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The present classroom is a camaraderie of the latest technology and traditional education, all integrated into one. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that 65% of teachers today believe that technology paves a new way of demonstrating things that tradit...
The present classroom is a camaraderie of the latest technology and traditional education, all integrated into one. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that 65% of teachers today believe that technology paves a new way of demonstrating things that tradition fell short of.
The frequent tech-evolution calls for a race of staying on top of the game when it comes to education. And the modern classroom rides pillion. The amazing world of apps have opened up doors to an excellent augmentation to help make the transition smoother. The good news is that we have a just-off-the-oven-piping-hot list of the best apps that your classroom can benefit from.
This is a wonder app to help students with their homework, research for projects and most importantly, learn. This app helps students connect with their required content and learn those at their own pace, be it videos, interactive objects or reading materials. The best part is, this app provides access to high-quality, customizable educational content suited to multiple student-learning styles that allows room for experimentation with new models of learning.
The brainchild of two Colorado Public High School teachers, W.I.S.E. (Wireless Interactive Scanning Examinations) grades and scores multiple-choice quizzes, tests and exams. The test data is organized according to courses, classes and students’ learning styles. What more, teachers can scan tests in seconds with accurate results. WISE also provides data analysis with a wealth of data right at your fingertips.
Do you resent turning your back to the class while making full use of your class whiteboard? Move over the marker and duster whiteboard and make way for the Doceri Interactive Whiteboard. This app combines screencasting, desktop control and an interactive whiteboard to create a lesson, insert images, edit a lesson plan, record screencasting videos and so much more. This app makes classroom management way easier than you have ever imagined.
Imagine 80,000 books, 1,00,00,000 articles and 7,000 research topics all in one app. This is what Questia Library is all about. Students can find credible books, read full textbooks and articles, save what they are reading for future access and more. Users will enjoy cloud synchronized project folders, full text access to the complete Questia library and a full access to research tools.
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It is one thing to read about Mount St. Helens erupting, and it is a whole different thing to watch a video of the mountain’s top blowing off. This is where YouTube comes in. Judiciously chosen videos of the textbooks incidents can take learning to a whole new level. The site’s ever-increasing list of educational content ranging from President Obama’s weekly address to simplified calculus, YouTube provides a plethora of valuable videos for further learning.
This app allows teachers to create engaging multimedia presentations and share those with the students. Teachers can pull documents from the cloud to create such slides. This app can be used as an interactive whiteboard, annotating images or documents and more. The slides are arranged in a mind map format initially so that teachers can speak on the fly. This app allows for a flipped learning approach.
Teachers Pay Teachers is an open marketplace where over 2.7 million teachers buy/sell/share original teaching resources to make teaching more interactive and rewarding. Teachers can download free educational resources, buy products from the catalog and rate and comment on the products as well.
Designed as an essential component of every reading curriculum, this app helps to develop students’ foundational reading skills. It can also predict students’ year-end performance and provides data-driven action plans to teachers to differentiate instructions according to curriculum. It also provides teachers the resources they need to help students when they struggle.
The SpellingCity app provides a fun and engaging way to learn spelling and vocabulary words by playing interactive games. The most popular activities include Spelling TestMe, HangMouse, vocabulary and phonics games, Missing Letter, Alphabetize, Spelling TeachMe, Sentence Unscramble, Word Unscramble and more.
Hopscotch is a programming app for kids to learn how to write their own programs. The character-based design is quite appealing to students unlike other apps that provide an industry-based design. The app empowers kids to create open ended options supporting scaffolded learning.
Which apps do you think suits your teaching style more? Share with us in the comments section below.
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