Old-school educators may feel intimidated by the new trends involved in the classroom, but that should only challenge them to make their classes more interesting for the students. There are various online solutions that can really promote the process of education by enabling teachers to organize the classroom activities and inspire students to get more involved. This article will list 20 new apps that promise great potential in terms of education enhancement.
1. Writinghouse.org
Are you looking for an easy way to create your textbooks according to the widely-accepted referencing styles? Citation generator Writinghouse will automatically take care of the citations and bibliographies and format them according to the referencing style you choose (APA, Chicago or MLA).
2. HowStuffWorks
This website is a valuable source of information you can use in the classroom. It explains thousands of topics in an understandable way that your students will find interesting.
3. HippoCampus
This interesting online project provides multimedia content that can be used for enhancing the quality of general education subjects.
4. Fun Brain
It is time to acknowledge the fact that your students are influenced by technology, so you should accept that trend and turn it to your advantage. This website provides games with real educational value for young students.
5. First In Math
This online tool can be used to make math skills interesting for young students. It features online games that encourage kids to learn math because they get rewards and stickers from their teachers as they progress.
6. DoSomething.org
Every teacher should encourage their students to take part in social campaigns and make an effort to bring positive changes into the society. This website is the perfect source of inspiration that takes students towards real action.
7. Exploratorium
Did you think that nothing could ever make science fun for your students? Implement this website into the classroom activities and watch how the impossible turns into reality.
8. Cool Math
This website features various games that are safe to be used in the classroom and make school subjects interesting for your students. Besides math games, the website is also a source of geography, science, and reading games.
9. Edmondo
This online collaboration hub can inspire your students to use their full learning potential. It makes social media useful by providing customized classrooms that can enhance the learning and teaching experience.
10. Collaborize Classroom
This is a free collaborative platform that complements your classroom instructions with additional assignments, activities and discussions your students can access after class.
11. Weebly
This website enables teachers to develop a site or blog for their classroom, which can be used for easy communication with both students and their parents.
12. Spelling City
This online tool offers games that make the learning experience very easy for young children. They can play writing, vocabulary, and spelling games that will make their education more interesting.
13. Starfall
This website can help you teach young children to read through fun online games and interesting interactive storybooks.
14. Scratch
Scratch is another website intended to be used by the younger population. However, it teaches them something different than reading and vocabulary–children are invited to create their own stories, animations, and games via this online tool.
15. Raz Kids
This online source provides an entire curriculum of reading lessons in the form of cute online books. Students from a wide range of ages can use this website to improve their reading skills, and the teacher corner enables the educators to monitor their students’ progress.
16. Schoology
This is a unique social network and learning management system that can be used by both teachers and students for the development of academic content. The website also allows users to share the content they create.
17. Scholastic Kids Press Corps
Your students should be interested in reading news that is appropriate for their age, and this website is the best way to inspire this habit. Teachers are encouraged to incorporate the news they find on this website into their classes.
18. MyBackPack
Teachers have always been trying to find the most effective way of communication with their students’ parents. This website provides a solution to their problems, by allowing them to share real-time updates on the schedule, grades, and class attendance.
19. iCivics
This website will inspire ideas about making positive changes in the community, so educators should definitely present it to their students.
20. Melody Street
Music is already interesting for young students, but learning about notes and different instruments isn’t an easy process. This website makes everything easy because the instruments come to life and teach music lessons in a fun way.
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