Our Rising Resources series is a bi-weekly exploration of new and exciting educational resources. We designed this series to help creative educators find new tools to use in their instruction. Whether they're looking for a cool new technology, a digital STEM platform, or tools they can use to save themselves time, we've built a long list of instructional resources for today's classrooms. Every other Tuesday, we release our latest Rising Resources blog post on a helpful EdTech solution. The subjects of this series feature a wide range of topics and tools. From improving teacher organization to enabling VR-based learning, there are truly hundreds of educational technologies that could be helping teachers expand their reach and amplify student engagement. And, we've included Rising Resources that students can use on computers as well as mobile devices to help drive inclusion.
Many of these are completely free resources for teachers. Though some of them are paid, we prioritize highlighting the positive features of each of them. While every Rising Recourse we cover might not fit well in every classroom, we're confident there's something helpful for everyone. The tools we explore and evaluate can certainly help educators create new and engaging experiences. Whether they're teaching students math, English, history, or leading a technology class, it's helpful to keep up to date with emerging teaching tools. With this series, we also aim to help educators learn more about the latest trends in educational technology. Whether that's AI in education or school esports, you can bet we'll share our thoughts and explore solutions. Check out our Rising Resources posts or search for a topic you'd like to learn more about on the left.
Students can access the RepLit coding platform directly from the browsers they prefer. It is free, intuitive, and helps unlock collaborative programming projects in real time. With efficiency a top priority, there’s no setup process required to use RepLit and all students need is a computer or laptop along with an Internet connection to start exploring real text coding.
Kahoot! is an online review platform that helps teachers make learning fun, engaging, and shareable through games. It was created with the principles of social play and learning as a main goal by helping educators create and inspire inclusive environments in which students can collaborate with each other and get genuinely excited about learning. Read on to learn more!
So much goes into creating a school esports program, especially if you are trying to quickly start competing against other teams. If you’re interested in jumping in to interscholastic gaming competitions as opposed to students just playing with their classmates, the High School Esports League serves as a great resource for athletic directors, tech directors, and even coaches.
The importance of SEL is highly touted and many educational leaders have created positions within their schools or districts to ensure that all students are appropriately managing and processing their various emotions. For this reason, we thought we’d take a look at the online social-emotional learning platform known as StrongMinded in this week’s Rising Resources post.
Google Jamboard is part of the G Suite for Education and features its own interactive whiteboard for teachers to use in their instruction. Even as most remote learning has faded away, it makes a very helpful tool for many 21st century teachers. So, this week, we explored the Jamboard platform a bit further for you, including the variety of benefits
Capitalizing on a great deal of genuine learning opportunities that, perhaps surprisingly, we can find within television shows and movies, ClassHook is a platform that helps turn the programs kids are watching into educational experiences. While TV usually serves as a break from learning, there’s also knowledge weaved in and ClassHook helps you find top media resources.
Though it’s been around for a while, Scratch remains an extremely reliable coding platform that teachers can use to introduce elementary students to programming and meet them where they are. It’s a super strong beginner-level language with a lot of functionality and was created around graphical coding to serve as a great introductory classroom option for K–8 students.
Quaver is a tech tool that helps provide students with a more well-rounded education experience (often captured through STEAM learning) with easily accessible tech-based resources. Their team has created a variety of SEL-focused lessons for this important area in today’s instruction and provided a unique way for educators to teach SEL skills through music education.
The general ChatterPix app allows students of any age to create and share interactive images or greetings with people anywhere in the world, helping them showcase their creative side in a tangible way. Whether they’re using it just for fun, as part of graded class projects, or even for designing cards or notices, ChatterPix makes a great educational tool for
This week, for our Rising Resources feature, we explored the Screencastify screen recording platform and how it helps K–12 educators boost student learning. Since it takes only seconds for students to create, edit, and share original videos by using the software to capture the content from their own screens, Screencastify is a legitimate favorite among K–12 digital teachers.
