Here are some of the top apps.
Monday, November 18, 2013
26 Web Apps Every College Student Needs
Here are some of the top apps.
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Here are some of the top apps.
Here are some of the top apps.
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For the most part, I was actually really disappointed with the information this article provided. I was expecting to find out about 26 apps that are new and exciting, and more specifically what each of those apps do and how they can improve my life as a student. However, I really did not feel like this article achieved this. First of all, Google is fantastic, and every college student should definitely use Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar if they do not use those tools already. However, many of the other websites or apps discussed in this article are quite silly and not at all useful. I do not think it is absolutely necessary for every college student to have Twitter, Facebook, and Spotify. This article also suggests multiple apps that essentially do the exact same thing, such as Instacalc and Encalc. Perhaps this article should be renamed "26 Web Apps Every Slacker College Student Needs."
I When I saw the article title I thought that there would be more obscure apps. Most of these are things that I have already heard of (gmail, google drive, etc...). I think this article should point out how helpful microsoft word and other common apps are. I have been using these apps and they have been very helpful. There will be times that I will look into getting some of the apps on this list, but after the trial they tend to be quite pricey.
What a disappointment, I am completely with Jess on this. I was hoping for some groundbreaking apps, but instead the list mostly included repetition and old news. Besides, no college student needs Facebook and Twitter, and especially not Candy Crush. These are luxuries, not necessities. And Rate My Professors? I don't need a website that includes a rating for how hot a professor for a class I'm going to be taking is. There are a few useful apps, like all of the well-known Google paraphernalia, as well as the book selling and trading apps, but overall I feel very let down after reading the premise of this article, only to click on it and discover its utter uselessness. I would love to learn about interesting apps that can contribute to making my college run easily and smoothly, but these are definitely not them.
There was not a lot of effort put into this list. There are thousands of relevant apps and this is the list they came up with? Almost all of these I have or had, and I had heard of all of them. This is the list of the first things you download when you are trying out a smart phone. I really object to the NYTimes being on here. Their website is great for news, their app sucks. It is full of bugs and they dont give you access to that many articles unless you are willing to pay a $15 a month fee. There are much better apps for news. My favorite is the BBC app. It provides relatively un-boased news, lots of news, it is free, and it is well made and easy to find topics of interest.
Every time I read one of these lists, I'm disappointed. They always seem to be either really reductive (I assume most people are in some way Googlebots), or really stupid (I don't really know of a mobile device without a calculator built-in). The New York Times app is also minimally useful because they require a subscription for all but the top stories (get the BBC app!). Ultimately, I think any "List of XXX College Student's Need" is a ploy to get eager parents to spend money on making their kid get ahead. It's marketing genius, but it goes along with the "everyone MUST HAVE a mini-fridge/whiteboard/whatever" mentality.
I've seen a lot of these lists and they always have basically the same things on them, none of which aren't already pretty well known or really that useful. I also wouldn't call sites like facebook, twitter, instagram, espn, or candy crush things that every college student NEEDS to have. In fact, I'm sure we would be better off not having them at all. They're all just distractions that we could easily live without. There were some things on this list that I hadn't heard of before and do look useful but they aren't things I'm going to end up using. Overall a very disappointing article.
I have to agree with my classmates this was a disappointing article, most of these are apps that we all already know about. Lets be honest what college student does not already have more then half of these apps? In addition, why is social media apps like twitter and Facebook and games such as candy crush and music streaming websites like spottily included in these lists? These apps are not there to enhance your learning they are there and are distracting your learning definitely not something I would include on this list. I was hoping for some secret hidden app that would change how I did research or make my life as a busy college student easier.
I completely agree with Jess, I was definitely expecting a more new and exciting group of apps that I don't already have. Google products aren't exactly secret or hidden from the publics knowledge. They are extremely widely used and known about. And Wikipedia really? They're really adding that one to the list? Like every single college student out there hasn't heard about wikipedia. Soshiku is really the only app that I've never heard of that i felt could be the least bit useful, and even that app can easily be achieved by simple organization on an ordinary calendar. Over all this article wasn't helpful at all.
This article seems to be the cliche college student app list. All google and list related apps that put us all in the same category of stupid machines that rely on our technology to succeed. That being said, this article did give me some good app download ideas that I will be using in the future to help me stay more organized. The appeal to these apps to me is largely due to my reliance on the technology that has stolen my life and all that I need.
This makes me thing about how immersive the internet has become in educational culture. Before I remembered typing a paper on a laptop was a big deal and now I do it all the time. people dont need web apps, they need their brains
This makes me thing about how the internet/technology has invaded educational culture. Before I remembered typing a paper on a computers was a big deal. I'd have to go to a library a couple of times over the course of a week, use a dictionary to check my spelling, prehistoric right? And now I sit with every apple product known to man and do my hw via all kinds of technology. Students don't need to have 26 web apps in college. Students need to use their brains and stop obsessing with technology because it doesn't make them any smarter. Only lazier.
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