EdTech Tools

(g)Math The Tool that’s making Math Digital Despite the recent advancements in edtech, math teachers and students have still predominantly been using pencil and paper to create math and respond to math questions. Thanks to the g(Math) Add-On, it’s quick and easy to create equations, graphs, stats displays and math quizzes to insert into Google Docs, Sheets, or Forms. Now students at all levels - and their teachers - can write virtually any mathematical expression directly on their PC or Chromebook’s keyboard or touchscreen. 

20Q: The online version of 20 Questions, this site can be used to help students think and reason.

826 Digital Popular after-school program shares its resources with teachers. This is a worth-bookmarking resource thanks to relatable writing lessons and motivating examples of actual student writing.

A Web Whiteboard—The perfect tool for class brainstorming sessions. This is an online whiteboard app for computer, tablet, or smartphone.

ABC Music ‘Expose your child to a world of Music! Our award-winning Little Explorers ABC Series put the work at your children fingertips through sight, sound & touch. Let them explore a world of pianos, violins, maracas & more through beautiful pictures, lively videos, and interactive scenes.’

ABCmouse Early Learning Academy is offering the first month of online learning free. After the first month, subscriptions start at $9.95/mo. On ABCmouse, your child can play educational games and puzzles and partake in a curriculum of reading, math, art, music, and science for ages 2-8.

ABCya - Educational Computer Games and Apps for Kids "ABCya is the leader in free educational computer games and mobile apps for kids. The innovation of a grade school teacher, ABCya is an award-winning destination for elementary students which offers hundreds of fun, engaging learning activities. 

Access Art One of AccessArt’s most unique features is our evolving collection of visual arts resources which help inspire teaching, learning and practice. We now have over 850 resources aimed at all ages and abilities and covering all areas of the visual arts. AccessArt is a UK Charity and our income comes from membership fees, which in turn help us commission new resources for the benefit of our members. About 90% of our resources are behind the membership wall (though you can view an extract of each resource as a non-member). We hope the selection of free-to-access resources below gives you a flavour of our approach!

ADDITUDE Inside the ADHD Mind. Downloads that build social skills.

AdmitHub - Free, Expert College Admissions Advice Once a student’s goals are assessed, they have 24/7 access to a personal ‘virtual campus guide’ to help them through application and enrolment processes and embodying each school's’ ‘unique spirit’ and personality.

Adobe Spark Super-flexible design tool for crafting fab images, videos, and sites. This free, one-stop shop for creating sleek graphics, web stories, and animated videos is incredibly easy to use and challenges students to think critically about visual presentation.

Airhead - The open cloud desktop for teaching and learning Winner of the prestigious ‘Innovation in ICT’ award at Bett 2015, Airhead is simply the best cloud desktop for schools, colleges and universities. With Airhead you'll save time, make the cloud more easily accessible and support communication and sharing. Airhead’s integration with Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite means you'll also be able to improve collaboration and productivity across one or many establishments. In short, you'll supercharge your journey to the cloud. Airhead is the glue that turns the Web into a meaningful educational service that delivers on the promise of anytime, anywhere, any device learning.

Ancient History Encyclopedia Crowd-sourced ancient history site features extensive, varied resources. It's free, web-based, and regularly updated with vetted info, so classrooms can turn to this site often to kick off research projects.

Animal Genius: Animals are fascinating to young learners and this game capitalizes on that. There are five mini-games to play, each focusing on a different habitat, that will quiz kids on their knowledge of all things animal-related.

Animoto is a digital tool that allows you to create high-quality videos in a short time and from any mobile device, inspiring students and helping improve academic lessons. The Animoto interface is friendly and practical, allowing teachers to create audiovisual content that adapts to educational needs.

Annenberg Classroom Civics website makes teaching the Constitution manageable, meaningful. Go for the videos, stay for the lessons: Annenberg Classroom saves teachers' prep time when teaching the Constitution, current events, or other civics lessons.

AnswerGarden A tool for online brainstorming or polling, educators can use this real-time tool to see student feedback on questions.

Any-do While not developed specifically for teachers, many find the Any-do app a very useful teaching tool anyway because it helps them stay on top of their workload. You can use this organizational tool to set reminders for when to complete certain tasks, put important meetings or assessments in a calendar, create to-do lists, and more. It’s like a calendar, note organizer, list creator, and alarm clock all in one app. Cost: Free

App Ed Review  App ed review is an online database of in-depth educational app reviews designed to support teacher’s use of apps in the classroom. In addition, they have also gone a step further and started to build a bank of lesson plans designed around certain apps that are different, fun and engaging for students. 

Ardusat - A more compelling way to learn technology Ardusat helps educators & parents make learning exciting. Teach kids hands-on science, explore coding, use real-data to enhance STEM curriculum and more – all in a way that’s designed for teachers. The Ardusat Sensor Kit is a great way to get started with basic Arduino programming and learn about sensors. It’s perfect for parents looking to get their kids started coding, engineering, making/DIYing, and more.

Arsonia Online Art Museum empowers students to exhibit, explain their work. A well-loved digital art museum that allows students to share work and reflect on their artistic process while helping teachers assess student understanding of artistic concepts.

ArtsAndCulture 10 Museums you can explore right now for free!

Artsy—This is a beautiful resource for art collection and education. Lots of tools make it an ideal resource for art classes.

AspirEdu - Educational Analytics to Identify your At-Risk Students Founded by educators who are creating solutions to the problems of educators, AspirEDU helps schools help more students graduate. They analyse the data that schools already have, allowing their solutions to identify students that are most at risk of dropping out of or failing courses, and to identify the best practices that instructors can use to maximise the performance of their students. Retaining more students is good for schools and even better for the students themselves.

AudioNote A combination of a voice recorder and notepad that captures both audio and notes for student collaboration.

Autism Emotion, by Model Me Kids, LLC. If you search for “autism emotion” on the Play Store or App Store, you can find many free apps. This one, available on iOS only, has good production value and no advertising. It discusses the emotions “happy,” “sad,” “proud,” and “calm” using a short social story and a song.

Awesome Eats. From the Whole Foods Foundation, Awesome Eats teachings kids about healthy eating, pattern recognition, and sorting, making it perfect for children ages 5-10. Kids must sort fruits and veggies into baskets before the produce falls off the conveyor belt and onto the floor, spoiled. After each level is defeated, the app flashes facts about how to eat right.

Backchannel Chat – This site offers a teacher-moderated version of Twitter. An extension of the in-the-moment conversation might be to capture the chat, create a tag cloud, and see what surfaces as a focus of the conversation.

Bamboo  offers book services that help kids practice active listening and listening comprehension, Luminaries, an engaging social studies trivia game, math, which helps children practice mental math and offers number problems and thousands of word problems, music, which introduces kids to basic music theory and music games like “Recognize the Instrument,” as well as Highlights Storybooks, co-developed with Highlights magazine to offer stories and exercises that teach kids from levels kindergarten to third grade about active listening and improving listening comprehension.

Bandimal Captivating music creation app for young musicians.

Bartleby – Study smarter with access to millions of step-by-step textbook solutions, a searchable digital database of homework solutions, and subject matter experts on standby 24/7 to provide homework help when you need it. Subscribe and your first month is $4.99!* Ask away - most questions are answered within 1 hour and you’ll be notified by email when your answer is ready!

Bedtime Math is a free app made for kids 2 and up; the app, which features engaging math activities, is available in both English and Spanish.

Belouga Made for students from kindergarten to 12th grade, Belouga gives kids access to a collection of educational resources. You’ll find everything from social science videos to math problems to real-time communication with peers around the world.

Biblionasium – This online, safe, and simple book network allows teachers to view books students have read (a digital reading log), create reading challenges for students, and track progress. Students also can review and recommend books to their peers on the site.

Big Brain Academy: Big Brain Academy, a Nintendo DS game, asks players to take on a number of different kinds of challenges which are timed. Essentially, it's a workout for the brain, designed to challenge players of all ages.

Big History Project Fascinating look at life's bigger questions with a fresh perspective. A wonderfully innovative and divergent way to teach foundational concepts in history, humanities, critical thinking, and science.

Binumi – Powering cloud-based video platforms for the world’s most forward-thinking organisations.

BioInteractive. High-quality multimedia brings biological research to life. Superb multimedia tools and lesson plans help kids explore biology through real-world examples.

Black Bullion - Opening the doors to financial education The lack of a financial education can have a crippling effect on students’ wellbeing. Through empowering students to take control of their financial future, BlackBullion positively impact on the student experience as well as retention, lifelong attainment and employability.

Bloomz - One app for all your parent communications Bloomz is the mobile and web app that allows teachers to share instant messages, announcements, photos, calendars, volunteer and conference sign-ups, student portfolios and more through one easy-to-use interface. Teachers can control who can reach them and when without shutting down the communication pipeline, and with the recent addition of Robocalling, Bloomz is truly a comprehensive solution to school-wide communication.

Bob Books Reading Magic. Bob Books was designed to give young children the tools to cross from learning letters to reading words. Our award-winning beginning reader book sets start slowly and progress from books with three letter words, to books with more than one sentence per page. Because we meet children at the right level, parents are often amazed at how quickly their child is able to sound out words when reading their first Bob Book.

Book Creator - The Simple Way To Create Beautiful eBooks Book Creator is a simple app for making ebooks on the iPad (and soon to be cross-platform). Red Jumper is the team behind Book Creator. Established in 2011, their mission is to empower the next generation of content creators and improve their educational outcomes. Teachers and educators have the opportunity with Book Creator to develop interactive and evolving teaching resources that can easily be shared with or collaborated on by students. As an e-resource, it’s really easy to keep resources up to date for each year group and make edits on the fly during lessons.

BookSnap While currently this app is only available for iOS, it truly provides a digital way for learners to interact with text and with other learners.

Book Worm: Reading, spelling, and other language skills are tested in this fun Nintendo DS game. A wealth of word puzzle games will keep kids smiling as they build their own virtual libraries within the game.

BoomWriter suitable for students of all ages. A great digital tool for collaborative writing. BoomWriter is suitable for children of all ages but especially for the little ones who are still reluctant to write. BoomWriter encourages students to write a story together by voting for each person’s version of the story. To get an idea of the process, check out this great explainer video and spark the interest of your students to writing.

Bored Teachers. Com 50 Online Art and Music Resources for At-Home Learning.

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Brain Age: Parents and kids alike will love using this application to train their brains and become a mental athlete. From math to logic to word problems, there are numerous challenges that will help learners in every aspect of their education. A series of games and tests will help students build the knowledge they need to ace the test, and it just might even be fun to do.

Discovery – BBC World Service If you want to learn crazy, mind-expanding facts about science, then you’ll love Discovery. It’s from the frickin BBC, so you know it’s going to be well-produced and unbiased. Plus soothing British accents, if you’re into that. Past topics include the reason we dream, how to use chemistry to bake the perfect cake, and the discovery of plate tectonics

Brainiversity: This Windows-based game will help you and your kids keep your brains fit and healthy by testing them through mental training sessions. Mini-games cover language, memory, math, and analysis; all valuable skills to have in any academic endeavor.

BrainPops BrainPop and BrainPop Jr. are apps that cover a wide variety of topics. Its science videos might showcase the life cycle of plants, temperature, or hibernation (for younger kids) or potential energy, metabolism, or Jane Goodall. Follow-up activities, like quizzes, help reinforce concepts. Everything is well-organized and easy to navigate.

BrainQuest: Geared towards grades three and four, this game poses more than 6,000 questions to players. There's action as well as puzzles, and the two are combined in a way that will make kids reluctant to put down the game.

Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame by Sesame Workshop. Available for iOS and Droid, and in both English and Spanish, this app offers Interactive cartoons which teach how to deal with frustration, separation anxiety, disappointment, impatience, and fear of the dark. It suggests using a “breathe, think, and do” strategy — breath slowly three times, think of a plan (three plans per problem are suggested), then do it.

Brickflow is an app where teachers and students can create presentations using content collected from social media. By searching the web through hashtags, teachers and students have the opportunity create a visual summary of a topic, building stories with content from Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, etc. This can be a fun and innovative way to spruce up classroom presentations and keep students up to date with current events.

Bright Bytes provides a SaaS-based data analytics platform focusing on four basic frameworks that measure the effects of technology in a school. Their analytics tool lets you evaluate how teachers and students use technology for learning. It studies the availability of devices and Internet access throughout the school and at home. It measures the skill levels of teachers and students with multimedia. It evaluates the school culture, professional development, and technology needs across the organization.

Buncee – A creation and presentation tool that helps students and teachers visualize, communicate, and engage with classroom concepts and ideas.

ButterflyEduFields - DIY Science Projects for 8 to 13 Year Olds Butterfly Fields was founded by people with a passion to create more ‘doers’ in India. They felt that the Indian educational system, with its emphasis on theory and exams, was taking the joy out of learning and more importantly, its very purpose. As with many great journeys, Butterfly Fields began its journey by asking some simple questions that challenged the status quo:

Calm – The mindfulness app that thousands of people all over the world use everyday is being offered to teachers for free. Teachers will have unlimited access to Calm’s growing library of guided meditations and mindfulness exercises. This includes Calm Kids, specific programs tailored for age groups from pre-K through high school.

CanFigurelt Geometry Flex your deductive reasoning muscles with geometric proofs. A really good way for math students to learn about proofs and explore them from a number of angles.

Canva - Empowering the world to design Canva makes it amazingly simple for everyone to create professional quality graphic designs. Its online design platform brings together a simple drag-and-drop design tool and a library of more than one million photographs, graphics and fonts, allowing anyone to take an idea and present it beautifully in print or online.

Center for News Literacy The flood of fake news, propaganda, rumors, and advertising that often masquerade as news has made it harder than ever to separate fact from fiction. News Literacy can help students of all ages recognize the differences between fact and rumor, news and advertising, news and opinion, and bias and fairness.

Charanga is the resource of choice for international schools wishing to equip pupils with modern, relevant music skills and a deep understanding of the principles of music. It’s online, always up to date with new resources and best practice music teaching advice, and its community provides teachers with a connection to colleagues around the world.

Chatzy – Use Chatzy to support backchannel conversations in a private setting. These live chats make great companions to classroom discussion, provide exit tickets, or keep a discussion going after the class is over.

Children’s Storybooks – Many wonderful, free illustrated children’s books are available to read at Children’s Storybooks Online. Stories span age ranges from preschool, young children, teens, through young adults. The website may look a little outdated, but their extensive library of illustrated books will surprise you.

Choreo Graph Animate with fun geometry STEAM app; learning requires teacher support. Teachers and classroom communities are needed for app activities to meet their learning potential; start with the coordinating lessons.

Civilization: What makes one civilization thrive while another dies? Players will learn just that as they build their own empires in this classic game. The game offers lessons in strategy, ancient and modern cultures, and the fundamentals of human society; a great accompaniment to history lessons.

Civitas Learning offers a cloud-based, predictive analytics platform that delivers insights to the frontlines of education. Civitas Learning partners with forward-thinking institutions to harness the power of insight and action analytics to power and scale student success initiatives — bringing the best of education, technology, and data together to measurably improve student persistence, retention, and graduation. Using a cloud-based predictive analytics platform and engaging applications, Civitas Learning delivers insights to the frontlines, where committed students, faculty, advisors, and administrators can use them to inform decisions — big and small — to deepen learning and improve outcomes.

cK-12 is a website that seeks to reduce the cost of academic books for the K12 market in the United States and the world. To achieve its objective, this platform has an open source interface that allows creating and distributing educational material through the internet, which can be modified and contain videos, audios, and interactive exercises. It can also be printed and comply with the necessary editorial standards in each region. The books that are created in cK-12 can be adapted to the needs of any teacher or student.

ClassBadge is a working model assessment system for student learning. This system is based on the idea of badges being awarded for skills demonstrated, accomplishments achieved, and contributions made.

ClassCharts – allows teachers to produce instant seating plans, with an incredibly helpful integration of pupils’ school pictures and data from SIMS. With just a few clicks, teachers can quickly change the seating arrangement of a classroom on ClassCharts. This tool is essential for improving student behavior and saving you precious time.

Classcraft is a classroom management tool that uses gamification to boost student engagement. One of its stronger aspects is its effect on class culture and student behavior: It encourages cooperation, communication, and other social emotional skills by rewarding these behaviors through its game aspects. The program truly connects with children because it is built around an environment they know and are passionate about: video games. Unlike the other apps in this list, Classcraft is a much more in-depth management tool that also gamifies every aspect of the classroom to make it more engaging and fun — from quizzes and grades to exam review and teamwork.This system is great for teachers who want to use gaming principles to develop collaboration, accountability, positive social interactions, and a healthy culture in their classroom.

