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Chatterpix
Pic Collage
Popplet

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Collect student work, assign activities and more in a digital portfolio
Encourage student choice and reflection

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Turn an image interactive with hyperlinked 'hot dots'

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Digital library with books, learning videos, quizzes and more

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Free for educators! Give students unlimited in-class access to the best books & videos on Epic

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Host field trips and simulations

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Stock 360° Panoramic Images and Videos for VR and More | 360Cities

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360Cities is the leading source of 360° panorama / VR media for education, publishing, advertising, film, and mobile apps & games. Become a 360Cities contributor and start creating, publishing, sharing, and earning money from your 360° panoramas and videos.

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Make your creations come to life

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Answering questions and holding up card for designated choice

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Self paced response game
Useful in collecting formative data

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Join a poll that shows real time results

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Turn your old worksheets into digital copies

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Turn Old Worksheets Digital

Do you have worksheets that you don't have an electronic copy of and wish you had?

Check out this tutorial of how that can be made possible by just taking a picture!

Check out these links that I mention in the video:
OFFICE LENS IOS
Now you can Turn Your Old Worksheets Digital Using Office Lens.

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Turn Your Worksheets Digital Using Office Lens - MrAdamPE

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Do you have worksheets that you don't have an electronic copy of and wish you had? Check out this tutorial of how that can be made possible by just taking a picture! Check out these links that I mention in the video: OFFICE LENS IOS Now you can Turn Your Old Worksheets Digital Using Office Lens.

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Digital bulletin board
Collect responses to a prompt
Collaborate with text, images, videos and links
Padlet for Kids - answer questions, share ideas, brainstorm

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Engage students in interactive multimedia lessons

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Get started creating a lesson, video, or activity. Upload your favorite resources (PowerPoints, Google Slides, PDFs, videos). Or choose from 15,500+ ready-to-teach, customizable, standards-aligned premade lessons, videos, and activities from trusted educational publishers.

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Get started creating a lesson, video, or activity. Upload your favorite resources (PowerPoints, Google Slides, PDFs, videos). Or choose from 15,500+ ready-to-teach, customizable, standards-aligned premade lessons, videos, and activities from trusted educational publishers.

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Read this to see how digital tools are engaging students all over the world

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Digital tools are transforming essential elements of the education space. Understanding how they are affecting teaching and learning will help you figure out which tools are useful and how best to implement them.

Online tools:

1. Increase collaboration: Just as social media has given rise to new definitions of community, digital tools are transforming community and the give-and-take between students and teachers. Platforms for Web-based discussion threads and creation of course or class wikis change how students can involve themselves in project-based writing assignments. A piece of student writing can become a diverse and substantive document when it is the basis for a step-by-step exchange of ideas and questions among teacher(s), peers, author(s) and mentors. When digital tools are integrated pedagogically soundly, they also promote and enhance other essential skill sets, such as communication, creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, digital literacy, entrepreneurship, global awareness and digital responsibility/citizenship.

2. Innovate assessment: As assignment formats and contexts have evolved, assessment methods have had to keep pace. The openness of the online environment and the integration of such things as game attributes shape all kinds of assessment, especially formative assessment, which measures learning progress, not just learning endpoints.

3. Enable learning about information and research: Research projects will always require substantive research, accurate and relevant synthesis, and defined audience-oriented approaches. However, in an information-saturated world, students are drawing on tools that help them analyze and understand multiple representations from a range of disciplines and media, such as texts, data and photographs.

4. Transform time frames around learning: In many instances, digital tools offer an asynchronous (not simultaneous) environment for response and inquiry not present in brick-and-mortar environments. Written and online-video discussions can enable the exchange of diverse views, opportunities for collaboration, and time to think and plan before responding in ways that in-class discussions do not provide. This is true for both online classrooms and "blended" classrooms - those integrating online and digital tools into a traditional learning setting.

5. Incentivize the ownership of learning: According to John Dewey, the types of activities that stimulate real involvement "give pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, or the intentional noting of connections; learning naturally results." There are thousands of free digital tools that promote the art of doing. Students can now pick the best ones to create an artifact that demonstrates conceptual mastery through the construction of new knowledge, as well as the acquisition and application of essential skill sets. The process of choosing increases engagement, authenticity and ultimately more value in the learning process. Unleash the power of digital tools and empower students to take ownership of their learning.

Schools must use a dynamic combination of mindset, behaviors and skills to become places where social media and digital tools are integral and beneficial parts of a rigorous program and where they work symbiotically with active, engaged and applicable learning. This is at the heart of digital leadership. How can we take the greatest advantage of this moment in time and create compelling and challenging learning spaces for students?

The most important things to do are to give up control and to trust students and their teachers to use real-world tools to unleash creativity and a passion for learning.

After putting these tenets in the foundation, the specifics can take several forms:

1. Realize that social media is the predominant tool in the world. It fosters personalization, creativity and collaboration, giving students infinite ways in which to create artifacts of their learning and knowledge.

2. If 1:1 is not in the cards, use devices students already have, know and use. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) signals to kids that teachers know and understand their basic makeup. Employing the energy surrounding personal devices allows them to use the tools that help them do what they do better. BYOD enhances learning, increases productivity, allows students to grow their research skills and gives teachers the chance to teach appropriate digital responsibility.

3. Create spaces for making, collaborating and tinkering. Give students chances to build and create using real-world tools (wood shop, electronics, metal work and coding stations) and to solve open-ended, real-world problems. Bring play back into the picture. These spaces provide students with challenging problems to solve where there is no one correct solution. Through self-directed learning, students are driven to find solutions to create a product that has value.

4. Structure schools so that they more accurately reflect the real world. Ubiquitous connectivity, charging stations, and casual zones that promote conversation and play increase students' sense of belonging and engagement. Digitally astute students engage through such models as blended learning, flipped classrooms, games, makerspaces and virtual learning.

