Jane Hart, of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, has published her annual list of Top Tools for Learning. Like last year, she has three sub-lists including Top 100 Tools for Education. Note that you can easily see the rankings for each sub-list using these rankings. Jane Hart’s analysis includes details of the contributors as well as her commentary on trends.
Looking at the Top 100 Tools for Education I see my favourites WordPress (Blogging and website tool) and Evernote (Personal information system) in there, these are also popular in all the lists.
Continuing to look at the Top 100 Tools for Education Excel is quite rightly highly placed. I regularly use Excel resources; just a few examples of some favourites:
- Mike Hadden’s Excel Files
- STEM earning – Descriptive Statistics
- Dynamic Maths – David Watkins
- Virtual Textbooks – STEM Learning
Excel Files – Mike Hadden
STEM Centre – Descriptive Statistics
See STEM Learning, part of the A Level (16+) Resources series.
A few more for investigation …
Kahoot (Classroom response tool) is very easy to use and free for teachers and students. In a few minutes I created a quiz on Directed Numbers … (not very exciting – just a test, very easy to create.) 
Another popular quizzing tool I know some of my colleague’s use is Quizlet.
Seeing Padlet (online discussion board) on the list reminded me of this very easy to use tool. I shall try this with Year 7!
Unsplash – beautiful free photos to do anything you like with! Perhaps not surprising that this has moved rapidly up the lists!
- Photo by Marivi Pazos on Unsplash
Apart from illustrating Unsplash, I can have pictures of flowers to illustrate a mathematical connection! From Science News reading Fibonacci’s Missing Flowers we discover that the most common number of petals is five and whilst there are many flowers with the number of petals a Fibonacci number there are also flowers with four, six, seven or nine petals!
I added a comma in a couple of places in this post thanks to Grammarly which has jumped up the Top 100 Tools list by 70 places. Very easy to use, Grammarly lets you check for 250 types of grammatical, spelling, and punctuation mistakes.