 ClassDojo is a tool for teachers to quickly and easily improve classroom behavior. Teachers are able to reward points to students for good behavior, which they receive in real-time on their smart phones or laptops. This engages students in a new way, and incentivizes good student behavior. Additionally, ClassDojo can track student behavior, producing analytical reports, which can be shared with parents and administrators.

ClassKick – This app allows teachers to post assignments for students, so both the teacher and peers can provide feedback on the assignment. Students can monitor their progress and work.

ClassMaker Through ClassMaker, teachers can create secure online quizzes and exams that feature multiple question types, such as multiple choice, short answer, and essay. Tests are automatically graded and are perfect for classrooms, online courses, E-learning, and study groups.

ClassPulse – A mobile and web app that increases student engagement outside of the classroom by creating a more collaborative environment.

Classroom Aid This innately bookmarkable website has just about every digital literacy resource any teacher could possibly need. Here you will find links to search tools beyond Google, as well as guides for teaching students how to evaluate resources and find their owners. There are fact-checking sites listed here, as well as sites and tools for creating bibliographies, avoiding and checking for plagiarism, and accessing open content.

Classroom Cereal Need help teaching your child grammar? Classroom Cereal helps your young learner with grammatical exercises through free downloadable stories that you can print, then go through together.

ClassTag – enables parents to sign up via the app to volunteer or help with classroom activities. ClassTag also allows teachers to create newsletters and schedule parent-teacher conferences. While many teachers struggle to build relationships with parents for whom English is not the primary language, ClassTag offers the ability to send messages to parents in their preferred language and have their responses translated back into English.

Classtools.net classtools.net is as easy to use as it is hideous to look at. However as a gentle engagement or starter and plenary tool, there is nothing that beats it for simplicity and range

ClassVR – Virtual environment for primary school students.

Clever is one the US most growing startup in Edtech right now. Providing a single sign-on tool to students and teachers in order to navigate between all software and learning resources (among other products), Clever recently launched Goals.First, Goals tool lets teachers set objectives for each of their students like activities to do, resources to use and so on. Then, it lets professors track the progress of their students with accuracy (students can follow their progress too). Although data analytics with Clever don't go as far as Yet analytics, for example, it is still a very interesting solution to assist students in their learning process and to check their personal engagement with learning resources.

CodaQuest - The Ultimate Learning Adventures! What’s better than playing a game? Playing a game while learning and completing homework at the same time! Coda Quest is an online role-playing game that delivers academics through a game-based 3D environment.

Code Spark Award-winning learn-to-code platform for kids, ages 5-9. Coding puzzles, math games, FREE for 7 days! $9.99/month after. Cancel anytime.

Code.org Popular games, big names get kids and teachers pumped to program. A well-planned, -produced, and -curated set of free resources bound to get kids hooked on learning to code.

CodeKingdoms – Code Kingdoms was built for kids, with kids, by (big) kids. This is a great platform for introducing kids to programming by showing them how to build their own Minecraft mods.

Coggle A mind-mapping tool designed to understand student thinking.

CollaborizeClassroom This is a great tool for supporting teacher’s in-class instruction or helping their flipped classrooms be successful. This free online platform allows teachers to quickly launch a personalized learning site that addresses student concerns outside of the classroom, leaving students more prepared for in-class activities. Collaborize Classroom encourages students to help each other through problems with the guidance of their instructors, and provides teachers with instant access to lesson plans and project ideas to implement into the classroom. Additionally, this platform gives teachers the ability to better identify and accommodate different learning styles by incorporating visual and audio into their lessons, and grouping students according to learning habits.

CommonLit - Free literacy resources and progress tracking tools Founded by former teachers, CommonLit is a nonprofit EdTech organisation that operates an award-winning reading and writing platform. With CommonLit, teachers can create a free account to gain access to a host of standards-aligned, levelled, digital library of short texts including news articles, poems, historical documents and more. Their formative assessment tools help teachers target instruction and support struggling readers. 

Commonsense Media This extensive review site provides on-point feedback for all kinds of child-targeted media. This includes movies, books, games, TV, apps and websites. This should be any teacher’s first stop when trying to vet the worthiness of new media.

Conceptboard This software facilitates team collaboration in a visual format–similar to mind-mapping, but using visual and textual inputs. Compatible on tablets and PCs, Conceptboard can work from multiple devices.

Connections: The Learning Sciences Platform The Learning Sciences Platform integrates a humane approach to education, professional quality, diversity, experience and innovation to articulate, develop and sustain educational initiatives at local, national and international levels. Our experienced interdisciplinary team prides itself on its state-of-the-art training and research practices used to improve educational quality. The collaborative work of the team aims to support all actors in the system, including policy makers, researchers, educational organizations and institutions, families, students and especially teachers who have the greatest influence on quality.

Conversation Planner by Happy Frog Apps. Helps the player figure out what a conversation partner is, why to have a conversation, and what to talk about. Free trial on iOS; available for sale on Android.

Conversations Unbound Language and culture courses. Empower forcibly displaced individuals as paid online Arabic, Spanish, French, or cultural course tutors for language learners. Provide learners—enrolled in university courses or learning just for fun—with an enriching educational experience that encourages greater intercultural relationships and awareness.

Cost: FREE for anyone with a library card at a participating library.

Coursera—What do you want to learn? Whatever it is, it’s likely on Coursera. They’ve got over 16 million learners taking over 1500 courses right now.

Crazy Machines: The Wacky Contraptions Game: Build creative machines, test your contraptions, and put them to work in this imaginative game that teaches the basics of physics, electricity, gravity, and particle effects.

Creativity 365 Suite Digitize School Works with Maximum Productivity: Scan textbooks and class handouts with Pocket Scanner and manage your projects efficiently. Use Markup to annotate documents, highlight web pages, and easily review content that matters the most. Efficiently Organize Information from Multiple Sources: NoteLedge allows you to quickly gather information from the Internet and trace back reference links. It is the best tool for taking class notes, working on school projects, and studying for exams. Engage the Class with Interactive Teaching Materials: Use Write-on Video to create intriguing videos and cultivate curiosity in students. Students can brainstorm creative ideas and get hands-on animation creation with Animation Desk. Cost: Starting at $4.99; 50% off for the first subscription period as special offer for teachers

Creaza - Creative and Playful Learning  Creaza is a creative and playful learning tool that enables students and teachers to easily create mind maps, presentations, cartoons, videos, and digital stories. Creaza consists of the tools Cartoonist and Mindomo, a massive library of content, and hundreds of ready-made activities related to different subjects and topics. Students' learning abilities are as unique as their DNA, and teachers are struggling now more than ever to meet their students' needs. When learners are struggling with learning, their chances of success in life are hurt.

Critical Media Project  Relevant media clips get students examining identity, culture. Teachers will need to take time to build effective lessons, but if they do, this is a useful, relevant, high-interest resource for deconstructing identity and building critical thinking and empathy skills.

Crowdsignal Quick and easy way to create online polls, quizzes, and questions. Students can use smartphones, tablets, and computers to provide their answers, and information can be culled for reports.

Cyberspace Shape Quest Once kids get a hang of things, this app's puzzles will get them thinking creatively about shapes and spatial reasoning.

DanceMaker Featuring activities and resources for anyone teaching, learning or otherwise enjoying the art of dance, Dancemaker is made available for free by Dance Education Laboratory at the 92Y Harkness Dance Center.

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood by PBSKids.org. The website offers free interactive activities, social stories, and videos about handling emotions, advertised but is hard to find. A suite of activities with classroom organization features (teacher login, class creation, student login), designed to support Common Core State Standards and national, state, and district SEL initiatives. Offers: Storybooks in picture book format with narration, with real-life problem scenarios; Meet Up whole-class discussion topics; Buddy Up peer activities; Ability to record observations about student behavior.

Deanslist DeansList streamlines your school's daily procedures so everything works the way you need it to and so that educators can focus on what's most important: helping students succeed

Decoding Digital Literacy. The level of digital literacy  within any particular domain will depend on the context and level. For example, digital literacy expectations of primary school children will be different from those of higher education students; computer scientists will require high levels of ICT fluency, whereas digital marketers need to be fluent in online communication and collaboration as well as using social media

Defined Learning helps school districts achieve this through REAL WORLD PROJECT BASED LEARNING. We provide the tools educators need to implement and assess engaging PBL that drives student achievement.

Desmos - Beautiful, Free Math Desmos wants to help every student learn math and love learning math. But “every student” is a lot of students. So they create digital math tools and let the Internet take them to anyone who wants them! Desmos has built the best-in-class HTML5 graphing calculator, which millions of students around the world use for free. That calculator catches stellar reviews in app stores and from happy users on Twitter. The team also create activities on top of that calculator, helping students use a powerful tool to experience all the curiosity, beauty, and sense that math has to offer. Those activities were used so often by so many teachers around the world that the Desmos team decided to create an Activity Builder, helping every teacher create digital math activities that equal and exceed the activities created by the team themselves.

Diagnostic Questions - Better results, more confidence, less time. Diagnostic Questions is a world leading assessment tool that provides detailed insights into student understanding in a fraction of the time, simultaneously reducing your workload and improving student results and confidence.

Digital Citizenry App provides students with comprehensive instruction on online safety, ethical use of digital resources, and cyberbullying," said the app's homepage on Learning.com.

Digital Literacy & Citizenship free materials are designed to empower pupils and students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in our digital world. Find the lessons that are just right for your classroom /UK ccurriculum).

Digital Literacy Computerworld honored Net Literacy with the 21st Century Achievement Award!  Please enjoy some of the recent Best Practice winners. During visits to Europe and Asia to discuss digital inclusion, Net Literacy saw that many of the challenges and solutions in societies with very different cultures were much more similar than different. How could digital literacy best practices and innovative models be shared with NGOs around the world and help foster an exchange of ideas and conversations to impact underserved population groups: by developing a website to share “best practices” successfully being used by NGOs! 

Dipsticks Through alternative formative assessment, teachers can check for student understanding without falling back on the tedious or intimidating pop quiz.

Doctopus gives teachers the ability to mass-copy (from a starter template), share, monitor student progress, and manage grading and feedback for student projects in Google Drive.

Do it… or Not? by Happy Frog Apps. Helps the player to think about the feelings of others as a result of one’s actions. Free trial on iOS; available for sale on Android.

DoodleMaths - Rapidly Accelerating Children’s Progress in Maths Aimed at 4-14 year olds, DoodleMaths system diagnoses a child’s strengths and weaknesses and creates a work program that ensures progression (validated by University of Bath studies). By harnessing all that is good about mobile technology, it fosters regular daily use from its users in bite-sized chunks over long periods of time. DoodleMaths is emerging as a popular choice in the home-learning market, and as a homework tool within primary schools, and has been the recipient of many awards including winning at the Duke of York’s Pitch@Palace competition.

Dotstorming A whiteboard app that allows digital sticky notes to be posted and voted on. This tool is best for generating class discussion and brainstorming on different topics and questions.

DragonBox incredible Math app learning. Discover the world of DragonBox through our apps! Each app offers a unique experience that is interactive and engaging to give children a powerful digital learning experience.

Drawn to Life: Want to help your budding young artist, animator, or creative type embrace his or her talents? This game can be a great way to do so. It allows players to make a drawing which will be brought to life and used to play a series of fun and entertaining games as they fight to bring back an imperiled village.

DreamyKid – Children have been showing signs of stress, technology-fatigue, and anxiety starting at younger ages. It is a science-based fact that only 10 minutes of meditation is a great life-tool to find inner-harmony and balance amid their busy lives. With DreamyKid, just play it as they fall asleep or awake. They will begin a life-long journey that will center them with tools for all situations. Made just for kids, Dreamy kid offers meditations such as Body Scan, an ADD and ADHD session, ambient background noise, and more. General and issue-based meditations, new guided visualizations and affirmations are added each month.

DuoLingo – A popular app language learning, available on Android, iOS, Windows. Analyzed how millions of people learn at once to create the most effective educational system and tailor it to each student, track their progress and give personalised feedback. Duolingo is a free communications app that teaches you how to learn the language of your choice. Featuring language lessons for Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Arabic, Czech, Welsh, Danish, Greek, and more, Duolingo offers immediate grading on language challenges and rewards like virtual coins and an increase in your personalized fluency score.

Easelly With Easelly, teachers can transform basic black-and-white reports or datasets into engaging infographics, with eye-catching layouts, colors, and images. It’s a great tool for teachers to create handouts students will be interested in reading, and it can help students process information and data better because it is presented in an innovative way. If you purchase the pro version, you can also create up to 30 student accounts so your students can use the site to create their own infographics. Cost: Free, pro version available for $4/month

Easy Music is the perfect initiation into the world of music, no theory required! It is a beautifully animated app to introduce kids aged 5+ to musicality. Children learn to recognize notes, pitch, rhythm, and melody in a nature-inspired game environment’

EasyBib Students will have no excuse for not putting together a good bibliography when you show them EasyBib.com, the automatic bibliography maker. MLA, Chicago, APA and other styles are available on the site. Paid accounts have plagiarism checks and advanced grammar checks

Edmentum provides something special for educators. Our solutions combine digital curriculum and assessment for students aged 3–18 in over 80 countries. We are passionate about working with educators, that’s why we have a dedicated team who will support your school’s needs every step of the way. With over 50 years of experience in education, we are committed to being educators’ most trusted partner in creating successful student outcomes everywhere learning occurs by giving teachers the power to deliver truly personalized learning.

Edmodo is an educational tool that connects teachers and students, and is assimilated into a social network. In this one, teachers can create online collaborative groups, administer and provide educational materials, measure student performance, and communicate with parents, among other functions. Edmodo has more than 34 million users who connect to create a learning process that is more enriching, personalized, and aligned with the opportunities brought by technology and the digital environment.

Edpuzzle A big booster for flipped learning teachers. is a way for teachers to upload videos with their own notes/commentary that students can then watch. These can be videos you create yourself, or they can come from other websites, such as YouTube. Once you’ve uploaded a video, you can choose which portions of it you want students to watch, record your voice to play over part of the video, and add notes. After the video is finished, you can see which students have viewed the video, which parts they watched, and if they watched the video multiple times. You can also easily embed the video into other teaching tools, such as Edmodo. Cost: Free, pro version available for $8.50/month

Edsby is a digital learning and data system built specifically for the requirements of K-12 school districts, states and provinces and K-12 parents, students and teachers. 

EduBlogs - Blogs and Websites for Teachers, Students and Schools Since 2005, Edublogs has grown into the largest educational blogging network in the world The team believe that blogging transforms the educational experience of students and have seen first hand how Edublogs increases ownership of learning, engages students, and becomes a source of pride in the classroom. Edublogs is a project of the prominent WordPress company Incsub; the same team behind CampusPress and WPMU DEV.

Education Analytics They use data to help make better decisions on policies and programs that help schools and students succeed. Started out as an outgrowth of Dr. Rob Meyer’s work on school and educator effectiveness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they have been expanding ever since.
At present they are profiled as a non-profit organization working across the US to solve tough problems with real and actionable solutions

Education City - Kids Educational Games and Teacher Resources (now merged with Edmentum) EducationCity is one of the leading online teaching, learning and assessment resources. It was established in 1999 and now has subscribers in over 70 countries worldwide. Ideal for children aged between 3-12 years old and children with SEN of all ages, EducationCity’s engaging and interactive educational resources cover English, Mathematics, Science, Computing, French, Spanish and English as an additional language. Offering a variety of content types, it lends itself to group and whole-class instruction as well as personalised learning.

Educreations Interactive Whiteboard  suitable for educators and upper-class students. As an interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool, Educreations is an alternative to Explain Everything. Educreations allow you to explain any kind of concept in an interactive digital environment which means you can teach and learn from anywhere. The app allows you to approach each student individually by replaying their work and allowing them to learn at their own pace.

Edulastic – Allows teachers to create standards-aligned assessments quickly and get instant feedback from students to adjust learning.

EDUTOPIA The Edutopia Foundation is dedicated to transforming K-12 education so that all students can acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to thrive in their studies, careers, and adult lives. Founded by innovative and award-winning filmmaker George Lucas in 1991, we take a strategic approach to improving K-12 education through two distinct areas of focus: Edutopia and Lucas Education Research.

EDUTOPIA Using Digital Tools in the Music Classroom. Apps and tools are changing the way students learn to play an instrument, but there’s no getting around the need for lots of practice.

EdX—Another bank of online courses for personalized learning. This tool features content from many top universities around the world.

