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A great tool to create digital storytelling and engaging presentations. Teachers can create characters, add objects and texts and animate them.
PowToon is an online software and requires uninterrupted access to the Internet to work with it. It can be used with Android, iOS platforms.

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These are the two tools that can easily facilitate communication between students, teacher and students, and teacher and parents. Gmail has a translation feature that can help translate message to non-English speaking parents and thus ease communication. Google Groups can be used for class-wide discussions or between parents only. Gmail and Google Groups run like all other Google products, i.e. as apps on different devices and with different platforms.

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Teachers can use Google Groups to encourage students to interact both inside and outside the classroom. With a traditional forum teachers can pose regular discussion questions for students, or encourage students to start their own threads on relevant topics. As a general classroom support throughout the school year, teachers might want to set up a Q&A forum. Students could have a place to ask questions about class material, serving as a sort of informal peer-tutoring service. Also, if students regularly work in the same small groups throughout the year, they may opt to start their own groups to communicate about projects. As a teacher, being included in a group like this would help boost student participation. As a plus, teachers could check in from time to time as a means of formative assessment.

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Google Groups Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Teachers can use Google Groups to encourage students to interact both inside and outside the classroom. With a traditional forum teachers can pose regular discussion questions for students, or encourage students to start their own threads on relevant topics. As a general classroom support throughout the school year, teachers might want to set up a Q&A forum.

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To my mind, it is one of the most useful tools for both language teachers and learners. Teachers can create flashcards, tests, include pronunciation to let students practice new vocabulary and give formative assessments. Quizlet runs online and can be used on any platform.

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Millions of user-created flash card sets; some can be iffy. Read Common Sense Media's Quizlet review, age rating, and parents guide.

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This is perhaps my favorite app for kids! It's as rich in learning resources as Khan Academy but way more colorful and engaging! It can be used to practice a variety of skills including basic ones such as math and reading. Khan Academy for Kids cab be used as an app and

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Khan Academy Kids goes beyond your typical, stale ABC 123 early learning app -- perhaps the single most populated genre in edtech. Among this crowded field, Khan Academy Kids is a refreshing collection of early learning videos, songs, and activities that cover a lot of ground without feeling cookie-cutter or stuck in the 1980s-'90s. This is thanks to the help of creative activities, nicely organized and paced learning, and tons of charm and style. The sweet, friendly animal guides and huge library of varied things to do make it easy for young kids to jump in and immerse themselves in learning. Books, videos, songs, and games are high quality, mixing core content like math with essential skills like executive function while putting touchscreens to good use. What's especially rare among competitors -- but is baked in to Khan Academy Kids -- is a balance between more restricted, multiple-choice activities that help aid recall and more engaging and skills-building activities where kids experiment, explore, and express themselves. For instance, a logic game asks kids to follow directions for putting hats on some animal friends, but between trials, kids are encouraged to play around by putting the hats on the animals in whatever way they like. Or, if kids get tired of responding to learning games, they can draw and then narrate a story as they move objects around the screen, read a book, or listen to a song. There's progress tracking, but it's limited. That could, however, be a plus for teachers who find overly complicated dashboards to be overwhelming.

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Khan Academy Kids Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Khan Academy Kids goes beyond your typical, stale ABC 123 early learning app -- perhaps the single most populated genre in edtech. Among this crowded field, Khan Academy Kids is a refreshing collection of early learning videos, songs, and activities that cover a lot of ground without feeling cookie-cutter or stuck in the 1980s-'90s.

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A great online and offline tool by Google to conduct different experiments and record data. Science Journal is an app that allows students to measure data on light, sound, atmospheric pressure and other physical and natural phenomena. However, it runs only with smartphones and tablets thus limiting students' participation if they don't happen to have devices.

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Common Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find a free K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum, reviews of popular EdTech apps, and resources for protecting student privacy.

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A great tool to manage classroom and lessons online. Nearpod allows to create the whole sequence of learning experiences including pre-assessments, posting instructional video, formative assessments etc. Teachers can track progress of each student and see the number of attempts each student needed to complete tasks. Nearpod requires access to the Internet but can be used with any system (Microsoft, Mac) and on any device.

