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Regardless of whether it is a sofa tutor, the online learning library or the school minator – learning portals can be a sensible alternative to traditional tutoring for school children of all ages. We show the best tablets for it.

If the child is weak at school, there are several alternatives. In addition to personal initiative, this primarily includes follow-up sessions in learning groups such as the study group or individual tutoring, as offered by many older pupils or students. However, especially in times of epidemics, contacts with strangers must be restricted as far as possible, so traditional tutoring is usually ruled out.

What are learning portals? In addition to homeschooling (Guide: PCs for homeschooling from 150 Euro) is also available for tuition digital solutions in the form of learning portals. Depending on the provider, they usually offer help for grades 5 to 10, which is usually available in text and video form for several subjects. Some companies go far beyond this and have offers for all classes and school types as well as most of the subjects offered at the different school types.

There are sometimes educational games and in most cases exercises to check what you have learned and consolidate. In addition, some portals also offer personal support via chat, help with homework or complete individual lessons via video chat.

Providers such as Lernwerk, Schulinator or Studyhelp even offer their services free of charge, most of them others request between 5 and Euro. Free test phases or even some videos published on Youtube offer first insights into the type and quality of the offer. Payment is usually made for several months in advance or in an annual subscription, and some providers even give a money-back guarantee in the event of a lack of learning success.

PC or tablet? A PC is not always necessary, especially for learning videos much cheaper Android tablet for it. However, some criteria should be met so that the tutoring is fun on the technical side. This is how we see tablets with a display size below 10 inches (approx. 25 cm) critical and also a display resolution of 1920 × 1080 Pixel should not be undercut for sufficiently sharp display. The devices should have at least a quad-core processor and 2, better 3 GB of RAM so that inputs can be implemented without waiting time and videos can be played smoothly. Internally is a memory size of 30 GByte or larger optimally, so that apps and videos can also find space in the memory and can thus be used without direct Internet access.

WLAN as Internet access should be sufficient in most cases, expensive LTE modules parents can therefore confidently leave it out. For young students, it may be worthwhile to use particularly robust, but hardly available, children’s or outdoor variants. Alternatively, protective covers or tablets for children can be used here. Amazon offers the kids edition of its Fire HD tablets for this purpose. Not only do they last longer, they also allow parents to access and block certain distracting factors such as the app store and in-app purchases. For certain subjects or advanced students, purchasing a tablet with pen control can also be helpful. This enables sketches or handwritten notes to be digitized quickly.

Tablets for children The kids editions from Samsung and Amazon offer special ones as mentioned Protective covers, which are supposed to protect the tablet even in rough handling, and also offer various parenting functions such as restricting the available apps. Unfortunately, the RAM is a bit tight at 2 GB. They are more aimed at children who are not yet in secondary schools. However, they are definitely sufficient for the use of normal learning portals. The Fire HD 10 in the Kids Edition (test report) we have already tested.

Other tablets For round 150 to 200 Euro get those interested with the current models Odys Space One 10 LTE , Lenovo Tab M 10 Plus and Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 three 10 – Customs tablets that are up-to-date and meet the minimum requirements required by us. The Odys model not only offers a lot of memory (4 / 49 GByte), but also an LTE module. This allows learning sessions – a corresponding LTE contract (Article: Unlimited data volume from 20 Euro) provided – in good weather also in the park or at least in the garden. Android 10 are already available from the factory – this is far from normal with tablets.

That shows something like this Lenovo Tab M 10 Plus , which currently only offers Android 9 . The remaining specifications are marked with 4 / 64 GByte memory similar, only LTE does not exist. This is also the case with the Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 so, also the memory is with 3 / 32 GByte a little smaller. There are advantages for the chipset: The other two tablets also offer 8 cores, but Samsung uses a Snapdragon 662, which not only delivers decent power, but also favors future updates and is less power-hungry. Accordingly, this model already has Android 10. With 10, 4 inches, the screen of the Samsung tablet is also the largest, this also applies to the battery with 7040 mAh.

We have other suitable tablets in our purchase advice: How many tablets do you need? sorted by price.

Tablet with pen Tablets with additional pen control are available in a handful, currently and reasonably cheap, but above all the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite . It not only offers advantages in terms of design and installation depth, but also a stylus with suitable software and more memory.

Conclusion It doesn’t always have to be a full-fledged PC, even comparatively cheap tablets can help to improve school success. In addition to the appropriate learning portal, parents should also keep an eye on the right hardware – if you set too low, you may buy a new one after a short time.

Should it be a new PC for homeschooling? Then we have the right tips and recommendations in this article.

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