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Teachers can make up tests, quizzes, and other assignments on Classkick. With each response, the teacher can assess the student and provide feedback immediately. As students work on a teacher-made Classkick assignment on their iPads, teachers see every student's work progressing all at once. Students can privately raise hands, teachers give individualized, real-time student feedback, and so much more.

If you want to encourage critical thinking, try out elevate! Elevate allows you to play in different series of games, records your answers and responses, and then picks the next game for you based on your results! Some games focus on reading comprehension, writing, and vocabulary!

Plickers is a tool that teachers can use to assess their students quickly and in real-time without the need for students to have a device. As long as teachers have a device with the Plickers app downloaded, they can scan their students Plickers card to collect data in a matter of seconds!

QuickKey is an app that allows teachers to scan multiple choice tests/quizzes for a grade in seconds. It also sends the grades to your school's gradebook and evaluates the tests to locate trouble areas, allowing teachers to better gear lesson plans.

"StudySync is a powerful digital literacy curriculum designed to advance reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking and listening skills, with optional print support for districts in transition"

Looking for an educational search engine? Use iSeek to find safe and trustworthy sources when researching on the Internet!

DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Use the Wikipedia FAQ for Schools page as a resource to help teach digital literacy in your classroom! Students are going to use Wikipedia, so they need to be taught how and when it is or is not appropriate, starting in elementary school. Look, even Wikipedia warns against using Wikipedia in many instances! But it also points out what it can be good for, so explore both sides with students.

Free website containing kids news articles, kids current events, kids news on science, sports, and more! Great way to bring current events into the classroom and discuss credible sources. Contains comprehension questions, critical thinking challenges and vocabulary lists to push students to learn more about a topic.

MathBlaster.com is a cool, online math virtual world filled with wacky aliens, cool gadgets, and fun math games for boys and girls. Learn math as you complete missions in outer space in this safe and secure virtual world for kids!

Shared Inquiry™ is a way to think critically and extract meaning from reading.

Spent is an interactive game created by McKinney that challenges you to think critically in order to manage your money, raise a child and make it through the month getting paid minimum wage after a stretch of unemployment.

Mind Meister is a free application used to create mind maps. Students can work collaboratively on group projects, sharing ideas and seeing how everything relates. Teachers can use it to break down hard concepts. It promotes higher thinking and is visually stimulating.

A free online platform that allows for group discussion and debate.

TouchChatHD is an app that allows diverse learners to learn and communicate more effectively with the people around them.

If you're looking for immediate online study/homework help for free, check out this site and collaborate with other students and teachers! Ask. Answer. Understand. Get real-time study help. Join the world's largest study group.

StoryKit is a simple app offered by International Children's Digital Library for use on iPads or iPhones. Students can creatively make e-books or e-projects using text editing, images/drawing, and audio recording. They can use it to write individual stories, OR, can use it collaboratively to demonstrate learning within a particular unit in any subject! With images, text, and audio, students can create a virtual art gallery, or an exam study resource. StoryKit could also be used to create e-projects which serve as summative assessments for various subjects/units in the elementary years. Teachers break down the unit into topics, and assign each group of students a topic to create an e-book about. These can then be easily shared with families to demonstrate learning, too!

Minecraft: Education Edition is an open world game that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination.

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