Study program for school. Study Habit: Best Educational Apps

All your life have you dreamed of becoming an astronaut or a game developer, taking part in a chess tournament or creating a multi-studio at home? You can fulfill your dream at any time, especially in this age high technology And free online training. We have made a selection of the best educational applications with lectures on everything in the world: from robotics to contemporary art.

For the intellectual elite: TED

TED is a place where the most ingenious scientific discoveries and lectures are collected the smartest people planets. Here you can find research on everything you care about: from how a person sleeps to superstring theory. The application contains hundreds of thousands of hours of video from conferences where the intellectual elite talk about the results of their research. You can select lectures on topics that interest you and save those you like in your “favorites”.

For everyone: Universarium

“Universarium” is an application of the project of the same name, the largest Russian open system electronic education "Universarium". Interactive lectures are given here by teachers from Moscow State University. Lomonosov, VGIK, REU im. Plekhanov, MSTU im. Bauman, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and many other prestigious educational institutions of our country. The Universarium offers courses for every taste and age: from fundamental knowledge in mathematics, physics and history to innovative programs on designing robots and creating a home multi-studio. Training at Universarium is intuitively simple; each course consists of several modules that can be completed sequentially or selectively. The program includes video lectures, homework and tests. The application has a student rating system, which is an additional motivation for users. We recommend it to those who strive for self-development and learning new and interesting things.

For programmers: Codeacademy

An introductory programming course for those who failed in computer science at school or who are simply afraid to be alone with an incomprehensible set of letters and symbols. Codeacademy solved this problem with the help of a robot that distributes tasks, encouraging and giving tips along the way. The duration of the course is only a couple of hours. We recommend it to those who want to gain basic knowledge about programming.

For English learners: LinguaLeo

LinguaLeo is an interactive web service for learning English in game form. Leo-sprint allows you to learn words in a playful way with high efficiency: the included time and point counters, as well as energetic musical accompaniment, turn boring word cramming into a dynamic game. The speed of the game increases with each new level, which makes the task more difficult, but also gives more points for each correct answer. Leo-sprint perfectly solves the problem with motivation - after completing the workout, the user has a desire to break his own record or take revenge in case of an unsuccessful attempt. High intensity training provides significant concentration. We recommend it to children and adults who want to expand their vocabulary of English words.

For anatomy lovers: Anatomy 4D

For those who were interested in anatomy at school, but never entered medical school, there is an excellent application, Anatomy 4D. The application allows you to see how a person works literally in layers: at the level of muscles, vascular system and internal organs. All images are three-dimensional, so the entire human structure can be clearly seen from all sides. Unfortunately, there is no Russification yet. And the application has age restrictions(17+). We recommend it to those who want to learn more about the structure of their own body.

For art critics: Artsy

With this application, you can become a real ace in art and learn to talk about it no worse than museum guides. Here you can explore works of art exhibited in major contemporary galleries, art fairs and museums around the world. The collection contains more than 100,000 works of art and is updated daily. From Monet and Warhol to Marina Abramovic, Jeff Koons, Ed Rushay and Cindy Sherman, Artsy's collection spans both established classics and the finest contemporary artists. The app allows you to enjoy works from the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, British Museum, Gagosian Gallery, Pace Gallery, White Cube, Victoria Miro and more than 600 other galleries in 50 countries. We recommend it to anyone interested in modern and classical art.

For romantics: Star Walk

This great program will help you study the starry sky. Thanks to augmented reality technology, you can point your iPad's camera at the sky, and the system will automatically draw a constellation map on the screen. By pointing your device with Star Walk running at the sky, you will see on the screen information about stars, planets and satellites, as well as visualization of constellations. The application has an interesting option Time Machine(“Time Machine”), which allows you to explore the night sky in the future or past, based on already known scientific data and forecasts. Calendar of astronomical events, the ability to share captured celestial pictures and project them onto big screen without loss of quality, they turn Star Walk into a personal planetarium. There's a reason Star Walk is Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes' favorite app. We recommend it to those who often look at the sky on a cloudless night.

A beautiful application that gracefully plays on the classics of the mnemonic genre, it will be useful when learning a language or preparing to pass driving exams. You can create flash card collections yourself, using your own text, photographs and audio recordings. If there are no special requirements for collections, you can use existing ones - collected in the large storage on the Internet. After creating a card index, the application will automatically create lessons for you, during which the cards will be shown in the most effective sequence for memorization.

