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Classrooms didn't change much from ancient times down to the twenty-first century. A teacher stands in the front of the room, with students arranged in seats. The teacher talks and the students listen. And more than a few will fall asleep over the course of the school year because the traditional classroom setup is boring.

As technology has evolved, teachers have tried to incorporate more technology into their lessons to make them more interesting for their students. Filmstrips and movies were among the first technologies to be adopted, followed by VHS and DVD.

Today, the internet is transforming how students work in their classrooms and beyond them. Although many instructors have been reluctant to embrace technology, there are some important benefits to adding technology to education.

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Reasons to Use Technology in the Classroom

1. Technology enhances student attention. It can be a challenge to keep students engaged in their learning. Using technology can help to keep them focused by using a variety of tools to hold their attention. For example, quizzes, educational games, video clips, and other multimedia can make it more interesting for students. Visual learners might find videos, images, and graphs and charts more engaging than a lecture. Immersive experiences can keep learners focused and break up long lectures to hold attention.

2. Technology can encourage teamwork. Technology makes it easier than ever for students to collaborate and work in teams. Social media and collaborative tools like shared documents and the cloud can allow students to work together. Shared documents can help students collaborate, review each other's work, and learn together. Working in teams prepares students for the future.

3. Technology can prepare students for the future. Technology is likely to play a growing role in the future, so learning about it now in school is one of the best ways to prepare students for careers. In the future, many jobs that now are done offline will have a growing technological component, so it's important to ensure now that students will be ready to adapt to the marketplace as technology continues to change the shape of careers.

4. Technology can make teacher's jobs easier. Teaching is hard, and many teachers have found themselves teaching ever-larger classes with fewer resources to help support their students. Technology can help to lose some of the gap. Through the use of apps and other learning tools, students can better monitor their students' progress and personalize students' learning experiences without becoming overwhelmed in the process. Teachers are valuable. It is a profession that should be praised and educational institutions should invest money in technology in order to make teachers' life less stressful and their work more productive.

5. Technology can help students learn on their own. Technology can also help students to take responsibility for their own education. In the classroom of tomorrow-or even today!-students will be able to use technology to guide themselves through lessons, learn at their own pace, or identify areas of personal interest. When a student needs extra help, technology can assist, while those who need more stimulation and are working at a faster pace can learn faster and in greater depth. This will help to keep every student engaged. Especially in the current situation, students should have access to the technology that allows them to study on their own.

6. Technology allows for learning on the go. In this age of pandemic, we have all learned a lot about remote learning. But even when things start to get back to normal, there will be benefits to having the option for students to learn remotely. This can help to put an end to snow days, make time at home into learning time, and help ensure that students stay connected to their classmates and their teachers around the clock so the learning never ends.

7. Technology provides support for students with special needs. Lastly, technology can help students with special needs by providing additional support throughout the learning process. Assistive technology, for example, can provide text-to-speech for the visually impaired or those with speech challenges. Even using a laptop to take notes can make a major difference for students with motor coordination issues.

How to Achieve More Effective Learning

Our world is focused on optimization. Work, education, sports, health, everything can be done at least a dash more efficiently. When it comes to studying and education one of the best ways to increase productivity is to delegate. Delegation doesn't mean that you have something else to do all the work you have, while you rest.

It means that you diversify your tasks according to the system most comfortable for you, check the deadlines, and share responsibilities with another party. It can be a friend, it can be an expert. For example, you can spend several weeks to get to the bottom of a particular problem, or you can hire a tutor and deal with the same task in several hours. Investment in technology is a sort of global delegation.

Technology is changing classrooms around the world, and many students have already discovered that online essay services like Write My Paper Hub can help them to make the process of completing their papers much easier. Technology that connects students and teachers can also be used to connect students with someone they can pay to do their essays for them. These experts often work cheap and can provide students with custom-written essays.

Conclusion

If you think that your students aren't taking advantage of this kind of help, you're wrong. Studies have found that students can and do hire experts to write their papers all the time. So, when you consider how technology impacts the classroom, it's important to remember that students will take every advantage technology offers to stay ahead of the game as they pursue their education.

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Classrooms didn't change much from ancient times down to the twenty-first century. A teacher stands in the front of the room, with students arranged in seats. The teacher talks and the students listen. And more than a few will fall asleep over the course of the school year because the traditional classroom setup is boring.

