A Digital Touch : 8 Tips to Integrate Technology in Your Classrooms

A Digital Touch : 8 Tips to Integrate Technology in Your Classrooms

Wishing you could make learning in your classrooms more interactive ?

We are living in the 21st century. Its time for teachers to catch up and keep it up with the teachers.

Teachers асrоѕѕ nаtiоn аrе using technology in creative and innovative ways to enhance the learning experience across the curriculum.

Many technology-based teaching methods and resources effectively engage students and build their skills.

Finding creative ways to use technology in the classroom can both make your life easier as a teacher and boost student excitement levels and engagement with lessons.

Here are some of the ideas how exactly you can use technology in classrooms to enhance learning.

1. Digital Field Trips

Google Streetview and other similar apps allow you to virtually explore parks, forests and even national and international landmarks from the comfort of your classroom.

Its increasingly popular, useful and cost effective.

2. Movie Making

Movie Making combines rеаding, writing, theater arts, and technology into one dуnаmiс and exciting рrоjесt. Students сrеаtе a script bаѕеd оn their imaginations or a known ѕtоrу.

They will plan, write , practice and finally perform for their movie.

Teachers may decide topics the movie will be around.

3. Add Multimedia Elements to Presentations

Whereas slideshow presentations entirely made up of text can disengage students, ones with multimedia elements can effectively hold their attention by varying content delivery.

Bring presentations to life for students by incorporating visual effects, photos, videos, and music into them.

Teachers don’t have to research over the Internet to find relevant ones, they can build it on their own by busing various free tools available online.

4. Use Classroom Calendar

To keep students updated with the tasks and their submissions, google calendar can be used.  Post assignment due dates and classroom events

This not only keeps them informed, but helps you stay organized — you’ll quickly see if you’ve set too many due dates in a short period.

5. Digital Content Creation

Provide options for students to express themselves through blogs, videos, podcasts, eBooks, flyers and other digital art, or any other means they feel most comfortable.

Creating digital content will let students express their views and what they think. It will help them enhance their thinking ability. It will let them display their creativity and talents.

6. Gather from Student’s their Opinion

There are many applications that will allow the students to give their live feedback.

Quick easy polling can be used through applications such as Socrative, Google forms, SurveyMonkey, Poll Everywhere.

Students can give responses through personal or classroom devices, giving you insight about the activities they prefer. Based on the polls, you may find an easy way to improve lessons.

7. Integrating Student’s Choice : Social Media

Most of the students are active on social media and love to spend time on that. A teacher can make well use of social media which will engage the students.

Facebook groups for classes can be made, discussions can be invited.

8. Try to Gamify it 

Learning can and should be fun and using technology for gamified learning in your classroom can be advantageous to achieving that goal.

Games are always fun for everyone, whether it be a small child or a grown up. May be you and us cannot deny from the games.

It can be used as tool for learning and giving better understanding to the students without getting them bored.

Conclusion

Involving technology will help the teachers to better deliver the knowledge and it will be easier and fun for the students to take it.

It all will lead to a healthy and successful teaching-learning process and class can be managed well.