Mobile phones and tablets may be banned in classrooms -not in all-, but the truth is that technology, and this technology in particular, can be really useful for students. You just have to know how to use responsibly and, without a doubt, know what the Best Apps for them. If you are looking for them, here is a selection that will be of help to anyone in training.
Depending on what is being studied, obviously, there will be some applications that are more or less interesting for students. But there are a number of applications, and they are the ones that we have tried to select, which will be of help to anyone who is in training. In fact, they can be useful from high school to university, and also in courses or in vocational training.
INKredible - Take Notes, Make Sketches
Forget the paper and pencil, or the pen, because with your mobile or tablet you can also take notes with hand. It does not matter if you need to write, or if you need to do mathematical operations, or if you have to make some kind of sketch. With this app, for which a digital pen is recommended, you can take freehand notes on your mobile or tablet, turning it into a notebook sheet. The interface is ideal and everything is thought to be its perfect substitute.
Drive - Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations
It is no longer necessary to pay for Microsoft Office programs, as we did before on the computer. Now we have Google Drive with three key applications: Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations. As you surely suspected, they act as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. But in addition to having all their tools, and using the same file format, they have synchronization in the cloud so that we can do our work in groups easily and each one from home.
APA appointment
And the famous 'APA format', so required by teachers, it is necessary to have common standards. Yes, but it is an incredible waste of time. So this app helps us to complete the biography by citing web pages, newspapers, encyclopedias, magazines, books and chapters of these as they want us to do it. Without a doubt, it will help us to finish our work more quickly and as they want us to present it.
Scientific Calculator - Calculations and Operations
This app has calculator standard, for simple calculation operations, but also with a complete calculator for mathematical formulas, physical formulas and even calculator with graphs. An exceptional tool to face mathematics, but that we can also customize to our liking because it has different skins so that its use is more comfortable and attractive. Without a doubt, it is worth downloading it on your mobile or tablet.
My Study Life - Planning and organization
Attending class and studying is tiring. The best thing is to have a powerful planning and organizing application like this one. This way we will know what and when to be aware of to bring our work up to date and the subject well studied when the exams are approaching. If it is difficult for you to keep 'everything in your head', this application is an exceptional ally to make the most of our limited time.
OFFTIME - Focus on studying
If your mobile distracts you when you are studying, OFFTIME, or any similar application, is what you need. In short, the key is to turn off the mobile or limit its notifications so that the sounds, vibrations or the constant on and off of the screen have us focused on what we should not be. Another app that will help us improve productivity when we are in front of books with our studies.
Brain Focus - The Pomodoro Technique
And continuing in the same line, Brain focus it also seeks that we achieve the maximum possible productivity. In what way? As a timer for our study times. Because yes, we know that we can spend three hours in front of a book, but it is not possible to stay three hours in a row at maximum productivity. So this app helps us to give the most of ourselves with a timer and, of course, by limiting the operation of the mobile
RealCalcPlus
Excellent alternative for all those students of careers related to numbers. RealCalcPlus is the premium or paid version of one of the most complete virtual calculators in the Android application store, since allows you to perform practically the same operations as a traditional scientific calculator.
You can currently find it in the Play Store for 2'99 €, a much lower price than that of a handheld or traditional calculator that can offer you the same options as this application. It has a free version, although we will lose many of the functions that the paid version offers us.
Google Docs
Application more than known by practically everyone. This application has many virtues, although we will focus only on one, and this is the possibility of working together with other people. We have all had to do that group work for the faculty, which, like most of the time, has broken our heads to be able to organize all of us in the same place. With Google Docs this does not happen. Each member of the group can be at home, simultaneously editing the same document, so the problem of having to move to a specific place is solved.
Squid
Perfect app for take freehand notes on our Tablet or smartphone. It is perfect for combining word processing and including, for example, schemes or equations without having to resort to our traditional notebook and pen. We can also annotate PDF's in order to fill out forms, edit them, grade jobs or sign documents without having to print them beforehand.
Coursera
If you feel that in your career or in your course you are not learning everything you should and, you would like train on your own, this app is perfect. with it you can train for free thanks to the more than 800 online courses that provides you, whatever the field, from computer programming to nutrition or music.
Khan Academy
This application brings together more than 10.000 videos and explanations on practically any subject, from science to history going through the economy.
It offers you tutorials and both theoretical and practical classes in video form, so if you have any questions about a section of the educational program pertaining to your studies, probably one of the videos of Khan Academy solve your doubts. You can download it so Delivery to Italy takes one or two business days on the Play Store.