Empress is an easy to use presentation generator that allows users to easily incorporate flash and other media into their presentations. This is a free online application that can be used to help teachers and students create visually rich presentations.

Engrade This innovative platform provides teachers with an all-in-one grade book that offers attendance charts, grade books, calendars, seating charts, behavior tracking, and more. It also gives teachers access to 3rd party lesson content, the ability to create custom tests aligned with common core standards, and a way to track individual student progress.

Epic! Epic! Is a digital library aimed at students 12 and younger. It contains over 35,000 digital books, organized by age group as well as genre. In classrooms or homes with limited books, students can use Epic! to improve their reading comprehension skills and find books that match their interests. Teachers can also use it to set up reading contests within their classroom, have students write reviews of the books they read, and use it for read aloud times. Cost: Free (for teachers and librarians)

Escape Adventure Island: This Jump Start title is one of many the company offers on the Wii platform. Through it, young learners engage with a 3D environment that helps them to practice math, reading, and critical thinking skills, earning virtual rewards as they go.

eSurvey Creator A tool that allows teachers to quickly and easily build questionnaires and surveys. There is a free option but it’s for a limited period of time.

Evernote is another top contender among the best writing apps for Windows and MAC, which is used to create notes. From the perspective of a professional writer, this piece of software can come in handy as a storage place for useful links, plans for future articles, and random thoughts to be elaborated later on. In general, you can make good use of Evernote if you need to note down ideas and useful information about your content.

Expeditions – Google Expeditions is an immersive education app that allows teachers and students to explore the world through over 1000 virtual-reality (VR) and 100 augmented-reality (AR) tours. You can swim with sharks, visit outer space, and more without leaving the classroom.

Explain Everything - Collaborative, Interactive Whiteboard App Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard app with real-time collaboration that lets you animate, record, annotate, collaborate, and explore ideas, knowledge and understanding. Explain Everything provides teachers and students an opportunity to share thinking, reflect upon knowledge building, and assess both products and processes of learning.

Exploratorium Science Exhibits Free science activities for all ages.

Facing History and Ourselves. A wealth of resources explore racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism. These valuable materials empower students to understand and address difficult ethical choices -- past and present.

Fish School From the creators of DuckDuckMoose, Fish School is made with kids 2 and up in mind. It teaches young learners about colors, letters, numbers, and shapes through matching games. Your little one’s finger controls the schools of fish, which can form into letters, shapes, and the numbers 1 through 20. Geared towards young children, this game uses cute fish graphics to teach the alphabet, numbers, shapes, and colors.

Five Card Flickr– Designed to foster visual thinking, this tool uses the tag feature from photos in Flickr.

Flipgrid - Video for Student Engagement and Formative Assessment Flipgrid is video platform used in over 50,000 classrooms to empower student voice and ignite discussion. In Flipgrid, teachers post discussion topics to which students respond via video, creating a social learning environment that provides every student an equal voice and increases engagement. With the advent and increasing popularity of short video based communication a la Snapchat, Instagram Stories and more, allowing students to communicate and learn through a medium they are familiar with can improve engagement and knowledge retention. Created ‘grids’ can also be embedded or connected with a variety of other platforms such as Blackboard, Wordpress, Moodle and more.

Floop is a cloud-based website where students can receive annotated feedback from teachers and peers. Students upload images of an assignment to the platform, and teachers put markers in places where they want to provide written feedback. Students are able to see and respond to comments, creating a feedback loop that allows teachers to see patterns of student learning. Students get the feedback they need when they need it. Give feedback 4x faster than traditional methods with a digital dropbox and comment banks.

Flubaroo - Easy Grading of Assignment and Assessments Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. More than just a grading tool, Flubaroo also computes average assignment score, computes average score per question and flags low-scoring questions. It can also display a grade distribution graph, gives you the option to email each student their grade and an answer key, and finally provides the facility to send individualised feedback to each student.

Focus Booster—This is a time tracking and productivity app. It works off the Pomodoro technique. It features instant timesheet recording and visual progress graphs.

Focuswriter is a distraction-free text-editor with efficient features like an autonomous spell check, focusing function (highlight fragments of text you are currently working on), a selection of visual themes, convenient text navigation, and extensive support for major operating systems. Another key feature of a Focuswriter is its ability to launch the app right from a flash drive, while you can also launch it on your pocket devices without any problems.

ForAllRubrics This software is free for all teachers and allows you to import, create, and score rubrics on your iPad, tablet, or smartphone. You can collect data offline with no internet access, compute scores automatically, and print or save the rubrics as a PDF or spreadsheet.

Formative—This is an amazing formative assessment app. Create an assignment and get live results from students. Present them with real-time feedback in an instant, too.

Fuencytutor Track and assess oral reading progress and identify gaps and fluency development delays caused by reduced access to school

Foundry College A very innovative and new approach to the college environment. Courses are live and replicate the traditional classroom environment. The scrolling video grid lets students see their classmates and instructor continuously, but without overwhelming them by looking at all the students all the time. Learners can ‘raise their hand’ to ask questions and immediately get answers, and the chat feature provides continuous interaction. In breakout groups, students can see and speak directly with their classmates and the instructor. Additionally, the Forge is enhanced with tech-enabled data collection, reporting, and analytics. There is simply no other product on the market today with these important data- and science-driven features.

Fraction Mash Face mash-ups plus fractions equal goofy, meaningful play. Math-flavored goofy fun is great for casual exposure to fractions, but will need thoughtful integration if used as a dedicated learning tool.

Free Rice – This unique tool is great for building vocabulary. For every correct answer you choose, 10 grains of rice are raised to help end world hunger through the World Food Programme. While your students play this vocabulary game, they learn while donating food to people in need.

FreeOnlineSurveys – Allows teachers to create surveys, quizzes, forms, and polls quickly and easily.

FunBrain Jr. A fun place to earn color by number, complete the set game, beach day to find the difference.

FunBrain: There are dozens of learning games on this site that kids will love to play and you'll love for them to learn from. Reading Arcade, Math Baseball, and Grammar Gorillas are just a few that will become instant classics in your home.

Funzi gives the world’s billions of mobile users access to motivating and useful learning. An opportunity to develop practical skills to build a better tomorrow. High quality, relevant courses delivered with a combination of an effective pedagogy and an engaging experience. Our courses are available on funzi.mobi via any kind of Internet-connected mobile devices - for learners to study anytime, anywhere.

FutureLearn Professional Development for Teachers Courses. Develop your teaching skills with flexible continuing professional development (CPD) courses for teachers.

futureU: Homeschooled kids getting ready to head to college? You may want to invest in this game (it's relatively cheap, so it's not really much of an investment), which helps prep students for the SAT.

Gamequarium: This site is full of learning-based games that focus on a wide range of skills and topics. From number games for kindergartners to Spanish help for middle schoolers, and even a special section for homeschoolers.

Gamestar Mechanic: You can help your video game-loving kid to embrace tech skills through this game, which allows young players to design and build their own video games.

GapMinder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

GarageBand Amazingly powerful audio workstation unleashes creativity. There's exceptional functionality in this solid, all-inclusive audio workstation that's fantastic for high-quality, anytime, and anywhere audio recording and sharing.

Geddit Play makes it easy to design and build unique, real-world challenges and treasure hunts so you can connect with your audience and grow your business.

Geogebra. GeoGebra is an interactive geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus application, intended for learning and teaching mathematics and science from primary school to university level. 

Gimkit is a super innovative live quiz learning platform in which students answer questions on their own device at their own pace. Gimkit can be used in any classroom to introduce or review concepts; it's like a mashup of Kahoot! and Quizlet. The live gameplay is fast-paced and engaging like a game show, but when it's assigned for independent practice, Gimkit allows students to review on their own with many of the same game mechanics. 

Ginger– an app based on natural language processing algorithms, is also among the most striking writing apps today.  Ginger’s algorithms allow it to recognize context and discover errors in the most complicated areas of a text making its text-recognizing efficiency superior to most other editing writing apps. Since the service is also available in the form of a cross-platform mobile application, it makes it a top choice among the writing apps for Android and iOS as well.

Global Oneness Project Captivating, cross-curricular stories increase cultural awareness. Teachers looking to enrich their curriculum with high-quality, thought-provoking videos and photos will find plenty of inspiration, but may need to create or fine-tune some lessons.

Glogster EDU is a global education platform that empowers students and educators to create interactive online posters that include text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, and much more. Glogster encourages students to take control of their own learning in a fun way by promoting independent thought, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving. Glogster also provides teachers with strategies to implement curriculum into projects, promote skill mastery, facilitate digital literacy, and encourage innovation and collaboration.

Gnowledge Teachers can create and share tests with not only students, but with other teachers as well. This gives teachers multiple test resources and also promotes student understanding, as it randomizes test questions and answers, allowing students to take tests multiple times without making the material stagnant.

Go Noodle - Get Kids Moving Go Noodle gamifies movement and exercise, getting kids out of their seats and allowing them to be energetic, playful and and active - with a touch of silliness mixed in just for good measure.

GoBoard is a free online tool that combines video chatting and an interactive canvas. Students can simply create a GoBoard on the site, share the link with a friend and start learning. GoBoard was designed to help students collaborate one-on-one, on virtually any topic. All in browser with nothing to download.

GoNoodle offers movement and mindfulness videos that are the perfect substitute for your child’s regularly scheduled school gym class. The app aims to provide children with physical, academic, and social-emotional tools and overall wellness. GoNoodle has videos for children of all abilities.

GoodHousekeeping. Bored at Home? Here's a Massive List of Museums, Zoos, and Theme Parks Offering Virtual Tours.

Google Arts & Culture Well-curated art history invites open-ended or directed exploration.An easily explored one-stop shop for a vast amount of compellingly curated and contextualized art and history resources, but it's lacking educator supports.

Google Classroom Epic! is the world’s leading online children’s subscription book service offering immediate, on-demand access to over 25,000 high-quality illustrated books and chapter books for children ages 12 and under. Epic!’s ever-expanding library also includes thousands of Read-to-Me books, audio books, educational videos, and fun educational quizzes. Partnerships with leading publishers, including HarperCollins and National Geographic, bring age-appropriate, award-winning fiction and non-fiction books to your child’s fingertips.

Google Classroom Question Tool Inside Google Classroom, you have the option to create a questions and share that with students. You can make this collaborative, or just have the answers viewable for you the teacher. This is not a robust threaded discussion tool like I wish it was, but it can be handy for formative assessments and to check for understanding.

Google Docs Google Docs is globally-renowned online writing software that lets you unload your local storage and work with a copy in your browser, using various useful gadgets for writers. The standout features of Google Docs include collective editing and autonomous editing mode, which allows users to save changes made in offline mode on reconnection to the Internet.

Google Earth Cool geographical exploration tool has endless classroom applications. Google Earth is an engaging and completely open-ended app perfect for use across the educational spectrum.

Google Forms – A Google Drive app that allows you to create documents that students can collaborate on in real time using smartphones, tablets, and laptops.

Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle and air, or public transportation

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines

Google’s Digital Literacy Curriculum This comprehensive curriculum created by the world’s most powerful search engine came frequently and heartily recommended by our educational technology experts. Three chapters are covered, including online search skills, managing your online identity, and avoiding scams online. The curriculum is free and can be explored in one or two days.

GoSoapBox Free for less than 30 students, this all-student response system works with the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model, so no charge for a clicker. One of the most intriguing features is the Confusion Meter.

Gracie & Friends Birthday Cafe-Numbers and quantity game. Super approach to teaching a very specific topic: Help kids develop an easy familiarity with quantities under five.

Gradecam simplifies and streamlines everything teachers already do – from creating forms and scoring assignments to analyzing data and transferring grades

GradeHound – Grade Hound helps you manage your classes, organize your assignments, and track your grades. The planner app makes organization easier than ever and helps you track grade progressions. Add classes, assignments, events, notes, and grades. Schedule multiple reminders and repeat schedules. If you specify a repeat schedule, on a per-event and per-assignment basis, you can specify whether you’d like to use block or weekly based scheduling.

Grammarly is arguably one of the most talked-about writing apps for MAC and Windows. It can help you check the spelling, grammar, punctuation, and even give pieces of advice on the tone of your copy. Grammarly’s “Tone” feature allows you to set customizable goals regarding the intent, audience, style, and the emotion of the text. It then measures a score of how well the text meets the goals that were set.

Graphing Calculator An actual graphing calculator like the TI-84 will still cost you around $100, but you'll find plenty of apps with the same functionality. This app by Mathlab is one of the nicest ones we've seen, and it appears to work really well too. Over 10,000 people on the Play Store rated it 5-stars - and aside from the functionality, which you will find in a lot of different apps, we liked this one for its design, which is better than most similar apps. You can also try out BisMag Calculator 3D. This app has similar features but also includes an equation solver and a currency and unit converter, along with a graphing calculator. This app will not be useful for everyone, but if the features described match your needs then this is a great option, and it's free too. Android users can get Graphing Calculator for free. This app is not available on iOS, but this Free Graphing Calculator is a good alternative, though it doesn't look as good.

Hackable? Hacking isn’t the way it looks in movies and TV, but it’s still a very real practice that, in the wrong hands, can jeopardize personal safety and national security. Host Geoff Siskind, along with cybersecurity expert Bruce Snell, explores the real world of cybercrime with the aim of helping you protect yourself against hackers.

Haiku Deck suitable for students and teachers. A digital tool with whose help you can easily make presentations on your iPad, iPhone, and on the web. The tool works online and offers a huge database of stock photos with which you can create image-based slides. Haiku Deck makes it easy to create presentations on the go and literally carry them in your pocket. Haiku Deck can be also integrated into Google Classroom which has been very popular lately.

Hardcore History is, in my humble opinion, the best podcast. It’s almost unfair to call it a podcast, because each episode of Dan Carlin’s brilliant show is on par with an audiobook – both in terms of production value and quality of research. The fact that his most recent episodes have been trending towards five hours in length or more doesn’t hurt the comparison either.

Headspace – Studying and teaching can be incredibly stressful. To help manage your stress, Headspace is a digital service that provides guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training. And it’s available in app form, so you can meditate anywhere you go. For just 10-minutes a day, meditating with Headspace will help you and your students unwind and be present.

Hearing Music: Give students ages 5-11 a fun way to boost hearing skills and learn more about music by supplying them with this fun game-based learning method.

Hegarty Maths - School Maths. Sorted. The Hegarty Maths vision was to try and take as much of what makes a great classroom teacher and put it into an online format so this included: well-thought out maths explanations with carefully modelled examples, all learning built on pre-requisite knowledge, all videos followed by bespoke assessments perfectly matching the video and finally a simple and easy to use tracking system that allowed teachers to focus on pupils' mistakes whilst making the collection of tracking data easy. The platform was built on what the founders wished they always had as maths teachers.

Hemingway Editor Hemingway is an interactive editor you should try if you wish to make your writing simpler and more accessible to the reader. By simply copying and pasting your work into the Hemingway editor, you can view all the areas of improvement and optimization in your text, such as: which sentences can be shortened, which words can be replaced with other more fitting words or phrases, where passive voice can be removed, etc.

High-Adventure Science  Highly relevant site teaches how to construct arguments, defend claims. Provides a crucial and timely earth science backdrop to lessons on analysis, data, and modeling that are important for all students to grasp.

HippoCampus With over 3,000 free videos in 13 different subjects, HippoCampus is brought to you by the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education. You can find classes on arithmetic, algebra and geometry, natural science, chemistry, social science, history and government, English, religion, and more.

Hologo is made for Education. Where ever you maybe, look through the lens of your device into your real world and get projections of lifelike virtual images and animations customized for learning. With Hologo you can choose an experience, walk up to and around the educational AR models. Users can zoom in and break apart objects and dive deep into the models.

Homer. Proven Learn-to-Read Program for Kids 2-8.

Homeroom Mom (Parent)—A unique online support community. They share tips and tools for working with parents and teachers. They’ve also got ideas for all sorts of class projects.

Hooked On Phonics uses a proven, fun method to teach critical reading skills. Developed by leading educators, each session takes just 20 minutes or less.

Hoopla is your own personal library. Everything on the app is always available for immediate virtual check-out, and it’s FREE. Hoopla is especially popular for its wide selection of audiobooks, comics, and graphic novels. Plus, it has a dedicated “Kids Mode,” making it easier for everyone to find books they’ll love.

How Would You Feel If... (iOS; Android) poses that question in 56 different life situations designed to lead to discussions of a child's reaction and feelings. Each illustrated "card" asks a question, such as, "How would you feel if your favorite football team lost?" The appropriate and inappropriate responses receive feedback, and a child's results can be viewed on a graph.

