With all of the new mobile tools on the market today, teachers can more easily work from satellite locations, share educational resources and access school-related data directly from their cell phones. Here are 100 mobile tools for teachers that make the grade.
fun tools from the BBC for organizing ideas and generating new ideas... mindmaps, outlines, and simple slideshows. Pinball also has tools to help you brainstorm and generate new ideas.
a flipped classroom is a classroom where the instructional time and student activity time are reversed.
Teachers record their lesson or lecture and post their recording online for students to access for homework. As the student works through a video in their own time and in their own space, they can pause to think about what the teacher discussed, to take notes, or can replay a section they did not understand.
combine the best that elearning and face-to-face learning have to offer.
Some of the best experiences we give our students happen during field trips; the zoo, a museum, nature walk, etc. Mobile devices can enhance this experience by allowing for the documentation, review and reworking of the experience long after the field trip is over.
This is a great way to enhance student learning with technology. Also, a wonderful way to reflect on a field trip and get kids to be responsible for their learning.
—gives young writers a forum to freely publish their work. The site now boasts more than 220,000 registered users and has stocked a library of more than 350,000 individual pieces, ranging from reflective poetry to multi-chapter novellas.
go into classrooms and model lessons using technology. I try to make a point to emphasize to the teachers that time on task increases learning for students. Engagement = student success.