Students Show Their Learning
In our classrooms today, we want students to move away from just being consumers of information to actually being a creator of something new based upon what they have learned. Most of us have heard of the four C's, one of those being creativity. Allowing students to be creative in demonstrating their understanding of subject matter using a variety of tools can significantly increase the engagement of the students in your class.
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This is not an exhaustive list of tools that you can use to in order for students to show their learning. The list below is there to help get you started or further your growth with this instructional practice. If you have a tool that you would like us to consider adding, please click on this Suggest a Badge Form.
Stupeflix
Make unlimited free videos, up to 20 minutes long! Just add photos, videos, text, music. All the editing is done for you, so you can focus on your story. Each theme gives your movie a unique look. All designed by professionals. Add maps, custom transitions. Set movie pace, individual durations. Add voice-over, set volumes. Trim videos, reverse or slo-mo.
Recap
Recap is a free student video response and reflection app developed by the makers of Swivl. It gives teachers and parents insight into students’ learning and progress. Recap provides evidence of student thinking, improves formative assessment, and supports personalized learning.
Vocaroo
Vocaroo is a quick and easy way to share and download voice messages.
Explain Everything
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
This is a great tool for students to show their learning!
No account is necessary to use Explain Everything and share creations.
Slide Presentation
Google slides is a collaborative tool that has the ability to allow teachers and students to always be on the most updated version. This tool has a clean simple design, that allows access from any device and can track changes.
When the teacher shares a presentation with students they can focus on higher order thinking skills rather than the note-taking aspect.
Padlet
Padlet is a virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. This is a great tool to collaborate, collect ideas, brainstorm, summarize, and more!
Nearpod
Nearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool that can be used to amazing effect in the classroom. The app's concept is simple. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on.
Book Creator App
Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. These books could include picture books, comic books, photo books, journals, and more. This open-ended, universal tool allows teachers to cross content areas seamlessly. This tool allows narration, images and video and exports nicely to Google
Chatterkids
Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your students' Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports. (iPad app only)
Doodle Buddy
Doodle Buddy is a drawing app that offers kids a lot of ways to get creative with paints, stamps, and backgrounds. The app has stamps, different backgrounds, drawing tools and text options. This is a wonderful tool for our students to paint, draw, scribble and sketch (iPad app only)
Magnetic ABC
It's the iPad edition of the old fashioned magnetic board suitable for kids of all ages! It comes with a rich set of colored pieces that can be placed freely on the board: letters, numbers, symbols, funny figures and themed sets. It aids in teaching students their alphabets/numbers, a learning tool in teaching one how to spell or represent numbers!
Seesaw
Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students to independently document what they are learning at school. FEATURES: Easily Capture Student Learning in Any Form ∙ Students can use photos, videos, drawings, text notes, links to show what they know.
Screencastify
Screencastify is a free Chrome extension that allows students to create simple screencasts. It's integrated with Google Drive, so whatever students create online can be recorded, explained, stored in their Drive, and submitted with a link. (web-based)
Google Sites
Google Sites is part of the GSuite for Education apps. The app is a website development tool that both teachers and students can use to display and present information in a variety of ways. Google Sites is a great vehicle for students to use as a demonstration of their learning, including creating a digital student portfolio.
Google Docs
Google Docs is a word processing tool that individuals can use to express their thoughts and ideas using words, images, links, and drawings.
123D Design
Tinkercad is a simple, online 3D design and 3d printing tool for the masses. Whether you're a designer, hobbyist, teacher, or kid, you can use Tinkercad to make toys, prototypes, home decor, Minecraft models, jewelry – the list is truly endless! Whoever you are... you dream it, you can make it - our goal is for you to become a proficient Tinkerer!