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.
Glogster helps students combine the two and share their talents with ease. With access to all sorts of creative elements, students can design their own interactive digital posters, giving them a unique opportunity to show what they’ve learned. Besides that, much of the content students create is completely three-dimensional!
The courses within Edsquare are designed largely for students. As they say, however, teachers can also feel free to try them. There are a lot of opportunities for them to learn about contemporary skills and developing technologies. At the moment, there are two main courses available on the Edsquare platform, focusing on AI and its role in machine learning.
Whether you’re a fan of student-led learning or you’re looking for a new way to keep kids engaged, we have a potential solution to tell you about. Mentimeter is a real-time communication platform educators can use to pose questions and receive feedback from students in any type of learning environment, helping make learning more interactive.
Some students need intentional effort to be made in order to settle into their learning situation, feel more comfortable participating, or use it as a base to become more social with their peers. If educators don’t have the time for one-on-one conversations, they can still communicate using Synth—the focus of this week’s Rising Resources post!
For educators, there are a lot of different tech tools they can use. Some are geared towards math education, others towards teaching tech skills, and there are plenty of others for different areas of the curriculum. One of those areas is reading assessment. And, one of those tools for gauging an accurate picture of student reading skills is Literably.
In the remote learning era, however, providing students with actionable feedback has become tougher. That’s how mote can help. A simple Chrome extension, mote empowers teachers to provide students with personalized feedback and save themselves a ton of time in the process. So, why is mote so efficient and great for 21st century education.
Circly is characterized as a visual organizer platform that helps create easier collaboration. It’s free and can help all students organize and visualize ideas or help educators collaborate and learn with peers. Learn why we chose to explore Circly in the latest installment of our Rising Resources blog. Keep reading to learn more about it!
With Zigazoo, students can take pride in their learning by creating original content. Zigazoo serves as a response tool for them to create thoughtful responses to teacher-posed questions or challenges. Whether you’re discussing a historic event, teaching a new type of math, or simply in the mood to get student creativity flowing, Zigazoo can help.
Though the ways in which students submit assignments might constantly be changing, they’re likely still responsible for creating essays, writing reports, or authoring other original content for any one of their classes. For this week’s blog, we explored ProWritingAid, an online writing and grammar resource students can use to enhance their writing.
Flippity is an online tool teachers can use to easily turn any of their Google spreadsheets into sets of online flashcards plus various other instructional tools. Whether you’re in need of some flashcards that help students study, want to turn your classroom content into a game show and reviewing tool hybrid, or even help kids learn through board games, Flippity