An app that teaches technique quick reading. The essence of the method is to teach the brain to fixate while reading not just individual sounds, letters, which are then assembled into words, but entire phrases and word combinations. The program plays one out of thousands free books, highlighting words in color almost like in karaoke - so that the text does not need to be scrolled or flipped through. In addition, it comes with the ability to customize the interface. The developers promise to soon add other languages ​​(including Russian), but for now you can practice your knowledge of English, Spanish or French.

A series of crazy and fun videos exploring the 118 elements of the periodic table, produced by scientists at the University of Nottingham. The protagonist of the story is Martin Poliakoff, a distinguished-looking professor who is known for his research in green chemistry, supercritical fluids and infrared spectroscopy. All this does not stop him from talking about chemistry easily and simply, illustrating his words with classic geek experiments: for example, dipping a cheeseburger in hydrochloric acid.

Another collection of videos - this time dedicated to physics and astronomy. The developers have collected 60 symbols that are used to indicate various concepts, and explained what each of them means from a scientific point of view. These videos are less like theoretical lectures, more like intimate conversations about what you love most, about the details and subtleties that you begin to notice when you work with one subject for a long time. For example, you can find out how Feigenbaum's constant helps in understanding chaos, what strange properties electromagnetic waves have, and what kind of character Isaac Newton had. Things that are closer to reality are also told: why the trajectory of the Dzhambulani soccer ball constantly changes, how Nobel laureates in physics are chosen, and what the Brazil nut effect is. Scientists explain everything with their fingers, Coca-Cola cans and chocolate cakes and clearly really want to be understood. This app perfectly satisfies a special kind of sadness: the feeling that there is something very important in the world that you cannot understand.

Detailed 10-minute lectures that allow you to structure your knowledge in the fields of mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry, economics and finance. In fact, the entire academy is one man, Salman Khan, the living embodiment of the American dream. The story is classic: a talented young man from a family of immigrants, who graduated from MIT and Harvard, learns that his little cousin, who lives in another city, has problems with mathematics at school. He decides to help her by posting video lessons on YouTube, and instantly becomes famous: first among grateful schoolchildren and parents, and then among investors. And now Bill Gates calls him his children’s favorite teacher, and Google and the Gates Foundation say they will invest in further development online university. Some believe that this database of educational videos is the first step towards an education revolution.

A collection of over 700 videos of TED talks from educational revolutionaries, tech geniuses, maverick scientists, innovators, inventors and other wunderkinds. The program allows you to watch videos offline (for example, on an airplane) and adjust the image quality depending on the connection speed. There are also nice bonuses like the Inspire me function, which creates a playlist that takes into account the user’s desires and amount of free time. You can choose the mood of the video (funny, inspiring), theme (future, out-of-the-box thinking) and more specific tags (robots, happiness).

A few months ago Mike Matas, former designer Apple, now the founder of Push Pop Press, presented the first fully interactive book for the iPad, created by his team, speaking at the TED conference. The developers chose the text of Nobel laureate Al Gore's book "Our Choice" - an environmental manifesto about where energy comes from, whether there is a real alternative to nuclear reactors and how much deforestation affects the average summer temperature in cities. “Our choice” immediately became number one in App Store- not least thanks to colorful infographics, interactive content and expensive photographs.

Almost the entire collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art in one application. You can select exhibits in advance that you don’t want to miss, create a route for visiting numerous halls, compose a soundtrack for your visit from specially selected music, and also learn details about the history of the creation of paintings and the life of the artist, standing right in front of his creation. There is also a sub-application - MoMa Books - a navigator through the museum’s extensive library, which has collected more than 300,000 publications on art. Other famous collections also have their own applications: for example, the Paris Pompidou Center, which T&P recently discussed in more detail.

Several years ago, an incident occurred at the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University: a student, a member of an animal protection organization, refused to dissect a frog, which is why he did not receive credit and was expelled. This situation could be avoided thanks to this application, which allows you to perform a 3D dissection of a frog, effectively replicating the real thing. The application has already received many awards, including from the same PeTA, an organization fighting for animal rights. The program contains detailed instructions for conducting the experiment, an anatomical comparison of a human and a frog, and also allows you to examine each organ in detail after dissection. At all, educational applications on human anatomy are very popular in the AppStore: the most famous of them, of course, are Blausen Human Atlas and 3D-Brain.

