Using Tech in the Classroom

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Using Tech in the Classroom

Using Tech in the Classroom

A collection of applications, tools and websites that allow educators and students to effectively utilize technology in the classroom.

Tech Tools for Teaching

Assistive Technology

Accessibility Technology & Tools | Microsoft

AEM: Accessible Educational Materials - The AEM Center provides support for the use of accessible educational materials in early learning, K-12, higher education, and workplace settings.

Apps for Kids with Special Needs and Learning Disabilities | Common Sense Media - Find apps, games, and other tools to help kids with special needs and learning disabilities. 

Assistive Technology | ECTA Center

Assistive Technology Basics | Understood.org

Assistive Technology: Mission Accomplished | LRC-S Quick Tip

Assistive technology | School and Learning | Understood.org 

Assistive Technology Can Benefit All Students | Edutopia

Assistive Technology Center | Advancing Opportunities - New Jersey’s online resource for information and equipment to help people with disabilities, their families, teachers and employers identify and learn to use the technology that will be most effective in meeting their goals.

Assistive Technology: Finding the Right Resources for All Students | Getting Smart

Assistive Technology for Kids with Learning Disabilities: An Overview | Reading Rockets

Assistive Technology in the Classroom: Examples Designed to Help Teachers and Other School Personnel

Assistive Technology That's Built Into Mobile Devices

Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs | About ATAP

AT 101 | CTD Institute

AT Assessment | PaTTAN - Tools to guide the decision-making processes used by IEP teams to determine the need for AT. Utilize assessment and data collection to guide the selection and implementation of AT devices and services.

AT Resources - Assistive Technology Industry Association

ATAC Program Page | Disability Rights NJ - The Richard West Assistive Technology Advocacy Center (ATAC) serves as New Jersey's federally funded assistive technology project through a sub-contract with New Jersey's Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Its purpose is to assist individuals in overcoming barriers in the system and making assistive technology more accessible to individuals with disabilities throughout the state.

BeeLine Reader: making reading on-screen easier and faster.

BridgingApps | Apps for Special Needs

Chrome & Assistive Technology (AT) - Chrome Toolbox

Creatability - Creatability is a set of experiments made in collaboration with creators and allies in the accessibility community. They explore how creative tools – drawing, music, and more – can be made more accessible using web and AI technology.

Contrast Checker | WebAim

Contrast Checker | WebAim

CTD-AT Keyring - Easy to access examples of low and high tech that span ages and types of support. 

Graphic Organizers | EduPlace

Graphic Organizers | Teach-nology

Graphic Organizers for Teachers Grades (K-12) | Teacher Vision

IRIS | Assistive Technology: An Overview - Module offers an overview of assistive technology (AT) and explores ways to expand students' access to it in the classroom.

ISET – Innovations in Special Education Technology - Innovations in Special Education Technology (formally TAM) is a Division of Council for Exceptional Children focused on providing educators (current & future), professionals, and family members innovative technology-based solutions for today’s needs.

Immersive Reader | What is the Immersive Reader? - Microsoft Immersive Reader is a free tool, built into Word, OneNote, Outlook, Office Lens, Microsoft Teams, Forms, Flipgrid, Minecraft: Education Edition and the Edge browser, that implement proven techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability.

Innovations in Special Education Technology: ISET - Innovations in Special Education Technology (formally TAM) is a Division of Council for Exceptional Children focused on providing educators (current & future), professionals, and family members innovative technology-based solutions for today’s needs.

Let's Participate! Assistive Technology for Young Children

Meet Boardmaker Activities-to-Go! - A collection of standardized picture symbols used for communication with students 

QIAT - Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology - Guiding the Provision of Quality AT Services

RESNA | AT Standards

Resources for Supporting Learners with Disabilities | Digital Promise

Seeing AI App from Microsoft - Seeing AI is an artificial intelligence application developed by Microsoft for iOS. It uses the device camera to identify people and objects, and then the app audibly describes those objects for people with visual impairment. Now available in Italian, Turkish, Dutch, German, French, Japanese and Spanish.

The SETT Framework for AT Tool Selection - Learn how to use the SETT framework to identify a struggling student's learning needs and match that with the most appropriate assistive technology options. A case study is provided.

