Tech Tools for Your Classroom

Technology works best when it makes the learning clearer, faster, or more engaging. Here are tech tools that do that.


Which tech tools really help teachers

Overview: Only use the tools you know well enough to use without thinking. A few used fluently beat a dozen used occasionally.

Bookmark them in folders named for the job, not the product: instruction, review, surveys, collaboration, assessment, reflection.

The Big Hitters

If you only learn a few tools well, learn these.

Instruction

Deliver content and check understanding while you teach.

Review

Games and practice that make studying feel less like studying.

Surveys & Responses

Quick ways to collect answers, feedback, and signups.

Collaboration

Shared boards and canvases for group thinking.

Teacher Efficiency

Tools that give you minutes back during the school day.

Assessment

Build rubrics and track feedback without the busywork.

Reflection

Ways for students (and you) to look back at what was learned.

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