NearPod

NearPod

There are tons of educational apps out there that are highly effective. One iOS education app that caught my attention was Nearpod. Nearpod is an all-in-one app that allows a teacher to deliver content to student devices in an engaging and interactive format. It is engaging and interactive because students receive informative slides, draw its, Q & As, quizzes, videos, slide shows, websites, etc. sent from the teacher. Everything pushed out by the teachers is shared in real time on students devices. Teachers are  also able to monitor classroom activity and easily control students devices during sessions. A detailed post-session report is also available for the teacher. 

Students are also actively engaged with the interactive features it offers. The interactive features include: Poll, Custom Slide, Open ended question, Quiz, Slideshow, Web Page, Video, Draw it, and a Live Twitter Stream. All of these features give students the opportunity to become active participants in a lesson. Teacher can make informal assessments as students participate. All data submitted to the teacher shows up on the teachers device. This is great formal assessments because the data is stored in the teachers accounts. It can be reviewed later and download in pdf format. 

If you weren't convinced by now Nearpod allows teachers to create lessons and students to create content as well. Not only can you create but it also offers presentations, lessons and engaging content created by  distinguished publishers and educators. 

I love the idea that just about everything and anything can be done on this single app. Of course this all-in-one app is most effective in a one-to-one classroom. I hope that sooner than later one-to-one classrooms will become more mainstream than they are now. I can not wait to be able to implement these types of apps into my classroom.