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Fab cstp6pak 1112. 10 Apps That Every Teacher Needs to Use. The Internet has brought a revolution in the Education System. With the introduction of more and more technology, the scope and dimensions of the education system are also widening. Lately, everyone is getting equipped with cell phones and internet accessibility. This gives our teachers a chance to relax by switching to online education. Access to Computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society”- Kent Conrad. The times are no more the same when teachers used to write down the home works, assignments and notices on each and every child’s diaries; when teachers used to deliver lectures by travelling the whole distance to school, when they used to distribute handouts in the class and when they used to organize and allot assessments.

Teacher Aide: Teacher Aide app is an app designed especially for the convenience of the teachers. ClassDojo: Classdojo means a Classroom. Thus, we see how big change internet has made in the education field. Top 10 Free Content Curation Tools For Teachers - eLearning Industry. Summary: Finding educational content in the web is no big deal- but managing it, is.

Educational content curation is the art – rather than the act – of sorting out the vast amounts of educational content on the web and organizing them around a specific educational topic in a coherent way. General speak all teachers are educational information curators, or should be. Modern web tools help both students and teachers to contribute online discoveries to class conversations. But which is the best way to collect and share relevant educational content with your students Which are the best free education tools to manage presentation of educational resources?

In the following list you will find the Top 10 Free Content Curation Tools for Teachers that I highly encourage you to try out. Create the best Course for your School with the Right Vendor Find, choose and compare the top eLearning Content Development Companies for K12! 5 Great Google Sheets Add-ons for Teachers. Google Sheets Add-ons make it possible for those of us who would otherwise struggle with spreadsheet scripting to get a lot of utility out of Google Sheets.

From things like sending personalized emails to a list of students to creating rubrics to tracking attendance, the following five Google Sheets Add-ons can streamline processes for almost every teacher. Flubaroo is a popular Google Sheets Add-on that enables me to grade all at once all of my students' responses to a quiz created in Google Forms.

The autograde option in Flubaroo allows you to have students automatically receive their scores after submitting their responses to a quiz you created in Google Forms. The autograde feature will send students an email with their scores and the answer key (you can exclude the answer key). With autograding enabled students do not have to wait for you to run the grading process or wait for you to send emails. I have a complete set of Flubaroo tutorial videos embedded below. Helping Students Develop Personal Learning Networks. I had a great time this week connecting with people around the world at the Global Education Conference. This free and open online conference is one of best that I’ve seen, including participants and presenters from seemingly every continent.

As part of the event, I had a chance to present on a couple of topics: one about global perspectives on grading and assessment and a second on helping students development personal learning networks. This post is a chance to recap and reflect further on that second topic. Personal Learning Networks have been around for some time. However, there is a smaller and potentially even more significant conversation about personal learning networks that is taking place. What if learning communities and organizations made student personal learning networks an integral part of the learning experience?

A Little Learning Theory Background Alongside the influence of behaviorism we saw the development of cognitivism. Self-directed Learning Self-blended Learning. Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips | Grades K-5.