Educreations is an interactive whiteboard drawing and recording tool that allows educators and students alike to design more enhanced and engaging presentations. On the Educreations site or iOS app, users can record, share, and view interactive lesson plans. Users can import images into their whiteboard with the free version and mark them up in real-time on a screen.
Price | Free Basic Account; Pro Classroom ($99/year) & School Accounts |
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Learning | Cognitivism & Constructionism |
Ease of Use | ★★★★✩ |
Privacy | ★★✩✩✩ |
Accessibility | ★★✩✩✩ |
Class Size | Unlimited |
Login | Yes |
ISTE*S | Knowledge Constructor & Creative Communicator |
COPPA/ FERPA |
FERPA: Yes. COPPA: No COPPA policy found. Check with your school IT administrator. |
Dr. Ruben Puentedura’s SAMR model offers a lens for examining how technology is adopted in a classroom. As you strive to incorporate online tools into your classroom, we encourage you to use this model as an analytic tool.
Here is an example of how Educreations might fit within the SAMR model:
Far too often, technology is used as a direct substitute for other low-tech tools (e.g., pencil and paper). While substitution has some benefits (e.g., students develop their technology skills and knowledge), we encourage you to think about how you might use Educreations to modify or redefine learning.
The interactive whiteboard, with uploadable graphics and tables, makes math come alive. Students can go at their own pace and even show their work more easily, allowing teachers to assist them more easily.
Interactive labs are easy with Educreations. Advanced postings let students who may learn differently work at their own pace and students can share their steps following the scientific method with their teacher and classmates.
Guided reading notes and literature/poetry analysis become much more lively when used alongside the Educreations's interactive whiteboard.
Marking up documents as part of a video lesson is easier and much more readily accessible with Educreations. Also, with student-based creation, practicing document analysis with a video recording allows students to share their methods and findings.
Ahmad, K. & Hinck, G. Med.Sci.Educ. (2016) The Impact of a Course-Content Creation Tool (Educreations™) on Student Learning in a Physiology Course 26: 275. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-016-0259-2
Koç, S. (2019). Using the Number Line and Educreations in a Second Grade Classroom: A Collaborative Action Research Project. Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology-TOJET, 18(4), 70-77.
Ibrahim, M. & Watts, A. (2014). Examining the Effect of Using Voicethread and Educreations on Preservice Teachers’ Self Efficacy and Learning Outcome in Online Course. In M. Searson & M. Ochoa (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2014–Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 554-560). Jacksonville, Florida, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/131143/.
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