IBM Analytics for Education is committed to the lifelong education of the world’s students. Through IBM Analytics, we are helping education leaders around the world transform education by identifying students at risk and keeping them in school, assisting educational institutions navigate uncertain budgeting decisions and maximizing interconnected relationships.

iBrainstorm An iPad app that allows students to collaborate on projects using a stylus or their finger on screen.

iMathematics lets you type in equations and solves them for you. The paid version can solve a wider range of equations than Photomath does. Aside from this, the app also includes various learning modules, which we discuss in more detail in the section below. The only downside is that unlike Photomath however, with iMathematics, you have to enter the equations manually - you can't just take a picture of the equations. iMathematics is available for free on iOS and Android. You can unlock the pro version with an in-app purchase.

Insert Learning - Insert instructional content on any web page. With InsertLearning, teachers turn web pages into interactive lessons by inserting questions, videos, discussions, insight and more into the text. Students stay focused, engaged, and active participants in their learning by annotating text, answering text-dependent (“un-googleable”) questions, and live discussions.  The platform also gives teachers and students access to a curated search engine of quality content on the Internet including textbooks, primary sources, stories, and the news. InsertLearning is a Google Classroom Partner and was designed for Chromebooks.

Inside Mathematics Dynamic videos and printables support CCSS math practices. An excellent, free resource for educators who need support and inspiration for teaching and addressing CCSS and mathematical practices.

Instructables – is a website specializing in user-created and uploaded DIY projects. Instructables has a ton of awesome projects for teachers to do with their classes and supports teachers and students by providing free premium membership. Cooking, crafts, costumes, outdoor play, technology, etc.

Intellify Learning They give you the ability to track learning activities across all platforms and tools used, gauge student engagement and performance including identifying students at risk, and inform and monitor remedial activities. Education providers are also able to monitor activity and performance of courses and programs, and identify areas for data-informed iterative improvements.

Istation - Computer-Adaptive Assessments, Instruction, and More Istation (aka Imagination Station) is an award-winning, comprehensive e-learning program used by more than four million students and educators around the world. Known for its accurate assessments, engaging curriculum, and trusted teacher tools, Istation helps students in prekindergarten through 8th grade achieve academic growth.

iTouchiLearn Feelings for Preschool Kids, by iTouchiLearn apps, presents several animated situations and asks players to match the emotion, based on facial expression

 IXL - Maths and English Practice IXL Learning are passionate about creating and supporting the best educational technology possible. They develop groundbreaking products used by millions of learners, from children to adults to make learning as effective as it can be. IXL are committed to solving the real-world challenges faced by students and teachers around the planet. From a 2-year-old starting to count, to a university student tackling a foreign language, from teachers creating educational games for their class, to parents reviewing concepts with their kids. IXL’s Maths product alone is used by over 10% of US schoolchildren, who have answered a whopping 26 billion questions to date!

Jam Campus Education: That’s us! Jam Campus is a premium K-12 educational song library that your students are guaranteed to love. Including many popular school topics, Jam Campus uses catchy hip-hop and pop beats to create the internet’s best science songs, math songs, and history songs. A brilliant tool for teachers to introduce topics to their classroom. 

Join Our Class – This is a personalized parent-teacher communication portal that offers a simple dashboard for viewing news, announcements, blog posts, birthdays, and photos all in one place.

Junyo Committed to improving how schools teach and how students learn, Junyo plans to leverage the enormous power of big-data analytics to help improve the educational system and the individual learning process.

Kahoot! is an educational platform that is based on games and questions. Through this tool, teachers can create questionnaires, discussions, or surveys that complement academic lessons. The material is projected in the classroom and questions are answered by students while playing and learning at the same time. Kahoot! promotes game-based learning, which increases student engagement and creates a dynamic, social, and fun educational environment.

Kaizena An online tool for providing students with real-time feedback on their digitally-uploaded work. Teachers can highlight or speak to give verbal feedback and attach teacher-created, reusable resources to student work.

Ken Burns in the Classroom Critically acclaimed documentaries repackaged meaningfully for classrooms. Top-notch documentary clips offer opportunities to expand students' perspectives, but some lesson materials might be underwhelming.

Khan Academy a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Personalized learning: Students practice at their own pace, first filling in gaps in their understanding and then accelerating their learning. Created by experts, Khan Academy’s library of trusted practice and lessons covers math, science, and more. Always free for learners and teachers.

Kidblog - Safe Student Publishing  Kidblog empowers students to write with a meaningful purpose for a real audience, and enables them to connect with other classes down the hallway, across your district, or around the world. With Kidblog, students are practicing digital citizenship within a secure environment. With no manual curation required, Kidblog enables schools to document student learning over time. Students' portfolios are built automatically across classes, demonstrating growth year-over-year. Parents can celebrate their children's achievements throughout their academic journey.

Kloog 2: Return to Zugopolis: Available for iOS and Android. An award-winning app designed for kids with autism but helpful for everyone. Discusses what friends are and how to be one, including how to deal with disagreements. Made in Ireland, it might have a more restrictive definition of a “friend” than in the United States, but it does help define real friendship. Good for students 8 and up.

Knewton is an impressive US startup providing a platform that aims at facilitating adaptive learning through data analysis. By analyzing real-time performance data of students, Knewton Alta, its higher ed solution, helps professors adapt their courses to each of their students and track their progress. Knewton provides also its own verified online courses that will automatically adapt to students' progress. Finally, Knewton provides a complete Learning analytics solution for enterprises, focusing on the best data and insights to help educators adapt and improve their content according to learners' needs. Knewton is already quite famous, but their continuous improvement is just fantastic.

Kodable-coding For Kids teaches kids the basics of many current programming languages, such as JavaScript. The game uses an interactive story to introduce the fundamentals of computer science—concepts include object-oriented programming, properties and conditional logic statements.

Kwiksurveys This is a great tool for creating custom polls, surveys, and quizzes that can be instantly shared through social media, or posted to teacher websites or blogs.

KwizzBit – is a unique interactive quiz and audience participation platform. Using a smartphone or internet-enabled device, students can play and interact in real time. KwizzBit allows both the player and the host to engage seamlessly in interactive entertainment.

Labster - Empowering the Next Generation of Scientists to Change the World Labster is a company dedicated to developing fully interactive advanced lab simulations based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations. They combine these with gamification elements such as an immersive 3D universe, storytelling and a scoring system which stimulates students’ natural curiosity and highlights the connection between science and the real world.

Learn Around The World - Virtual Field Trips Learn Around The World are constantly thinking of how they can leverage technology to bring new and unique programs to your classroom. Their sole mission is to provide you with fun, interactive and meaningful programs that will not only flatten your classroom, but increase student engagement and enthusiasm. Learn Around The World are your go-to guide to the world providing virtual field trips, guest speakers, and collaborations. They strive to make programs interactive, unique and an experience that will get your students excited about global education.

Learn Science: Filled with fun mini-games, this title for the Nintendo DS is a great way to help kids practice their science knowledge. There are different game modes and difficulty levels that will extend play to a wide range of learners.

Learn The Orchestra is a fun and interactive music playing and learning application, for kids and adults. Follow the conductor’s lead as you learn about all the instruments in the orchestra and some great musicians who played them. Then step up to the conductor’s podium and choose one of the included classic orchestral pieces to interact with the whole orchestra, or take control and play the instruments on your own.’

Learnmetrics, a data analysis platform, collects, connects and analyzes school data and provides educators with metrics and analytics. No setup, no configuration and no IT support required. We just connect the data to the platform and use our dashboard to bring your data to life.

LearnSprout is an online data insights service for K-12 educators. It is the only education analytics solution available that uses live data directly from a district’s student information system. LearnSprout combines assessment results, course grades, and attendance to provide actionable insights into student and school performance. Supported by simple setup, and clear, purposeful design, LearnSprout creates an experience that engages and informs.

Legends of Learning - Learning Games That Give Your Lessons Superpowers Legends of Learning is an online game-based learning platform with over 1000 games and simulations covering 3rd-8th grade science curricula. Since launching in March 2017, more than 30,000 teachers have deployed Legends of Learning games to 250,000+ students. Games are organized on the Legends of Learning Platform into 147 different learning objectives across Earth and Space, Life, and Physical Sciences, making it easy for teachers to locate the subject matter they need. Most learning objectives contain 8-10 different games. Teachers can read fellow educators' reviews, curriculum concepts, and discussion questions for each game, and give it a try themselves.

Lessoncast was developed to increase teaching preparedness and professional development. Each of the “lessons” is a video roughly three minutes long, created for teachers, by teachers. The videos cover topics ranging from strategies for teaching more effectively, overviews of lesson plans, and tips for being a more organized teacher. The videos also have supplementary resources users can download and clear outlines of what users should take away from each video. If you’re a teacher who wants to learn more about how other teachers teach and what has worked for them, Lessoncast is a great way to get this information. However; you need to be part of a “community” (typically a university or school district) that has partnered with it to access the videos. Cost: Free if you’re a member of a partner community.

Let’s Be Social PRO (iOS) is designed to help teachers, parents, and professionals teach social skills and communication. The app contains 25 pre-made social lessons that address everything from personal interactions and school behavior to handling change and social relationships. Let’s Be Social also includes the ability to customize your own lessons, so it can be used for any age group and situation.

Library of Congress Teacher Resources offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching. Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations.

LibreOffice is a complete package of free writing tools that allow users to work with various text and graphics formats. It is available in both desktop and web versions, and contains writing apps for Windows as LibreOffice Writer (for text files’ editing with additional visual HTML editor available), LibreOffice Calc (for digital sheets and tables’ editing), LibreOffice Draw (for the vector graphics creation), LibreOffice Impress (for presentations), LibreOffice Base (for connection with external DBMSs and HSQLDBs), and LibreOffice Math (for mathematical formula’s editing).

Lifeliqe - Interactive 3D Models to Augment Classroom Learning Lifeliqe is the world's first learning platform that enables users to drag & drop any of its 1,000 interactive 3D and augmented reality models into lesson plans, e-books and other learning resources. Students, teachers and homeschoolers can access premium, ready-to-use 3D models and lesson plans for learning, creating and sharing their own content. Lifeliqe's mission is to spark in students memorable light bulb moments and create a passion for lifelong learning. Lifeliqe is now also available in virtual reality as HTC Vive's strategic partner for educational VR content.

Lightsail—An e-reading program that helps teachers support independent reading in students. You can monitor progress and give assessment and feedback in real time.

Lino A virtual corkboard of sticky notes so students can provide questions or comments on their learning. These can be used like exit tickets or during the course of a lesson.

LittleBIGPlanet 2 not only boasts some amazing graphics, but it is also a great game for getting kids to develop problem solving skills. Players navigate through a rich landscape, finding objects along the way, many of which can be used to solve puzzles that will challenge young minds.

LiveBinders This tool allows you to create a digital binder to organize all your online notes, lesson plans, and content. Anything from YouTube videos, PDFs, word documents, QR codes and more can be added to your LiveBinder, with the bonus that you won’t have to carry a heavy physical binder around if you want access to all this information. Teachers can send students information to be put into their own LiveBinders, and they can also share LiveBinders or information in their LiveBinders with other teachers to make collaboration easier. Cost: Free

Magic School Bus Oceans: This is just one of many Magic School Bus games out there, all of which can be amazing ways for young learners to have fun while surreptitiously being educated. In this game, kids will explore the ocean through a series of lessons and seven different educational games.

Manga High: Math gets a fun makeover on this site, focusing on game-based learning for students at a wide range of levels. Basic games are free, but the full suite will cost you.

Marshmallow Coding—A fun unique way for younger students to learn the power of code.

Math Blaster: One of the most widely used math games out there, this free game will make learning math more fun than ever for your young learners.

Math Games With more than 21 math-related, interactive games, Math Games makes the impossible possible—AKA makes math fun! Kids also have the option to practice their math by grade: from Pre-K up to eighth grade. Alternatively, students can also practice by skill—from addition and estimation to mixed equations and money.

Math Science Music  Thoughtful tools teach STEM skills through music and creativity. Limited but quality content gives STEM teachers a new toolset for fostering engagement and understanding.

Math Snacks- Satisfying mathematical treats kids will gladly gobble up. Teachers and students will excel with engaging, often funny material; it's a pleasure to explore these extensive resources.

MathBrix - Teaching the World Maths Brix believe that every Maths student should have the support they require to fulfill their Mathematical potential, both in the classroom and at home. Brix is the only Maths learning platform in the world engineered around a deeply researched pedagogy designed to deliver impact. Their approach is focussed on increasing student engagement, confidence and enjoyment in order to drive achievement

Mathematicus is a good app if you have trouble remembering mathematical formulae. The app serves as a database for all important formulae and you can just fire it up anytime and look for what you need. It stacks these formulae by topics, which means you can find all trigonometry formulae under one group and so on. The app doesn't do too many things, but for the specific use of looking up formulae, it's pretty much the best bet. Mathematicus is free on Windows Phone.

MathGames A trusted source for math practice.

Mathmateer: At less than a dollar, this excellent math-learning game is a real value, especially as it has been named one of the best games for kids by a number of sources. It certainly helps make math fun, providing players with a whopping 56 different math missions.

Matific For teachers looking for STEM teaching tools, Matific is a great aid for teaching students math. The site contains math-focused lesson plans, videos, and practice problems, categorized by subject and grade level (K-6). Students can work through creative and interactive “episodes” to learn different mathematics concepts, then test their knowledge by taking the site’s adaptive worksheets. There are multiple assessment methods, and teachers can review student results. Cost: Varies depending on plan purchased, but typically ranges from $20 to $60/month.

MEDIUM 10 Apps to Build Employability and Soft Skills.

Mental Floss 12 World-Class Museums You Can Visit Online.

Mentimeter enables teachers to send out questions to students and allow them to instantly vote on them or send feedback though mobile phones or tablets. This is a great way to democratize the classroom by voting on topics or activities, and a very effective tool for issuing pop quizzes.

Meritnation is the digital equivalent of a guide book for Indian students. It covers the syllabus from class 6 to 12, for CBSE, ICSE and state boards of Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Free on Android and iOS, the mathematics section includes problems from each chapter and gives you the solution. For students in India who want to use an app specifically to help prepare for their exams, this will be useful. The app does require a mandatory registration, and asks for your mobile number, and much of the advanced content is also unlocked through the Meritnation website. That does mean that you can unlock access on multiple platforms, but it's slightly inconvenient otherwise. Meritnation is free on iOS and Android.

Merlot provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers. Free research tool.

Meschool 4 Me is a free homeschooling resource that provides downloadable worksheets and resources for parents who are new to homeschooling. Aside from worksheets, you can download everything from Alphabet Playdough Mats to Sandwich Book Report forms.

Micropoll A great tool for quickly creating polls and analyzing responses. Polls can be embedded into websites as well.

Microsoft Digital Literacy Curriculum Microsoft offers a free introduction to digital literacy through this site, as well as resources for teaching digital literacy.

Microsoft Learn Classes for Microsoft products including Azure, Microsoft Edge, Office and Windows.

Microsoft Notepad MS Notepad along with Mac TextEdit is another writing tool that will come in handy for those who prefer simple and concise text editor software over complex and confusing programs. This software works autonomously supports an offline mode and does not take too much space on one’s hard drive. MS Notepad and Mac TextEdit are both practically identical solutions that are compatible with both Windows and macOS (the latter version allows working with both native-format documents and MS Word or OpenOffice files).

Middle School Confidential is a collection of digitally rendered graphic novels designed for children aged 8-14. It aims to help tweens and teenagers tackle their lack of self-confidence with an easy-to-navigate story. The app explores many situations that are difficult for teens, especially in a school context, where self-confidence (or lack thereof) plays an important role in the outcome of social experiences. Bullying, positive self-image and social interactions, friendship, and critical thinking are all subjects that are explored and discussed in Middle School Confidential.

Mindmeister is a great mind-mapping tool that can help students develop and organize project ideas. This free app encourages collaborative brainstorming, where students can wok together to plan and analyze potential projects.

Mindsnacks: Language learning in homeschool can be hard if you're not totally fluent, but games like Mindsnacks can help, quizzing learners on basic vocabulary words in English, Chinese, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

Minecraft: Minecraft isn't just an educational game, it's become a nationwide phenomenon. As this Slate piece discusses, the addictive game has captivated students and parents alike. Why? It inspires creativity and problem solving while also being just, well, fun.

Model Me Going Places 2 by Model Me Kids LLC. Available for iOS only, this app offers social stories through photographs of children, showing how to behave in a variety of scenarios, including the playground, at the mall, and waiting in line.

