Sunday, March 16, 2014

Blog Post #8 - 21st Century Learning an Communicating Tools

Teaching tools

With technology playing a bigger role in the classroom, teachers have began turning to online teaching tools to help teach, plan lessons, make assessments, and do many other classroom tasks. Online tools makes it easier to organize your work while saving paper and space at the same time. I have researched a few useful teaching tools that will help me when I become an elementary teacher.

The first tool I found was e-learning for kids. It is a global, nonprofit foundation dedicated to fun and free learning on the internet for children ages 5-12. It has courseware in math, science, reading and keyboarding. Students can do an interactive lesson to get more engaged in what they are learning.

Another useful tool I found was GoEd Online Elementary. The goal of this tool is to spread affordable digital content to classrooms around the world. It provides English, Science, Social Studies, and World Language teachers with more access to technology. The downside to this tool is that is costs money to download activities, ebooks, games, lessons, etc.; but in the long run, I think it would be worth it to help your students succeed.

Also, I found KidsClick to be a very useful tool for students. It is a search engine designed solely for students to use the internet to search safely and get kid-friendly results. It was designed for kids by librarians. I think search engines like this are a great tool to use in schools today because the internet has endless amounts of information that may not be useful to students or are highly inappropriate for children. I think all teachers should incorporate safe search engines onto their classroom computers rather than using Google or Yahoo.

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