Top 10 Technology Tools for Teachers

 

Its clear that technology and education are getting more trends online these days and nearly every teacher need tech tools to make his or her job easier and connecting with students more fun.

Today, I’ve compiled a list of top 10 technology tools, the unfair advantage is that they are all  popular and widely used, a tech tools every teacher would love for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom.

1. Quora - Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users.

Teacher's Advantage - Help you connect with other professionals and also get answers to your students questions.

2. Google Docs - Create and edit web-based documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Store documents online and access them from any computer.

 Teacher's Advantage - create and share documents, presentations, or spreadsheets with students and colleagues as well as give feedback on student-created projects.

3. Google for Education - It doesn't matter how big your school or your budget is. Google provides easy tools to engage students anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Teacher's Advantage - A great edutech resources for teachers, including email and collaborative apps, videos, lesson plan search, professional development, and even educational grants.

 4. Socrative - Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens. Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners.

Teacher's Advantage - Help you assess student progress and track grades effectively.

5. Schoology - Schoology is a learning management system for K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and corporations that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources.

Teacher's Advantage - Help you manage lessons, engage students, share content, and connect with other educators.

6. Wikispaces - Get your students excited about learning in a modern, easy-to-use environment with the web tools they know and love.

Teacher's Advantage - Share lessons, projects, and other materials online with your students.

7. OpenStudy - Ask. Answer. Understand. Get real-time study help. Join the world's largest study group.

Teacher's Advantage -  Help encourage your students to work together to learn class materials.

8. Educreations - Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't.

Teacher's Advantage - Help you and your students create videos that teach a given topic. Perfect for studying or getting students to show off their knowledge.

9. StudySync - StudySync is a cross-curricular, core literacy solution for grades 4-12 with hundreds of core texts, dynamic video and media guaranteed to inspire and advance reading, writing, listening, and critical thinking skills to prepare students for college and careers.

Teacher's Advantage - Easily manage your classroom and differentiate instruction with StudySync. StudySync’s classroom management and assessment tools are designed for flexibility and easy implementation, putting curriculum and instruction decisions directly in the hands of the teacher.

10. DonorsChoose - DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy to help students in need through school donations.

Teacher's Advantage - If you need fund for your classroom project, DonorsChoose is your best bet.

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