Technology Tools To Help Students In The Classroom

Online tools that help students complete assignments while still engaging them electronically can be very helpful to use in your classroom. Whether they’re working on a research essay, a presentation, a science project, or a math report, there are plenty tools available to make the process more engaging for students.

1. Kahoot! – This is a tool that students can use to create questionnaires and quizzes in class. This is useful for getting data for graphing assignments, data for research essays, and feedback from their classmates. Kahoot! is compatible with multiple devices and has a game-like feel that will help keep students interested.

2. Venngage – Data literacy is a useful skill for students to learn. Whether your students have collected their own data or they’ve collected it from other sources, being able to visualize their data in an infographic is a highly useful skill. Infographics appeal to both visual learners and textual learners. Venngage offers a selection of infographic templates that students can customize.

3. Prezi – Presentations are a core part of the curriculum but let’s face it, PowerPoint isn’t terribly engaging. Prezi allows students to create presentations that are more creative and exciting than PowerPoint. Not only will this make the presentation creation process more interesting for students, it will also making watching presentations more interesting as well. Plus, Prezi presentations are published publicly on students’ accounts, so their classmates can access them later to check their notes.

4. Class Dojo – This is a fun tool to gamify the classroom. Students make their own avatars, gain and lose points based on classroom behavior, discussion approaches, and other soft skills agreed upon by the teacher and the class. Teachers can also use Class Dojo to take attendance and create graphs that breakdown the information for teachers. Not only will this tool encourage students to uphold class values, it will also provide key metrics to help teachers adjust their teaching tactics accordingly.

5. Trello – Many students are in the habit of multitasking, so a good skill to teach them is how to organize and streamline their assignments. Trello is a free and easy-to-use tool students can use to create workflow charts. Multiple students can be added to the same board so it is great for collaboration on projects.