When I look at the increase in technology in schools since I was a student, it makes me pretty jealous. My generation is the start of the “digital native,” and yet… I hardly ever had the opportunity to use the tools I was interested in at home when I was at school.
For one of my classes this past week, we broke into groups and researched a “cool tool.” These are sites and applications being used in schools to get students excited about learning and invested in what they are doing. My group worked with the social bookmarking site, Diigo. I was so shocked to learn that such a tool existed. Diigo allows you to highlight sections of websites, add sticky notes, and save all of this information into a database you can access remotely on all of your electronic devices.
The other tools explored by groups were: Penzu, GoAnimate, Google Forms, Tagul, Screencast-O-Matic, Evernote, Storybird, Linoit, Edmodo, Wix, and Tiki-Toki.
All of the tools I saw would have been incredibly fun and helpful when I as a student. I’m glad we are making such strides to harness and help our second generation natives learn to use technology for educational purposes.
Are there any other "Cool Tools" that you know of or use in your own classroom?
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