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50 Apps for your classroom Long Aren’t smartphones just the best? Considering how easy they so often render daily life, even cash-strapped students and families might consider them a valuable investment this back-to-school season. Especially when one looks at the number of applications available to better organize classes, events, activities, and basic needs as well as supplement classroom lessons. Androids, iPhones, and the like might be pricy, but they definitely pay off. Read on to check out our picks for the very best smartphone apps that can help students this back-to-school season.

A. Productivity & Organization

01. Dropbox Never miss an important document with the highly acclaimed Dropbox, an app that syncs between devices and

makes accessing files a painless procedure. 02. Mint.com If there’s one thing college kids need to wring their hands over, it’s money. Personal finance juggernaut

Mint.com presents a free app to help anyone - not just young’uns - keep track of their expenditures and savings on the go.

03. Evernote Make and keep multimedia notes so you absolutely never forget anything important for classes, extracurricular

activities, and anything else. 04. myHomework This organizer for the iPhone and Android devices specifically targets students, allowing them to stay on top of

their assignments, exams, homework, events, and more. 05. GPA-mE! iPhone users wanting to know their exact GPAs take advantage of this special calculator to make it so. 06. Remember the Milk Remember the Milk isn’t just about grocery shopping! The incredibly popular app allows downloaders a quick,

painless way to draw up to-do lists and keep track of their daily duties. 07. LinkedIn Our list may be about “back to school,” but it’s never too early to start networking for internships and/or jobs

and scoring advice from industry professionals. 08. HootSuite Manage Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and LinkedIn accounts all at once thanks to the stellar stylings of the

Hootsuite interface. 09. Chegg Save time and money by renting textbooks through Chegg, a service available to any student via the web, but

only available on the iPhone when it comes to a mobile presence. 10. Flashcards and AnkiDroid Flashcards Create, download, and share digital flashcards perfect for quizzing yourself and others on nearly every academic

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B. Reading & Writing

11. Instapaper When a particularly relevant or interesting website or blog presents itself, Instapaper makes it possible to save

for offline reading and sharing. 12. Writer Android fans desiring a simple, straightforward word processor use Writer to take down notes or save snippets

for the Great American Novel they’ll someday publish but probably not. 13. PlayTales Parents hoping to nurture literacy in their children will love the Touchy Books that allow them to interact with

multimedia stories and learn to read at the same time. 14. Audible.com Listen to thousands of audiobooks for $14.95 a month - kind of a steep price, but worth looking into for audio-

book enthusiasts and the hearing-impaired. 15. Kindle Convert that Android or iPhone into a home for ebooks with the Kindle app and catch up on established classics

and current bestsellers alike. 16. iTranslator Foreign language students with access to an iPhone or iPhone Touch use iTranslate with Google Translate, Free

Translation, and Babel Fish to help them through small challenges. 17. Classic Text to Speak Engine and Speak it! Text to Speech For the hearing-impaired or students who prefer listening to their notes, these apps convert written words into

clear audio. 18. Byword Sync iPhones with Macs or use Dropbox alongside this iOS text writing and editing device, perfect for authoring

papers a little bit at a time when a few spare moments pop up. 19. Goodreads Bibliophile students looking for their next literary fix will love networking with other bookish types over at Goo-

dreads and learning what all sits on the shelves of the world. 20. MiniMod Reading for Details Lite Great for teaching newer readers how to grow their competency skills, with challenges all about keeping texts

close and details closer.

C. Reference

21. The World Factbook iPhone fans with a penchant for all things geographical can download this annually-updated app (backed by the

CIA!) for a quick look at information regarding every nation in the world. 22. WebMD Try not to slip into hypochondria mode, OK? Still, though, WebMD is a great app to keep on hand when trying to

figure out a health issue. 23. Black’s Law Dictionary Be sure to download the latest edition and keep $54.99 on hand, because Black’s Law Dictionary stands as an

essential download for anyone hoping to enter the legal field someday. 24. Fooducate Scan the barcode of any food product and receive detailed information about its nutritional value, as well as

alternative purchases with more nourishing qualities. 25. wikiHow Learn how to do pretty much anything with more than 120,000 instructions uploaded by experts and non-

experts from around the world.

