There are so many different web tools and learning management systems and it’s really all about figuring out what works in your situation and being able to get into a routine. So, for this week’s Rising Resources post, we thought we’d explore a tool that can help teachers save some time and maximize planning. Keep reading to learn more about Planboard.
A tool built to amplify both student productivity and retention, ideamapper essentially serves as a visual mind mapping tool by combining the practice of mind mapping with word processing. It’s designed to help your students establish visual connections among all the most crucial curricular concepts and pieces of information they need to know in all areas of the curriculum.
In our latest Rising Resources post, we’re exploring the Edublogs platform, which is an online tool students can use for practicing some key real-world skills like writing, blogging, and written communication. Usually thought of as more of a soft skill, communication is nonetheless extremely important for students as they prepare to enter the workforce in the coming years.
We’re big fans of the potential that comes with using VR and AR tools in all levels of education and, for this week’s Rising Resources blog, we’re going to try out the Google Tour Creator platform! It’s built to use with the Google Expeditions VR systems, which are among our best sellers, and it’s easy to see why kids love using these tools for immersive learning experiences.
For this week’s Rising Resources post, we took a deeper look at Hatch—an online platform that just about anybody can use to start building or fine tuning their programming skills. The Hatch platform helps make discovering coding concepts easy for kids as young as eight years old and includes various projects and challenges that help them progress.
Coding skills can be learned at a very young age and kids can progress through the different types of programming using age-appropriate tools, which makes it more feasible. We advocate for coding kits in education all the time, but the subject of this week’s Rising Resources blog is a slightly different option. This week, we explore Grasshopper.
Replacing face-to-face interactions and social experiences is essentially impossible. Video conferencing, however, has been used in an attempt to make learning feel more normal and, while we hope that the days of distance learning are behind us, there definitely remains a possibility that it’s staying. So, this week’s Rising Resources post is on CrossBraining.
It really didn’t take very long for us all to recognize (or remember) how fully equitable access to technology isn’t always guaranteed. While equity is the topic for this week’s Rising Resources blog, we’re stepping a bit back from talking about it in the sense that it’s been talked about over the last couple of months and introducing you to a tool called Equity Maps.
As schools have been closed, teachers and students have been closely monitoring the latest updates surrounding the pandemic. With that comes a need for strong digital literacy skills and the need to identify accurate information from reputable sources. Checkology is an online tool that students can use to develop key media literacy skills.
Times have changed and some more traditional teaching methods are not always as effective these days, resulting in children looking for more active learning experiences and ways to tie their learning into their own lives. Any educator who is also interested in something like this should check out the NextLesson platform—the subject of our latest Rising Resources blog.
