The Best Kids’ Tablets for Remote Learning

Look, there on your child’s home desk! It’s a laptop! It’s a tablet! No, it’s the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14 (Intel) 2 in 1! Its swivel design makes it great for kids who will be working on a variety of surfaces, while a touch screen feature allows tactile learning for those kids who just can’t keep their hands to themselves. A generous 14-inch screen is right about middle of the pack on this list, while the four gigs of RAM and 128gb solid-state drive storage also fits somewhere in the middle. The real attraction, of course, is its bendable action, but there’s plenty more than good looks. It also boasts some nifty security features, including a fingerprint reader and a privacy shutter on its webcam so that you can rest assured you child is safe even when you’re not reading over his or her shoulder.

The selling point of this tablet is the battery life: A whopping 14.5 hours. It comes with 32GB of built-in storage, and the option to add a microSD card to expand your memory up to 400GB. The tablet has a 5MP front-facing camera for video calls. The one thing to bear in mind: This does not come with built-in parental controls, so you'll need to download and install a third-party app and set up Google Play parental controls.

Verizon's Gizmo runs on the Verizon network, which should be self-explanatory, so yes, that's a limitation. However, parents get up to 14.5 hours of battery life, and its ease of use is pretty sensational. Parents can customize the content kids can access based on age and skill level, and determine how long they can use the tablet. The dashboard also keeps parents abreast of just what kids do online. It's durable, it gives kids access to hundreds of kid-friendly apps, and when parents want to take over, they switch it to adult mode.