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26. Google Maps, Docs, Earth, Search (with enhancements!), and other offerings make life just that much easier to maneu-

ver on the day-to-day. 27. Dictionary.com - Dictionary & Thesaurus - Free When the words just won’t come, that’s where this top-notch app (which also happens to be joyfully free) co-

mes in and shines. 28. Wikipedia The ubiquitous open source encyclopedia is now available on the smartphone, thus ending arbitrary pop culture

arguments much, much faster than before. 29. Wolfram Alpha Probably the app to end all apps, Wolfram Alpha hosts pretty much everything students need for both classes

and to satisfy their own curiosities. 30. TED Watch some of the world’s greatest lectures from some of the world’s greatest minds from the comfort of a

smartphone screen

D. Safety

31. iHollaback This crowdsourced safety app maps out instances of harassment and discriminatory behaviors, including verbal

and physical assault, and allows students to visualize the most dangerous sections of their cities and campuses. 32. StreetSafe If the $19.99 per month subscription plan is feasible, StreetSafe provides two services protecting the lives of

users. One involves a silent alarm that dials 911 in an emergency, while the other connects anyone scared of their surroundings with an individual trained to advise them calmly and alert the proper authorities in case of anything compromising.

33. Flashlight, Brightest Flashlight Free, and Flashlight Free Turn that smartphone into peace of mind when walking in unfamiliar territory with these fabulous digital fla-

shlights. 34. Silent Bodyguard Available for the iPhone and Blackberry, Silent Blackberry uses GPS tracking to discreetly send emergency mes-

sages to trusted contacts in the event something ugly goes down. 35. SaferBus Students who must take public transportation take advantage of this iPhone app to learn which buses meet or

fail the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s standards and report any violations they encounter. 36. First Aid by American Red Cross This free download for iPhone and Android users teaches basic first aid techniques anytime, anywhere and defi-

nitely stands as a worthwhile bandwidth investment. 37. Circle of 6 Pick six trusted individuals and keep tabs on one another’s whereabouts and actions in order to lower the risk of

victimization. iPhone only. 38. Emergency Rescue Alarm For use on the Android, the Emergency Rescue Alarm provides three very loud, very common signals to alert the

proper authorities on a disaster or crime’s whereabouts. 39. Marine Martial Arts MCRP 3-02B and Marine Martial Arts While you probably won’t walk away from these apps ready to teach Predators a thing or two, they do offer up

some great self-defense training tips. 40. ICE: In Case of Emergency In the event of a scenario where you go unresponsive, the ICE app makes first responders’ jobs faster and easier

by providing them with medical information, emergency contacts, and other valuable, potentially life-saving bits of data.

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E. Stem

41. Free Graphing Calculator and Algeo Graphing Calculator Instead of lugging around a giant TI machine, take advantage of smartphone technology and convert a

smartphone into a fully functioning graphing calculator. 42. Star Walk and Sky Map Line up these apps with the heavens and see which constellations currently dot the sky in addition to learning

even more about basic astronomy. 43. iDevBooks - Educational Math Apps iDevBooks actually provides a suite of apps dedicated to teaching math principles to a few different age ranges

and skill levels, so pick the most appropriate one and use it for review purposes! 44. The Elements The Elements exists as one of the iDevices’ finest achievements, offering an interactive multimedia journey

through the periodic table. 45. PopSci.com Read Popular Science articles online and off and share them with other enthusiastic STEM buffs. 46. Pop Math Lite This award-winning, kid-approved app targets younger students and trains them in the basics of addition, sub-

traction, multiplication, and division. 47. Space Physics Learn core physics concepts through a super fun, super popular game with a simple premise - bounce a ball

from one location to another. 48. Apollonius Geometry students with iPhones rejoice, as Apollonius provides a stellar method for constructing, exploring, and

understanding shapely models. 49. Math Ref With more than 1,400 formulas, theorems, and more represented, this iPhone app helps studying for math ho-

mework and exams breeze by just a bit faster. 50. Human Anatomy Human Anatomy works magic for Android-toting medical and biology students requiring a quick glimpse at how

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