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AnswerGarden. Insights- A New Educational Tool for Creating Paperless Interactive Lessons. June 25, 2015 The popular educational app TinyTap has recently released a new tool called Insights. This is basically a data management tool to help teachers access real-time analytics on data related to classroom teaching such as which lessons students completed, how they scored on them and how they are improving.

Insights is designed to help you engage your students, improve grades, and save valuable time. Here are some interesting video tutorials to help you make the best of Insights. 4 Important Apps for A Paperless Classroom. June 11, 2015 Planning a paperless classroom? Here are four important apps you should definitely consider. Using these apps will enable you to create and distribute assignments to your students, provide feedback on your students work, organize your classroom materials, conduct quick formative assessments via quizzes, polls or exit tickets, track grades, record attendance, create seating charts and many more. 1- Showbie- Paperless Classroom “With Showbie, you can quickly and easily assign, collect and review student work on your iPad, then provide rich feedback to your students by adding annotations, text notes and voice notes directly onto their documents. Students can show their learning creatively by submitting to Showbie from thousands of compatible iPad apps, or by completing assignments with Showbie’s built in tools.

Showbie keeps everyone organized with individual student assignment folders, email and push notifications.” 2- Teacher Toolkit 3- Socrative Teacher 4- Nearpod. Es la aplicación para publicar encuentros digitales, entrevistas en línea, webchats, debates, discusiones. OER Commons. Resources for Getting Started With Project-Based Learning. Just getting started with project-based learning (PBL)? Our curated list of resources for educators new to PBL should help you. Before you get started, be sure to check out Edutopia's PBL page, including information about the research behind effective PBL practices.

You can also connect with Edutopia's community to learn and share PBL tips. PBL Defined and Clarified What the Heck is PBL? Video What Should "Gold Standard" PBL Include? Stories and Examples My PBL Failure: 4 Tips for Planning Successful PBL, by Katie Spear (2015) Here are four lessons learned from a failed PBL unit: align with the school calendar, allow planning time, carefully create the topic and guiding question, and collaborate with peers. Other Tips From Teachers and Experts Bookmark this page to reference it for updates. Assessing Students. EverFi – The Critical Skills Company - EverFi. EdBacker - Home. EDvantage | The Curriculum Hub for Educators. Because your kids deserve the very best educational apps. - appoLearning.

LearnBig | The biggest collection of online education resources. Graphite | The best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula rated for learning. Educade | Find, create and share lesson plans and teaching tools to empower your classroom. Share My Lesson - Free K-12 Resources By Teachers, For Teachers.

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