Tools for plugging ICT into any lesson: my top five resources | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional ICT shouldn't just be utilised within ICT lessons. There are many applications out there that allow teachers to dazzle their students with their ICT skills. There are so many, in fact, that its very difficult to know where to start. Furthermore, you don't want to be using your time and effort investigating something which might not be of any use to you. Edmodo What is it? Where can it be used? Cost: Free Socrative What is it? Prezi What is it? Where can it be used? Cost: Education Enjoy licence is free and is the one I have always used, there is the Education Pro licence and that is $5 a month. Wallwisher What is it? Where can it be used? Popplet What is it? Where can it be used? Cost: The basic five Popplet subscription is free.
Students will love these 2 Cool Tools for School! 50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Learning Lesson Planning and Tools Useful Tools
Interactive Whiteboard #101 : A short primer At this time of year I find myself running a lot of interactive whiteboard training sessions for schools and colleges on how to get started with their IWB and to get going with the basics. I always direct them back to this blog to check out the IWB Guides area on here, so I thought it would be useful to collate a lot of the basic ideas that I hand out. So if you are a newly qualified teacher soon to be embarking on their teaching career at their new school, an existing teacher moving schools, or simply having an interactive whiteboard installed in your classroom over the summer for the first time, then here’s a couple of handy tips to get you started. 1 Get hold of the IWB software The first thing to do is to get hold of the software for the IWB you will be using at your new school. Usually the licence will allow you to install a copy at home for lesson preparation purposes, which I think is an essential step to get teachers familiar with the software away from the board itself. Easiteach:
Coding, Computer Science and iPads – My Current View Photo Credit: flickingerbrad via Compfight cc I have spoken a lot recently about my frustration with a lack of apps that help teach children to code. Largely this frustration is centred around the resulting perception of ICT and edtech this limitation gives our schools. If a school invests wholesale in a set of iPads then the ICT curriculum for these children can be based largely around internet research, movie making and a collection of multimedia authoring apps. And though I love my iPads and iPad lessons the aspect of struggle or challenge for children using these devices is not always apparent or indeed talked about. There are exceptions though: Creatorverse, Garage Band, 123D Monsters I am pleased that the proposed new Primary Curriculum has a strong emphasis on computer science, though it could do with being more balanced. In some schools there is still a confusion and a cloudy notion around what constitutes ICT. So to the Computing Curriculum. write and test simple programs