Learn Through Life – Explore individualized learning technology for self-directed education and cognitive growth.

This site is intended to allow anyone to self-direct their own learning. You can spend less time and effort following someone else’s direction for learning and, instead, take charge yourself. Let’s make learning just a little bit easier and fun.

You can find apps to:

  • Improve academic knowledge.
  • Practice academic skills. 
  • Engage in STEM learning.
  • Engage in STEAM learning.
  • Experience greater learning engagement.

This site is intended to be used by educators (public/private schools, home schools, learning centers) to provide student(s) with remedial, accelerated, or project-based learning that is targeted to their personalized learner needs.

This site is also intended to be used by businesses to provide employee(s) with apps that allow for learning or projects that match the company’s training objectives.

Finally, this site can be used by any person wanting to learn on their own, depending on their personal needs and goals for their future and career.

While formal classroom learning will always be needed and utilized in schools and workplaces, learning through self-selection of educational technology apps that are readily available, can take on a much-needed supplementary role. This can especially be the case for those who have been less successful within schools, or for businesses who can’t afford the high costs of training and development but still want to give their employees opportunities to “skill-up.”

Since the educational technology apps provided on this website have been designed for K – 12 students, people can start at the level that is most appropriate for them. It is true that there currently exist many on-line learning programs. However, these programs are mostly directed to highly skilled professionals. Educational (K – 12) technology apps that are currently used within public education, but which are now available on this site, will allow anyone to learn.

For ease of selection, apps on this site have been arranged according to Piaget’s well-known principles of cognitive growth. Piaget believed (and much research has verified) that we all go through 4 stages of cognitive growth: sensory-motor, pre-operational, concrete-operational, and formal operational. However, in order to advance to the next stage, the previous stage must be mastered, and there is no skipping forward. The sensory-motor stage happens in early infancy, but the next three stages generally occur when people are in “formal” education. Thus, the educational technology apps on this site are grouped in two ways: General Academic and Specialized Academic. General Academic apps are directed to children and adults who have not completed or have been less successful within K – 12 academic school education. Specialized Academic apps are directed to adolescents and adults who have successfully completed, at minimum, a primary school education. 

This site is designed to benefit everyone. You can simply view the Ed Tech Directory page to find educational technology apps according to your own needs. After selection, you can click a link to purchase the app directly from the producer, and you can earn certificates and badges through this site for content learned or projects completed.

You can read the About page for more information on how to best use the Ed. Tech. Directory, and you can also refer to The Book page to purchase my book that outlines the psychological principles in depth used to create this website. I hope you find this site useful.