Teachers have a tough job. Guiding our new generations into a bright future is can be daunting! Throw in a lack of funding, a splash of language barriers, a dash of short attention spans and you’ve got a monumental task on your hands. Students are by definition great consumers of information, whether it’s Facebook, or a textbook. Taking in new information is crucial, but in the end we must learn to do something with it.

Successful adults produce real things like bridges, braille translations, legislation. The best educators teach students how to generate new and coherent ideas with what they’ve learned. Using today’s freshest technology can help foster that creativity in a big way.

Enter Zapd for the classroom.

Richard Byrne, winner of several Edublog awards, and an educator for educators, thinks that Zapd is one of the best tools of 2011 for the classroom. We couldn’t agree more.

Zapd can put a new spin on the five paragraph essay:

Zapd is great for teachers too! You can document and share a field trip super fast:

Or, use Zapd to display and share your students’ work:

Summer vacation may be the best thing ever, but here at Zapd we can’t wait for school to start up again and see what you crazy kids come up with! Happy Zapping!

 

Love,

 

The Zapd Team