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EdTech In Teaching

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What is EdTech?

EdTech is the practice of introducing IT tools into the classroom to create a more engaging, inclusive and individualized learning experience.

EdTech tools are changing classrooms in a variety of ways: making it easy for students to stay engaged through fun forms of learning, assisting teachers with grading tests and holding students accountable for homework.

What Are The Benefits Of EdTech For Students And Teachers?

Students

An influx of technology is opening up new avenues of learning for students of all ages, while also promoting collaboration and inclusivity in the classroom.

Teachers

Teachers are seeing educational tech as a means to develop efficient learning practices and save time in the classroom.

Paperless Classroom

Printing budgets and wasting paper are a thing of the past thanks to edtech. Classrooms that have gone digital bring about an easier way to correct tests, lessen the burden of having to safeguard hundreds of homework files and promote overall greener policies in the classroom.   

Engaging Lessons

EdTech promotes a more interactive classroom.

Apps such as Kahoot! , Microsoft Teams, Zoom etc offer games and activities that the whole class can participate in together.

It introduces fun while learning and the students are more likely to remember the information they were given during the lesson, as opposed to a traditional classroom environment where the students sit in silence and listen to the teacher read from a book.

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Benefits Of STEM Education For Children

Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education is an essential part of a young child’s education. But STEM education goes beyond classroom curriculum and teaching children an appreciation for math and technology.

Benefits Of STEM Education For Children

Students learn in a healthy atmosphere during STEM education activities that encourage them to fail and try again. STEM education emphasises the importance of failure as a learning exercise that will encourage students to tolerate errors as part of the learning process. This encourages students to create trust and endurance, enabling them to keep working when the going gets tough.

Students of all skill levels can be taught STEM education. In teams, students of various skill levels will work together to find solutions to problems, document data, give presentations, etc.

Students who understand how to interact with others and succeed in a team-oriented atmosphere are the end product.

STEM learning teaches children about the potential of creativity and technology. So, as students experience emerging technology, they will be prepared to accept them instead of being reluctant or afraid. This will give them the upper hand in the global landscape, as the world is becoming increasingly tech-centred.

By using their critical thinking skills, STEM education teaches students how to solve issues. Students learn how to analyse challenges and then develop a strategy to address them by engaging in STEM learning experiences.

STEM learning promotes imagination and creativity Students are taught skills in STEM education that they can use in the real world. It inspires students to learn as they recognise that the skills they develop will be applied instantly and in ways that positively affect them.

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Benefits Of Technology In The Classroom

The use of technology in the classroom is helpful because it develops critical thinking in students and prepares them for future challenges.

Technology can save much time for students because technical devices such as Tablets, Computers, Laptops and Mobile Devices work faster than traditional methods.

Today the internet has become global and by using it students can be more engaged by joining classes virtually.

Teachers can upload classes into different remote learning applications such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams for students and students can access it anytime and anywhere in the world.

Teachers can use it to teach concepts like they usually would, or to allow students to collaborate and share ideas. This is a good way to keep students interested and involved in class work.

Through technology, it is also easy for parents to keep track of their child’s performance by receiving messages and updates from school through the school’s mobile app.

We believe technology used in teaching is great for students and that it will also lead to a more interactive classroom.

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Top 3 Microsoft Teams Teaching Tips

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Microsoft Teams is just one of the many online teaching platforms available to help remote learning a whole lot easier.

Not only can teachers use it to recreate the traditional classroom setup with the use of live video lessons, but they can also use it to store documents, share resources, streamline their teaching workflow and be ore interactive with their students.

MICROSOFT TEAMS TEACHING BENEFITS

1. Record Classes To Be Watched Again Later

One major feature of Teams is the ability to record classes during live video meetings and share them around later. This is hugely important as it allows students who may have been absent to catch up, or for present students to go back to particular aspects of the lesson they may wish to review and revise.

2. Take Advantage Of Microsoft Whiteboard

Microsoft Whiteboard is a freeform digital canvas that easily replicates the blackboard or whiteboard you would use in the classroom. Keep it free-style or transform work into professional looking charts and shapes. Whiteboard works with pen, touch and keyboard.

Teachers can use it to teach concepts like they usually would, or to allow students to collaborate and share ideas. This is a good way to keep students interested and involved in class work.

3. Take Advantage Of App Integrations

Microsoft Teams integrates seamlessly with other apps allowing teachers to make Class diverse and fun. This is where a large portion of Teams’ creativity comes from, as it really opens up doors in terms of delivering content to students, structuring lessons and setting tasks.

Here are two apps we believe are the most popular within the Teams’ environment.

KAHOOT!

Adding a live game of Kahoot! to your Class is a great way to help students feel more connected and build a strong team spirit.

It’s interactive and invites the fun into learning.

QUIZLET

Quizlet is a popular revision tool for students, with millions of study sets already created by teachers and students covering thousands of popular topics. All of the Quizlet activities, such as Flashcards, Learn, Write, Spell and the Match and Gravity games will run from inside Teams.

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3 Social Media Tips for Schools

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Thinking about starting up a social media account for your school? Social media offers schools a number of useful features including free promotion and the opportunity to increase your school’s Google ranking, but a basic understanding of how to use this technology is necessary to fully leverage its potential. In today’s blog, we look at some of the top social media tips for schools.

  1. Choose These Two Channels

There’s a quite a few different social media platforms available for schools to use, but we always recommend starting out with Facebook and Twitter, as they’re both quite easy to use and are very popular with parents.

Twitter is great for keeping parents updated about school developments e.g. if it’s closed due to snowy weather, while Facebook is perfect for longer posts about recent and upcoming events.

  1. Post Regularly

The key to succeeding at social media is to post regularly, ideally once or twice a day on Facebook, and at least once on Twitter.

Maintaining a regular presence on social media will not only keep parents happy and informed, it will also attract prospective parents by highlighting the benefits of the school, namely the teachers, students, curriculum and activities.

  1. Assign a Social Media Master

It’s a good idea to assign one person (or ask for a volunteer) to oversee your school’s social media accounts to ensure the posting schedule is maintained and your school’s social media pages are kept free from negative content.

This doesn’t have to be a 24/7 responsibility, as checking in just twice a day (once in the morning and once in the evening) should be enough.

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