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Nefertiti Dukes | March 22, 2019

The use of technology in the classroom is no longer up for debate. It's now extremely clear: the effective use of classroom technology drives student results. But, any competent education professional would be quick to point out that student results are only positively impacted when they are introduced to the right tools.

With a U.S. based edtech market that has raised more than a billion dollars over the last year, the options for technology tools to use in your classroom can seem infinite. Luckily, we're here to help! We've scoured the internet, the latest conferences, and Twitter for the newest, most effective tools to use in your classroom.

So, take a look below for our carefully curated list of the newest tools to add to your arsenal.

Classroom Technology that will Help Create Amazing Videos 🙌

Ok, fine! You may have heard of us by now, but we pulled some strings to get ourselves included on this list. Our super simple screen recorder gives teachers the ability to clone themselves, provide helpful student feedback, and assess student understanding. If you're looking to create your own videos to flip your classroom, look no further!

The Tour Creator allows you to lead viewers through a point of interest you select or a well-known location like the Eiffel Tower or The Statue of Liberty. With this tool, virtual field trips are extremely easy to organize.

Try getting students involved by having them lead you through one of their favorite places. It would be an amazing relationship building exercise.

Looking to use online videos in your classroom? Chances are you'd prefer to present this information to your students without the advertisements. ViewPure allows you to input your desired url and out pops a link for you to share with students (advertisement free!). Of course, there are other tools that will allow you to do much more with a YouTube video like EdPuzzle. But, if your objective is purely to create a "pure" video, look no further than ViewPure (pun intended 🥁).

AutoDraw adds a new dimension to the classic white-boarding app! (We know: it's not technically a video application. But, white-boarding apps are so much better when turned into a video like the one above). Start drawing and the tool attempts to determine what you're drawing. Once you've drawn enough for the app to guess correctly, you can automatically switch your drawing out for their perfectly constructed one.

⭐️ Bonus Tip: Record your drawing process in Screencastify so that your students can hear your thoughts as you draw.

Classroom Technology for Organizing Content 🆒

Wakelet is an amazing tool for curation and collaboration. Teachers (or students) can create "wakes"full of information from articles, blogs, tweets, and more! As an added bonus, you can even save your Screencastify videos right into your collections.

Feedly allows you to see all of the news of the day in one convenient spot! Once you've signed up, you can follow sub-sets of news or information feeds. You can also search for the things you care about and create your own feed. This is perfect for a quick morning update for you or for your students. As a relationship building piece, you can even encourage students to share their feeds with you.

Let's face it: students accumulate a ton of reference material over the course of a school year. Live Binders aims to make keeping track of those resources easier than ever. Students can create and organize their own online binders for easy reference. As a teacher, you can create your own binders to share with students or colleagues as well.

Tes allows you to create quick digital lessons. After you have curated content, add activities to help make sure your students engage with and understand the material. Finally, finish it off by assessing students.

🌟As a bonus, add your Screencastify videos right into Tes Teach to have students learn from you even when you aren't physically present!

Ever come across something amazing on the web only to forget where you saw it? Well, WorldBrain's Memex wants to make sure that never happens to you again. With their Chrome extension, you can annotate pages as you read. Then, go back to search them later based on time or keywords. This is perfect for curating content for a lesson plan or encouraging students to start planning for a big project.

Classroom Technology for Unparalleled Feedback ✅

We 🧡 @peergrade! Ever thought of having students record feedback with Screencastify and then post the link in @peergrade?
- Screencastify 🎬 (@Screencastify) March 21, 2019

We love Peergrade! The platform seeks to change the way that students give peer feedback. As a teacher, you upload a rubric so that students know how to assess each other. Students are able to post anonymous feedback to each other. As a final step, students receive their feedback and are able to interact with it through comments.

If you're ready to supercharge ⚡️ your students' peer feedback, try having them give video feedback in Screencastify and then copy the link into Peergrade 🤯

ProWritingAid is a Chrome extension that goes beyond a simple spell-check. It analyzes your writing for errors in grammar, style, and tense. Even better, it compares your writing to some of the greats of your writing style to see where you fall in. Have students looking to write the next great blog? Have them analyze their writing against successful bloggers to see where they fit in.

The cost to subscribe is a bit hefty 💰but they do offer a free trial that's perfect for determining if this is the tool for you before expending any money at all.

