Teaching in an age of technology and innovation has become an ever-evolving challenge. Most of us will embrace this, others will be cautious of the change! Fear not, we know finding the right apps and programs can be a bit tricky so we’ve been doing some digging and have found a few great apps to make things in the classroom easier and definitely a lot more fun!
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iOS
With this awesome intuitive app, you can create your own stop-motion movie hat makes it easy to stage LEGOs and other objects, take multiple pictures and bring them to life as a sophisticated animation.
Have your students use this app to set up stop motion videos. Have students place characters in historic or book character scenes.
Primary School and early High School
iOS
Create beautiful digital stories using audio recordings and libraries of background and stickers. Wizards support beginners’ efforts.
Record your voice and share a model project as a way to explain assignments to parents and with younger students or use for announcements. Check the buncee blog for loads of ideas for integrating buncees into curriculum.
Primary School
iOS
Amazing World Atlas is created by Lonely Planet to explore and learn about world geography. It includes flag and capital information in interactive games, quizzes, and exploration tools.
Use Amazing World Atlas as a more interactive way to do research on world geography, including continents, countries and cities. You can also use this app to review world geography unit, playing games and taking quizzes.
High School
iOS
Professor Ian Stewart guides students through an amazing variety of mathematical concepts and topics. Included are 23 articles and 71 interactive demonstrations that bring mathematics to life. Students will learn about fascinating topics such as breaking codes, the mystery of Pi, and how numbers work in nature.
Use Incredible Numbers to enrich math learning as students work to complete on of Professor Ian Stewart’s famous puzzles.
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iOS
A Simple, elegant tool for creating stories by recording a voice over your own images or a library of themes, images, fonts and music. Anyone can create beautiful presentations with virtually no learning curve.
Going on a field trip? Have a big event in the library or at school? Ask students to take pics and have a camera roll ready for the storytelling to come.
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Android, web
Google Classroom is a blended learning platform for schools that aims to simplify creating, distributing and grading assignments in a paperless way. It was introduced as a feature of Google Apps for Education following its public release on August 12, 2014. Assignment creation and distribution is accomplished through Google Drive while Gmail is used to provide classroom communication. Students can be invited to classrooms through the institution’s database, through a private code that can then be added in the student interface or automatically imported from a School Information Management System. Google Classroom integrates with students and teachers Google Calendar. Each class created with Google Classroom creates a separate folder in the respective Google service where the student can submit work to be graded by a teacher.
There are so many great apps and programs out there that can make your life in the classroom and any teaching environment easier and allows you to really engage with your students. So, go out there, try out all of the great tools at your disposal and let’s take teaching into the future using innovation!
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