3 Ways for Students and Parents to Maximize Learning at Home
With a large number of schools moving classes online, it is a smart time to look at learning resources students and parents can access from home. For students, these resources can serve as a supportive compliment to the classroom experience and can help strengthen comprehension, retention, and self-assurance. For parents, these resources can help provide guidance and coaching students may need, especially now that the majority of their studies will take place at home. With all of this in mind, let’s take a look at three types of academic resources that can help both students and parents get unstuck and feel confident.
1. Leverage Smart Tools
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to support everything from smart cars to smart ovens, so why not use it to support learning too? Mobile applications like Photomath allow students and parents to put the power of AI in the palm of their hand and use it to effectively support the learning process. With Photomath, you simply point the camera on your mobile device at a math problem and Photomath will read, solve, and provide step-by-step explanations. This allows both students and parents to see clear steps and detailed instructions so they can learn how to best approach and solve math problems. Photomath also provides animated calculation steps and visuals, just as one would see on a real-life whiteboard. Regardless of your level of skill, a smart tool like Photomath can help you better understand fundamental math concepts and the best ways to apply them in an efficient, effective manner. By teaching you how to do things the right way, Photomath helps eliminate frustration and anxiety, and allows everyone to feel confident tackling math. With over 150 million app downloads and more than 1,234,054,453 math problems solved and explained per month, you can also trust in the support Photomath is providing to students, parents, and teachers around the world.
2. Join Knowledge Communities
Without access to campuses, students can feel cut off from their academic communities. Online knowledge-sharing communities like Brainly, however, can help to partially fill this void. Brainly is an online community of 150+ million students and experts who come together to provide help and guidance in connection to academic questions. The site revolves around the idea that we are smarter when we work together, and it provides a platform that allows users to combine their strengths, knowledge, and talent to help one another. If you need assistance with a certain concept, subject, or topic, you can post a question and lean on the Brainly community to provide guidance and support. Additionally, if you excel in a certain area or feel that you can help other students with their queries, you can step up and answer questions posted by other community members. Because Brainly is both an online resource and a global platform with users from 35+ different countries, community members can also ask questions, seek out guidance, or provide support to peers at any time and from anywhere. Whether it is a geometry puzzle, an SAT practice problem, or a practice Advanced Placement (AP) exam question, the Brainly community can help both students, parents, and teachers find and share knowledge and tackle problems together.
3. Practice Intelligently
We spend a lot of time looking at screens and this is likely to increase with more people being asked to stay home. How about using this screen time to practice and learn more effectively? Learning tools like Quizlet allow you to do exactly that and empower people to practice and master whatever they are learning. Users can easily create flashcards to study on their phone, tablet, or computer, and can share these with flashcards with friends, other students, or their parents. Users can also create diagrams, with annotations, definitions, and locations, to help them more effectively comprehend concepts in topics ranging from anatomy to geography. Quizlet’s 50 million active learners have also created 300+ million study sets, so if you are in a time crunch, are just getting started with a new subject, or want to see how other users are learning, you can leverage the resources and flashcard sets that others have already created and contributed to the Quizlet library. Quizlet users also come from all levels of schooling and are studying for everything from spelling tests to college-level science classes and professional level certifications, so you will almost certainly be able to create, find, share and use content for whatever subjects you are looking to master. With 90% of students who use Quizlet reporting higher grades, it is clear that this is a great way to practice more intelligently.
While nothing can come close to replacing the special community, resources, people, spaces, environments, and atmosphere that we find at our beloved schools, the resources above help highlight some of the options that can be used to maximize studying and learning while we are asked to stay home. Ideally, these resources serve as a supportive compliment to the classroom experience, and if these resources work well for you, they can be ones that you use and lean on long after we are allowed to return back to our cherished campuses.