Special Education and Accessibility Resources for Remote Learning | Microsoft

TechMatrix - Assistive and educational technology tools and resources to support learning for students with disabilities and their classmates

Tech Toolbox™ | The Arc - The Arc's Tech Toolbox™ is a place to find, share, rate and review technology for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (I/DD).

UDLTechToolKit - A collection of online tools and resources to engage all learners

Understanding Assistive Technology: Simply Said - The definition of Assistive Technology presented by the PACER Simon Technology Center

Classroom Management and Communication

Bloomz - With Bloomz, teachers and schools save time by having all the tools they need to communicate with today's parents and students in one easy-to-use (and free) app. 

Classcraft - By harnessing the power of games and stories — things kids love — Classcraft helps you turn your class into an experience that your students can’t get enough of.

ClassDojo - A school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use every day to build close-knit communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages.

ClassKick - Easy-to-use, real-time monitoring, feedback, and assessment for 1-to-1

ClassTag - Simple parent-teacher communication that just works, for everyone.

Edmodo - Send messages, share class materials, and make learning accessible anywhere. Save yourself time by bringing all your classroom tools together.

Remind - Communication for the school, home, and everywhere in between.

Seesaw - Student driven digital portfolios and simple parent communication

TalkingPoints - Multilingual texting tool enhances school-to-home communication

Clip Art, Pictures & Music

Collaborative Platforms

CirclyApp | Visual organizer platform with circles - An easy-to-use drag-and-drop tool for creating beautiful diagrams and graphic organizers.

Coggle: Simple Collaborative Mind Maps & Flow Charts - Produce beautiful notes quickly and easily. Share them with friends and colleagues to work on your ideas together.

Flipgrid - Allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

GooseChase - Custom photo and video scavenger hunts played through an app on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. Teachers can create team or individual challenges.

MURAL - Education - A digital collaboration platform with an educational portal for creating any type of graphic organizer, including a mind map, diagram, brainstorm, and more.

Padlet - An online virtual “bulletin” board, where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, share links and pictures, in a secure location. Padlet allows users to create a hidden wall with a custom URL. Padlet creators can also moderate posts, remove posts, and manage their board 24/7.

Parlay - Helps teachers inspire meaningful and inclusive discussions in their classroom

Pearltrees - A free service that lets you organize, explore and share everything you like. Add web pages, files, photos or notes and organize them naturally.

Popplet - Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them.

Voice Thread - Conversations in the cloud. Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

Wakelet - Easy way to capture, organize and share multi-media resources with students, teachers, and learning communities.

Witeboard - A collaborative online whiteboard you can use and share - with or without an account.

Coding and Gaming

The Benefits of Gaming in Education | Spiel Times

Chore Wars :: Claim Experience Points for Housework - Players pick a name and a character, then form a “party” with the people they live with. Your character claims “experience points” for the housework you complete, which you’ll log so that you can gain XP for each task. 

Code.org: Learn today, build a brighter tomorrow.

The Code Twins - Brett and Yvette love solving puzzles with their robot friend, Cody Point Two. But without the right commands, in the right order, Cody won't know where to go or what to do! Can the twins program Cody so she can join in on the fun?

CS First: Teach Computer Science & Coding to Kids - A free computer science curriculum that makes coding easy to teach and fun to learn.

Elementari | Write and Code Interactive Stories for Free

Get Started with Coding in the Classroom | Common Sense Education

How Schools Spark Excitement for Learning with Role Playing and Games | KQED 

Learn to Code | Hour of Code - Try a one-hour tutorial designed for all ages in over 45 languages. Join millions of students and teachers in over 180 countries starting with an Hour of Code.

A New Venue for Video Games: K-12 Classrooms | EdSource 

The Radix Endeavor | MIT - An online multiplayer game designed to augment math and biology instruction. Students use their knowledge of math and science to solve quests in a virtual Earth-like world

Think Like A Coder | TedED - A 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles. 

Stop Disasters Game | UNDRR - Education is key for reducing children’s risks to disasters.If we teach them from an early age about the risks posed by natural hazards, children will have a better chance to save their lives during disasters.This online game aims at teaching children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Children will learn through playing how the location and the construction materials of houses can make a difference when disasters strike and how early warning systems, evacuation plans and education can save lives.

