Nowadays, everything become very efficient and convenient! Even in school. People use to go school with bunch of textbooks, notebooks, and pencils etc. Now people would just bring an iPad, basically tablet or electronic device but how does that help teachers and students while teaching and learning? Well there are many apps that are educational and are perfect for school (teachers and students). Of course, Apps are making everything easier. Instead of writing a report by hand, we could simply just go Google drive and make presentation online and just share with the teacher's email, it is that easy and quick. Sometimes teachers wouldn't have enough time to finish their teachings and it might be the reason that, they had to prepared a lot before the teaching day by making up speeches, notes and probably a "real-life" example of something. So on the day of teaching he/she would have to present to the class, and just by writing down the notes on the board takes about 5 minutes. But if the teacher used apps such as Google presentation, all they have to do on the day of teaching is just talking, students can get the notes from teacher by sharing the documents to students so that the student can focus on listening to the teacher instead of being busy taking down the notes. And there are actually 10 apps that are really common and is a great tool for teachers to use which are: Google Apps, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, EverNote, Dropbox, ClassJojo, Edmodo, WordPress *blogging software*, and Socrative. In here I will be talking about the ones that I've seen it almost with all the teachers and think it is very useful and awesome. ;)
1. Google Apps!
This is the most famous apps of all! not only on education but also search tools from Google is large and convenient. The apps in Google Apps that teachers would use the most would probably be Google documents. In Google documents, teachers can share students his or her notes just by clicking "share" and enter the student's email address. Isn't that fast? If there's a group work, teachers always tell students to use Google document so that we can do the presentation or work together at one time, and even though we don't meet each other during the weekends, we could still go online and do the work together! That's why it is so famous for teacher's tool ! In this point, student won't have any excuse like "my paper is gone", "my partner is not around" etc.
2. Twitter!
This app are also available for sharing things! Just like my teacher Mr.Pete, he always shared students articles about the latest interesting things about technology so that even though we don't know how to search or what to search about the latest technology, we can just go there and find articles that he shared with us!!
3. YouTube!
In my opinion, this is the most awesome app! I guessed it's also awesome for teachers! Because if you don't know anything, yes you might just Google it but it wouldn't be easy for some people that are visual learners. For education, especially for math! The hardest subject ever, when I don't understand some topics during weekends, and I can either ask teacher for help by Emailing them or simply just go YouTube and search for tutorials! There are A LOT of useful videos in YouTube that gave us a better understanding of anything. Even teachers can learn from videos! Sometimes they just show you step by step, sometimes they speak to you like they're teaching us. So for teachers that thought of students when they're lack of understanding of some topic in class, they can also send some useful, and helpful videos to students for them to get a better understanding.
4. Dropbox!
Dropbox is a really convenient app for sharing "files". And it is really cool that we can share big files to each other. Before if teacher want to send those big files to students, they might need USB or Email (but email have limitations). For drop box, students and teachers and share big files "online"! if you don't want to download the app. If you downloaded you can see the files keep on updating on the desktop, isn't that just so convenient? We don't even have to sign in etc... we can just open the folder called "dropbox" on our desktop and the files would be updated automatically when there's new stuff being added in.
Major Concetps:
There are apps that are really useful when it comes to education! They all became teacher's favorite apps when it comes to teaching. Apps like YouTube, Google etc are really convenient in good the way of students 'and teachers' teachers and learning. Apps are mostly "online", and online are teacher's "favorite". It is not just convenient, it also saves a lot and I mean A LOT of time!
Advantage and Disadvantages:
The advantage of apps that teacher uses with students is that it really saves a lot of time. Before if we want to do research we might have to go library and get books, but now internet has "everything". If teachers saw something that is helpful to students, they would share with students too! and when I say sharing, it is simply just send them the link or share them the link by one click. Quick, and easy.
Since it is online, when teachers want to share us something, we can always go back and check the things they shared with us, we don't need to go ask them again.
The disadvantage would be that, if there's no "INTERNET"... or the internet shuts down somehow, students wouldn't be able to access to teacher's blog and if we tell teacher that we couldn't access to internet, they would be like : "sorry but is your problem". probably for some students, the might lie to teacher and take advantage of " cannot access to internet ". But for some people that really cannot access to internet will then have a big problem. -__-"
Questions:
I wonder what will happen to people now without these technology/apps/internet access...will people go back to the time when we still do homework by writing etc...?
Citation:
"The 10 Most Popular Teacher Tools Being Used This Year." Edudemic. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Nov. 2013.
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