Tech Talk: 5 Apps to help the digitally native student

iHomework

Cost: $1.99 (iOS) and $2.99 (Mac) -

Available on Apple Only

Stay up-to-date on all your assignments with iHomework. With iCloud synching across iPhone, iPad and Mac, iHomework keeps you organized on the go. With an intuitive interface, the app provides users the ability to track assignments and utilize its scheduling feature to keep track of classes, meetings, labs, etc. according to 2015 data by the Pew Research Center. With so many students online in the palm of their hands, consider sharing the following apps to help make their school work a little easier.

Explain Everything TM Interactive Whiteboard

Cost: $3.99 (educator discount available) - Available on Apple and Android This app allows you to create slides using an infi nite canvas. You can use a laser pointer, draw in any color, add shapes, text, math equations, videos, images and even audio fi les. With Explain Everything you can both rotate text and pictures and record video including yourself using the front facing camera. Students can also import an existing presentation, draw and highlight over the top while verbally explaining their project.

To see the app in action, check out what Liza Moore (Coastal EA) created about the MEA Fall Conference, and what she learned.

Quizlet

Cost: Free - Available on Apple and Android Quizlet provides fl ashcards, tests, and study games that make learning fun for students of all ages. Created by a high school sophomore, the app boasts more than 60 million user-generated fl ashcard sets with more than 20 million registered users around the world. Study when

5Apps to Help the Digitally Native Student

73% of American teenagers aged 13-17 have access to a smartphone, you want, where you want with the touch of a fi nger.

Google Translate

Cost: Free - Available on Apple and Android Google Translate offers two-way automatic speech translation in 40 languages. The app also includes an instant translation feature that allows users to take a picture of something and instantly translate

it into another language.

EasyBib

Cost: Free - Available on Apple and Android Tired of producing proper MLA, APA and Chicago style citations? Download EasyBib and have your bibliography done for you with the click of a button. All students have to do is scan a book’s barcode or enter its title, choose the style of citation and the app produces a proper citation which students can email to their own accounts.