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AASL Best Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning 2024
AASL Best Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning 2024
AASL’s Best Digital Tools are recognized for fostering qualities of:
- Innovation/Creativity
- Active Participation
- Collaboration
- User-Friendly
- Encourages Exploration
- Information/Reference
Creation Platforms:
Creation Platforms:
Reading, Writing, Coding, & Music Technology
Reading, Writing, Coding, & Music Technology
A free online global community where teens write, review, and share. A non-profit dedicated to developing teens’ writing and critical thinking skills and equipping them with the confidence and competence to change the world, one word at a time.
Highlights:
Free competitions with feedback from experts and peers
Workshops for college essays available
Book Creator is a digital tool that allows students to create and read multi-modal books. It can help students develop creativity, problem-solving skills, and collaboration skills.
Highlights:
Freemium
Grades K - 12
Google for Education Partner
They've curated over 7,500 educational videos and organized them by standards, topic, and unit. Pique student interest using recognizable media. Make learning interactive with embedded questions, live discussions, and comparison activities.
Highlights:
Freemium
All clips vetted for accuracy, relevance, and suitability for education.
Copyright conscience
EarSketch teaches core topics in computer science, music, and music technology. Learn to code in Python or JavaScript while manipulating loops, composing beats, and applying effects to a multi-track digital audio workstation.
Highlights:
Online platform, no software download
Teacher trainings and workshops available
Pixton is a comic creation platform that enables people of all abilities to develop storytelling skills, enhance writing and visual communication, demonstrate learning, and celebrate identity and culture through personalized avatars.
Highlights:
Measured, successful impact backed by third-party research
Google Partner
AI - powered supports
Information Literacy & AI for Instruction
Information Literacy & AI for Instruction
Copyright & Creativity aims to provide accessible and practical information about copyright – its protections, its limitations, and its role in encouraging creativity. The goal here is to offer useful and positive information about what copyright allows and how students can successfully navigate and rely on copyright in their own roles as creators.
Highlights:
Leveled curricula
Professional development available
Diffit helps teachers find "just right" instructional materials in seconds - for any topic, lesson, or student. Whether adapting existing content to better meet students' needs or looking for student-ready activities, Diffit offers a user-friendly platform to get high-quality, differentiated resources in seconds.
Highlights:
Freemium
Professional development and certifications available
Translate documents for more inclusive learning opportunities.
Parlay is an AI-powered instructional platform that helps teachers facilitate meaningful, measurable, and inclusive class discussions.
Highlights:
Freemium
Google Partner
Build student discussion portfolios
Science and Social Sciences
Science and Social Sciences
Masters of Tradition is an interactive story map that allows students to explore the great diversity of cultures, communities, and artistic traditions that enrich the United States. Through abundant photographs, audio, video, short text, and first-person quotes, the story map addresses a variety of key themes, including immigration, migration, identity, heritage, and community.
Highlights:
Powered by Smithsonian
Includes over 150 National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellows
New American History helps educators develop cross-curricular Project-Based Learning opportunities, develop station based learning experiences, teach resource evaluation skills, and recommend high-quality tools and resources for inquiry-based learning.
Highlights:
Open-access resources
Teacher and student resources available
Audio, video, maps, archives, and more
Connecting educators and guardians with the tools and resources they need to help kids explore and understand the world around them. Together we can inspire the next generation to build a future where people and nature thrive!
Highlights:
Live streams, virtual field trips and YouTube playlists available for extended learning.
Teacher toolkits available for free download.
Looking Ahead: December Themes & Events
Looking Ahead: December Themes & Events
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities: December 3rd
- Inclusive Schools Week
- Hour of Code & Computer Science Education Week: December 5th - 11th
- Universal Human Rights Month
Monthly Themes: November
Monthly Themes: November
November is the time to recognize, celebrate, and drive awareness for the following themes:
- National Family Engagement Month & National Parental Involvement Day
- Connecting with ELL Families - Explore how to connect with ELL families through Colorín Colorado’s new webapp, Colorín on the Go! Includes resources for building relationships, providing language access, supporting multilingual families through the special education process, and more.
- Indigenous Heritage Month / Native American Heritage Month
- Native Knowledge 360° Educational Resources - Bring Native voices into your classroom through the National Museum of the American Indian’s extensive collection of geographically and culturally diverse educational resources, including toolkits, lessons, handouts, teaching guides, posters, videos, and more. Filter by subject (including art, engineering, technology, environmental science, and math), nation, grade level, essential understanding, language, region, format, and topic.
- National Veteran and Military Families Month
- Veterans’ Stories: The Veterans History Project | PBS LearningMedia - Stories of veterans or of U.S. citizens who were actively involved in supporting war efforts, beginning with World War I and continuing through the conflicts of the 21st century. See the teacher’s guide for using these personal narratives, correspondence, and visual materials in your classroom (grades 6-12).
- Geography Awareness Week
- GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world! -GeoGuessr is a geography game which takes you on a journey around the world and challenges your ability to recognize your surroundings.
Check out Rowan University's LRC website for a curated list of themed resources!
After School Hours
After School Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Open until 4:00 p.m.
Open until 4:00 p.m.
NHS Peer Tutors available every Wednesday.
NHS Peer Tutors available every Wednesday.
Destiny is an Online Public Access Catalog where students can browse the books available in the LMC.
Destiny is an Online Public Access Catalog where students can browse the books available in the LMC.
- Select Hammonton High School.
- Click on Catalog.
- Search by keyword, title, author, subject, or series.
Sora: Digital Reading
Sora: Digital Reading
Sora provides digital access to hundreds of eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines in multiple languages.
Download the app to your mobile device or go to soraapp.com.
Find Hammonton High School.
Log in with your school Gmail account.
Open a world of reading!
Available to students and staff!
JerseyCat is an interlibrary loan service provided by the New Jersey State Library.
Looking for something specific?
Looking for something specific?
Order interlibrary loans from JerseyCat.
Order interlibrary loans from JerseyCat.
If the HHS collection doesn't have the selection you want, we can easily order it from another NJ public or school library. Go to JerseyCat to search for books, DVDs, and more! See Ms. Sieminski or Ms. Hunt to order today.
*Deliveries are scheduled for Mondays and Wednesdays.
Beyond the Bookshelves
Beyond the Bookshelves
Let's collaborate! From reader's advisory to digital citizenship, from source evaluation to research and inquiry, from Health to Physics and beyond. We can customize lessons to fit your classroom needs. Email. Call. Stop on down.
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