Intergration of Digital tool and Application software in the South-African education system
What are Digital Tools?
- Digital tools help to transform education by connecting teachers
and students to the resources, content, and platforms to help improve
personalized learning and instructions.
What is the role of digital tools in the classroom?
- Helps to promote the teacher's facilitator role and helps to enable the teachers to provide students with a range of different content, communication, production, and assessment tools.
How does the use of digital tools benefit the students?
- Helps students to gain access to education while helping them to improve their mindset and capabilities that help set them up for success in the present and future.
How to incorporate digital tools in the classroom
- The teachers can do research and decide which digital tool will be suited for which task in the classroom, for example, using Kahoot as a game to do revision in class or using blogs to write down their research about a certain topic.
- Edmodo(social network where the students can communicate with each other when working on school projects when they are at home)
- Canva(poster and information boards can be created)
- Thinklink(Teachers can use this app to make interactive images with music, sounds, texts and photographs)
- Story Bird( used as a platform where students can improve their writing and reading skills and where the teacher can give quick feedback on the students progress)
Digital tools can be a Creative way for teachers to present lessons and topics to the class and students can use them to present their projects, skills, and knowledge in a more creative way.
What is application software?
-is a piece of computer software that executes a particular
task for a user or, in some cases, for another application.
What is the role of application software?
- It makes the learning experience of the students quicker and helps make the content being taught easier to grasp because it can use images and sounds to keep the student's attention for longer and make the learning experience more enjoyable for the students and the teachers.
How does the use of the application benefit the students?
- It helps the students, teachers, and parents to stay in touch with each other and can help the student's communication skills to improve and help them to improve their skills through using various different application software to create projects, present research, and many other things.
How to incorporate application software in the classroom
- Class activities can be presented in a fun and creative way through using application software, for example, Nearpod can be used for collaborative tasks like quizzes, VR , stimulus, and various other things.
-Dyknow can be used by the teachers to give the students direct feedback on their performance in class while they are in the class busy with class work, tasks, assignments, etc.
Examples of other Application software that can be used for education.
- Socrative(teachers can use this app to create interactive quizzes, real-time assessment)
- Schoology(teachers can use this app for lesson and contents creation)
- Embrace(Used for file sharing and can also be used manage students data)
- Quizlet(Provides a range of study methods and can be used to improve students' vocabulary and memorization.)
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