Classroom Technology Guaranteed to Increase Productivity 📈

Trello has revolutionized the way that teams communicate at work. It also has untapped potential to change the way communicate in education. Users create boards. From there, they add lists filled with cards which can denote things that still need to be done, things in progress, and the illusive list of things that are already done. Users can communicate right on the board. As an added benefit, cards can even be assigned to specific users for a quick look at who's responsible for what.

Slack started out with a particularly ambitious goal: to eliminate the need for e-mail's. Here at Screencastify HQ, e-mails have become much less prominent since we've begun to use Slack. Instead, we communicate over various channels within Slack. In your classroom, Slack could be the perfect tool for communicating with colleagues. You could even encourage students to communicate through Slack while working in groups.

Classroom Technology for Budding Bibliophiles 📚

SMMRY is so simple but so necessary for your classroom. Paste text into their website and out pops a summary at the length you designated. That's it! But, the tool could be perfect for teaching your kiddos how to effectively summarize. It could even be great for helping you get through loads of content quickly in your search for the perfect resources for your students.

Project Gutenburg offers an easily searchable library of more than 50,000 eBooks. Most of the books in their library are older and out of copyright. Direct your students here to read some of the American classics like Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave or _Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. _

Teachers have to be some of the busiest folks on the planet 🌍. Actually Read it Later is a Chrome Extension that makes sure you don't neglect your reading. Add content using the Chrome extension and you'll be prompted to set a time when you'll be ready to read. At your specified time, the extension notifies you that it's time to read. Never forget about an amazing piece of content again!

Qikipedia is a pretty awesome Chrome extension. Highlight any content on a page and you're shown the corresponding Wikipedia page. This is perfect for students struggling to understand a reading because a few concepts are foreign. It could also be perfect for students attempting to decipher content in a language different than their native language.

Creaza is a self-described storytelling application for the classroom. But, it's capable of so much more! You can create cartoons, simple graphics, videos, or just about anything else you can imagine! Use the app to encourage your students to create dynamic stories. Alternatively, you can bring a concept to life with their tools.

⭐️ Bonus Tip: Creaza supports uploading files. Quickly upload your Screencastify videos to tell a Pulitzer Prize worthy story.

Classroom Technology for Making Curriculum Real 🤖

More than a Mapp is a super cool application available for iPad and iPhone users. Users can explore their own city and learn more about important sites in African-American history. This app is made even cooler by the fact that users can contribute their own sites of significance. The makers of the app have created an Educator's Guide jam packed with more information about how to make the most of the app in your classroom.

Real World Math is our favorite four-letter word: 🆓 They have an amazing collection of math exercises created in Google Earth that are guaranteed to engage your learners far more than static numbers and variables on a page.

Bonus: Classroom Technology for Aspiring Coders 🖥

While the important work associated with Code Club doesn't occur entirely online, their library of resources is nothing short of phenomenal. Any adult in your school, even those with limited coding knowledge, can gather a group of students, start a club, and help walk students through carefully created projects from the Code Club team. With their resources, your school will be hosting hackathons in no time 💻

Looking for even more amazing content? Follow us on Twitter @Screencastify.

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Nefertiti Dukes | March 22, 2019 The use of technology in the classroom is no longer up for debate. It's now extremely clear: the effective use of classroom technology drives student results. But, any competent education professional would be quick to point out that student results are only positively impacted when they are introduced to the right tools.

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Joseph Lathan, PhD

You've probably heard a lot about the game-changing potential of using educational technology to enhance student learning - but what are some specific examples of how teachers are utilizing new types of technology in the classroom?

To find out, let's use some technology that everyone is familiar with - the internet - to take a virtual peek at some of the top educational technology tools for teachers and tips on how to use them.

Educational Technology [High-Tech Tools for the Classroom]

1. Google Classroom - A free web service used by an estimated 30 million teachers and students, Google Classroom is designed to help teachers more efficiently create, distribute and grade assignments, boost collaboration, offer instant feedback and foster seamless communication, all in an easy-to-use, paperless format.

2. - Do any of today's students still dream of growing up to become astronauts? Well, the odds figure to be astronomically higher if they are using Celestia.space, a free outer space simulation tool that lets students travel the solar system and "explore our universe in three dimensions." Celestia's educational applications are nearly infinite, enabling students to pair a comprehensive written Astronomy lessons with a virtual journey "through a vista of galaxies, stars, nebula, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and spacecraft."

