Teaching With Tech

DSC Instructional Software Offerings > Nearpod

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Nearpod offers a bridge between curriculum and technology, ensuring student engagement with multiple access points for learning and demonstrating understanding. Designed to work with any classroom technology, Nearpod unlocks academically rigorous, standards-aligned content that’s interactive, collaborative-- and captivating. With Nearpod teachers can create lessons from scratch or customize one from a library of over 7000. Schools & districts can also use private libraries to provide all teachers with equitable access to digital resources across the buildings.

Using Nearpod, teachers can easily add interactive activities to lessons that students will love such as:

• VR Field Trips: Take students anywhere using virtual reality, without leaving your classroom.

• Time to Climb: Assess student understanding with a competitive game activity.

• Draw It: Have students draw, highlight, type, and add pictures on an interactive whiteboard.

• Collaborate! Board: Create collaborative learning opportunities where students can share ideas with their peers in real-time.

• Quiz: Assess students' understanding through multiple choice questions and receive instant feedback.

• Polls: Highlight student opinions, check for understanding, or provoke discussion.

AND MORE!

Nearpod lessons are created in partnership with respected and trusted publishers such as:

• Flocabulary

• PhET

• Desmos

• Teaching Tolerance

• Common Sense Education

• iCivics

• Newsela

• ReadWorks

• Participate

AND MORE!