Apps & Tech Reviews For Children & Parents
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Cozi Family Organizer
Cozi is a family schedule organizer app. It allows users to manage the schedules of large families that combines events, tasks, notes, contacts, and birthday reminders in a neat little package. It is easily accessible for the whole family and the calendar has a very standard design, so everyone can easily follow. For busy parents who need to coordinate work, house maintenance and extracurricular activity calendars, Cozi is an easy-to-use, intuitively designed free app.
You can create events that include only some family members – so that only they receive the reminder – and each family member has their own color-coded dot to identify which events and tasks are relevant to them. However, you can’t sync existing calendars (for example, your kids’ activities calendar on Google Calendar or Apple’s iCal), which means manually re-entering such information or choosing a read-only view of appointments.
- Download it from the Apple App Store.
- Download it from Google Play.
Montessori Activities
Parents should engage in activities with children to foster skill development even outside school time. The Montessori Activities app makes this easier by offering numerous real-life games and activities suitable for school-going children and helping them learn new skills.
All activities are focused on the Montessori area and are divided into categories to develop their interest in different skills. You just need to provide the child’s age and how much time you have to get involved in these activities, and the app will recommend activities accordingly.
Google Family Link
Giving a smartphone to your growing child is a basic need now, but as a responsible parent, you need to keep a check using a parental control app. I recommend the Google Family Link app as it covers both tracking and control of the child’s phone, and all for free.
You can track exactly what your children are accessing on their phones, including apps and browser activity. To control screen time, just set a specific limit, and the phone will lock right after the time ends. You can also control the apps, websites, and YouTube content the child can access.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a nonprofit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. We believe learners of all ages should have unlimited access to free educational content they can master at their own pace. We use intelligent software, deep data analytics and intuitive user interfaces to help students and teachers around the world.
Our resources cover preschool through early college education, including math, biology, chemistry, physics, economics, finance, history, grammar and more. We offer free personalized SAT test prep in partnership with the test developer, the College Board. Khan Academy has been translated into dozens of languages, and 100 million people use our platform worldwide every year. For more information, visit www.khanacademy.org, join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter at @khanacademy. And remember, you can learn anything.
Remind: School Communication
Remind is a platform for communication and learning that reaches students and families where they are. Built for education with mobile-first messaging that supports learning wherever it happens, Remind connects the people and resources that help give every student the opportunity to succeed.
Remind was founded in 2011 by brothers Brett Kopf and David Kopf. Diagnosed with dyslexia as a child, Brett struggled for years in school. When he met a teacher who built a strong relationship with him and others in his life—both in and outside of the classroom—it transformed the way he approached learning. Brett and David created Remind to make the same experience available to every student.