3. - What if a teacher could pose a question or prompt, and then have students respond to it with short videos? That's the idea behind Flipgrid, which its creators describe as "the leading video discussion platform for millions of Pre-K to Ph.D. educators, students and families in 180+ countries." Co-founder Chris Miller said in a video describing the technology that, in addition to being an empowering way to "amplify" student voices, teachers use Flipgrid to "share their best practices and (success) stories with other teachers around the world."

4. Book Creator - Assigning books to read has always been a fundamental aspect of education; empowering students to create their own books is a way to take learning to a whole other level. With Book Creator - an app that students can use to imagine, research, create, publish and share their own books - students can easily combine text, images, audio and video to tell interactive stories, create reports or build digital journals or portfolios. Teachers can also use the app to create instructional books, as well as build libraries to easily share the work.

5. Wonder Workshop - How do you make it fun for students to learn about computer science, coding and robotics? Introduce your students to Dot and Dash, a pair of lively, light-blue robots brought to life by Wonder Workshop to help kids learn to code. Complete with a growing library of in-app puzzles, standards-based lesson plans and annual robotics challenges, the Wonder Workshop platform is envisioned as "a foundation for 21st-century learning."

6. Newseum ED - Produced by Newseum, the Washington, D.C., news museum, this service features countless historical artifacts and documents, video lessons, interviews and more, as well as thoughtful lesson plans designed around the content. Ideal for helping educators give students a more richly textured look at history, civics and more, NewseumED.org says it is focused on "strengthening civil society through First Amendment and media literacy education."

7. io - A K-12 music education software program, Solfeg.io engages students using a web-based audio player that visually displays melody, chords and the rhythm of a song simultaneously in real time. Complete with educational exercises and video tutorials, the service draws on a vast selection of popular songs students know and love. Teachers are able to use it both to create "an exciting hands-on experience" for their students and as "an effective approach in explaining music theory behind it."

8. Insert Learning - This tool, enables teachers to take any page on the internet and easily add instructional content, questions, videos and interactive discussions in order to engage students and deepen their understanding of the topics in question. It was invented by two high school teachers who wanted to create a richer learning experience for their students by turning the internet into "an interactive learning experience."

9. Prodigy - Described as "the most engaging math platform in the world," Prodigy.com has created free, curriculum-aligned, Grade 1-8 math games and activities that are used by over 20 million students, teachers and parents. The service also generates real-time reports, so teachers can see at a glance what their students are working on, what skills they are mastering and where they might need more help.

10. Quizizz - "OK class, time for a pop quiz." In the old days, these words might have made students squirm. However, Quizizz aims to make formative assessment more fun by enabling educators to easily create engaging quizzes or choose from millions prepared by teachers around the world. The multiplayer quizzes at Quizizz are enlivened with gamification elements like avatars, leaderboards, funny memes and additional features designed to maximize student engagement.

For a bounty of bonus educational technology ideas, check out the eLearning Industry article: "321 Free EdTech Tools for Teachers." Another great ongoing resource is CultOfPedagogy.com, an online educational community run by Jennifer Gonzalez, an educational consultant and former teacher.

Educational Technology [How to Stay on the Cutting Edge]

As technology continues to shape the future of education, today's teachers must stay up to speed not only on the specific tools and technologies that are being developed to enhance student learning, but also on the philosophical implications of these new tools and protocols, and the importance of balancing tech with teaching.

Developing the ability to take advantage of high-tech breakthroughs to add real value for real students can be a steep learning curve for even the most seasoned and talented educators.

Helping teachers gain new skills is a core part of our mission at University of San Diego, where we offer a widely respected, online Masters of Education degree program with a range of distinct specializations.

As we continue to study the most innovative uses of educational technology, we'd love to hear about your experiences and insights. What are some of the most interesting educational technologies or innovations that you've used, or are curious about using, in the classroom? Do you already have an M.Ed. or are you considering earning your master's?

Let's start a conversation about how our program might help you accomplish some of your goals in education.

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New Formats for Small Groups

Due to social distancing regulations and because we need to document close contacts in case we have a child in class who has Covid, students have to stay in the same assigned place in the classroom. With Webex, I've been able to move my small groups to breakout sessions and mix the online students with the in-person students so they can work together.

