WAYS TO USE SMARTPHONES IN TEACHING

When your students don’t leave their phones and tablets out of hands and spend all the time looking at touchscreens, you have nothing to do as to follow their trends and turn these toys into tools. Install to your phone and recommend your students to get the following apps to improve their learning experience:

·                    2048, Math Puzzle, King of Math to improve maths skills and make students’ brains work;

·                    Evernote to write down tasks, observations, to-do lists and always have them at fingertips;

·                    World Geography to borrow tasks for geography lessons and broaden general outlook;

·                    Ministry School Timer to always be on time at your classes and manage schedule;

·                    VCB Music Theory to get basic music knowledge about symbols, chords and musicians;

·                    Learn Something to find a lot of book titles and website links with tons of educational materials;

·                    Skype and other chat and instant messaging apps to talk to students instead of emailing them.

5+ EDUCATIONAL PODCASTS AND CHANNELS

   Podcasts have recently become incredibly popular. You can find a podcast on any topic and expand your mind with new knowledge, thoughts, and ideas while doing something else. There are many sites and apps with podcasts that you may choose from:

·         The Memory Palace will be an interesting source for history teachers and their students. The podcasts transform historical events into small episodes.

·         Openculture contains a lot of information on various subjects such as Languages, Astronomy, Economics, Math, Literature, etc. Choose a necessary topic and discover a great number of videos, podcasts, as well as free textbooks, ebooks, online courses and audio books.

·         Teachercast will be useful for new teachers who don’t want to stay behind their more experienced colleagues. You’ll learn how to communicate with students’ parents, how to use technology for more productive work and many other things that will turn you into a great teacher.

·         TEDTalks Education is a podcast where you can enjoy stories told by greatest researchers, scientists, educators and community leaders.

·         TheStateofTech provides latest technology news and innovative ideas that you may use in the classroom.

·         A modern teacher has to adjust to new methods brought up by the fast-paced technology and its trends. We hope that this list will help you to approach the next generation schooling standards and make a great breakthrough in your teaching career.

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