Monkey Drum ‘Making music has never been so fun, or so easy! Play realistic instruments and watch as little jungle animals copy your tunes. See their funny reactions as you feed them bananas, spin them, or bop them on the head! Make them happy and see them reward you with a special song!’

Montessori Crosswords: Filled with hands-on, Montessori tested activities, this game will help improve spelling skills.

MoodleLMS  Moodle is the world's most popular learning management system. Start creating your online learning site in minutes!

MooseMath  Duck Duck Moose is an education company that is now part of Khan Academy. In this math-focused app, kids help a burly moose and his friends do various tasks around town. They’ll use counting to help make juice or find hidden animals. There’s also a shape game and a couple of games that use addition and subtraction. The five games have different levels, but your child will have to progress through them instead of skipping ahead.

Morton Subotnick's Pitch Painter presents a new way for your kids to create music. Pitch Painter is a musical finger painting app that is simple yet surprisingly sophisticated. While engaged in creative musical play, the child will be introduced to a variety of musical instrumental sounds and authentic scale tunings from four regions of the world.’

Mr.Printables – Enjoy tons of fresh ideas for preschool learning, kids activities, kids crafts, party printables, holiday fun and even DIYs for beautiful kids room decorations.

Music Therapy Tunes: On this site ,you’ll find quality songs for teaching kids of all ages – from toddlers to teens. There are songs to teach language skills, social skills, conceptual skills and many more. The site also included music therapy lesson plans for teachers, with song lyrics and chords as well as an informative blog page helpful for teachers.

Musical Futures Multimedia-rich magazine highlights free international music curriculum. An exciting launchpad for engagement connects to a vibrant, growing community of music teachers.

Musical Instruments ‘A Montessori approach to learning about different musical instruments…In the Learning Center, learn about 27 different musical instruments, including, acoustic guitar, violin and piano. Learn their names, descriptions and listen to sound clips for each instrument.’

Musical Me - by Duck Duck Moose. Lively activities introduce kids to music, rhythm, and instruments.

Musical Paint for Kids. Create digital drawings, explore musical tones. 

My First Classical Music App HD Inviting, interactive app makes learning classical music fun.My First Classical Music App is a great interactive introduction to the Western classical music tradition.

My Modern MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY), 20+ of the Best Free Online Resources From Art Institutions Around the World.

My Simple Show - Create your own explainer video in minutes The My Simple Show video maker tool allows users to create professional educational explainer videos in minutes. The tool is a great resource to be used inside or outside the classroom, both for teachers and students. To create a video, users simply choose a storyline and write the script, copy the script from a document, or upload a PowerPoint, and My Simple Show will create the video for you, with graphics and voiceover.

My Word Coach: Available for both Wii and Nintendo DS, this linguist-developed game will help students improve their verbal communication skills through six different fun, word-related games. Even better, the game comes complete with a built-in dictionary loaded with over 17,000 words.

myHistro allows students to create interactive timelines by combining blogging, media, and Google maps to tell personal stories. Students can create personalized maps that tell about ones family, ancestors, special memories, or other aspects of their history and future. This can be presented in a slideshow and can be a great way to get students to creatively tell their own life stories or focus on historical events.

myHomework – Many schools choose to use myHomework as a substitute for the paper planner. Overall this tool helps grow planning and organizational skills, eliminate missing assignments, reduce stress/anxiety for students, and improve college & career readiness.

MyScript Calculator 2 This app recognises your handwriting, so you can draw equations on the screen and it will solve them right away. It supports basic arithmetic, square and cube roots, apart from trigonometry, logarithms and percentages. You can also draw "2 + ? = 10" and it will tell you the correct answer. We like this app very much, but it doesn't always recognise handwriting perfectly. Getting it to perform a simple cube root calculation was a problem because it couldn't recognise our input properly. But when it does work, this app is pretty handy. MyScript Calculator is free on iOS and Android.

MyTimesTables – A fun and effective way for kids to learn their times tables. Helps children to learn their first 20 times tables in a fun way.

Naiku Teachers can easily and quickly create quizzes that students can answer using their mobile devices. Great for checking for understanding before and after a lesson.

Nancy Drew: Encourage your kids to hone their critical thinking and problem-solving skills by playing this fun PC game that challenges them to solve a mystery as girl detective Nancy Drew.

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program Wildly engaging contest turns students into novelists in 30 days. A thoughtful adaptation of the famous and fun grown-up novel writing contest, NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program is brimming with advice and encouragement as well as classroom support.

NASA Kids’ Club Space “missions” to learn about math, science and problem-solving.

National Center For Teacher Professional Development. The main goal of Teacher's Professional Development Center is to improve teaching quality at schools, set high standards of teaching and learning, as well as to raise teachers' status. Since 2008, the Center carries out its activities in two main priority areas: Professional development of teachers; Attracts qualified staff; Creates positive environment for the new candidates to support them during preparation process and help them grow professionals.

National Gallery of Art, free resources for teachers. Free tours of the museum. Art in the Classroom activities.

National Geographic Challenge: Bolster your kids' geographic knowledge with the help of this fun Xbox game, which allows players to quiz themselves, complete puzzles, or explore the world.

National Geographic Education Free educational resources on world geography for teachers and their classrooms. Amazing photo collections.

National Museum of Natural History - Virtual Tours The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile device. Visitors can also access select collections and research areas at our satellite support and research stations as well as past exhibits no longer on display.

Nearpod This tool is nice in that you can not only gather evidence of student learning, like an all-student response system, but you can also create differentiated lessons based on the data you collected. The basic version (30 students or less) is free.

NEO is a learning management system for schools and universities. NEO is an online learning platform that helps schools manage all classroom activities, such as creating and delivering educational content, assessing students, tracking their results, and promoting communication and collaboration between students and teachers/faculty.

New American History. For grades 4 and up, New American History is a completely customizable way to homeschool your student in social studies. Once you log on, you can choose an individual subtopic of history, the reading level, grade level, learning strategy, and more.

Newsela – A great collection of online resources and articles.

Northstar Digital Literacy tests your computer skills. You can build skills in key areas, and demonstrate your knowledge by earning certificates and badges. Prepare for your future now! Northstar is a program of Literacy Minnesota.

Notability—Note-taking was never this much fun. It’s a feature-rich tool available for Mac devices. Write, sketch, and interact with your notes.

Noteflight Safe, collaborative space for creating and sharing original music. : This useful, well-constructed music composition tool lets classrooms collaborate and comment on student-created songs.

NOVA Compelling science videos have high-quality classroom applications. Stellar simulations, teacher guides, and other activities can stand on their own, and they're enhanced with high-quality video content.

NPR News Top-notch digital content takes students beyond the airwaves. Provides an easy, fun, and effective way to engage students with radio.

NRICH Untangle robust math problems for all ages; teacher support. an excellent classroom companion that can be implemented quickly with little adjustment and a high probability of success.

Obsurvey – Create surveys, polls, and questionnaires quickly and easily.

OEDb OpenEducationDatabase 50 Educational Video Games That Homeschoolers Love. Video games often get a bad rap. Some of that criticism may be deserved (many don't exactly encourage kids to get active), but video games aren't all bad. In fact, there are a number that are pretty darn educational and can help students young and old learn new things, develop problem-solving skills, and get creative, all while having a really great time. Many schools have already gotten on board with educational video games and homeschoolers can do the same. Here are some great games to try out that present quality educational content in a fun format that students from kindergarten to high school will love.

OER [Online Educational Resources] Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

OK Go Sandbox Creative music video-inspired STEAM design challenges. After watching OK Go music videos, kids will be excited to make new creations by integrating art, science, and math.

Old Man’s Journey Rather than include the developer description, we’ll explain why we included ‘Old Man’s Journey.’ In short, game-based learning is terribly under-utilized, and games like this are perfect examples of how far games have come. We could’ve—and wanted to—include two or three other games in this list, but using a video game for learning is difficult for many to wrap their heads around and/or get on board with, so we limited it to one. Just know that there are 100+ games that could change everything for your classroom no matter the grade level or content area, and this is just one (excellent) example

OliveGreeSuperMemo is one of the most renowned providers of digital education solutions globally. Its product range includes dozens of multimedia language courses available online and offline, for PCs and the latest mobile devices. The core technical solution powering SuperMemo products is the highly advanced algorithm invented by the company founders and collaborators. The algorithm is being constantly optimised to help clients remember more and faster than when using any other competitive solution.

Ology: Created by the Museum of Natural History, this game-filled site is an excellent resource for lessons in astronomy, biodiversity, genetics, paleontology, and more.

On Being “What does it mean to be human? How do we want to live? And who will we be to each other?” These are the questions that journalist and former diplomat Krista Tippet explores in On Being. Each episode is a conversation with a great thinker, artist, activist, or spiritual leader, and the topics are as varied as the guests. Whether or not you consider yourself “spiritual” or even “religious,” each episode will leave you with something to ponder.

OneLook is another accessible web service that can be a great assistant for professional writers. It is a complete online collection of dictionaries, where you can simply search for the meaning of words and get results from over 30 orthographic, linguistic, explanatory, and other anthologies. OneLook’s reverse dictionary feature is also an efficient tool for writers to look up exact words and synonyms by describing their definition. You should try it out if you want to enhance your vocabulary and knowledge of words.

Oregon Trail: Kids have been loving and learning from Oregon trail for decades now. This updated version for the iPad and iPhone is just as fun and boasts better graphics.

Osmo - Play Beyond the Screen Osmo is an award-winning game system that will change the way your child interacts with the iPad by opening it up to hands-on play. Tangible Play Inc. – the business behind the Osmo brand – was founded in 2013 by Pramod Sharma and Jerome Scholler, who set out to create “something awesome that inspires the youngest generation,” while at the same time addressing a concern of many parents about how to have their children interact with technology without losing the value of hands-on play.

Otter.ai Live audio transcripts, including for Zoom.

Overdrive. Most libraries use Overdrive for their e-book and online media lending. If kids have their own library card, they can set up an account. There’s a whole section dedicated to kids, so they can find books just for them. Cost: FREE

Ozobot - Smart toy robots to learn and play Ozobot launched in fall 2014 with the vision to create an innovative way to play, learn and socially interact in an ever-expanding digital world. Through game applications and creative curriculums, Ozobot introduces interactive robots by blending entertainment and education in the family room as well as the classroom. Their mission is to provide learners as well as gamers of all ages a new option to play, learn and interact as well as inspire them to make the jump from using technology to actively shaping and creating it.

Padlet suitable for the whole class to use. Padlet is a digital pinboard that allows participants (students and teachers) contribute by pinning different images, videos, text files, links, and more. Digital tools for classroom like Padlet motivate students to work together and brainstorm like a team. You can customize the background to a corkboard, blackboard, wood, sand, and many more options, the layout to a grid, stream, or freeform, as well as control who has access to the board.

Panorama Education is bringing the power of data to education through a SaaS platform used by hundreds of school districts across the US. They help school districts, charter networks, and state governments conduct surveys of students, parents, teachers, and staff. They believe that stakeholder feedback is a powerful professional development tool, and they believe that stakeholder surveys–when done correctly–make educator evaluation systems more fair and more effective.

Parade. Not a Teacher But Find Yourself Homeschooling? These Educational Apps Are Free.

Participate Participate is home to dozens of free communities and thousands of adult learners collaborating around topics such as game-based learning, project-based learning and teaching the global goals. With a Participate account you can still collect and store resources, just like before. Plus, you'll be able to connect with professional learners, take self-paced courses based on your interests, impact your professional practice and get recognized for your work; all in one place.

PBS (Public Broadcasting System) Kids. Games for kids and PBS Kids Measure Up Math apps.

PBS For Parents 8 Apps That Support Children’s Social-Emotional Growth. PBS KIDS and Sesame Workshop have designed several apps that support children’s social and emotional skills and offer helpful tips and advice for parents. Here are a few worth exploring.

PCalc There are several great scientific calculator apps on the iOS App Store, but PCalc takes the cake because it also has a beautiful Notification Centre widget. This means that you don't even need to launch the app when you need to perform calculations - just swipe down from the top of your screen no matter what you're doing and get started. PCalc is available for Rs. 620 on iOS, but there's a barebones free version too in case you want to try the app before buying.

PearDeck—A wonderful interactive presentation tool. Engage your whole class with presentations you control from your computer. Students respond to your built-in questions using a wide range of tools.

Peergrade – A platform that allows teachers to create assignments and upload rubrics. Students upload work and are anonymously assigned peer work to review according the rubric.

PenPal Schools Give students global perspective with pen pal projects in any subject. A thoughtful, ready-to-go platform that facilitates authentic, cross-cultural collaboration.

PhET Interactive Simulations Massive cache of excellent (and free!) science and math simulations. Instantly add meaningful lab experiences to math and science classrooms for exactly $0? It's tough to beat that.

Phidias School Management System is a web platform for the integral management of your educational center. Manage the processes of your center through a secure, fast, intuitive and accessible application from any device.

Philosophize This! Want to get the valuable, useful lessons of philosophy without the dry textbooks or arcane debates? Then you should listen to this podcast. Host Stephen West works to promote education and acceptance through a podcast that shares the ideas that shaped the world we live in. To get the most out of this show, I’d recommend starting from the beginning. It provides a systematic overview of philosophy’s major ideas that someone without a philosophy degree can understand.

Phonics Ninja Think FruitNinja, but with some educational value! Phonics Ninja lets kids karate-chop their way through digraphs, letter sounds, and blends, teaching your child important phonics skills. There are three different levels of difficulty, and parents can even get involved by recording their own audio clues to help.

Photomath is probably the best app for solving mathematical problems. It uses augmented reality, which means that you can simply point your camera at any piece of paper with an equation or an arithmetic problem and it will find a solution. There are limitations of course. At the moment, the app can't recognise handwritten problems, but does a good job identifying printed ones. It also can't solve quadratic equations, functional equations or calculus problems.

Piano Dust Buster ‘Use your own acoustic piano, or an on-screen virtual one, to play your favorite songs whether its pop songs like Taylor Swift's Trouble or Classical like Vivaldi's Spring’

Piano Maestro by JoyTunes Great sharing features help parents, teachers support piano practice. A cool way to get piano students, their teachers, and their parents on the same page, but it might need tweaking to remove some distractions.

Piano Practice with Wolfie Stellar piano practice tool supports reflection, persistence. excellent platform for supporting serious music practice if you can make it logistically work in your classroom.

Piazza – A platform that allows teachers to upload lectures, assignments, and homework; pose and respond to student questions; and poll students about class content. This tool is better suited for older students as it mimics post-secondary class instructional formats.

Piktochart suitable for students and teachers. Piktochart is a great digital tool which can be used by both educators and students for various educational purposes. This tool allows you to create infographics, presentations, posters, and more visual materials. It is perfect for classroom activity, as well as home activity. They offer special plans for education teams of more than 25 people which is basically the category where you and your students fall into.

Pinterest – If you’re a teacher and having checked out Pinterest, it’s time to get on board! This site is packed with so many ideas for creating props and games for your interactive classroom. From making crafts to looking for new games to teach your students – Pinterest has it all! A one-stop shop for teaching ideas. You can create boards to save your ‘pins’ so you can get inspired and remember your favorite ideas.

Pixton suitable for students of all ages. Why make students write a story when they can draw it for a change? Digital tools for classroom like Pixton boost the children’s visual thinking and creativity while it engages them to the fullest. This tool allows little and big students to make comics and storyboards. This activity can be both educational and fun. If you are an educator, you can try Pixton for free before introducing it to your kids. A perfect tool to boost the students’ imagination! 

Plagiarism checker With this tool, teachers can copy and paste student work to check for any copied text. Teachers can also show students this site when discussing just what plagiarism is and why they should avoid it.

PlayPosit - Interactive Video Learning PlayPosit is an online learning environment to create and share interactive video lessons. Teachers begin with any online video (screencasts, Khan Academy, TED, etc.) and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for students, with time-embedded activities. 

Plickers—This is a simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data. This happens without the need for student devices. It’s for everything from quick checks to measuring deep understanding.

Pocket—A bookmarking tool for teachers on the go. Save articles, videos, images, and lots more for later viewing. You can also save from Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite.

Poetry Idea Engine – Created by Scholastic, this is a perfect tool to get those poetic ideas flowing. Learn the many ways to write poetry and create your own haiku, limerick, or free verse poem with the Poetry Idea Engine. If you’re writing educational song lyrics, this is another valuable tool.

Poll Everywhere – Teachers can create a feedback poll or ask questions. Students respond in various ways, and teachers see the results in real-time. With open-ended questions, you can capture data and spin up tag clouds to aggregate response. There is a limit to the number of users.

