3 Educational Apps For Kids To Train Cognitive Skills
In this digital age, ICT (Information and Communication Technology) can be considered as the ideal pedagogical tool to teach children. Below we propose some educational apps that allow children to train their cognitive skills such as reasoning, attention, memory, visual and spatial intelligence and also their reading speed.
It is clear that new generations are born surrounded by electronics. If children use apps correctly, they can be very beneficial to their development.
3 educational apps for kids
Smile and Learn
First up, Smile and Learn is an educational app for kids aged 3-12 with 5,000 activities. These are additionally divided into six compartments:
- Science
- Room
- Logic
- Language
- Emotions
- art
This allows children to practice and develop intellectual and cognitive skills (such as listening, language, attention, creativity and social skills) while having fun while playing.
In addition, it is an inclusive app because the activities can be adapted to each child’s special needs and how they learn.
There is also the advantage that this app registers the progress of the various tasks and provides educational tips. So parents or teachers can also benefit from this very useful feature.
Finally , we should add that Smile and Learn contains no ads. However, if you don’t pay the monthly or annual fee, access to games and activities will be limited.
Logic Land Adventure
Adventure is Logic land is one of the best educational apps. It’s about a boy called Jack and a girl called Alice. The aim of this game is then to help them find hidden treasures on five different islands.
On each of these islands, the characters must pass a series of tests, such as:
- Guess how someone sees a shape from a certain perspective
- Puzzles
- Finish a series of pictures
- making sudoku puzzles
- Finding strange shapes among many shapes
- Indicate how many elements a certain shape consists of
- Search for similar images
These tasks train logical reasoning, math, visual and spatial intelligence, memory and attention in children from six to eight years old.
Educational apps to train attention and memory
Memory & Attention
Finally, there is Memory & Attention. This is an educational app for children aged four to seven that can help them develop their:
- Visual and working memory. Useful for processing charts, graphs, tables, images and patterns, in addition improving the reading speed. Children also learn to make fewer mistakes when reading and writing.
- attention span. Helps improve observation, concentration and impulse control.
This app contains seven games or activities:
- Find all the objects previously displayed on the screen.
- Match each animal with the corresponding number, remember the numbers previously assigned.
- Mark the numbers in a table in ascending order.
- Mark all similar images.
- Then match cards together.
- Memorize the location order of some colors on a palette.
- Press a button to select a central image that is the same as in the preview.
Each of these games has four levels, which allow the difficulty of the tasks to be adjusted according to the age and stage of development of the child.
