There’s no denying that we live in the digital era. India despite its uneven socio-economic status is fast adapting and growing with the technology. Be it big business giants, fashion, or start-ups, digitalization is empowering all and the massive development taking place is its testimony. One area where digitalization has started spreading and surly for the betterment is the education sector.

People now realize the upper hand practical and graphical lessons have over theoretical ones. It not hidden that how lessons with visuals, pictures, on-screen explanation are enjoyed and understood more by students. The movement of making classroom learning fun for students started in India with big metropolitan schools introducing the digital learning concept. Now, this movement can be seen spreading in rural schools, where children are now genuinely understanding what they are being taught.

Though there are software designed explicitly for the purpose that school and teachers use but apart from that there are some useful tools that can be included further making the teaching process engaging. Here, we have compiled a list of five such tools that can help make classroom experience fun and digital –

1. Cacoo

Cacoo is a great tool that can be used by teachers to explain complex lessons or topics creatively. With the help of this tool, any topic can be easily explained to students by transforming it into graph, flowchart, or diagram. Another great feature is its real-time collaboration functionality.  Therefore, teachers can create great interactive flowcharts together and even ask students for their inputs, as to how they think the scenario can be explained better.

2. Learnboost

Learnboost is digital grade book at the core with some additional features simplifying the student development tracking process. It allows teachers to track students’ progress and share the same with parents. They can also intimate parents about the future schedule, lessons lineup and even attendance.

3. Canva

It is an app with extensive usability both for teachers and students. Canva is a free designing portal that gives user full creative freedom. Teachers can use it create attractive classroom lessons, certificates, report cards, schedule, etc. While students can use it for assignments, report cover page and even pictorial representation for their lessons. On-line or off-line, Canva has templates for all imagined platforms there can be, plus it’s an excellent place for students to take designing inspiration.

4.Pixton

Pixton is a unique tool that takes classroom learning to the next-level. With Pixton students create their own animated self and then use it to explain what they have learned. It not only improves children’s creative and communication skill but helps them learn and understand the lesson better.

5. Socrative

Often teachers have a hard time figuring whether or not students understood the lesson. Socrative is an app that helps mentors detect students who are lacking behind and need help. It’s a classroom engagement that gives a quick and fair picture of students understanding. Teachers can create engaging activities like quiz, true or false, short answers, and multiple choice for students and even makes their reviewing easy.

Classroom digitalization along with such interactive tools will make a huge difference in students learning. It is the future, and the upcoming generation relates to them technology better and finds it engaging. So, together let’s lead into the digital era of education.