Written By: John McMalcolm
As the new school year draws closer, many parents are wondering how they can help their children do better in school.
If you are a parent of an elementary school student, you can purchase certain tech gadgets for your child to enable him or her to cope with the demands of schoolwork and achieve better academic results.
Here are some of the top back-to-school gadgets available for elementary school students in 2013.
VTech Nitro Jams Notebook
The VTech Nitro Jams Notebook is a wonderful educational toy that is specially designed to help children discover their musical talents.
It comes with a computer keyboard, mouse and piano keyboard, and it provides 40 interesting learning activities. It can teach your child how to play a wide variety of popular children's music.
The VTech Nitro Jams Notebook is suitable for children who are between the ages of 5 and 12, and it retails at about $130.
Livescribe Sky Wi-Fi Smartpen
A momentary lapse of concentration while taking notes can cause students to miss important information.
You can make sure that your child will be able to record everything that is being taught in class by getting him or her the Livescribe Sky Wi-Fi Smartpen. This ballpoint pen is equipped with a voice recorder for recording lessons, and it allows your child to return to any part of a lesson just by tapping on the notebook.
Its Wi-Fi feature automatically uploads the recorded information to Evernote or Dropbox, so that it will be available even if your child loses the notebook.
The price of the Livescribe Sky Wi-Fi Smartpen is about $279.
Nexus 7
Carrying heavy books to school can be tiresome and even potentially injurious.
One way to give your child a more pleasant school experience is to buy the Nexus 7 tablet. This light and compact tablet gives your child access to electronic textbooks, as well as lots of educational tools and games.
Selling at a price of $199, the Nexus 7 offers excellent value for money.
Kindle Fire
Kindle Fire is a flexible tablet that can be used for doing schoolwork and enjoying media.
It comes with e-reader capabilities, specialized web services and extensive battery life, and it provides a direct connection to Amazon Appstore.
Kindle Fire is presently priced at $159.
3D Interactive Smart Globe
If you want to improve your child's geography knowledge, it is recommended that you get the 3D Interactive Smart Globe.
This interactive educational device consists of a globe, control panel and a remote-control smart pen, and it can help your child learn the location, capital city, history, leader and national anthem of any country in the world. It features many different games to make learning geography more interesting.
The 3D Interactive Smart Globe costs about $102.
The tech gadgets above can certainly make school life more interesting and rewarding for elementary school students.
If you are planning to purchase these gadgets, make sure you shop around for the best deals first.
About the author: John McMalcolm is a freelance writer who writes on a wide range of subjects, from product reviews to biographies of Hollywood personalities such as Andrew Miano, Marc Shmuger and others.