EdTech Resources

MagicSchool

Educators use MagicSchool to help lesson plan, differentiate, write assessments, scaffold assignments, communicate clearly, and more.  

Goblin Tools

Use Goblin Tools break down directions into smaller chunks, communicate more clearly, judge the tone of text, compile tasks, and more.

Write effortlessly and efficiently with QuillBot's suite of AI tools. Paraphrase, check grammar, analyze tone, improve fluency, and more. 

Brisk has built-in AI prompts to automate key tasks like creating lesson plans, quiz questions, and presentations. It also offers teachers tools for differentiation, like translating text and adjusting the reading level of digital texts. Other prompts give teachers a head start on offering feedback on student writing.

Gimkit

Gimkit is a game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win. 

Quizizz

Motivate every student to mastery with easy-to-customize content plus tools for inclusive assessment, instruction, and practice.  Quizizz also allows teachers to create quiz games using AI.

Kahoot

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home. 

Kahoot has a paid version that supports AI.

Blooket is an exciting new take on the modern classroom review game. It aims to match action with education to create the ultimate learning experience! 

Canva is a free to use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more. 

Canva Pro is free for teachers!

Deliver impactful interactive instruction where learning never stops. See your students succeed using Nearpod's award-winning interactive instructional delivery.

Prezi is the presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring your ideas to life and make you a great presenter. 

Pear Deck Learning is a powerful ecosystem of education tools that assess progress, offer real-time feedback, and provide the differentiated instruction and gamified practice that keeps students engaged and excelling. 

Screencastify is a Chrome browser extension that allows you to record, edit, and assign screencasts. While recording, use the tools to write, draw, erase, keep time, restart, or spotlight a section on the screen. There's also an option to play the audio in a tab that you're recording.  

Students and teachers can start creating a full project: fiction or nonfiction books, how-to manuals with video and audio instructions, photo books, comic strips, and more. Students could also use Book Creator as a portfolio tool, assembling examples of work throughout a unit or semester. 

Scratch is a high-level, block-based visual programming language and website aimed primarily at children as an educational tool, with a target audience of ages 8-16.

Adobe Express for Education is everything students and teachers need to create graphics, photos, and videos.  Teachers can create classrooms and assignments that students turn in on the Adobe platform.  Connects to Google Classroom. Free for K12 schools and districts. 

CommonLit is a comprehensive literacy program with thousands of reading lessons, full-year ELA curriculum, benchmark assessments, and standards-based data for teachers. 

ReadWorks provides teachers with over 6,000 free resources to improve K-12 reading comprehension. As a FREE supplemental resource, they provide K-12 educators with the largest, highest-quality library of curated nonfiction and fiction passages in the country. 

Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments, and proofreading written work. 

Diffit quickly puts together resources on just about any topic you can think of.  You can input a prompt for a specific topic, upload a link to a website or video, or drop in your own text, and the AI backend will create a series of resources you can use in your classroom. These resources are in printable and digital formats. 

GeoGebra is an interactive geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus application, intended for learning and teaching mathematics and science from primary school to university level. GeoGebra is available on multiple platforms, with apps for desktops, tablets and web. 

CODAP provides an easy-to-use web-based data analysis tool, geared toward middle and high school students, and aimed at teachers and curriculum developers. 

OpenSciEd empowers educators to go beyond traditional science teaching methods by bringing together leading science researchers and educators to craft curriculum that is aligned to how students learn best. 

ALLSIDES aims to provide diverse perspectives and a balanced take on news. Media bias ratings are provided for nearly 600 media outlets. News items are labeled as being left, center, or right of the political spectrum, and kids can use a tool to gauge their bias on issues. 

iCivics, Inc. is a 501 non-profit organization in the United States that provides educational online games and lesson plans to promote civics education and encourage students to become active citizens. 

Library of Congress is an online version of the real thing: the world's largest library and all of its resources. There's no login or way to save information; it's just a place to visit and find information in all formats, including text, audio, and video. 

Seesaw provides student driven digital portfolios and simple parent communication. In Seesaw, interactions are originated by and largely mediated through the teacher. This provides control over who can work in the website, and who can view student work in the website. 

Mote is a Chrome browser extension that allows users to attach voice-recorded comments and feedback to a variety of Google-based products. Once installed on Chrome, teachers and students can use Mote to insert recordings in Google Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides, and Classroom and in Gmail messages.

Padlet is a website and app that allows students to curate information onto virtual boards called Padlets. There are both free and paid versions.  Teachers can share boards via links or QR codes, or students can create their own, but either way, blank pages quickly fill up with videos, text, links, documents, GIFs, images -- basically anything -- for other users to see. 

Edpuzzle is a  tool for editing online videos and adding interactive content to target specific learning objectives. Teachers can upload their own videos, add URLs, or search the built-in content library (including YouTube videos and filters for Khan Academy, TED, National Geographic, etc.). Videos can be customized with voice-over comments, embedded assessment questions, links, and more. 

Pear Assessments (Edulastic) is a technology-enhanced assessment solution for teachers and school/district administrators. It is easy enough for classroom formative assessments, but can  mirror state tests.  It gives instant classroom data that shows who’s on track and who needs help so that they can take action and see growth.

With Kami, teachers can share files with students, and students can annotate the files including Highlight, Add Text, Draw On, Add Shapes, and more. Users can upload PDF documents, images, Google Docs or Slides, scanned textbooks, and more from their computer or from Google Drive -- or create blank documents or assignments via Google Classroom (with the paid plan). 

Khan Academy, a free website aimed at promoting self-paced instruction, houses thousands of academic videos that are baked into guided, adaptive instruction. The site offers courses on a variety of topics in math, science, economics, history, the arts, language arts, computing, and test prep. 

Wakelet allows you to save, organize, and share content from across the web. Save articles, videos, images, Tweets and more, organize them into stunning collections, and revisit them anywhere, anytime.  Individual collections can also be shared via Google Classroom, allowing teachers to curate a list of websites students can use for projects or individual learning opportunities.

With Pixlr for Education, students and educators have access to Pixlr free from advertisements, thus are able to benefit from our ready-to-use templates, overlays, icons, decorative text and extensive editing tools. 

Each user will start off with 50 AI credits, which unfortunately aren't renewable.