Pollmaker – A popular polling tool that has some unique features, such as allowing multiple answers to one question.

Poptropica is a story-based game that has kids create their own characters and complete educational quests. When a quest is accomplished, kids get a prize!

Portal 2: Instead of having players shoot their way to victory like many games do, in Portal 2 players have to use their wits to escape Aperture Laboratories and challenge the power-mad robot at the heart of the story. Ranked as one of the best games of all time, it's a memorable and mentally challenging experience that players won't soon forget.

Portent’s Content Idea Generator will be of great help during one’s creativity crisis – when you are unable to generate fresh ideas and create interesting, unique, and viral content. Its easy-to-use interface asks you to define the main subject of your article (even one word is enough), and in return generates an intriguing headline with content suggestions in an instant. The ideas that are suggested are adequate for you to come up with a few thousand words for a long read.

Prepmagic Customize science simulations to highlight phenomena. Science simulations become more effective with teacher-added edits and formative assessments.

Present.me Present.me is a great tool for teachers and students that allow them to record presentations, lectures, or projects, and accompany them with visual content. This is a useful tool for teachers who wish to flip their classroom, and a fun way to encourage students to get involved in their own learning by creating their own visually rich presentations.

Prezi.com Prezi is a fantastic tool for changing the way teachers and students present, moving away from the standard slide-by-slide model, and using a visually stimulating canvas that moves from point to point. Prezi is simple to use, visually stunning, and includes all the standard components of a normal presentation. The variations of presentations are endless, encouraging students and teachers to creatively customize each presentation to enhance how the audience members receive the information.

Primarywall is a sticky note tool designed for schools. 

Princess Piano has escaped a spell cast by an evil witch thanks to her magic ballet shoes. By learning to read and play music on the piano, you will help the princess dance her way back to the Cloud Kingdom to rescue her family!’

Prodigy Maths - The Most Engaging Math Platform in the World Prodigy has content from all major topics to help ensure your students are ready for standardized testing. With a diagnostic test to place students in the correct grade, embedded assessments, and automatic differentiation, Prodigy ensures that each one of your students succeed at their own pace. Everything your students work on in Prodigy is reported back to you in real time. Quickly see which skills your students have mastered, and where they may need some additional support.

Prodigy Teacher Professional Development. 5 Ways To Make Teacher Professional Development Effective [With Examples]

ProProfs Build and test knowledge with quick quizzes, polls, and surveys.

ProProfs Quiz Maker – is cloud-based software to create and deliver online exams and tests. The ProProfs solution helps you to author quizzes, secure tests and student assessments. It comes along with complimentary test templates, automated grading.

Prowritingaid is another prominent application that tops the list of best free writing apps. It helps to shift focus towards a major objective in writing commercial text – the creation of unique, helpful, and interesting content. With this solution, you don’t have to manually check for redundant words and other errors throughout your copy, instead, this checker does all that for you by looking through your entire document in a matter of seconds.

Puppet Pals – This iOS app allows you to create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time! Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later. This app is currently only available for iOS.

Puzzlets - Make Game Time, Brain Time Puzzlets is a hardware accessory for your tablet or computer used to play Puzzlets-specific games. Each game focuses on a traditionally “tough” STEAM subject, such as: coding, math, and colour theory. Each game comes with its themed set of physical Puzzlets tiles. Puzzlets apps use these toy puzzle pieces to control video games for K-2 (ages 6+). This hands-on learning game philosophy starts with fun first and offers endless possibilities to the educational market. Cork the Volcano, the first game for Puzzlets, enriches logic, sequencing, fine-motor skills through physical interaction and gameplay. New Puzzlets games on the topics of Math and Art, releasing Summer 2017, will expand the platform and learning.

Quest Atlantis: A popular choice at schools across the country, this educational gaming environment immerses upper elementary and middle school kids in lessons on everything from science to social issues.

Quia – Teachers can create games, quizzes, surveys, and more, and access a database of existing quizzes from other educators.

Quick Key Mobile Grading App – Helps teachers with accurate marking, instant grading, and immediate feedback for better student engagement.

QuickVoice Recorder – Another free voice recording app for the iPhone or iPad that allows you to record classes, discussions, or other project audio files. You can sync your recordings to your computer easily for use in presentations.

Quizalize - The Easy Way to Differentiate Your Teaching. With Quizalize, fun quizzes deliver serious results. Team games for your interactive whiteboard bring formative assessments to life – motivating students to master every subject with friendly competition. There are over 100,0000 quizzes to choose from and you can quickly create your own.

Quizalize – A great tool that allows teachers to easily create quizzes and homework for students. Teachers can then see how the students did and identify areas for improvement.

Quiz Flix Best Trivia quiz game with endless challenges from various categories such as Science etc... & compete with random opponents of different IQ levels.

Quizizz - Fun Multiplayer Classroom Quizzes. Quizizz allows you to find amazing quizzes made by other teachers, or create your own quizzes and share them with the world. Start a "Live" game in class, or assign Quizizz as a fun "Homework" task. Teachers can control the competition by toggling the leaderboard, timer and other settings. Thanks to Quizizz being available on all devices, students play together, but each at their own pace. Gamification elements like avatars, leaderboard and funny memes add to the fun! Review your work in the end and use Quizizz’ detailed class and student-level reports to understand where your students need help.

Quizlet suitable for students of all ages. A great app that can come in very handy for students of all ages. By using flashcards, games and more fun activities, Quizlet allows students to learn a subject and assess themselves. Everone can create their own study set or choose an already existing study set. Quizlet even lets you study on the go, so students can learn and test their knowledge from literally everywhere.

RabbleBrowser – An iPad app that allows a leader to facilitate a collaborative browsing experience.

Random Name/Word Picker This tool allows the teacher to input a class list and facilitates random name picking. You can also add a list of keywords and use the tool to have the class prompt a student to guess the word by providing definitions.

Rationally Speaking After reading the excellent Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, I became intensely interested in topics like rationality, cognitive science, and heuristics. I also started following several people in those circles – one of them being Julia Galef, the co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality. In the Rationally Speaking podcast, Galef and her guests tackle topics like utilitarianism, heuristics and biases, and why people should learn to be rational in the first place

Raz Kids – delivers over 400+ interactive, leveled eBooks spanning 29 levels with new books added every month. Also corresponding eQuizzes test comprehension, providing teachers with skill reports for data-driven instruction. Online running records let teachers digitally assess each student, saving valuable classroom time.

Reader Rabbit: The Reader Rabbit series has reading-related educational games that touch a variety of learning levels and topics. The one we've linked to here is for second graders, but there are others for lower and higher grades. All get kids involved in reading through a series of fun mini-games.

Reading Eggs makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids, with great online reading games and activities. And it really works! Children love the games, songs, golden eggs and other rewards which, along with feeling proud of their reading, really motivate children to keep exploring and learning.

Reading Rainbow is an American half-hour educational children's television series that aired on PBS Kids from June 6, 1983 to November 10, 2006, with a total of 155 half-hour episodes spanning over 21 seasons. The show encouraged children to read.

Reading Raven. Step-by-step curriculum lets kids learn at their own pace. Multi-sensory reading games that children find engaging. Based on proven phonics-based approach. Customizable for children ages 3 to 7.

Reading Rockets Research-based strategies for helping young children become strong, confident readers.readingrockets.org

Readorium teaches reading comprehension to students in grades 3 through 8 using science text that automatically adapts to each child’s level, as they progress. Kids love the content. They love the games, and they receive a personalized learning experience. Parents and teachers can get as involved as they want with progress reports and supplemental resources.

ReadWorks Differentiate reading instruction with high-quality texts and lessons. The quality and scope of texts, lesson plans, assessments, and supports on this platform can help facilitate targeted reading instruction in any classroom.

ReadWrite Think Lesson plans, student interactives, and professional development resources. readwritethink.org - Grade: K-12

ReadyEducation - Improving the Student Experience Ready Education provides a Platform for Students to Interact. The campus wall allows students to post questions about housing, purchasing books or finding the best places to eat and get answers quickly from the campus community. Admin can post important information and create custom channels that are specific to life at their campus.

RealtimeBoard Teachers can invite students and collaborate with the whole class in real-time.

Remind – A free tool that allows teachers to text students and stay in touch with parents. A great ‘check for understanding’ tool that’s easy to use.

Remind101 is a simple, safe, and secure way for teachers to send mass text messages to students and parents without invading their privacy. Teachers can use this to send reminders and notification to students concerning upcoming tests, homework assignments, due dates, and events which students and parents will receive through text message or email. Teachers can schedule messages to be sent in advanced, which keeps students up to date with schoolwork and helps prevent forgetfulness.

Renaissance Learning is a K12 assessment and learning analytics company with a presence in more than a third of U.S. schools. It helps educators plot students along a research-validated learning path so that students can make progress to the height of their potential.

Rescue Time—This is a non-intrusive time tracker program. It shows you how much time you spend on your websites and apps. You get detailed reports of where your time is going online.

Revision Buddies - GCSE Revision Apps Revision Buddies GCSE Revision apps offer a modern approach to learning that is interactive and engaging. They are full of thousands of questions and detailed explanations that have been written by teachers to guide you to the most relevant facts that you need to know for your exams.

Revisionist History  I would be remiss if I didn’t include Malcom Gladwell’s Revisionist History on my list. In his own words, Gladwell describes it as a podcast about “things overlooked and misunderstood.” I continually find myself surprised by each episode’s topic. One week he might be turning the story of the Boston Tea Party on its head, and the next, deep-diving into the infamous hug between Richard Nixon and Sammy Davis Jr. In each episode Gladwell skillfully weaves seemingly disparate threads together to produce a unique, compelling thesis. He has the uncanny ability to take a specific historical moment and use it as an opportunity to teach listeners so much more about the human experience. Prepare for the niche and the obscure, but prepare to be captivated.

Rewordify is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching. This site can: Intelligently simplify difficult English, for faster comprehension; Effectively teach words, for building a better vocabulary; Help teachers save time and produce engaging lessons; Help improve learning outcomes

RhymeZone – is a language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling check. Just type in a word to find a whole bunch of related words. If you’re writing educational songs, parody songs, or poetry, this is tool to help you discover words that rhymes.

Rhythm Friends: A music timing game that introduces the basic concepts of rhythm. Children tap their fingers to the beat to create their favorite songs.

Ripple Effects accomplishes something similar for middle and high school students with a highly differentiated, personalization capacity. It includes over 400 tutorials, each a robust multimedia app, that seek to reduce risk factors and build student strengths as they privately explore situations of their choosing -- ranging from violence and bullying to truancy to academic difficulties to trauma. They build SEL skills in the process. Educators can track student progress and block access to topics they feel are not appropriate. Topics are covered with multiple learning modalities, including games, first person and animated videos, simulations, self-assessments, and writing exercises. What most distinguishes Ripple Effects is its use of a sophisticated expert system that is continuously triggered by cues from each learner to deliver an optimally tailored experience. Students can be directed to use the program by their own choice, in the classroom as a result of a situation needing problem solving, as a tier 2 intervention linked to the discipline system of a school, or as part of a tier 3 treatment plan.

Sakai Learning Management System, ranked top in customer experience.

Say It… Or Not? by Happy Frog Apps. Helps the player to think about the feelings of others during conversations. Free trial on iOS; available for sale on Android.

Schoology for students, teachers, and parents. Schoology is a learning management system which is free to use and it allows teachers to create and distribute materials, give assessments, track progress, etc. Basically, with Schoology you can do everything that you do in Google Classroom, plus more features. You can organize content much more easily, embed multimedia within the assignment description, record audio or video within the platform, have a gradebook, set completing rules and many more.

SchoolTube is a video community for K-12 educators and students. Think of it like YouTube, but with more moderation to ensure the uploaded videos are appropriate. Teachers can upload videos, organizing them into different “channels” for ease of use, and they can give students the option to upload videos as well. Whenever a student uploads a video to SchoolTube, it must be approved by either a teacher or administrator at the student’s school before it goes live. Cost: Free.

Science Journal by Google. Turn your phone into a lab sensor to collect and analyze data. Science Journal does a good job recording real-time motion, sound, and light data using phones.

Science306App. App created by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Scratch for students primarily between 8 and 16 years old Although mainly purposed for students, Scratch can be used by people of all ages. This digital tool lets students create engaging projects like games, animations, interactive art, stories and more. If your students have an interest in making programs, Scratch is definitely one of the digital tools for classroom you have to introduce them to. This program would give the little ones a brilliant start to make them think in an innovative and creative way. 

Scrivener This is yet another prominent software among the leading writing tools software, which has everything to help you compose a voluminous copy with a complex structure. With it, you can subdivide your piece by chapters, create drafts, put down comments and thoughts to return to later on – all in all, everything you could have been doing on a paper notebook but with faster, more accessible and efficient capabilities.

Seesaw – This tool helps teachers improve parent communication and makes formative assessment easy, while students can use the platform to document their learning.

Sesame Street Education. Free resources for children 0-8-years-old.

Sesame Street Every Day Learning. Time flies when children are young, but as a parent, grandparent, or caregiver, there are simple things you can do every day that can have a lasting effect on your child's learning.

Sesame Street Makes Music ‘join the Sesame Street band, and rock out with your favorite characters to six classic songs! Get transported to a tropical island, where your child can play the vibraphone in a reggae version of “If you’re Happy and You Know It,” or to a family farm for a jug band rendition of “Old McDonald”! Sesame Street Makes Music encourages musicality and creativity by introducing your child to different instruments and musical genres, while playing along to classic preschool tunes.’

Sesame Street: Elmo's Musical Monsterpiece Silly Muppets make learning music fun for young kids. A great intro to music concepts for young kids, but only engages one child at a time.

Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster: Geared toward younger learners, this video game brings Sesame Street favorites like Elmo and Cookie Monster together to read kids stories and get them engaged and moving through a series of fun and physical games.

Show My Homework – An app that allows teachers to set homework for their students which is also monitored by their parents. Complete with prompts, schedules, and attachments to help students to keep on track with their homework assignments.

Showbie - The heart of your paperless classroom Showbie combines all of the essential tools for assignments, feedback, and communication in one easy-to-use platform.

ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard Another whiteboard tool that students and teachers can use to check understanding.

SiLAS Solutions - Avatar animation software for social skills SiLAS is a browser-based web app that allows students to act out social scenes using video game pads and microphones to control their 3D avatars. SiLAS records the interaction in real-time, then produces a studio-quality animation that teachers and students can re-watch, critique, and assess. Student-performance data is tracked and animations are saved in guardian accounts allowing for crucial carryover year-to-year and outside the classroom. Kids can also create and watch interactions in full virtual reality.

SimCity: This classic game isn't just fun. It also teaches invaluable lessons about city planning, environmental impact, and even natural disasters.

Simple K-12 Teaching and learning community to unite teachers. Free Webinars.

SmartFeed Quality Movies and TV Shows for Kids is the parents' trusted platform to curate, deliver, manage and connect to their kids' digital media – across all content and devices. Media is increasingly everywhere, especially in front of our children. Kids find and consume it easily, just like junk food. SmartFeed aims to change the paradigm: rather than just filtering out the junk, this tool helps parents feed their kids positive, engaging, healthy content instead.

SmartSparrow platform empowers educators worldwide to deliver stunning digital learning experiences that lead to better learner outcomes. Platform and Studio as feature. 

SmartTechnologies provides solutions purpose-built for education by working with teachers and students worldwide to guide our product design. To ensure effective implementation, we provide professional development and education consulting services grounded in insights from EdTech research.

Smarty Pants: Even parents will enjoy playing this trivia game from Electronic Arts. Similar to Trivial Pursuit, the game quizzes players on a variety of topics from history, to science, to sports, challenging players to come up with right answers and to show off their skills.

Smash Your Food. What better way to engage your kids than by appealing to their most basic instinct to smash something? Factor in the fact that this app first teaches them about nutrition, slating the food candidates for destruction based upon excessive sugars, salts, and oils and you’ve got a winner. This app encourages children to read the nutrition labels of foodstuffs and make informed decisions to eradicate the unhealthy items from their virtual diet by pulling the smash lever for an extremely satisfying and gooey conclusion. (Food an’ Me – $2.99 iTunes)

Smilebox –lets you quickly and easily create slideshows for your students. To get started, download and install the Smilebox application. Then simply, select the photos you want to use, choose a template, add comments, music and voila. A simple way to turn images into an engaging classroom experience.

Smiling Mind – Modern meditation with programs for age ranges from 7 and up along with a Mindfulness in the Classroom program, this not-for-profit organization’s app also offers students a break from the pressure, stress, and challenges of daily life.