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Teachers can use Nearpod to support student learning in a variety of ways. Give students opportunities for interaction and immediate feedback by having them draw on a map or diagram, respond to a poll question, post a note or image to a collaboration board, or take a multiple-choice quiz. Bring the world to your classroom by taking kids on a virtual field trip to a national park or a different country. Help students review key learning concepts by watching videos, reviewing notes, or taking their own notes. Let kids design their own slideshows and teach each other. Incorporate social and emotional learning (SEL) and digital citizenship skills with pre-created lessons on empathy, cyberbullying, or Internet safety.

Whether students label planets in the solar system, respond to a poll question on climate change, watch a video on how to find the volume of a cylinder, review notes on the different parts of speech, or submit an open-ended response analyzing a primary source, they're interacting with content in meaningful ways. Thousands of certified publisher- and educator-created lessons are available for use or modification, some for free and others at reasonable prices.
Editor's note: Common Sense Education has a partnership with Nearpod. However, Common Sense Education's reviews maintain editorial integrity and independence.
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Nearpod Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Teachers can use Nearpod to support student learning in a variety of ways. Give students opportunities for interaction and immediate feedback by having them draw on a map or diagram, respond to a poll question, post a note or image to a collaboration board, or take a multiple-choice quiz.

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Google Keep allows to make lists of things to do and integrate it with Google Calendar. Teachers can create their own calendars for different events and invite other participants. Conference calls can be scheduled and arranged through Google Calendars (e.g. teachers can use online office hours to schedule one-on-one meetings with students and add video conference tool Google Meet to connect with students).

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A space for organizing everything and everyone in one space. Teachers can post assessments using Google Docs and Google Form and immediately collect and provide feedback. Google Forms can be used for pre-assessment, summative assessments and quizzes. Google Docs allow to see all the changes students made working even on a single collaborative project and each student's contribution. This is a perfect tool to get the whole picture of everyone's efforts. Google Classroom can be accessed on any device and platform and it is the tool for moving the whole brick-and-mortar classroom online.

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Google Classroom is a platform that helps teachers manage workflow and communication with their students. Though it wasn't originally designed to be a full LMS, it increasingly is heading in that direction. It's available as a website, an Android app, and an iOS app. When teachers log in, they have a section for each of their classes. Each class can be given a color and different banner to help teachers and students differentiate between multiple courses. Teachers can also create topics, which can be broad subjects like science or social studies, which works better for teachers who want everything within one Google Classroom. Teachers can also use topics more specifically, such as "Civil War" or "Matter."

The teacher and student dashboards are very similar: Announcements and discussion questions appear on the Stream page, which is what first appears. Although assignments also show up on the Stream page, they're now created and interacted with on the Classwork page. The Classwork page also houses materials like links, videos, and other documents that teachers and students will need to reference. To turn in an assignment, students upload the work -- if that's required -- and mark the assignment as done. Teachers have the option to allow kids to resubmit work multiple times. The recently added To-Do feature allows students and teachers to keep track of due dates and missing work and integrates with Google Calendar. Teachers can invite other teachers to their Google Classroom, which is useful for team-teaching situations. Students can be invited to a classroom via email or with a link.

The Grades page has improved some since Google Classroom launched years ago. Teachers can now create categories such as homework, classwork, projects, etc., and give them different weights toward the final grade. Google Classroom has a grading tool, allowing teachers to give grades and written feedback while viewing the student document. Should teachers choose, they can now grade assignments even if students haven't turned them in, which is useful when they forget to submit an assignment. Teachers have access to five originality checks per classroom, where Google will check a Google document for plagiarism. For unlimited originality checks, schools need to have enterprise education accounts. Similarly, teachers who have access to enterprise-level education accounts can use Google Classroom to track attendance.

Teachers can also choose to turn on parent summaries, which are emails that parents or guardians can receive about their kids. The summaries are limited to missing assignments, upcoming assignments, and announcements; parents won't get information on their kids' grades.

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Google Classroom Review for Teachers | Common Sense Education

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Google Classroom is a platform that helps teachers manage workflow and communication with their students. Though it wasn't originally designed to be a full LMS, it increasingly is heading in that direction. It's available as a website, an Android app, and an iOS app.