Top Technology Tools
Technology Tools
Tool |
Pedagogical Goal |
Functionality |
| Increase student engagement with course material | Customize videos with annotations and questions | |
| Increase students' interest or attention | Create interactive webquests to guide student activity | |
| Enhance information sharing or presentation of information | Record screen captures with narration or video | |
| Personalize learning experience | Share content with narration; allows others to comment in audio, video or written format | |
| Enhance student satisfaction with the learning experience | Asynchronous video messages | |
| Encourage students to review information | In-class quiz games for iPad or mobile device | |
| Increase student motivation for learning | Build website, blog, or app | |
| Enhance the efficiency of instruction | Text expander program to manage comment banks | |
| Enhance instructor-student collaboration | Interactive white board | |
| Enhance independent interaction with course material | Capture and diagram information from Internet; virtual bulletin board | |
| Increase opportunities for individualized learning | Create online boards of information; allows for quizzing | |
| Promote creativity | Create animated videos and presentations | |
| Foster critical thinking | Turn information into social graphics, web stories, or animated videos | |
| Assess student learning | Collect real time formative data by student response cards | |
| Promote synthesis of information | Create interactive online learning experiences; information presentation and activity | |
| Provide individualized feedback to students | Screen sharing and video conferencing | |
| Increase student-student collaboration | Mind mapping, concept mapping, and outlining | |
| Foster test preparation or serve as study aid | Create interactive online exercises | |
| Increase ability for students to ask questions | Ask multiple-choice or open- ended questions; real-time display of responses | |
| Encourage networking | Work Smarter, Work Together Connect with people |
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| Engage students and review information | Interative game-style quiz website |