Smithsonian Folkways Text-centric world music site could use more activities, music. : Kids won't hear every tune in its entirety, but Smithsonian Folkways' resources can help them comprehend and appreciate cultural music.

Smithsonian Open Access Stellar museum-based resources available for exploration and use. This high-quality collection of museum resources -- ranging from artifacts to full-blown exhibits -- provides unlimited exploration for students, reliable primary sources for teachers.

SMMRY has a mission to provide an efficient manner of understanding text, which is done primarily by reducing the text to only the most important sentences. SMMRY accomplishes its mission by: Ranking sentences by importance using the core algorithm; Reorganizing the summary to focus on a topic; by selection of a keyword; Removing transition phrases; Removing unnecessary clauses; Removing excessive examples.

Social Adventures (iOS) offers an eight-week social skills awareness program curriculum for teaching relationship behaviors and initiating interactions. Designed for children with autism spectrum disorders and social difficulties, this app offers valuable practice in thinking about and behaving during a variety of social situations.

Socrative Designed by a group of entrepreneurs and engineers passionate about education, Socrative is a system that allows teachers to create exercises or educational games which students can solve using mobile devices, whether smartphones, laptops, or tablets. Teachers can see the results of the activities and, depending on these, modify the subsequent lessons in order to make them more personalized.

Solve4x is a free iOS app comes with an equation solver where you can either manually type in an equation for it to solve, or you can snap a picture and automatically process the entire equation. You can also use a photo that's already been saved to the gallery. It works with printed text, and even then there can be some garbled text, so a little light text editing after the picture is taken is required at times. One limitation is that the app doesn't support equations with brackets. The app solves the equations - the idea is that parents can use it to verify the results that their kids get, without having to remain up to date with complex algebra, though you might want to keep your kids away from smartphones in that case.

Song Exploder Ever since I started learning music production, I’ve been fascinated with how musicians put together songs. Song Exploder provides the insight I’d been looking for. Each episode features an interview with an artist (some famous, some obscure) about how they created a particular song. The episodes are also the perfect length for listening to on a commute (generally under 20 minutes), and the wide variety of genres and artists ensures you won’t get bored.

SonicPics is a great app that allows students to combine pictures with recorded narration into a threaded story. There are multiple uses for this app, as students can share personal narratives, review curriculum, or create custom presentations for class. Digital storytelling at its best.

Sound Rebound Make musical contraptions with playful sound and physics sandbox.This engaging and open-ended sandbox app has limited functionality but will engross students for extended periods.

Sound Shapes Jazzy music game lets kids design levels and create music. : A visually stunning music game that inspires creativity by providing simple but powerful tools to build your own music games to share with others.

SoundCloud: If you like to listen to music, this app is for you. SoundCloud has over 135 million tracks in the library that you can listen to offline. And if you’re creating your own educational song, SoundCloud offers many songs that are free of copyrights that can be used in your YouTube videos.

Sparkpost – This app from Adobe allows teachers to add graphics and visuals to exit tickets.

Spelling Challenges: If your students are in need of some help with spelling, this game could be a fun way to get them to practice. It contains more than 25,000 words at 100 different levels and engages players through 11 different games.

SpiderScribe - Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming app A picture, as the saying goes, is worth a thousand words. Similarly, visualizing ideas helps comprehension and retention. SpiderScribe is an online mind mapping and brainstorming tool. It helps organize and visualize ideas by connecting notes, images, documents, calendar dates and geographical locations into free-form maps. These maps can be shared online and collaborated on by multiple people in real time.

Spiral – A quick tool that gives teachers access to formative assessment feedback.

Splash Learn a great application for teachers and kids. It has lots of useful content and great reporting features. It's great because as you get things correct it increases in complexity — so it continues to challenge even those learners that are ready to move on.

Spore: Your homeschool students can get excited about evolution by playing this game that takes them through single-celled organisms all the way up to space exploration and colonization. Players slowly design their own creatures, adding traits and behaviors along the way that will help or hinder their survival as they evolve. It's fun, addictive, and sneakily educational.

Stack the States: Learning about the states has never been so fun. This game uses a range of games to help young kids learn the names and locations of states. Geography learners can also play Stack the Countries.

Stanford History Education Group High-quality, document-based lessons spark stellar historical inquiry

StarFall Learn to read with phonics. Free online app.

Stop, Breathe & Think – The title indicates what this app focuses on. Stopping, breathing, and thinking are all important life skills that are often under taught. This app is best suited for age 10 and up and ideal for individual use. With reward stickers and check-in features, this app makes it easy to track progress.

Storybird suitable for K-9 students. Storybird is a great digital tool for writing stories in a visually appealing way, thus motivating students to write and read stories. Storybird uses artwork to inspire people to write. Of course, there are various types of stories that engage differently aged students. There are picture books for students K-5, chapter books for students Grades 5-9, and poetry for everyone. This app develops the ability of the brain to connects words an images. 

Storybook Workshop: This bargain-priced Wii game is perfect for youngsters who are just learning how to read. It features 16 different fairy tales that kids can listen to or perform, songs you can sing, and even the capability to record your little ones reading the stories.

StoryJumper suitable for K-12 students. A great tool which boosts the imagination of the children. StoryJumper is an app for creating storybooks by using writing and illustrating skills. StoryJumper is certainly one of the digital tools for classroom which inspires a passion for reading and writing. Moreover, this digital tool allows for a collaboration of multiple students on a single storybook. Students collaborating on a storybook can video chat which makes StoryJumper great for group projects.

Storyline Online An award-winning children’s literacy program. Famous people read great books outloud on video recordings for your kids.

StudentArtGuide contains a collection of free Art resources for use by middle and high school teachers. You are welcome to use these resources within your own Art classes and teaching programmes, as long as the source of the image is credited as www.studentartguide.com.

Stuff You Should Know (SYSK) has been running for over a decade and it continues to dominate the charts. One of the most popular educational podcasts in the world, SYSK covers, well, everything. It doesn’t matter what your areas of interests are: science, pop culture, history, they’ve probably got an episode on it. The show is co-hosted by Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark, two men who are by no means experts in these fields, and never claim to be. The episodes are undoubtedly informative, but there are some stumbles along the way: ham-fisted remarks in moments that perhaps required delicacy, factually inaccurate (albeit hilarious) statements expressed with utter conviction. Blunders aside, the sheer breadth of topics they address makes the show undeniably interesting and their accessible approach to explaining topics makes for easy listening. Bryant and Clark have a comfortable, endearing rapport, no doubt established after creating over one thousand episodes together. It’s like listening in on the conversation of your close friends – not always accurate, but entertaining just the same.

SuperBetter is a free mobile app that turns everyday actions into video game objectives. It encourages its players to set reasonable goals for themselves (stop smoking, be more active, overcome anxiety, etc.) and also to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Players can use “power-ups” (healthy actions like drinking water, taking a walk, or reaching out to a friend), do
“quests,” and battle “bad guys” (representing bad habits and emotional challenges) to achieve their goals. The app is self-regulated, self-paced, and accepts customization to fit your goals. Teachers can suggest that their students use this app to help them plan homework, study, practice for an oral presentation to overcome anxiety, have healthy sleeping habits, maintain a positive attitude in class, or any other areas where they’re struggling or would like to develop better skills.

Super Why: Created by PBS, Super Why is a literacy-focused game that helps build skills in everything from reading to rhyming.

SuperBetter is a free mobile app that turns everyday actions into video game objectives. It encourages its players to set reasonable goals for themselves (stop smoking, be more active, overcome anxiety, etc.) and also to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

SuperTeacherWorksheets – This site hosts thousands of printable worksheets and activities available for teachers, parents, tutors, and homeschool families.

SurveyMonkey Teachers can create and deliver online polls and surveys. (Note: This is an app that requires a monthly fee, but maybe worth the cost depending on your polling or survey needs.)

SurveyPlanet Another survey creation tool that teachers can use to gauge student learning.

Sutori - Create and share visual stories. Together. Sutori (formerly HSTRY) enables teachers and students to create interactive stories through a simple and intuitive interface. Adding images, videos, audio files is done in a few clicks while embedding quiz questions and a commenting system add further interactivity and engagement.

Synap – This online education platform allows students, teachers, and professionals to make quizzes for free. You can even access other peoples quizzes too, which is very helpful if you’re a busy teacher.

Synth Create your own podcasts for class. Create Maximum 256 second sound bytes with transcriptions and links that can be shared as an audiogram

Tagxedo A tag cloud generator that allows you to examine student consensus and facilitate dialogue.

Talent Cards. Connect workers globally, transfer knowledge, and impact performance. Meet TalentCards: the mobile microlearning tool for your deskless workforce. 

TalentLMSA super-easy, cloud LMS to train your employees, partners and customers. 

Teach-Nology –  Another go-to website for worksheets. Teach-Nology offers over 11,000 free printable K-12 teacher worksheets.

Teacher Ed Online offers the ability for teachers across the nation to take online courses in order to meet state requirements like CEUs Continuing Education Units, Teacher Clock Hours, or CPDUs Continuing Professional Development Units.

Teacher Gaming brings the world's greatest games to your class, supercharged for school with lesson plans and learning analytics

Teacher Planet – Your complete guide to free online worksheets for K-12 teachers and educators. This all-encompassing resource has free worksheets, printables, units, theme pages, crosswords, puzzles, workbooks, awards, certificates, diplomas and more.

Teacher Thought. 5 Strategies For Better Teacher Professional Development.

Teacher Tube is a video sharing website. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed for teacher training.

Teacher.Org What is Professional Development for Teachers?

TeacherKit – Tmakes classroom management a joy, not a chore. Routine tasks – taking attendance, recording a grade book – become so straightforward they’re a pleasure. You can also log students’ attendance, add behavior notes for students, record students’ grades, and create student level reporting. An excellent all-encompassing package.

TeachersPayTeachers: Teachers Pay Teachers is an online marketplace where teachers buy and sell original educational materials. An awesome way to get unique lesson plans and supporting other teachers. All educational materials are 100% created by other teachers around the world.

TeachHub Teaching strategies, classroom activities, classroom management, technology in the classroom and professional development. Free website with tons of resources.

Teaching Channel—This is a video resource for professional development. It covers the core subjects and all grades. There are also 15 professional development topics to explore here.

TED-Ed is an educational platform that allows creating educational lessons with the collaboration of teachers, students, animators—generally people who want to expand knowledge and good ideas. This website allows democratizing access to information, both for teachers and students. Here, people can have an active participation in the learning process of others.

TED Talks Daily I love TED talks, and I bet there’s a good chance that you’ve watched a few before as well. Most TED talks are just as good in audio form as they are in video, so the TED Talks Daily podcast easily tops the list here. There are few other places where you’ll find such a great variety of awesome, mind-expanding content.

Telegami - A mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated Gami video.

Telestream ScreenFlow video maker is an award winning and easy to use video editing, screen recording and sharing tool from Telestream. Come join the video revolution!

TES iBoard - Hundreds of Interactive Resources Ideal for Whiteboards iBoard provides packs of interactive resources and printables, ranging from assembly materials to everyday tools: Perfect to crack a concept or secure knowledge in a new skill. There are hundreds of interactive resources linked to core curriculum areas, including complete units of work with detailed lesson plans, handouts and more.

TES We believe in the power of great teaching. We’re a team of professionals, including many former teachers, who really care about education and for more than 100 years, we’ve supported educators to inspire generations of pupils. Whether you’re newly-qualified, an experienced teacher, support staff or a school leader, you’ll find us by your side at every stage of your teaching journey; providing you with the information, products and training you need to succeed, connecting you with other teachers worldwide and helping you to improve more children’s lives through education.

Testmoz This free test generator offers multiple question types, automatic grading, detailed reports, and a simple design. Additionally, tests are pass code protected, but it does not require students to register to take the tests.

The Answer Pad Allows teachers to capture data from students using the web or the app and is touted as being ideal for the flipped or blended classroom.

The Arty Teacher. Free art resources for classroom teachers.

The Creativity Hub - Games and Playthings that Foster Imagination The Creativity Hub make games and playthings that foster imagination, empathy and self esteem, because we want to see a world where these three things are fostered in every individual. The Creativity Hub has built a reputation these past few years for designing intelligent, playful games that are full of heart. Rory's Story Cubes is connecting millions around the world through the power of storytelling, while The Extraordinaires Design Studio is helping children develop the empathy and creative thinking skills they need to navigate an increasingly complex and divided world.

The Growth Mindset App Fixed mindsets can hold us back from learning. We believe every student should have the opportunity to develop a growth mindset.

The Guardian 10 of the world’s best virtual museum and art gallery tours, free.

The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps Philosophy is a vast and, frankly, sometimes boring topic. At least, that’s how it likely was if you took the typical Philosophy 101 class as a freshman. But philosophy doesn’t have to be boring. It’s the study of knowledge itself, of what it means to be human and how to live in the world (among lots of other important questions). Like any discipline, philosophy didn’t just emerge from nowhere. It’s the result of centuries of debate among some of the greatest minds to ever live. In this show, Professor Peter Adamson provides an overview of the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers (as well as lesser known ones). If nothing else, it might help you pass that required Philosophy 101 course.

The Knowledge Arcade blends gamification, social learning and powerful, in-built authoring tools to give your team engaging and robust learning experiences. With the Knowledge Arcade, you can encourage your learners with customised praise badges, you can drive healthy competition with experience points, leaderboards, and player vs player Battles, and you can finely tune your training programmes with our dynamic reporting suite.

The Knowledge Project I love interviews with fascinating people, and that’s exactly what you get in this podcast. Shane Parrish (founder of the blog Farnam Street) interviews remarkable people about the frameworks and mental models that they use to do their best work and live their best lives. Past guests have included well-known figures such as Gary Taubes, Susan Cain, and Ed Latimore, as well as a professional sommelier and the CEO of payment processing company Stripe. Shane doesn’t release new episodes on a regular schedule, but when he does, it’s always worth a listen.

The Memory Palace is “a storytelling podcast and public radio segment about the past.” Host Nate DiMeo (formerly of NPR) takes an unconventional approach to history through vignettes and artifacts. The past comes to life in a way unlike in any textbook. If you want to explore history through short stories and everyday objects, you’ll love this show.

The National Gallery (London) The world's greatest paintings to your inbox; open and ready when you are.

The Orchestra Stellar interactive features bring classical music vibrantly to life. A terrifically designed tool that invites students into the often unwelcoming world of classical music in a way that deepens appreciation and understanding of the complexities and beauties of the art form.

Radiolab Even if you’re not familiar with how podcasts work, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of Radiolab before. One of the most popular podcasts in the world, Radiolab is a “show about curiosity”. The founders tackle topics ranging from brain injuries to the story of Henrietta Lacks. Each episode is masterfully produced and features tons of different voices – topical experts, subjects of the interviews, and more. This is one of those shows that makes people mad simply because they can’t produce episodes fast enough.

The Social Express is an educational curriculum designed to teach children and teenagers how to perceive emotions and handle social situations. It uses interactive animated videos that put its protagonists in many different scenarios, and the player is prompted to evaluate the emotions of the scene and decide what action the characters should do. The characters are presented in social encounters inside and outside of school, where identifying and understanding their companions’ emotions and state of mind is beneficial to the resolution. In doing so, players are encouraged to adopt positive social behaviors and develop their social emotional intelligence. This is a useful tool for teachers who are looking for a visual aid for teaching students about positive social interactions or for teachers who want to help special needs students develop emotional intelligence

The Social Navigator (iOS) can be used as an in-the-moment behavior-management device when your child is becoming agitated, or for teaching long-term social skills. The app promises to reduce oppositional behaviors, improve communication skills, and develop greater social awareness for kids ages 6 to 16. This revolutionary app was designed especially for children with ADHD and other social/behavioral difficulties.

TheTogetherTeacher On this site, teachers can find multiple resources that will help them stay organized in their classrooms. Once registered to the site, teachers have access to lesson plan templates, to-do lists, sub plans, project ideas, and much more.

ThingLink - Annotate Images and Videos Amongst the various interactive annotation applications available, ThingLink stands apart. Not only can ThingLink be used to edit, annotate and teach with images and videos in real-time, it also supports 360 degree video and VR/AR content.

Thinglink allows educators to create interactive images with music, sounds, texts, and photographs. These can be shared on other websites or on social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook. Thinglink offers the possibility for teachers to create learning methodologies that awaken the curiosity of students through interactive content that can expand their knowledge.

