Near Pod pros and cons

 Nearpod

A Nearpod is a virtual learning tool designed to help educators make any lesson interactive weather in the classroom or virtual. A teacher can create interactive presentations that contain quizzes, polls, videos, collaborate boards and more. The benefits of a Nearpod are ensuring all students are on task and participating. You are also able to see the student’s individual work and the quiz feature gives immediate feedback for student understanding. You can create lessons, find standards-aligned content, review students work, teach three ways and upload power points, google slides, PDFs, videos, and YouTube videos. The limitations of the Nearpod may be the price for some, although it may be worth is some people may not want to spend the amount you have to pay. The pricing and limitations also go to how many students can join depending on what package you purchase. If you join for free this only allows 40 students to join per lesson. The highest number of students able to join is 250 with the premium package. So, this may not benefit you if you have larger classes such as lectures or college classes. The applications or Nearpod could be something as a simple presentation delivery to harder tasks. A teacher can use this to create lessons by adding in the presentation and the lesson the children are learning. This can also set homework and assign open-ended tasks just as the open ended questions feature that allows teachers to pose questions.

VR tools in the classroom

The classVR headset comes complete with everything teachers needs to improve student engagement and introduce virtual reality into the classroom. The classVR headset provides a safe and secure way for students to explore VR & AR in the classroom with the teacher keeping full control over each device. The classVR portal ensures teachers can confidently manage students and add value to lessons when using VR & AR lessons. Teachers are always in control and the real-time class views provides full visibility of what and where their students are exploring in the headsets. This can help the children be more engagement and feel like they are locked in and up close to the lessons. 

 This can be used in almost any subject and it introduces a whole new concept in educational technology. ClassVR is a groundbreaking new technology designed to help raise engagement and increase knowledge retention for students of all ages. Early education is all about learning through experience. This VR can also be helpful for education for languages. Learning languages is all about making connections. Using this VR, educators can immerse students in countries, cultures & contexts- encouraging interaction with languages and their peers. 

When a student is engaged in what they are learning and how they are learning, they seem to gather more information and feel connected. With the VR headset on during lessons, children will have no distraction and they will almost have to be locked in but it will be more of a fun lesson rather than sitting there watching the teachers speak. There is thousands of virtual reality resources available for any subject. Teachers can also upload their own content for lesson planning.  The classVR portal includes access to a huge library of pedagogically sound and engaging VR and AR content. 

Bitmoji Classroom

 

When I become a teacher, my hopes are to teach second grade english. I love reading books and I love english language learning. I love a comfy, non cluttered classroom. I will have my classroom be a safe space for my class.