The document summarizes 10 popular apps for teaching and learning. It provides the name of each app and a brief rationale for its selection focusing on benefits like improved communication, engagement, assessment, and collaboration. Key apps include Google Classroom for organization, Socrative and Kahoot! for interactive lessons, Plickers and Nearpod for assessments without devices, and Brainpop, Seesaw and Read Theory for content and student portfolios. Overall, the apps aim to enhance learning, participation, and feedback in fun, engaging ways.

1. Top 10 Apps for
Teaching and Learning
By: Devon Loth, Christian Cauthon,
David Dillion

2. App Rationale
1. Google Classroom: Classroom is essential because it will not only improve communication,
but also feedback, organization, and teamwork, in and outside of the classroom.
2. Socrative: This app would be an asset to the classroom because it promotes student
interest and engagement in an entirely new way, transforming learning into a positive
experience, thus increasing student independence and motivation.
3. TeacherKit: this app aids teacher organization and classroom structure, so that teachers
can spend less time organizing, and more time teaching and encouraging learning.
4. Class Dojo: This incredibly safe app is crucial to the classroom because it provides a whole
new dimension of tracking behavior, encouraging positive reinforcement, and
communicating and teaming with parents to support students.
5. Read Theory: Read Theory is essential because of its unique ability to accurately and

3. App Rationale
6. SeeSaw -This app made the list because it is a fun and easy way for students to have digital
portfolios. This allows them to show what they know.
7. Kahoot! - This app made the list because it is a fun, engaging way for students to collaborate and
teachers to give immediate feedback. Teachers can reinforce curriculum standards while pushing
students to use higher order thinking skills.
8. Plickers - This app made the list because it allows teachers to use a platform for learning and
assessment and it just as a fun, engaging , and rigorous as other online platforms but it does not
require each student to have an electronic device.
9. BrainPop - This app made the list because of its engagement and content quality. Each lesson is fun
and encourages higher order thinking through questioning techniques. It offers assessments as the end
of each lesson as well, which provide immediate feedback.
10. NearPod - This app made the list because it is phenomenal. It allows teachers to use pre-made
lessons or to create your own and allows students and teacher to interact in real time on this platform.
It encourages collaboration, higher order thinking skills, and immediate feedback.

4. Google Classroom
● Wide range of benefits extend learning beyond
classroom walls
● Allows teachers to create classes, distribute assignments
with due dates, grade and provide feedback to student
work, organize lesson plans and class materials, and
easily communicate with students and parents outside of
school

5. Socrative
● Clicker-response system that makes practice, review,
and assessments both fun and engaging
● Results are displayed in graph form, allowing for
immediate feedback
● App also doubles as a roadmap for curriculum planning
and teacher collaboration.

6. TeacherKit
● Tool for personal teacher organization, designed for the
classroom
● Allows teacher to manage and customize class(es), take
attendance, configure daily timetables, make seating
charts, lessons, track student behavior, and record
grades.

7. Class Dojo
● Increases communication and teamwork between
teachers, parents, and students
● Ability to share photos, videos, and messages
throughout and after the school day
● Offers positive reinforcement for classroom behaviors

8. Read Theory
● Reading level assessment platform
● Track reading comprehension and writing progress,
● Practice for standardized testing, encourages reading
and self-evaluation and improvement

9. Seesaw
● A platform for students to develop digital portfolios.
● Students have a lot of freedom to show what they know,
which fits well with standards.
● Seesaw encourages higher learning thinking skills
through writing,drawing and other ways of demonstrating
and putting into practice what they have learned.

10. Kahoot is a free game-based learning platform. Teachers can create games,
quizzes, and homework assignments. This platform allows students and
teachers collaborate through their learning.
● Students can create and share their own Kahoots with classmates
● It is played in a group settings which encourages collaboration and
classroom community
● It is fun and engaging!

11. Plickers is an a classroom response app that teachers can use without having
devices for each student. Teachers can upload games or quizzes that will use
multiple choice answers and students each answer with their personal game
card. The teacher records the student’s answers with the app and gets real time
answers.
● Tailor instruction with instant feedback
● Use without requiring each student to have a device

12. Brain Pop is an engagement tool that allows teachers to use video and
questioning techniques to enrich lessons. Brain Pop offers Brain Pop Jr. (k-3),
Brain Pop (upper elementary and middle school), and Brain Pop ESL (proficiency
based ELL program).
● Content to support core and supplemental subjects
● Encourages students to create, collaborate, and explore their world
● Fun, reflective, and educator-focused

13. Nearpod is an app that allows teachers to use ready-to-teach interactive lessons
or to create your own lessons. Through these interactive lessons students and
teachers can collaborate and give feedback in real time.
● Easily create interactive lessons
● Download ready to use lessons
● Share content and assessments in real time
● Great platform for feedback