Digital Learning Tools by Cynthia Troxler

Standards for Students

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Standards for Educators

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FlipGrid

ctroxler2004 — 2023-11-21 14:56:22 UTC

Flipgrid is a unique learning platform where videos can be posted and collaborators can comment on them or even respond with their own content. This tool is excellent for any learning environment as its flexibility allows for either synchronous or asynchronous learning. This tool encourages collaboration as students can watch a posted video, and then work with peers to create a new video together. This tool supports the ISTE standards 1.1b, 1.1d, 1.2b, 1.3b, and 1.3c.

Kahoot!

ctroxler2004 — 2023-11-21 14:56:47 UTC

Kahoot is an interactive game tool perfect for synchronous learning environments. Teachers can find or create games to have students practice nearly any skill, or have students create games to quiz each other. This is an excellent tool for students to use to create games in groups or independently to show mastery of the learning. It also differentiates through a student's ability to choose the difficulty level of the question set, and it is a fantastic way to build relationships in the classroom through engagement.

This tool aligns with the ISTE standard 1.5.c, decomposing problems, and 1.6.a, choosing platforms and tools.

Interactive Whiteboards

ctroxler2004 — 2023-11-21 14:58:00 UTC

An interactive whiteboard, such as a SMARTboard, TIBURN, or EUNIVON is a great interactive tool for in-person synchronous learning, but does have challenges for asynchronous learning environments. In the classroom, this is a wonderful tool as a high-tech replacement for the previously replaced chalkboard. With this tool, a teacher has access to just about any electronic-based lesson. When used well, it encourages hands-on learning for students, collaboration, makes learning more convenient for the teacher, and can increase engagement between the teacher and the students. It can also make lessons more colorful and fun, as there are innumerable options for lesson presentation. It also provides opportunities for differentiation as text type can increase in size as needed, passages can be read aloud, and lots of color and movement can support students with visual needs.

Supports ISTE standards 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.6, based on use and ability of the users.

Microsoft Classroom Tools

ctroxler2004 — 2023-11-21 14:59:38 UTC

Microsoft Classroom Tools are versatile and numerous to meet the needs of any student in the asynchronous classroom. These tools include OneNote for organizing and collaboration, Sway for digital storytelling or presentations, and Teams for virtual meetings, managing communication, and encouraging teambuilding. Microsoft tools don't end there. They also include the basics such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, as well as a tool called Azure which is excellent for teachers to analyze student analytics and make quality classroom decisions.

This tool can be used for daily communication, or for specific projects as needed.

This tool also supports all ISTE standards, depending upon the extent of how it's used.

Padlet

ctroxler2004 — 2023-11-21 14:59:58 UTC

Padlet is a versatile and interactive tool for note taking, presenting, or sharing gathered information.

This is an excellent tool for project-based learning as it allows for a tremendous amount of imagination and flexibility and can be used in a large variety of ways. Students can use this tool to collaborate, share, and encourage each other. Groups projects can be divided evenly using certain features, allowing for students to add individual assignments to make a full project.

One project idea for this tool would be for a unit in Math, where students can show examples of arrays, equal groups, equations, and different multiplication and division strategies with pictures, videos, or samples.

Aligns with ISTE standard 1.1b, customized learning environments, 1.6c, models and visualizations, and 1.7c, project teams.

Google Classroom Tools

ctroxler2004 — 2023-11-21 15:00:22 UTC

Google Classroom is a learning management system that connects all of the Google tools to use for daily learning. Teachers can create and post assignments or projects, grade student work, and organize data to collect helpful analytics for reviewing material as needed in a timely manner. Another major benefit to using this tool is that all the Google tools are available to the teacher and the students to collaborate, plan, create, or connect to successfully accomplish any learning goal.

This platform supports all ISTE standards, depending upon how it's utilized.

EdPuzzle

ctroxler2004 — 2023-11-21 15:00:39 UTC

Edpuzzle is a platform for learning that allows teachers to create lessons with videos, audio, and question sets to enhance student learning and engagement in the classroom. This platform can be used quite effectively in an asynchronous learning environment because it allows students to listen to a lesson, engage in activities to practice and learn material, and is available whenever students are ready to learn, no matter the hour or day. This tool allows for differentiation of learning through video content, and everything written can have an audio track to support student needs. Analytics are available for the teacher to review to support students as they engage in the lessons independently or with peer groups. Project-based learning is supported on this platform as students can post material in their own accounts and work cooperatively to develop an artifact of learning.

One fun way to integrate this tool is to have students take a unit of study and create their own lessons using audio, video, or written content to teach their peers as a study guide.

Gizmos

ctroxler2004 — 2023-11-21 15:02:56 UTC

Gizmos is a flexible learning tool readily available for both synchronous and asynchronous learning environments. This tool allows for students to enjoy hands-on thinking experiences and explorations without requiring the teacher to have an expanded budget for in-class materials. This tool engages students through inquiry and experimentation, encouraging both students that love learning as well as students that don't. STEM problems are available on this platform, encouraging students in real-world situations and simulations. Even students that require differentiation and extra scaffolding can use and learn from this tool. This tool can support project-based learning through gamification and exploration, and teammates can use trial and error to develop different results from the simulations.

This tool supports ISTE standards 1.1, 1.3, and 1.4.

Plickers

ctroxler2004 — 2023-11-21 18:20:32 UTC

Plickers is a lower-tech tool available for teachers to quickly check for understanding, perform formative assessments, play comprehension games, and for collaboration.

A multiple-choice platform, teachers can create quizzes or tests with questions to represent learning in the classroom. Once a routine and the procedures are established, this is a fantastic quick-check tool. For project-based learning, students can create their own questions to represent the learning, which the teacher can implement into a student-created quiz for studying or review. For project-based learning, students can give presentations that include a Plickers quiz to check for ready listening from peers.

This tool supports ISTE standard 1.1.

Slack

ctroxler2004 — 2023-11-21 18:30:23 UTC

This is a flexible interactive tool designed especially for collaboration, and it's perfect for asynchronous environments. Students can send audio content, make and send videos, or even send chat with teammates as they work through projects. This is perfect for any project-based learning, as it is an environment especially designed for collaboration.

This tool supports the ISTE standards 1.3 and 1.4.