8 Innovative Ways To Use Technology In Education
A recent research states that the use of technology in education has improved student’s academic performance to a greater level. Though traditional classroom teaching may still be prevalent — many schools, students, and teachers are coming forward in embracing technologies in education like digital whiteboards, flipped classrooms and Chromebooks replacing textbooks. And who best to support this movement than teachers themselves?
Here is a list of 8 innovative technology in education ideas to use in the classroom that is transforming the world of education:
1. Slideshow Presentations With Multimedia:
Text-only slideshow presentations are behind the times due to its boring content delivery. It’s obvious that slideshow presentations are already a part of your educational curriculum, but if you add a variety of multimedia elements to the presentations it could capture the attention of students for a long time.
Few examples of multimedia elements you can include in your classroom:
- Colorful Images
- Gifs
- Short video clips
- Graphs
- Animations
- Sound Tracks
2. Podcasts Do Matter:
Having podcasts for all your academic lessons can aid you with the teaching process in the long run. There are a lot of podcasts available online on various topics of interest. Ranging from motivational podcasts to interviews to online courses.
Few examples of podcasts that you can include in your classroom:
- Basic research on an academic topic
- Lectures from other educators
- Podcasts blogs
If you want to take it to the next level, you may ask your students to create their own podcasts.
3. Take Your Students on a Virtual Tour:
Who doesn’t get excited about field trips? We all do. With technology in education, canceling trips due to logistical issues is not going to happen anymore. You can simulate a virtual field trip with Google Cardboard.
Learn history by exploring historical places, study the phenomena of earth, visit a foreign country and lots more. This can engage your students and make them fall in love with the curriculum.
4. Keep Your Class Schedules Online:
Google Calendar helps you create and share a class calendar to keep your students informed about the class, duration, and important dates. Emailing your calendar’s hyperlink to your students will do wonder. This will help you stay organized, in turn, make students come prepared for each class.
5. Use Virtual Manipulatives:
Visualizing mathematical concepts are difficult. Though manipulatives like base ten blocks, coins, blocks, tangrams, spinners, rulers, geoboards may exist, virtual manipulatives are a relatively new technology modeled after the existing ones.
Reinforcing mathematical concepts with virtual manipulatives allow students to develop more connected understanding of concepts. Incorporating the use of virtual manipulatives in classrooms are not only easy but appeals to hands-on learners as well.
6. Videos For Teaching:
Watching videos helps in remembering key concepts longer than reading. Use tools like Hippo Video to help you record digital whiteboard explainers, classroom activities, peer presentations as videos and share them with your class via Gdrive, Google Classroom or YouTube right away.
Adding videos in your classroom resonates with visual learners, allowing them to learn at their own pace. You could establish a deeper connection with your students and comprehend clarity through videos.
7. Hit Social Media:
Social media is not only for grown-ups. You could avail the benefit of using social media in education too. When it comes to social media for education, Twitter becomes go-to. Come up with a class-exclusive hashtag and encourage students to tweet their inquiries, academic doubts, homework, presentations etc.
You could choose to answer your student’s questions by displaying the results of your hashtag feed on the screen. This could be beneficial for those who may not be comfortable asking questions in front of a large crowd.
8. Video Feedback, Quiz, and Surveys:
You could record personalized feedback on student’s work as a video or allow students to give peer feedback through videos. This could help students speak an opinion instead of keeping it writing focused.
Encourage students to create forms, quiz, and polls related to your academic activities with a tool like Google Forms
Students can create them through classroom electronic devices. This could be one of the easiest ways to introduce technology in your classroom.
There are a lot of technology in education ideas available to teach and engage students, but finding out which one works for your students and implementing them will reap you greater benefits.
Hope this article has helped you find the right technology in education for your students. Happy teaching.
P.S This blog was originally published on Hippo Video Blogs
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