ThinkWave  ThinkWave connects administrators, teachers, students and parents and makes it easy to automatically generate customized transcripts and report cards. It is great for a wide range of schools including elementary, secondary, vocational, trade, and college. ThinkWave includes integrated gradebooks for all teachers and real-time access to grades and assignments for students and parents. It is a modern platform that can be used on any PC or mobile device with a standard browser.

This American Life Of all the podcasts out there, this one is by far the most popular and mainstream. Much of this has to do with the fact that it’s broadcast on NPR, but it’s also because the production and storytelling of this show are beyond any other podcast out there. Each episode is a masterpiece of narrative journalism, exploring a different topic through compelling human stories. As they put it on their about page, it’s “like little movies for radio.”

Thrively - Kids Activities and Strength Assessment Every child is a genius. Every child deserves to thrive. Thrively are guided by those two core beliefs. With a little ingenuity and a lot of hard work, they’re helping kids reach their potential, helping parents understand their children better and helping teachers connect with their students on a more personal level.

Tiggly - Interactive toys and iPad learning apps for kids Tiggly believes in the power of connected play - the magic that happens when you bring the best of physical play into digital apps. They design fun hands-on toys that interact with engaging learning apps on tablets! Tiggly has three learning systems, Tiggly Words, Tiggly Math, and Tiggly Shapes, and has been featured on TIME, Forbes, BBC, CNBC, Huffington Post and many others.

TIME For Kids TIME for Kids’ digital library is now free for the rest of the year. With turnkey teaching tools and tips on how to discuss the news with children, TIME is offering four grade-specific digital editions of the magazine.

Times Table Rockstars - Sequenced Programmes to Help Kids Learn Times Tables "Times Table Rock stars is an online learning platform, engaging primary and secondary school students in daily times tables practice. Its adaptive question generator is cleverly sequenced to provide measurable improvements in times tables recall speeds, increasing confidence and enjoyment in maths. The animated theme and motivational reward system have captivated pupils, teachers and families alike, resulting in widespread success across the UK. Children can practice by themselves, compete against other students and complete homework assignments tailored to their ability, online or using the mobile application. 

TimeToast For history teachers or others teaching lots of dates, TimeToast can be a great resource. It allows you to create interactive timelines that can include images, different colors/fonts, and horizontal and vertical organization. It creates a much more visually interesting set of information compared to standard timelines. Students can also use the site to create their own timelines, either individually or with a group. Cost: Free

TinyBop Award-winning apps for kids.

TinyTap - Create Games and Learn from Others TinyTap is a marketplace of interactive educational games created by teachers.

Toc And Roll ‘This powerful tool has been designed to help children start composing songs and cultivate their creativity in a funny and easy way. Like a portable studio, TOC AND ROLL gives children the chance to mix different instruments on a virtual multitrack. They can add effects, record their voices, and then share the results with the world.’

Toca Band is a fun and easy toy that encourages children to explore music in a new creative way! Choose from 16 different cool characters – each with their own unique quirky sound and musical rhythms.’

Toca Kitchen Monsters For kids ages 3 and up, Toca Kichen Monsters challenges children to cook food for two hangry monsters using eight different ingredients. It’s a fun game, for sure, but it’s also educational! Kids have to follow directions, listen to ingredient combinations, and season the food the appropriate amount or else the monsters have a habit of spitting.

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Toontastic 3D Flexible tool hands kids the reins for creative animated storytelling. Despite some lack of variety and simple drawing tools, Toontastic 3D remains a terrific, versatile storytelling tool. Kids can build their own animations in this great free game from Launchpad Toys.

Toppr students are at the centre of our universe. We believe that every student is different and has different learning needs. We work relentlessly to solve student problems using advanced technology and help them learn better. We have thoughtfully designed Toppr to ensure that it is a one-stop after-school learning platform. It has more than 1.5 million learning pieces, including adaptive practice questions, solutions, concepts, and videos that come together seamlessly to give 360° learning. We use artificial intelligence based machine learning algorithms on top of this strong infrastructure, to create personalised learning paths for millions of students.

Touch and Learn—Emotions (iOS) provide a safe way for children to practice recognizing feelings. Accompanying audio guides the user in trying to identify which child in a group of photos is showing which emotion. This program helps children with developmental delays learn to read body language and recognize and name common emotions.

TouchCast - Leading the Smart Video Revolution With TouchCast Studio, you have a full-blown TV studio at your fingertips. Use the green-screen feature to place yourself against a background or inside content. Or step inside a virtual set. Read from a scrolling script. Add titles. Annotate. Record your video, edit it, and share securely. Live stream it privately to a small group, the whole company, or publicly to the entire world.

Trello – An online tool great for teachers to manage projects and personal tasks. This teaching tool allows a team of teachers to easily split up jobs, roles, and responsibilities. Trello allows people to create boards, lists, and cards to help organize and prioritize projects in a fun, flexible, and rewarding way.

Triple E Framework A framework for educators to measure how well technology tools integrated into lessons are helping students engage in, enhance and extend learning goals.  Learning First, Technology Second  #triple

Triventy A free quiz game platform that allows teachers to create quizzes students take in real-time. These live quizzes provide teachers with real-time data on student understanding of classroom concepts. Students need individual devices to respond to quiz questions (compatible with mobile devices and laptops).

Trovvit - Learn It, Save It, Share It Trovvit allows you to create a "record" of what you are learning - save school work, maker projects, sports photos, art work, camp crafts, after school certificates. Once you save your record, you'll have it forever.

TurnItIn—This is an interactive rubric for analyzing the quality of Internet sources students use in writing. Sites are evaluated based on authority, educational value, intent, originality, and quality.

TUVA Labs Dynamic data-exploration tool offers large collection of data sets. Partner with another teacher (preferably a data whiz) and work together to develop cross-curricular activities.

Tynker: Coding for Kids Tynker is a complete learning system that enables everyone from beginners to advanced programmers to code with intuitive, interest-based activities. Tynker’s self-paced courses let kids experiment with visual blocks before progressing to intermediate programming and even languages like Javascript and Python.”

Typeform – A poll creation tool that lets teachers add in graphical elements.

uDraw Studio: Instant Artist: Help your young learner embrace his or her creative size with this game and drawing device. Players can engage with built in games (using custom-designed avatars and settings) or just get busy creating their own masterpieces.

UNESCO Distance Learning The list of educational applications, platforms and resources below aim to help parents, teachers, schools and school administrators facilitate student learning and provide social care and interaction during periods of school closure. Most of the solutions curated are free and many cater to multiple languages. While these solutions do not carry UNESCO’s explicit endorsement, they tend to have a wide reach, a strong user-base and evidence of impact. They are categorized based on distance learning needs, but most of them offer functionalities across multiple categories.

Unicheck—This is one of the most powerful plagiarism checkers on the Web today. Unplag is a safe secure tool with lots of educator features.

Unimersiv - Virtual Reality Educational Experiences Unimersiv’s mission is to help students of all ages learn faster through virtual reality. They believe that Virtual Reality can strongly improve the capacity of the human mind to remember the things it learned for a long time. Unimersiv believe that virtual reality should not only be used for gaming, but also for education. Research has shown students remember 20% of what they hear, 30% of what they see and up to 90% of what they do or simulate. Virtual reality yields the latter scenario impeccably; students can interact with the virtual environment in person and manipulate the various objects within it. This supports “learning by doing” and also results in creativity by constructionism.

UpGrad – Indian Higher Education courses. Merging the latest technology, pedagogy and services, UpGrad offers an impactful and engaging learning experience for the digital world.

UpgradedPoints. The 75 Best Virtual Museum Tours Around the World [Art, History, Science, and Technology].

uQualio A cloud-based video eLearning solution to secure motivated and engaged customers, employees and partners.

Verso Described as a feedback tool, this app allows teachers to set up learning using a URL. Space is provided for directions. Students download the app and input their responses to the assignment. They can then post their comments and respond to the comments of others. The teacher can group responses and check engagement levels.

Videgrid - The Fastest Growing Video Platform Record, edit, host, and share your video content inside a single app. Replace videos shared anywhere without changing any links or embed codes. Managing and updating content across the web has never been this easy. Never guess whether or not your videos are being watched. Create trackable links to see exactly where your videos are being played and by whom.

VideoScribe—This tool lets you create whiteboard-style animations—no design or technical experience needed. You can add images, text, music and voiceover to your animations.

Visme suitable for students and educators. One of the great digital tools for classroom which provide educators and students with tools to create infographics, presentations, reports and more visual content materials. Visme provides all kinds of templates and graphic resources to help visualize any kind of data or assignment. You can insert videos, make animations, insert links, etc.

Vocabtest – An old-school online service conceived for performing vocabulary tests. And bonus: their site provides a free quiz creator. Teachers can use the quiz creator to create printable word tests.

Vocabulary Spelling City aims to make spelling tests fun with games like Word Unscramble and HangMouse. Play any of the app’s nine different games or input your child’s own personalized vocabulary list to practice specific words.

Vocaroo – A free service that allows users to create audio recordings without the need for software. You can easily embed the recording into slide shows, presentations, or websites. Great for collaborative group work and presentations.

VoiceThread suitable for K-12 students. VoiceThread is a great digital tool which can be used in the classroom in many ways, especially to practice the students’ oral language. VoiceThread is basically an app for presentations and storytelling which actually records the student talking. This way, the students can practice their speaking skills while building confidence and allows teachers to assess their work. Here is a demonstration video made by a teacher who uses VoiceThread for educational purposes.

Voxer Consider using this voice recording tool as a way to let students listen and self assess their ideas and assignments. You can send recordings to parents, so they can hear how their students are doing, let students chat about their work, or provide feedback to students.

Wabisabi—An online community for lesson planning, real-time reporting against standards, media-rich student portfolios, and sharing a vibrant collaborative learning experience with students and parents.

Wakelet - is a free to use content curation platform that allows you to save and organise all kinds of online content into visual, engaging collections. For example, you can simply copy and paste the address of a Youtube video into a Wakelet collection, and it will embed - allowing viewers to watch it without leaving the site. The same applies to social media posts, podcasts, music, and much more. You can also add articles, online documents, and upload your own content like text, PDFs, images, and even Flipgrid videos. Wakelet has a long list of integrations, layouts and options that allow you to share content and tell stories exactly how you want.

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WeVideo – An online video editor.

Whooo’s Reading Innovative take on independent reading ditches multiple-choice quizzes. A convenient, well-intentioned tool for supporting a quality, interest-driven independent reading program, but make sure to tweak the auto-generated scores and questions.

Whyville: Through Whyville, kids can create an avatar, play educational games, hang out with friends, and have fun while doing it!

Wizard School! Curated videos and creative challenges ignite active learning. There's plenty of material to inspire kids to embark on learning adventures that get them to explore, create, and share safely on the screen and off.

Wizer - Amaze your students with smarter worksheets Can you answer the question ― How do you teach twenty five neurodiverse learners? Wizer can! The award winning program revolutionizes interactive digital worksheets for students. Teachers can create interactive digital worksheets for all their students. No more waiting to use or unjamming the copier. Done are the days of grading worksheets by hand (red pens, be gone!). Worksheets come to life with Wizer!

Wolfram Alpha—Whatever you want to calculate or research, this electronic genius can do it. Enter a topic or choose from a wide range of knowledge fields. Go Pro if you want even better results

Wonder Workshops At Wonder Workshop, our family of award-winning robots and age-appropriate apps encourage hands-on play and learning to make creative problem-solving concrete and tangible. Our vision is to inspire kids of all ages by giving them tools to imagine and invent the future.

Wooclap is from a The Belgian startup proved they could greatly improve students' learning via their playful system of in-class quizzes app. All thanks to students' smartphones. The fact of the matter is that this app is also a Learning analytics tool. Why? They provide analytics to professors. Indeed, they can easily check who responded to what and how much time they took to answer. They provide a feedback wall so that students can communicate (during the course and after) to their professors and tell them what part of the course was difficult to understand, or which part was great etc. Thus, it's a great qualitative data provider.

Wordables – The Word Cloud Guessing Game. This app allows you to elicit evidence of learning or determine background knowledge about a topic. These word clouds are pictures composed of a cloud of smaller words that form a clue to the topic.

WordArt This word cloud generator has an added feature that allows the user to make each word an active link to connect to a website you determine.

Wordle – Generates tag clouds from any entered text to help aggregate responses and facilitate discussion.

WordSalad This app generates word clouds from the text you provide, and they can be exported and shared.

Worksheet Generator has a template for practically every type of worksheet you could want, including word searches, mazes, crossword puzzles, and worksheets specifically formatted for math or reading lessons. If you’re tired of formatting worksheets, this tool makes it easy, and they also have hundreds of worksheets other teachers have made that you can print out and use in your own classes.

WURRLYedu Sharp music program has popular music, standards-based curriculum. Since it features a standards-based curriculum and good skills-building for students, this is worth a look for teachers.

XMind A mind-mapping software for use on computers and laptops.

Yacapaca! – Allows teachers to create and assign quizzes with ease.

YellowDig is the digital solution that impacts the entire student lifecycle and enables lifelong learning. Yellowdig Engage meets students where they are, making engagement effortless and natural throughout the entire student lifecycle. And the data supports: Yellowdig Engage drives engagement twice as effectively than LMS discussion boards.

Yet Analytics is in some sort one of the most complete Learning Record Store/ Data visualization tools on the market. Using xAPI to develop its platform, Yet provide a whole lot of different visual analytics to help you improve your learning content and help your students learn as well as possible.

You Are Not So Smart You’re probably confident in a lot of things that either have no rational basis or are just plain wrong. Not convinced? Have a listen to this podcast from David McRaney, and you may just change your mind. This show explores issues like overconfidence and irrationality, issues that are fundamentally human yet detrimental to our learning, progress, and well-being in many situations. It makes a nice complement to Rationally Speaking.

Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten Spirited digital re-creation of an educationally sound musical classic. Kids will delight in this wonderful digital update of a classic celebration of orchestral music.

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YouTube If you’re looking for free educational songs and parodies, YouTube is an excellent resource. The biggest library of songs and music you can use in your classroom. Some of our favorite channels are Jam Campus, Mr Parr, Science Music Videos, Mr. Betts Class, and Science With Tom.

Zeemaps - Create and Publish Interactive Maps "ZeeMaps is an enterprise-class mapping service that allows you to easily create, publish, and share interactive maps. You can construct dynamic visualizations of geographic information, producing maps from your list of locations. For example, you can create a map of places your class has visited on field trips. You can make maps pinning the locations of your tutoring clients, key locations of famous events for a history class, locations from news article stories, friends, or relatives. In addition to marking pins on a map, you can highlight areas of interest, e.g., zip codes, counties, city, state and country boundaries. Once areas are highlighted, you can restrict (and download) pins that fall within an area.

ZipGrade - Don’t take your Grading Home! ZipGrade turns your phone or tablet into an optical grading machine similar to a Scantron. It reads free-to-download answer sheets in multiple sizes. Provide instant feedback to students by grading exit tickets, quizzes, and formative assessments as soon as they finish. Many teachers now grade as soon as students complete a quiz or test. Students receive immediate feedback and teachers can redirect differentiated learning quickly.

Zoho Survey Teachers can create surveys that students can access and take using a mobile devices. Teachers can see results in real-time.

Zoho Writer This book writing software is a handy app for mobile users, that allows you to access the editor from your smartphone or tablet if it is connected to the Internet. With Zoho Writer, new content can be written offline with all the changes automatically synced up once the internet connection is restored.

Zoom is a virtual conferencing app and platform that many offices are transitioning to during these work-from-home days. But Zoom can help students, too. In fact, Zoom CEO Erin Yuan is now offering students and teachers unlimited meeting minutes so they can fully transition to digital lesson plans. Both students and teachers can fill out this online form with their school email address. Zoom will verify, then set up accounts associated with that school’s domain for unlimited minutes.

Zoo U starts with an assessment, asking kids ages five to 12 to play a series of six short scenes to assess six SEL areas linked to CASEL's five skills. The premise of Zoo U is that kids have enrolled in a school-like setting where they are learning to be zookeepers. This makes it natural for them to encounter situations like those they would experience in school, with animals around and involved to provide extra interest and fun. The skills are communication, cooperation, emotion regulation, empathy, impulse control, and social initiation. Players create avatars that enter a scenario that feels like a game but actually assesses their competence in each skill.

Zotero – A personal research assistant.

Zzish – There are hundreds of fun digital assessment tools out there and they can all plug into ZzishHub. This includes their own assessment tool Quizalize. These tools allow you to get instant insights from your classroom. ZzishHub shows you which students need help and what they need help with, so you can easily personalize your teaching. It even tells you which apps, websites, videos, and worksheets have helped similar students improve the most.