Impact of ICT in Education (Part 3)

Learning tools

Hundreds of digital education tools have been created with the purpose of giving autonomy to the student, improving the administration of academic processes, encouraging collaboration, and facilitating communication between teachers and learners. 

Edmodo

An educational tool that connects teachers and students, and is assimilated into a social network. In this one, teachers can create online collaborative groups, administer and provide educational materials, measure student performance, and communicate with parents, among other functions

Socrative

Designed by a group of entrepreneurs and engineers passionate about education, ______ is a system that allows teachers to create exercises or educational games which students can solve using mobile devices, whether smartphones, laptops, or tablets.

Projeqt

______ is a tool that allows you to create multimedia presentations, with dynamic slides in which you can embed interactive maps, links, online quizzes, Twitter timelines, and videos, among other options.

Thinglink

______ allows educators to create interactive images with music, sounds, texts, and photographs

TED-Ed

______ is an educational platform that allows creating educational lessons with the collaboration of teachers, students, animators—generally people who want to expand knowledge and good ideas

ClassDojo

______ is a tool to improve student behavior: teachers provide their students with instant feedback so that good disposition in class is 'rewarded' with points and students have a more receptive attitude towards the learning process

Storybird

_____ aims to promote writing and reading skills in students through storytelling. In this tool, teachers can create interactive and artistic books online through a simple and easy to use interface.

Animoto

______ is a digital tool that allows you to create high-quality videos in a short time and from any mobile device, inspiring students and helping improve academic lessons

Kahoot!

______ is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools and other educational institutions

Prezi

This online tool that makes it simple to do all kinds of cool things with your lessons, even allowing collaboration between teachers

Wordle

Create stunning word clouds using Wordle, a great complement to language lessons of any kind.

QR codes (or quick response codes)

_______ are showing up with greater frequency in education

Quizlet

______ makes it easy for teachers to create study tools for students, especially flashcards that can make memorizing important information a snap.

YouTube

______ allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos.

Creaza

It offers tools to brainstorm, create cartoons, and edit audio and video

Mentor Mob

On ______, you or your students can create a learning playlist, which is essentially a collection of high-quality materials that can be used to study a specific concept

Useful tools

These tools can help you to stay connected, organized, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools

Evernote

Capture great ideas, photos, recordings, or just about anything else on your ______ account, access it anywhere, and keep it organized. A must-have tool for lesson planning

Twitter

There are so many ways _____ can be used in education. Teachers can connect with other educators, take part in chats, share their ideas, or even use it in the classroom to reach out to students

Google Education

______ offers a number of great edtech resources for teachers, including email and collaborative apps, videos, lesson plan search, professional development, and even educational grants

Dropbox

Easily store, share, and access any kind of data from anywhere with the easy-to-use and free _____ service.

Diigo

_____ is a social bookmarking website that allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag Web pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page

Popplet

_____ is the simplest tool to capture and organize your ideas. With ______ you can quick jot down your ideas and sort them visually

YO Teach! i

______ is a multi-featured backchannel web app where teachers create and moderate chat rooms for real-time digital interaction among students

Vocaroo

A really quick voice recording service. The audio files created on _____ can be shared as a link on blogs, websites, and social networking sites

Google Earth

From geography projects to learning about geological processes, _______ can be an amazing and fast way to show students anywhere in the world

Creative Commons licenses

_______ are the standard for sharing free content online

Open Educational Resources (OER)

_________ are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions