10 online educational tools for teachers

You already know that teaching is an incredibly rewarding career. In the classroom, you’re growing minds, feeding imaginations and building children’s futures. No two days are ever the same - and with so much variety, one thing’s for sure: as a teacher, you’ll certainly never be bored! However, with so many young minds to inspire, lessons to plan and deadlines to meet, teachers today are no strangers to time pressures.

That’s why we’ve put together this blog highlighting our top 10 online educational tools for teachers to make your job easier - and more fun! From lesson planning to collaboration, integrating these tools into your classroom can completely transform your teaching technique. And best of all, you don’t even have to be tech-savvy to use them!

Twinkl

Twinkl is revolutionising the way teachers work across the world. It takes the stress out of lesson planning by giving you access to over a half a million lesson plans created by teachers for teachers. You can download the classroom activities, teaching tools and lesson plans as and when you need them, whilst the Twinkl Hub also provides interactive educational games and activities for computers, tablets and smartphones.

Mindomo

Another great lesson planning tool is Mindomo, a really useful mind-mapping tool that can help teachers save a significant amount of time planning lessons. It can document and capture ideas, strategies and plans through proper working layout with extended features such as attachments, media and images - and because of its sync feature, you can also easily manage your work even if you’re offline.

Animoto

One for the kids here, Animoto is a digital tool that allows you to create high-quality and engaging videos that blend with text, images, and music in the background. It’s really simple and easy to follow and is a great way to enhance the pupil's learning experience and inspire them. The Animoto interface is also friendly and practical, allowing teachers to easily create audiovisual content to engage with kids and adapt to educational needs.

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Buncee

Next up in our top 10 online educational tools is Buncee, an award-winning tool that helps teachers to create engaging multimedia lessons to inspire their pupils. It helps develop the 4 Cs - critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity - and the graphics are designed to help make learning more fun and engaging. There’s also the ability to record audio and video and even integrate to YouTube! It can be used by children as young as six or seven to create multimedia presentations and demonstrate critical thinking and creativity whilst communicating stories, and can be used as a classroom presentation tool or be integrated into modes of learning such as research projects, storytelling, and project-based learning. Alternatively, it can also just be used for simple games as a fun class activity - the choice is yours!

Google Expeditions

Virtual reality is growing in popularity in the classroom - and Google Expeditions is a fantastic example of how VR is transforming teaching. All you need to do is order a few headsets and then you can transport your class anywhere in the world - or even to space! Google Expeditions allows you to take your class on school trips all around the world, visit museums, climb Everest, or even journey inside the human body - all without leaving your classroom!

DoodleMaths

DoodleMaths is a tool designed to grow children’s confidence and ability in KS1 and KS2 mathematics. It’s fun and easy to use, and the more pupils play, the more stars they earn. As they get better, they climb up the levels, so it’s easy for teachers to track their classes and see where each pupil's strengths and weaknesses lie - which can help with lesson planning too!

Edmodo

Edmodo is a really clever tool that helps teachers connect with both pupils and parents. From assigning homework to sharing classroom schedules, it offers a seamless interactive experience. Teachers can create collaborative groups, administer and provide educational materials, measure pupil performance and communicate with parents - and with more than 34 million users worldwide, this personalised, kid-safe platform is perfect for active learning. What’s more, it’s absolutely free!

Kahoot

An educational platform based on games and questions, Kahoot is a tool that allows teachers to create questionnaires, discussions or surveys to complement their lessons. It promotes game-based learning, which helps to increase pupil engagement and create a fun and social educational environment where children can create, discover, play and share learning games for any subject, on any device, for all ages. With more than 40 million monthly active users in 180 countries, it’s one of the world’s fastest-growing learning tools - and with a mission to make learning awesome, it’s a powerful pedagogical experience. It’s also really simple to use, too!

TED-Ed

TED-Ed is an educational platform that allows teachers, pupils, animators - basically anyone who wants to expand their knowledge! - to collaborate and create educational lessons. It has thousands of award-winning videos that can inspire your pupils and there are tons of video-based lessons on all kinds of subjects. What’s more, it can also help you customise lessons with interactive questions and discussion topics, and you can easily share lessons with your pupils, too.

Google Classroom

Google Classroom is a bit like a Facebook page, but only for teachers and their pupils. It makes it easy for teachers to communicate with pupils by writing on their ‘wall’ or sending direct messages, and you can also set work using the assignment tool. Once your pupils complete their work, you can easily edit it, add comments and mark it. You can also embed YouTube videos or other multimedia directly into the classroom so pupils can just click and go. It’s never been quicker or easier to share information with your class!

So there you have it - our top 10 online educational tools to hopefully make your life that little bit easier! As more and more teachers utilise online tools in the coming years, technology will continue to transform teaching. From engaging pupils, accelerating the rate of learning and increasing teacher productivity, there are so many benefits of embracing online educational tools - and integrating these tools into your classroom can completely revolutionise your teaching technique.

And it's not just teachers who can benefit from online tools. There's a great selection of apps available for students to help with their studies, too! You can take a look at those here.

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