Digital tree recognizer created by scientists at Columbia and Maryland universities. In order to understand what kind of tree is in front of you, you need to photograph its leaf. Next, the application, using an algorithm similar to facial recognition, will compare the shape of the sheet with those contained in its catalog. If the final choice is difficult to make, the program will offer information about possible options and their properties - for example, he will tell you about the place of growth and the shape of flowers. LeafSnap is created not only for self-education: each photo taken adds to the database of the local flora, which scientists can then use in their research.

Probably one of the most famous educational applications about space is an incredibly beautiful interactive atlas of the starry sky. Its most notable feature is Augmented reality, which allows you to combine a virtual image of constellations with a camera image - so you can always determine whether a star is falling in the sky or is it just the ISS. Using the Time Machine function, you can track the movement of celestial objects in time and space, speed it up, slow it down or reverse it. In addition, the application contains photographs from outer space, information about all visible space objects and many other facts of this kind. You can continue your astronomical self-education using the NASA app, which even has streaming video from space.

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3. Evernote Peek
Creating “cheat sheets”, or rather flash cards, is a tedious process that most students do not have enough time for. The Evernote Peek app will take care of most of this work. The app transforms your iPad and its case Smart Cover into flash cards. And don't worry if you don't have a case, the app creates a "virtual cover."
Strengthen your memory easily and for free.

4. Frog Dissection (dissection of a frog)
It may be that for some, gutting frogs in biology class is a pleasure, but for others it can become an obstacle to getting a high grade - it is difficult to count on success while fighting the urge to vomit. This app allows students to eliminate the smell of formaldehyde while learning frog anatomy. Bright 3D visualization allows you to study in detail the structure of the animal’s internal organs.
App cost: $3.99.

5. Graphing Calculator (graphing calculator)
Graphing calculators are expensive, but homework without his calculations, it is almost impossible. Instead of purchasing the calculator itself, consider purchasing an app to replace it.
It quickly graphs multiple equations at once, using its own keyboard to enter data. It allows you to create graphs of polar and parametric equations and many others. In addition, you can take screenshots of the calculator screen and send graphs via email.
The app costs $2.99, which is much less than the price of a real calculator.

6. Math Formulas (mathematical formulas)
Want to keep your trigonometric formulas separate from your algebraic formulas? This application will become your assistant in mathematics.
The application stores frequently used formulas classified by branches of mathematics, which provides quick and easy access to them. In addition, you can create a section that will contain “favorite” formulas. Information about formulas is also provided with pictures if necessary, as is the case with geometry.
The app costs only $0.99.

7. Easel SAT Prep Lite
The SAT (School Assessment Test) is one of the most important tests in an American high school student's career. This application allows you to prepare for it without problems or spending money.
The application consists of three sections (mathematics, text analysis and grammar), each of which has 25 questions and a “Show Me” function that explains how to arrive at the correct answer.
Instead of spending hundreds of dollars on test prep books, you can use this app for free.

9.Studio
The Studious application is designed to organize your daily class and homework schedule. The application allows you to set deadlines for completing assignments and remind you when tests and exams are approaching.
When entering class, you forget to put your phone on silent mode? The application will “silence” it according to a schedule in the calendar.
The application is available for free on the Google Play store.

10. World Atlas
This application is necessary for geography lessons. It provides high resolution images with detail and accuracy.
The app provides students with information about each country, including capitals, flags, and government structures. There is the option to switch between three different map styles, including classic, antique and satellite.
World Atlas costs $0.99.

Today every student has a smartphone. To prevent your child from wasting his time, always rummaging through his phone, recommend apps that will not only be interesting, but also useful. "Mel" has selected the most interesting ones from a variety of educational applications - a student of any age will find something here for themselves.

For those preparing for the main school exam

For younger students

1. Storybots

The youngest schoolchildren will surely love the colorful Storybots app - it introduces them to the world around them and teaches them at the same time English language. For work, the application offers not only games, but also books and videos. Updates appear every month. Available on iOS platform.

