The important thing a student needs in his
educational life is guidance. A teacher helps students learn in the classroom
and a parent assists him in getting the homework done. Success of a student
will surely depend on these three factors: the way he/she works, the way the
teacher produces lessons and the way the parents assist him/her at home.
So many researches and surveys prove that children
do better in school when they receive guidance from both teachers and parents.
A teacher may not have time to asses each and every student but a parent can
estimate the performance of his son/daughter. Many educational institutions
conduct many events and conferences to welcome parents; and the interactions
between parents and teachers result in personalized instructions for students.
In 21st century, many parents
are failing to attend such events due to their busy professional life. But
technology helps such parents to interact with teachers from home as well as
their work place. In this article, we are giving you the information about the
tools that connect teachers, students and parents.
Schoolfy:
Schoolfy is a free educational platform that welcomes
teachers from across the world into its community. It will provide a private
social network to teachers; here they can add their students, parents and other
teachers. Schoolfy provides many free tools for teachers to communicate with
students and their parents. Those tools include setting homework, sending
documents, creating calendars and students’ assessments. Schoolfy sends system
generated automatic real time notifications to students and parents. And to
make things easier Schoolfy helps parents to receive every bit of information
related to the education of their children comfortably. This is how Schoolfy
connects students, teachers and educators. For more information, you may refer
to our article, “Schoolfy - An Educational Platform for Teachers”.
Edmodo:
Edmodo connect all learners with the people and
resources needed to reach their full potential. It gives a free and safe way
for teachers, students and parents to connect and collaborate. When you look
for sign up, you’ll see three options: I’m a student, I’m a teacher and I’m a
parent. So, we can easily accept that Edmodo is a social learning platform for
teachers, students, and parents.
Edmodo has its mobile app supports iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad which
is compatible with version 4.0 or later of the iOS (Apple’s Mobile Device
Operating System). This app also makes it easy for teachers and students to
stay connected and share information. In addition, educators, students and
parents can use their iOS device to do various activities like sending notes,
submitting assignments, posting replies, and checking messages & upcoming
events. For more information about Edmodo, please refer to the following
articles,
My Big Campus:
MyBigCampus (MBC) is one of the awesome online platforms
that safely bring together all the tools students, parents and educators need
and makes things easy to access and share. This site makes it easy to engage
students, develop lessons, track and improve academic progress, connect with a
learning community, go paperless, and lots more. MBC is having several
collaborative tools that connect teachers, students and parents. MBC helps to
carry “students’ individual learning experience” along wherever they go —
inside as well as outside the classroom, on their favorite device.
The Epic Ed Community:
The epic-ed community is designed to
empower educators such as administrators, teachers, instructional technology
facilitators, and chief technology officers as they make as they are the ones who make tech decisions and digital
transition (Vision-Plan-Implement-Asses-Vision; this is the digital transition
cycle.) in their schools and districts. Whether you are an educator or student
or parent, anyone can participate in discussion, share, and increase their
knowledge related to digital transition.
Learn from the content pages of the Digital
Transition Cycle via the Resources menu. Register to become a community member and connect with
others working on digital transition. Read the News and Updates or get the current information related to digital transition. Get
advice and ideas from Featured Contributors, including articles from Digital
Learning Day, national leaders and other community members. Participate in live or asynchronous events.
Success
of a student is the combination of student’s own effort, parent’s assistance
and teacher’s guidance. Hope these tools help you in enhancing your kid’s or
student’s learning.
