachers and parents should keep tabs if the mobile apps are actually helping in improving of the knowledge and skills or if they are just wasting their time, says Kiran Saini, a faculty member at BCM Arya Model School, Shastri Nagar. “There are a number of apps which are helping children to gain knowledge and also helping in enhancing their creativity as well,” she said.

Parents are also happy over the fact that their kids are utilising their time to increase knowledge. “Apps have been interesting way to teach children. I have downloaded a couple of apps. Applications which improve basics of Maths like addition and subtraction games have been really interesting for my four-year old daughter,” says Raman, a city resident.

Komal, another parent, said her son has been learning the language well and with spelling-game app downloaded on her tablet, he has learning and spelling new words with ease, she added.