This document summarizes and reviews 10 educational apps for classroom use: Interactive Grammar of English, Writable, Lumosity, Quizlet, Kahoot, Quizizz, iXL, Khan Academy, Prodigy, and Dreambox. For each app, the summary discusses how the app relates to standards, provides feedback, supports differentiation, and is easy to use. Many of the apps allow students to practice and review class material in an interactive and adaptive way, while receiving feedback on their progress and understanding.

1. Top 10 Apps
Audrey Kernodle, Stacy Levering, and Lynn
Thompson

2. Interactive
Grammar of
English
● Standards & High Order Thinking - Students use this
app to practice their grammar skills and reinforce
their ability to understand the different aspects of
grammar and how these details work together in
writing.
● Authenticity & Student Motivation - Provides
students with different activities to practice using
correct grammar in different types of texts and
situations.
● Feedback - The student feedback it provides is
correct answers for the grammar activities they
participate in.
● Differentiation - Allows students to practice their
grammar skills and work on their automaticity in
multiple different ways..
● User Friendliness & Instruction - Intuitive to use,
easy access to help, also provides in app instructions.

3. Writable
● Standards & High Order Thinking - Students are encouraged to write using different
types of assignments, prompts, and writing styles and improve upon their writing.
● Authenticity - Helps teachers track students writing progress over time and allows
students to see in detail the assessment of their writing.
● Feedback - Provides feedback from other students, and from the teacher. When students
turn in their work teachers are able to access it and make comments directly on the work.
Students can write comments to each other back and forth.
● Differentiation - Encourages students writing abilities and teaches them to use feedback
to improve their writing.
● User Friendliness & Instructions - Seems intuitive to use, provides in-app instructions.
● Student Motivation - They can use this space to help each other as well as receive
feedback and tips to better develop their writing skills.

4. Lumosity
● Standards & Higher Order Thinking - Allows students to
use games and fun activities to practice what they are
learning and apply their critical thinking skills to
different situations.Could have students be required to
play a certain amount of language/reading games per
week, or use it as any activity in class.
● Authenticity & Student Motivation - Creates challenges
and activities that require critical thinking and the use of
knowledge to succeed and can play a variety of different
games on different ELA topics on all levels of difficulty.
● Feedback - Provides feedback on game scores and their
ability to succeed.
● Differentiation - Provides different educational games
for students to practice their skills and apply what they
are learning in fun yet challenging games.
● User Friendliness & Instructions - Easy to use, and
provides in-app instructions.

5. Quizlet
● Standards & High Order Thinking - A study tool that allows students to create flashcards they
can share with one another for each class and practice memorizing terms. Promotes critical
thinking skills and encourages students to study information in a way that best works for them.
● Authenticity & Student Motivation - Study skills and the ability to analyze what information
needs to be studied for an exam or discussion is encouraged by this app and help students to find
their own way to study. This way students can prepare for their tests, quizzes, and socratic
circles effectively. They can share their work with their friends and work together to create
study sets.
● Feedback - Does not provide student feedback, but it is not necessary to successfully use the
app.
● Differentiation - Student can also use the flashcards to make quizzes for themselves or have the
questions asked in different formats.
● User Friendliness & Instructions - Very easy to use, app provides very easy-to-follow
instructions.

6. Kahoot
● Standards & High-Order Thinking - Promotes critical
thinking and encourages students to stay on top of
their knowledge so they can compete successfully
against their classmates. The skills reinforced are
understanding of the curriculum being taught and
students' memorization ability and critical thinking as
they need to be able to determine the correct answer in
a multiple choice scenario.
● Authenticity & Student Motivation - An in-class app
that students use to play games with their classmates
where they are challenged in their knowledge and
speed in answering questions.
● Feedback - Does not provide student feedback, but
students can vote on whether or not they thought the
quiz was beneficial or not at the end.
● Differentiation - App does offer some flexibility about
how to go about answering questions but is not very
adaptable.
● User Friendliness & Instructions - It is very intuitive
to use and easy for students to figure out. The app
provides instructions when students first download it,
but the teacher can easily explain to students how to
use it.

7. Quizizz
● Good to review a student's knowledge of a topic learned in class.
● Can be assigned as homework(individual work) or used in class with competition among students.
● Feedback for the students is rewards they earn within the app when answering questions correctly.
● There is prepared content and also has the option to create one from scratch.
● There is every question type to access all levels of the Bloom’s taxonomy.
● There is real time information for teachers on student progress with a subscription.
● Provides traditional privacy settings
● This app is easy for student to use, find assigned materials or search for topics related to class topics

8. ● This tool can be used as independent work to help students in trouble areas of
Math, Literacy, Social Studies, and Science.
● It covers nearly all Common Core Standards K-12 and NGSS Science
Standards 2-8.
● Students practice skills one at a time and receive rewards for correct answers.
● The program will also personalize the areas the student is struggling with
and tailor lessons to cover these topics.
● This program does provide students with feedback
● There is a subscription for this app
iXL

9. Khan Academy
● This app covers many different
subjects and grade levels.
● Each lesson has videos, practice
questions, and quizzes to show
progress
● Standard privacy policy
● Used to reinforce learning in the
classroom, learn subjects
individually, or reviewing for test
● Lessons start with easier problems
and progress in difficulty as you
complete lessons
● Easy for students to log in and enter
class code or explore on their own.
● When answering questions, students
will get feedback on their answer
instantly and accumulate points as
they complete lessons.
● Students learn at their own pace

10. Prodigy
● This is a gamified math app where students will make an
avatar and roam around different worlds to battle
opponents. They have to solve math problems correctly to
win battles.
● This can be an individual game or played with the class for
some competition.
● Standard privacy settings available
● Easy for students to use and very engaging when used as a
class.
● There are hints to help students get through tough
concepts.
● Aligned with state standards

11. Dreambox
● This app is used for math or literacy.
● It is an adaptive learning app that helps students practice the skills to fill learning gaps.
● Traditional privacy securities
● This app adjusts with the students to target areas that need more focus. Students will
gain rewards as they complete lessons. With the rewards they can purchase
backgrounds, badges, and play games.
● Easy for students to use and have a way for students to get help on a lesson by clicking on
the “?” on the screen.
● Individualized for each student and helps fill the gaps in skills the student is lacking to
aid in their overall learning of classroom material.
● instructions are read aloud for those students that need help with reading.
● The student account can be set to a grade level by the teacher or the teacher can assign
specific lessons to help the student.
● Aligned with state standards.