Dear Wendy. Thank you for your question. I am not sure, what do you mean by classroom and at what level? I will share with you the teaching tools we use in the college of medicine, at higher education level. We focus on tools that enhance thinking processes, initiate critical thinking, and facilitate some cognitive skills, communicative skills, self-directed learning and procedural skills. We use for example Problem-based learning, Case-based learning, team-based learning, flipping classroom, e-learning with e-cases modules, simulation and clinical skills lab with some activities or tasks that enhance specific learning skills, we also use bed-side teaching to enhance clinical teaching. Best wishes Prof S Azer

Edtech tools :-

NEARPOD :- Picture you and your students in class. Every one of you has an iPod or other tablet. You open up a PowerPoint presentation and it appears on every student’s tablet, with you controlling the pacing of the slides from your tablet. So far, it already sounds like a pretty nice way to keep students more focused because they can all see it equally clearly.

Two new additions have taken Nearpod lessons to entirely new heights:

• Nearpod 3D offers a library of over 100 stunning 3D objects that can be used in Nearpod lessons.
• Nearpod VR allows students to take virtual field trips to over 100 different locations, no headsets required.

PLANBOARD:-

Part of Chalk.com’s suite of productivity tools, Planboard makes lesson planning a breeze. Individual blocks of time show what you’re doing on each day during each class period. Within each cell you can create a rich, dynamic lesson plan:

• The full text editor allows you to create bulleted lists, add horizontal lines to break up sections, and format the text size and color to make it easy to find the information you need.
• Add links to outside resources, embed videos, or attach files.
• Add standards to a lesson with the click of a button. As you add standards and sub-standards to various lessons, Planboard keeps track of your progress, so you have a record of which standards still need to be covered.

SLACK:- This tool would be wonderful for staff communication, where channels could be created for different uses: one for the whole school, smaller channels for departments or grade-level teams, and even smaller ones for special projects.