Visnos Mathematical Demonstrations
Visnos is a nifty site with many interactive tools for teaching and learning math. It tackles everything from basic addition and subtraction to fractals to the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
Prodigy Math Game
The Prodigy Math Game is well-known amongst educators for its engaging math-based games. Further, its privacy policy allows for teachers to enroll students with just first and last name.
If you choose to use it, enter your students’ first names, then give them all a generic last name. You could go with something like “Smith”, or you could use the name of your school “Blakely” or “Sutherland”. This protects their privacy as no other information will be collected with respect to the students.
Sum Dog
Sum Dog is a cool little website where students can practice math. The free version includes access to a few math games, and a new math game is always valuable in the arsenal of a teacher!
If you choose to use it, enter your students’ first names, then give them all a generic last name. You could go with something like “Smith”, or you could use the name of your school “Blakely” or “Sutherland”. This protects their privacy as no other information will be collected with respect to the students.
iPractice Math
iPractice Math uses game based principles to encourage students to learn through discovery, they also have all the usual stuff schools may like such as worksheets, lesson plans, and of course real time reporting.
Matific
Matific is a free elementary math product that consists of engaging activities and games that teach students problem solving and critical thinking through discovery. They use game based principles to encourage students to learn through discovery, and we also have all the usual stuff schools may like such as worksheets, lesson plans, and of course real time reporting. Their concept-based challenges puts students into the role of mathematician and has them thinking like mathematicians.
Wordnik
Wordnik is the world’s biggest online English dictionary, by number of words. Wordnik shows definitions from multiple sources, so you can see as many different takes on a word’s meaning as possible.
Google Books
In alignment with their corporate mission statement “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, Google Books boasts the world’s most comprehensive index of full-text books. It also allows users with Google Accounts to create a personal library as is shown in the image for this post (blue text, beneath the search bar). Google Books also allows for the borrowing of certain books.
Lucid Chart
Lucidchart helps users sketch and share professional flowchart diagrams, providing designs for anything from brainstorming to project management.
Coggle
Whether you’re taking notes, brainstorming, planning, or doing something awesomely creative, it is super simple to visualise your ideas with Coggle. Share with as many friends or colleagues as you like. Changes you make will show up instantly in their browser, wherever they are in the world. This is a fantastic tool for collaboration and planning in group projects.
ThingLink – Interactive Images
ThingLink is an award-winning education technology platform that makes it easy to augment images, videos, and virtual tours with additional information. Seamlessly make your images, videos, and 360 content interactive with text, links
Language Tool
Language tool is a nifty website for checking the grammar of text passages under 20,000 words. In the free version, the website states that it has thousands of patterns it uses for finding errors. It also exists as an add-on for Google Docs.
Lexipedia – Where Words Have Meaning
Lexipedia is an online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference site. Lexipedia presents words with their semantic relationships displayed in an animated visual word web.
AI Duet – A Piano that Responds to you
AI Duet is a Google AI experiment.
From the site: AI Duet lets you play a duet with the computer. Just play some notes, and the computer will respond to your melody. You don’t even have to know how to play piano—it’s fun to just press some keys and listen to what comes back. You can click the keyboard, use your computer keys, or even plug in a MIDI keyboard. It’s just one example of how machine learning can inspire people to be creative in new ways.
Autodraw – AI enters the drawing space
Auto Draw is an artificial intelligence experiment hosted by Google. Their AI Experiments is a showcase for simple experiments that make it easier for anyone to start exploring machine learning, through pictures, drawings, language, music, and more.
Deck Toys – Interactive Lessons
Deck Toys provides a very unique space in which to create interactive learning and learning pathways for students. Self-exploration at students’ own pace allows practice for mastery of key concepts. Teachers can view students’ progress on the lesson map. This application reports that data is housed in Google Drive of the teacher.