Storybots app

2. I'm going home!

To prevent your child from turning in the opposite direction from home after school, install an application on his smartphone that will help him not to get lost along the way. The “I’m going home!” navigator will do. - with voice instructions he tells you where to turn. These are not just maps, but a navigator, including off-road conditions. Following his instructions, the child will be able to get out even from the thicket of the forest. For Android users the application can be downloaded, and for those with iOS, there is a similar application - “Don’t get lost in the forest.”

Application "I'm going home!"

3. Nambi

It is more interesting to study the basics of mathematics with the Nambi application. Through the game, it will introduce first-graders to mathematical sequences, and will also teach them how to independently compose number series and logical patterns. It is important that the application corresponds to the unified curriculum for the first grade and contains all the topics studied during the first school year. For Android application can be downloaded, and for iOS – .

Nambi app

4. Parovozov School

Controversial in terms of presentation, but very effective in achieving the ultimate goal, the Arkady Parovozov School program is a series of educational games and cartoons that teach children safety rules. Here are the rules of conduct on the road, in the forest, and at home. The application is available on Android and on iOS.

Application "Arkady Parovozov's School"

5. Scientific experiments

To instill in your child curiosity and interest in science, you can turn to an excellent collection of fascinating scientific experiments. The application, available on the iOS platform, contains 500 scientific experiments for children and adults, 50 of which are free. The app is updated regularly and includes detailed instructions and clear explanations of the results of each experiment. All experiments are easy to perform and do not require special skills. On Android based There is a whole series of similar applications, but in quality (especially translation) they are noticeably inferior to their competitors. There is, however, an option with adequate Russian language, but the examples of experiments themselves are not enough.

Application "Science experiments for children" for iOS

For older students

1. Castle Quiz

Castle Quiz game interface

2. Duolingo

Students who have outgrown Sesame Street should install the free Duolingo app, which helps them learn foreign languages. In addition to English, Spanish, German and French, there are other languages ​​here, including quite rare ones - for example, Irish or Hungarian. The application is free and available on both the Android and iOS platforms.

Duolingo app. Screenshots of the iOS version

3. Textbook "Foxford"

The Foxford textbook is an interactive reference book for the school curriculum for grades 4–11. In addition to theory and practice in the form of examples and tips, you can use it to “visit” more than 500 detailed video lessons with the best teachers. All the necessary formulas for the exact sciences and all the rules of the Russian language, all the important dates in history and diagrams in biology are collected here. The tutorial is available on iOS and Android platforms.

Textbook "Foxford". Screenshots of the Android version

4.Examiner

The Examer application develops a personal preparation plan for the Unified State Exam. To work, the student simply indicates his goal in points (for example, 85 points in physics) and begins daily training. The developers assure that the theory and tasks for each topic and each subject are as relevant as possible. The application is available on Android platform. Its main drawback is its high price. Some users, however, believe that it is justified.

Examer app

5. Brainly

Knowledge.com service has released the Brainly application. Users of this application can exchange information with each other, answering each other’s questions while studying. Essentially, this is a platform where schoolchildren learn from schoolchildren. “If you know a subject perfectly, share your knowledge with someone who needs it. The more you answer, the more points you earn, and with the points your status grows - from “Newbie” to “Master Brain”. Our goal is correct and complete answers,” explain the developers. Available on Android and iOS platforms.

Brainly app. Screenshots of the Android version

6. MATH 42

This is a program for schoolchildren and students that will not only help solve examples in mathematics, but also explain in detail their solution process. At the same time, the application offers several solutions for each given example. Training section available. The application can be downloaded for gadgets running on iOS. The Android application, called MalMath, has a similar principle.

MATH 42 program. Screenshots of the iOS version

7. Coursera

Extremely useful application for graduates. It provides access to thousands of courses in a wide variety of specializations. With the help of such an application, the choice of future profession can become obvious. Or, conversely, the student will understand that the chosen profession is not for him. The courses collected in the application are taught in more than a hundred of the world's best educational institutions. The application is free and available to both Android and iOS users.

Coursera app. Screenshots of the Android version

Technical assistance

1. iSchool

iSchool application

2.Pages

Users of Apple gadgets will certainly appreciate the Pages text editor. The developers describe the application as follows: “Find the right words and images. And do it with style. With one touch, select the appropriate font, style, character spacing and line spacing. Take a photo and immediately place it in a document - all without leaving the application. With just one touch, drag, or twist of your fingers, you can resize the image, rotate it, or remove the background.” For beautiful design of school reports and presentations, this is really a useful thing.

