To thrive as a teacher in the teaching field, one should adapt and learn the next generation platforms. Nowadays, teachers are creating their lesson plan focusing on the knowledge and abilities of students. It means lesson plans are student-centered, not teacher-centered. Therefore, a teacher should gain hands-on-experience in these new next generation platforms, applications and technologies to teach.
7 Best New Generation Tools and Platforms for Teaching
i) Nearpod
Nearpod is one of the next generation platforms where you can create slides, edit videos, demonstrate activity and also gamify the learning process to make the teaching-learning process student centered and interactive.
Features:
- Create interactive slides, lesson plans and videos
- Formulate formative assessments
- Integrate with MS PowerPoint, Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, MS Teams and Blackboard application also
- Amplify students’ engagement by different type of activities, for instance – time to climb, matching pairs and so on
- In addition, teachers can observe students’ assessments report
ii) Quizizz
Quizizz is an interactive application where students’ can be competitive and also enjoy the learning process while assessing the students knowledge and understanding about the topic.
Features:
- Teachers can easily prepare formative and summative assessments also
- Availability of 15+ kinds of questions such as drag and drop, match the following, open-ended questions, drop down, MCQS, fill ups, graphs(linear, quadratic, exponentials and points), reordering, poll, word cloud, comprehension, draw, etc.
- Import slides in Quizizz
- Above all, prompt students by showcasing leaderboards, add power-ups for correct answers
- Set a timer for each question
- Set deadline for assignments
iii) Quizlet
Quizlet is a powerful tool that can be used as a teaching aid in the classroom (either offline or online) to teach students.
Features:
- Create Interactive Flashcards
- Transform flashcards into MCQs, Fill ups, Definitions, Questions and so on.
iv) Kahoot
Kahoot is also one of the new generation educational gamified platforms that gives a feel of competitive video game to the students and also helps to teach students easily.
Features:
- Change background themes of quiz, slides as per the requirement
- Choose images, GIFs, videos, audios from their library
- 13 types of questions such as Puzzle, Pin answer, True or false, Quiz, Type answer, Slider, Poll, Scale, NPS Scale, Drop Pin, Word Cloud, Open ended questions and etc. are available
- Import PDF, PowerPoint and Keynote files.
- Create groups to share notes.
v) Padlet
Padlet is a tool where you can create lesson plans, collaborate with posts and transform the original photos, post, videos and slides into a digital album, discussion board in an engaging way.
Features:
- Everyone can post images in a one place
- Students can post images, videos, text according to their creativity
- Creation of lesson plans
- Students can give real time or offline feedback (comment, like or vote) on the post.
vi) Wordwall
Wordwall is a platform where teachers can design, print and share the teaching resource or activities from the multiple teaching templates.
Features:
- Multitude teaching templates are available such as Drag and Drop, Speaking Cards, Quiz, Match up, Flashcards, Spin the wheel, Group sort, Cloze activity, Anagram, Unjumble, Matching pairs, Open the box, Word search, Labelled Diagrams, Hangman Activity, Flip Tiles, Gameshow Quiz, Airplane
- Teachers can print the activities they created on the Wordwall or can show it online.
vii) Survey Monkey
Survey Monkey is a tool where one can create survey, collect the responses from targeted individuals, analyze it online without going door-to-door and share it anywhere.
Features:
- Survey Collector can analyze the responses of survey result by Bar Chart, Pie Chart, Donut Chart, Line Graph and Area Graph also
- Varieties of survey templates are available (education, political, healthcare and more)
- Can pick different types of questions such as Multiple choice, Checkboxes, Dropdown, Rating Scale, Star Rating, Ranking, Slider, Comment Box and so on.
- Export survey results in CSV, XLS, PPT, PDF, SPSS
Above all, these all new next generation technologies or platforms have free and paid version both to teach or learn. So, choose it wisely according to the need.
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