Want to Teach Coding? Here’s Where to Begin | Edutopia

Digital Storytelling

Formative Assessment and Polls

75 Digital Tools and Apps Teachers Can Use to Support Formative Assessment in the Classroom | NWEA

AnswerGarden | Plant a Question, Grow Answers 

Formative | Real-time responses. Long-term growth.

Insert Learning | Insert instructional content on any web page

Kahoot | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

Mentimeter | Interactive presentation software

Nearpod | Student Engagement Platform

Pear Deck | Add formative assessments & interactive questions to presentations

Plickers | Formative assessment has never been faster

Poll Everywhere | Ask interactive questions that get participants talking

Poll Maker: Make a Poll in Seconds | Free & Unlimited

Quizizz | Free Quizzes for Every Student

Socrative | Fun, effective engagement and on-the-fly assessments

Assessments in Lesson Design | LRC-South - Find additional information regarding assessments in our Strategies to Incorporate Technology in Lesson Design.

Infographics and Graphic Design

OERs - Open Educational Resources

OERs - Open Educational Resources | LRC-South Online Resources - A collection of Open Educational Resources (OERs) that are freely available for teachers and students to use, adapt, share, and reuse.

Presentation and Video Tools

Adobe Spark | Social Graphics, Web Pages, and Short Videos 

Animaker | Make Animated Videos on Cloud for free

Animoto | Free Video Maker

Binumi.com | Create and share videos

Canva | Collaborate & Create Beautiful Designs

Cateater | Stop Motion Studio

CurrikiStudio | Free Authoring Software

EdPuzzle | Create Beautiful Interactive Video Lessons 

Emaze | Create & Share Amazing Presentations

Genial.ly | Interactive learning experiences for the 21st century education

Haiku Deck | Presentation Software

InsertLearning | Insert instructional content on any web page

Kioza | Video Editor, Movie Maker and Slideshow Creation Tool 

Loom | Video Recorder/Screencasting

Mentimeter | Interactive presentation software

Moovly l Online Video Editor and Video Maker for Business and Education

Nearpod | Student Engagement Platform

Pear Deck | Add formative assessments & interactive questions to presentations

Pecha Kucka | Visual Storytelling That Celebrates Humanity

Playpost | An interactive video platform

Powtoon | Visual Communication Platform

Prezi | Presentation Software

Renderforest | Whiteboard Animation Maker for free

Screencast-o-matic | Video creation for everyone

Thinglink | Create unique experiences with interactive images, videos & 360° media

ViewPure / Videos Without Clutter

Professional Resources: Blogs and Website

QR Codes

Rubrics

Tech Tool Reviews

Common Sense Media - In-depth, trusted reviews to help you find the right app, game, or website for your classroom.

Bridging Apps - Bridging the gap between technology and people with disabilities

Teachers with Apps - Reviews are authored by teachers, therapists, and educators with specific expertise in the different ages/content/and special areas related to what is being reviewed. TWA field-tests every app/product with students and teachers as part of our in-depth evaluation process.

Virtual Reality

10 Reasons To Use Virtual Reality In The Classroom | TeachThought

25 resources for bringing AR and VR to the classroom | ISTE 

AR/VR in K–12: Schools Use Immersive Technology for Assistive Learning | EdTech Magazine - Educators create virtual spaces to make a classroom environment that can fit the needs of any student. 

ClassVR – Virtual Reality for the Classroom - Engaging VR and AR educational content for students of all ages

Google Earth VR - Google Earth VR puts the whole world within your reach.  

Unimersiv: VR/ Virtual Reality Education - Unimersiv is the largest platform for VR educational experiences. We believe that Virtual Reality can strongly improve the capacity of the human mind to remember the things it learned for a long time and make learning something new easier for students of all ages.

Virtual Reality Classroom | Nearpod - Choose from 450+ ready-to-run VR lessons

Virtual Reality for Education - The possibilities of virtual reality in education, focusing on apps and research-backed effective uses of virtual reality in the classroom.

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Effective Use of Technology in the Classroom

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