Text editor Pages

3.PhotoMath

Even though adding and subtracting without “helpers” trains the brain, sometimes a calculator is necessary. PhotoMath is one of the world's most popular calculators that uses a smartphone camera to operate. "Just point the camera at math problem, and PhotoMath will magically immediately produce the answer and detailed step by step solution", follows from the description of the application. Available on Android and iOS.

PhotoMath app. Screenshots of the iOS version

4. Word of the day

It is useful for any schoolchild (and not only) to have an explanatory dictionary of Russian words at hand. The “Word of the Day” application will explain to any Mitrofanushka how an “ignoramus” differs from an “ignoramus”. Philologists work on the application every day to help avoid mistakes when interpreting a particular word. The application is available on the Android and iOS platforms.

Application "Word of the day". Screenshots of the iOS version

5. ABBYY Lingvo Live

A dictionary of foreign words is one of the most needed reference books for modern schoolchildren. ABBYY Lingvo Live stands out among others. Its collection includes over 140 dictionaries for 15 languages ​​(including phraseological and professional), several explanatory dictionaries, full-text translations, as well as flashcards. The application is available for Android and iOS.

ABBYY Lingvo Live application. Screenshots of the Android version

Formally, this is indeed a diary, but it is much more useful than a paper one. Here you can add a lesson schedule (the application even shows how much is left until the end of boring algebra or reminds you that the next lesson is coming soon), write notes on any subjects (including using a voice recorder), monitor grades, share homework with friends and even keep a chart of your mood.

Foxford Textbook

Tests for school

Many test tasks in all subjects school curriculum: You can quickly identify your gaps in knowledge in order to purposefully study precisely those subjects in which you have failed so far. The application also helps you prepare for tests and exams.

Znanija.com (Knowledge.com)

Application of the educational portal "Knowledge", where schoolchildren and students can share with each other necessary information. Having trouble with homework? Get help and answers from other, smarter students. Excellent student? Share your solution with others and earn points and ratings.

I will solve the Unified State Exam

The application helps you prepare perfectly for the exam of the same name: 15 training options are available for each school subject, assignments are regularly updated.

Cloud of knowledge

A selection of interactive “workbooks” on school subjects from grades 5 to 9. The manuals are designed like a simulator: you can study new topic, and then repeat it until it is firmly understood. There are regular tasks and “tests”.

An indispensable application when you need to figure out overnight what “War and Peace” is all about: more than 2000 summaries of classical world literature, including those for the school curriculum.

Russian spelling

Great app in order to finally remember how many are written difficult words: here you can test your knowledge using tests of different difficulty levels (the program will offer you words in which you make mistakes again and again until you finally remember them), and learn in which cases which rules of the Russian language apply . There is a similar application with grammar and punctuation rules.

Solver-calculator Catch the answer

Solution Assistant mathematical examples, equations and problems: it doesn’t just show the answer, but also offers to see the entire course of the solution and understand where your mistake is. Great for checking for example homework instead of a parent.

MyScript Calculator

PhotoMath

This calculator program is the undoubted leader among assistant applications: you don’t even need to enter anything, just point your smartphone camera at a problem, example or equation (they must be in printed form, not handwritten) - and here it is, the answer. For inquisitive students, there is an opportunity not only to get a ready-made solution, but also to see the progress of the reasoning: the “Steps” function activates a mode in which a step-by-step solution to an example is displayed on the device screen.

Book of formulas

A huge collection of a wide variety of formulas in algebra, geometry and physics. It is possible to make a selection of “favorite” formulas that the student uses most often, as well as useful feature“How to find?”, which will show all the formulas with which you can derive the desired value directly in class.

Physics cheat sheets

A selection of formulas for all branches of physics from weight and gravity to the theory of relativity.

Chemistry X10

A universal assistant in chemistry lessons: he can solve problems and reactions, calculate molecular weight, and, of course, shows the periodic table. An interesting feature: if the teacher gets too close, you can quickly swipe your finger across the screen, and instead of prompts, it will just show a regular dial.

Reactions. Chemistry solver

Chemical reaction calculator: not only equalizes organic reactions, but also offers an overview of theoretical material, allowing you to explain your decision to a meticulous teacher.