When we started using Webex, students just wanted to play, so we had to set some rules. This has been a great tool because it allows me to have flexible groups. Sometimes I even let Webex form the groups, and the students are always excited to see who they're going to be working with. I plan on using Webex as long as we need to socially distance.

Video for Lessons

I like creating videos to teach lessons. Seesaw gives me five minutes to explain a lesson, which is usually the perfect amount of time; if I want to create longer videos, I use Canvas Studio. When I'm in class, I play the video and pause it for questions. I've seen my students replaying the videos when they're working independently and need to review something.

Videos are also a helpful resource when students are absent or if parents want to understand how we work in class. I'll keep using this strategy even when things go back to normal because the videos allow my students to have access to my lessons at any time.

Interactive Tools

I place special emphasis on groups that include everyone, and Google Jamboard is an excellent interactive system for this. With Jamboard, I can create slides for each group and explain what the task is about.

I love that I can have my online students working with my in-person students about the topic I'm teaching. The first time using Jamboard can be a struggle because students will want to play with the different tools, like the sticky notes and images, but again, it's about taking the time to set some rules.

Another way to have groups work together is to create Google Slide presentations or Google Docs. Students can work together, and I can check their work while they're producing it. I'm planning to keep using these tools mixed with real paper and markers in the future. Students need to get used to working with collaborative tools so they are more qualified for jobs in the future.

Virtual Manipulatives

Because students can't share manipulatives, I've created activities that allow me to give them different digital shapes or counters that they can move. With this, I'm trying to replicate the real thing, so they can still have those kinesthetic movements that the brain needs to have a better understanding of what they're learning.

With these lessons, I'm providing my online kids with manipulatives, too, and the same opportunities that my in-person kids have. This is a strategy I will keep using even when we go back to sharing, so that absent students don't miss any instructions and learning experiences.

We're making teaching history, and we have the opportunity to adapt teaching to the new normal. We're educating students who are far away from the classroom, and we are finding ways to connect them with the students who are there with us in the school. We're bonding more with parents, and they can be more central to their children's education because they have access to the work we're doing. As long as teachers, students, and parents keep working together, we can discover how to better adapt to these unaccustomed and unusual times-the new normal.

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Hybrid Teaching Strategies for Elementary Classrooms

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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1- Teachers Network

Teachers Network provides lesson plans, classroom specials, teacher designed activities for different subjects and many other resources.

2- Smithsonian Education

Smithsonian Education offers a wide variety of free resources for teachers, students and parents.

3- Education World

This is another great website for teachers. It provides teaching tips, lesson plans, activities, academic articles, web resources and many more.

4- Discovery Education

Discovery Education offers a broad range of free classroom resources that complement and extend learning beyond the bell

5- The Gateway

This is one of the oldest publicly accessible U.S repositories of education resources on the web. It contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items.

6- EdHelper

EdHelper provides teachers with free printables, graphic organizers, worksheets, lesson plans, games and many other activities.

7- Thinkfinity

Thinkfinity is a free online professional learning community that provides access to over 50.000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for k-12

8- PBS Teachers

This is a great website that can help teachers grow professionally. It offers free teaching resources relevant to different grade category.

9- Teachers.net

Teachers.net is a platform where teachers can get to discover new teaching ideas and tips, lesson plans, classroom projects and many more

42explore is a web project that provides resources and teaching materials on different subject areas and disciplines.

11- A to Z Teacher Stuff

This is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. It provides lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials, printable worksheets and many more.

12- Teachers First

This is a rich collection of lessons, untis, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format.

This is another awesome website for teachers. It includes free resources on different sujbect matters as well as articles and tips on teaching and learning.

14- Scholastic

Scholastic is a great website that provides a lot of different resources for teachers, parents, kids, administrators, and librarians.

15- Teach Hub

Teach Hub provides k-12 news, lessons and share resources created by teachers and shared with teachers.

16- Edutopia

This is an excellent website that empowers and connects teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education.

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1- Teachers Network Teachers Network provides lesson plans, classroom specials, teacher designed activities for different subjects and many other resources. 2- Smithsonian Education Smithsonian Education offers a wide variety of free resources for teachers, students and parents. 3- Education World This is another great website for teachers.