Educationals Technology and Mobile Learning

September 4, 2017 Collaboration and team work are at the centre of meaningful learning experiences both inside and outside classroom walls. Luckily technology provides us with various tools and applications that support and enhance collaborative realtime work.  In today's post, we are sharing with you 6 good web-based whiteboard platforms you can use with your students and peers to collaborate and coordinate your work in realtime. 1-  Jamboard ‘This Google’s latest collaborative tool. Jamboard is designed specifically to enhance realtime collaboration and brainstorming among teams across the globe. It is basically  ‘a collaborative, digital whiteboard that makes it easy for your team to share ideas in real-time and create without boundaries’.’ 2-  Web Whiteboard ‘A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world.’ 3-  Mural ...

September 3, 2017 Here are three interesting free resources for science teachers using iPad with their students in class. These are courses provided by Apple Education featuring various tips, ideas and content designed specifically to help teachers integrate iPad in their science instruction. You will get to explore curated science collections, discover relevant apps, books and iTunes u materials and lessons to compliment your classroom instruction. We invite you to check them out below and share with us your feedback in our Facebook page. 1-  Elementary Science with iPad ‘This course provides tips and resources for discovering and integrating great elementary school science content into everyday instruction with iPad. ’ 2-  Middle School Science with iPad ‘Learn how other teachers have taught science with iPad, and how you can integrate a variety of content for iPad into your own classroom. You’ll find examples of science lessons to complement your instruction and help you un...

September 2, 2017 Here is a handy infographic by  Kudoswall  to use with your students in class. The visual features a number of interesting tips to help students build and manage their digital portfolios. You can also check this ‘ beginner’s guide to student portfolios ’ to learn more about the educational importance of portfolios in learning. And if you are looking for web tools for creating portfolios,  this collection  embeds some good options to start with.

September 2, 2017 Living in a digitally focused world brings with it a number of serious concerns especially for patents and one of these concerns is kids interaction with technology. Too much exposure to screen time can be detrimental to kids overall health. The American Academy of Paediatrics (cited in the guide below) suggests that ‘ screen time has no positive benefits for children under the age of two, and recommends no more than one or two hours of screen time a day for older children' (p. 1).  However, before you introduce your kids to technology, and especially apps, there are a number of key considerations to take into account. These include thinking about the purposes behind using apps with kids, their learning benefits, and determining interests of your kids and when and where apps can be used. These and several other considerations are all explained in more details in the guide we are sharing with you tonight. Family Time with Apps  is an excellent short guide to h...

September , 2017 In this short  interactive guide , Daniel Toms (One Best Thing team ) walks you through the different ways you can use iPads in your class to provide students with effective digital feedback to improve their learning .  Referencing both John Hattie’s popular book  Visible Thinking  and the  Sutton Report , Daniel highlights the importance of digital feedback in students learning stating that it has a huge impact on students progress. He went on to talk about the three iPad apps (namely Showbie, Explain Everything, and Notability) they use at his school for assessment purposes. Daniel demonstrates how you can use each of the three apps mentioned above to gather, record and share feedback with students. He explains the features they provide and how you can use them in your own teaching setting.  For more options on apps to use for digital feedback, check out  this page . For those of you not familiar with One Best Thing, this is an inter...

August , 2017 The web is a treasure trove of interesting resources to use for a variety of educational purposes. To leverage the educational potential of the web and be able to make the best of it in your instruction, you need to be equipped with tools that will enable you to curate, save and share the content you come across online. To this end, we are introducing you to 7 of our favourite web tools that will allow you to not only bookmark and save digital content but also organize it in beautiful visual boards and collections that can be easily shared with students. 1-  Padlet Padlet is a great web tool that allows you to curate, bookmark, organize and share digital content online. You can collaborate with colleagues and invite others to contribute to your Padlet. Padlet supports different forms oc content including text, notes, images, videos and drawings. You can also upload files and documents. 2-  Educlipper  Educlipper is a website where teachers get to curate and ...

August 30, 2017 This is an updated version of the popular chart we published awhile ago featuring some of what we think are the best apps for students and learners with special needs.  We have arranged the apps into four main categories: apps for dyslexic learners, apps for autistic learners, apps for the visually impaired and apps for learners with writing difficulties.  For those of you using Android check out t his list . Categories Apps Apps for Dyslexic Learners SoundLiteracy What Is Dyslexia Dyslexia Quest Happy Math Multiplication Rhymes Phonics with Phonograms Dyseggxia DD’’s Dictionary: A Dyslexic Dictionary Apps for Autistic Learners Sight Words Sequences for Autism See.Touch.Learn Verbal Me Autism iHelp Autism/DDT Shapes Autism DDT Letters Speech with Milo Apps for The Visually Impaired ViA Dragon Dictation Light Detector Color ID TapTapSee Be My Eyes- Helping Blind See Talking Calculator AccessNote Visual Brailler Apps for Learners with Writing Difficulties The...

August 27, 2017 Math learning and teaching can be so much fun especially when done through the right strategies. One of these strategies is through engaging video content.  To this end, we have compiled 20 of the best and most popular YouTube channels for math teachers. These channels provide a wide variety of  videos, tutorials and animated courses covering different mathematical concepts from algebra to geometry. If you have other suggestions to add to the list, please share with us in our Facebook page. 1-  Math TV ‘MathTV.com has over 10,000 instructional videos to help students learn everything from basic math through calculus. Each problem is worked by multiple instructors.’ 2-  Khan Academy This list would be incomplete without Khan Academy in it. The channel embeds math courses and video tutorials covering a large spectrum of math concepts. 3-  Numberphile This is another popular math channel on YouTube. It features math videos with a primary focus on nu...

August 27, 2017 A few weeks ago we started a series of blog posts covering some of the main Google services for us in education. For each of these services we create a chart  featuring  the main features of the service under study. All of the features are hyperlinked leading to external pages hosted in Google Help centre where you will get to learn more about the targeted feature. Our purposes is to provide teachers, educators and students with  handy resources to help them make the best of these services in their teaching, learning as well as in their professional development. After we have covered  Google Drive Chart ,  Chromebook chart ,  and  YouTube chart , today's post is featuring Google Maps chart. Google Maps Guidelines for Teachers Popular articles How to use Google Maps Get started with the Google Maps app Find or update your Google Maps app version Sign in to or switch accounts See system and browser requirements Use Maps in Lite mode Downl...