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Teachers are always encouraged to find new ways to improve the quality of learning for their students. Technology improvements can also make their work easier when utilized well. In this article, we talk about the best ways to use technology for teachers and students. Read on!
Explore Tools for Convenience
Before searching for tech tools that make learning fun for students, it’s important to find tools that make teaching fun for the teacher, too. Explore tools that make administrative tasks more convenient and faster, such as a school seating chart maker or an online calendar. This way, you’ll have more time to spend with the students and less time spent on tedious but necessary tasks.
Learn Through Games
Not only are games fun, they’re also highly engaging for students. For instance, you can use online typing games to help students hone their typing skills. You can ask them to search for specific information online while working with a partner to verify the accuracy of their search.
Plan Digital Field Trips
These days, class trips need to be done carefully for health and pandemic-related reasons. Budget cuts may also force schools to drop any plans for any trips. Luckily, you can plan virtual class trips with the help of video technology.
You can preview locations that you want to visit with the students using Google Maps and Google Earth. Your group can then discuss what you look forward to doing in that location when your school trip finally gets the go signal.
Integrate Social Media Use
Students spend so much time on social media these days, whether that’s on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Discord, Reddit, or somewhere else. Integrating social media use into your classroom can be incredibly innovative. Social media channels can greatly connect students to curriculum, classroom resources, and each other.
You can create a Facebook group for your class. Use that group to post discussion topics or communicate important announcements, assignments, and reminders. Beyond that, you can create unique classroom Twitter hashtags that your students can use to ask questions or discuss important topics.
Create Digital Content
You can encourage your students to showcase their creativity by asking them to create digital content related to the things that they’re learning. This allows students to express themselves in ways that highlight their personal strengths and learning styles. Assign open-ended projects like:
- Creating a simple blog
- Designing web content
- Putting together an ebook
- Creating original artwork
- Crafting multimedia products
- Composing music
A wide range of tools are available online to complete these projects — you may provide those tools on classroom devices if you have them. This helps you dedicate in-class time to the project while giving students autonomy over how they use technology in school.
Review Web Pages
In this day and age, fact-checked news and resources are important. Students should be able to know unreliable sources of information may they see one. You can hone this skill by finding a web page containing content related to your lessons. Then, ask students to make notes on the page.
Empower their digital literacy by encouraging them to analyze and discern the information they get from the web page. Review them together and compare notes to develop a good standard for what makes a good source.
Ask for Feedback
You can further encourage students to participate in technology-powered lessons by understanding what works and doesn’t work for them. You can create and distribute surveys using applications like:
On top of that, allow students to give responses through personal or classroom devices. You can find easier ways and better ideas to improve your lessons based on the feedback and insights you gather.
