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.
It seemed fitting to go with Braingenie to coincide with the release of Aladdin—yes, the new one. Although we’re fairly sure it won’t compare to the glory days of Disney movies, it is nevertheless a part of our lives now. Braingenie is an online resource through which math and science teachers can find games and challenges for their students.
Though Instructables has been around for quite a while now, it’s still a very valuable resource for STEM teachers or any educator who is looking for some inspirational project ideas. Instructables is home to an online library of various projects completed by students, teachers, hobbyists, and everyone in between.
Artificial intelligence is looking like it will play a much larger role in education—both in terms of enhancing the instruction students receive and in growing into an area of study they’ll want to know about. AI is very powerful technology, but, thanks to resources, like READYAI, it’s not something educators should be terrified of.
In ‘reality,’ VR offers students up-close views of just about anything they can imagine. It helps them conceptualize discussion topics from their classes much more vividly. And, it can even be used to create content like with MERGE, which just so happens to be the focus of this week’s Rising Resources post!
You know us. We love advocating for the use of new and engaging mediums in contemporary education. In fact, we’re regularly advocating for the use of augmented and virtual reality in all grades—not just college—and that just so happens to be the subject of this week’s Rising Resources blog. Read on to learn more about Alive Studios!
Though they do have differing views when it comes to what the most important components of learning should be, we think it’s safe to say that both groups want education to be fun! And, that’s very appropriate because the subject of this week’s Rising Resources blog is Funology—an online database for educators to find hands-on STEAM projects.
There are lots of applications and web systems educators can use to make their time in the classroom and planning periods more efficient. Google Classroom might be tops among them all. If you’re an educator in the 21st century, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Google Classroom and likely have even used it yourself.
This week, we explored Pear Deck, which is a popular online platform that allows teachers to create interactive content, like slide shows, to better engage every student in the classroom. It’s very user-friendly and robust, making Pear Deck a great way to help teachers, too! Keep reading to learn more about it and how to use it in the classroom.
These days, it’s all about engagement. If you’re not getting students’ attention and keeping it, there’s a pretty good chance real learning is not happening. Like with adults, educators are now relying more and more on video (short videos to be more specific) in order to get and hold the attention of their students and Flipgrid can really help.
With Socrative, teachers can create quick quizzes and assessments that cover the key points of the material discussed in class. It’s a great way to leverage technology to check for understanding of key terms and concepts and it’s really easy to use! Both teachers and students can create an account and teachers can create questions very quickly.