5. Give students access to open courseware and open-source technology. Inherent in these approaches is a high level of personalization and choice about what to focus on, which leads to greater ownership over learning and personalized ways to demonstrate understanding.

Ambitious, successful teaching and learning have become inherently intertwined with the digital world. Educators must be able to develop and enact rigorous, relevant instructional methods and formats while using digital tools effectively to underpin their instruction.

Students and teachers can transform learning so that it not only prepares them to excel in academic life, but also endows them with essential digital age skills.

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5 Ways Digital Tools Are Transforming the Education Space

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Digital tools are transforming essential elements of the education space. Understanding how they are affecting teaching and learning will help you figure out which tools are useful and how best to implement them. Online tools: Increase collaboration: Just as social media has given rise to new definitions of community, digital tools are transforming community and the give-and-take between students and teachers.

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Host online discussions through videos and responses

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Read this to see ideas for managing devices in the classroom

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Education for Today and Tomorrow | L'Education Aujourd'hui et Demain

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In a traditional model of teaching, the teacher is the source of knowledge. Learning is based on one-dimensional materials that are directly connected to curriculum content and skills. Today's resources however, are digital, interactive, and visually rich; a stark contrast to rather lengthy text description of topics and themes. Students are now at the centre of their learning and use today's technology and resources in ways very different from traditional learning materials. They access multiple sources, customize material to suit their needs, mix various media to create new learning, and then share it with unlimited peers through their social networking sites.

And as we transition from traditional teaching and learning approaches to digital and interactive ones, we need to carefully plan and prepare the learning environment. As good teachers have done for decades, good planning provides learning environments that enable students to successfully optimize their potential for success. Having a management plan is essential when using digital learning tools. This plan should cover components such as, classroom organization, instructional strategies, technology availability, and time. The following are some suggestions on planning your digital classroom.
Classroom Organization and Management

All of your students do not need access to devices all the time. Plan and be specific about what you want the students to use the technology for. What learning goals does the technology support? What is the best technology for specific learning tasks?

When you have a limited number of computers or hand-held devices available for group activities and students have to share, consider assigning specific roles to group members. If everyone has a specific job to do it is much easier for students to focus on the learning goal.

Arrange classroom seating so that it is easy for you to move around the room and get to students quickly.

Actively monitor student use of the technology. Walk around the classroom; be aware of which websites students are accessing and how they are working together.

Provide students with clear guidelines on school policies and procedures in working with technology in the classroom. Every school should have an Acceptable User Policy on what constitutes proper behaviour when using technology. It is important to establish norms for student behaviour, in your classroom within the context of the project. Have students participate in the development of the acceptable use and etiquette guidelines in your class.

Establish at the beginning of the unit how and where you want students to organize their data related to the project such as naming files, storing, and sharing files.

Establish a backup plan for those days when the technology or the Internet connection is not available.

Ensure the websites and learning platforms you recommend to students are secure. Review which web sites your students are recommending to each other.

Provide students with a rubric or organizer which clearly defines project expectations and also provides direct communication with parents about the project

Post anchor charts that provide technology tips or software instructions or put them in a binder near the computers. An evolving list of tips can be generated by the students as they work through the unit.

Instructional Approaches

Review the learning material provided from manuals or teacher's guides, and map the curriculum to several disciplines, including as many expectations as possible to cover and evaluate in the teaching of the unit.

The content and the lesson plans are a comprehensive resource, which should enable you to cover a selection of expectations from two or more curriculum areas.

Use the material to design and implement student learning that extends the curriculum content where and when possible.

Students are motivated and benefit from working collaboratively with their peers in a team or pairs. This type of learning requires new skills in cooperative work. Students need to learn how to get along, share and learn from each other. Forming teams needs planning. It may be necessary for teachers to consider computer skills and the specific assignment when pairing students.

Digital learning materials are most effective when integrated into the typical instructional day as opposed to being used just during scheduled lab times.

As with any other educational resource, the use of the material should be mediated by teachers. Teachers' responsibilities are not relinquished; instead, the teacher becomes a coach and mentor, using the majority of teaching time to provide instruction rather than large group lessons.

Make connections with the content in the online unit to information from other websites that are relevant and timely.

Provide specific and descriptive feedback to students as they progress through the online material, just as you would with traditional material. Integrate assessment tasks, which provide for formative and summative assessments of the tasks in the unit.

Using interactive online materials will enable learning to become much more student centred. Leave room in your planning for student inquiry and creativity.

Facilitate and encourage students' use of primary resources by using online polling, interviews, and accessing photo galleries.

Take full advantage of student expertise. Students often know more than teachers do about a technology, and teaching someone else what they know is a great way to reinforce their own learning and foster a supportive classroom community.

Even though students will do much of their work independently or in groups, they will still need to learn the skills necessary to follow schedules and maintain deadlines.

Provide opportunities for students to connect with other students and to connect with experts around the world and then collaborate.

Just as students today share their expertise and knowledge readily with each other online, it is beneficial for teachers to form online support groups as well as the traditional face-to-face connections. Expanding your learning about technology integration can be done anytime, anywhere, by joining an online educator community. Gone are the days when the only place to learn new teaching approaches was a workshop presented to a room full of people.

Different sources of technology will provide different types of access and various levels of uniformity, good teachers never relied on one teaching resource or one teaching method, likewise today's teachers will never use a single technology in a single way.

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In a traditional model of teaching, the teacher is the source of knowledge. Learning is based on one-dimensional materials that are directly connected to curriculum content and skills. Today's resources however, are digital, interactive, and visually rich; a stark contrast to rather lengthy text description of topics and themes.