SLIDE: Student Learning in a Digital Environment: Other learning tools & apps

Coursera 

Coursera provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online.

Dropbox 
Dropbox is a creative collaboration space designed to reduce busywork, bring your files together in one central place, and safely sync them across all your devices—so you can access them anytime, anywhere.

Evernote 
Evernote helps you focus on what matters most and have access to your information when you need it. Input typed notes or scan handwritten notes. Add to-do's, photos, images, web pages, or audio ... and it's all instantly searchable. Organize notes any way you want and share with anyone. Evernote App Centre

Grammarly 

This Google Chrome extension helps you eliminate errors and find grammar and spelling mistakes in your writing.

Khan Academy 
Khan Academy allows you to learn almost anything for free. Learn using videos, interactive exercises, and in-depth articles in math (arithmetic, pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, statistics, calculus, linear algebra), science (biology, chemistry, physics), economics, and even the humanities with playlists on art history, civics, finance, and more.

Language Learning with Netflix 

Improve your skills on your own, effectively and enjoyably, by watching films and series in the language you study. Build your listening comprehension with thousands of hours of authentic language in context. This Chrome extension adds additional features for language learning when you watch videos on the Netflix website.

Penultimate 
Digital Handwriting Penultimate is the award-winning digital handwriting app for iPad that combines the natural experience of pen and paper with power of Evernote’s sync and search features. Lose the paper, keep the handwriting.

Socrative Student 

Students share their understanding by answering formative assessment questions in a variety of formats: quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races. Once students launch the Socrative Student App, they'll be prompted to join the teacher's room via the teacher's unique code. No student accounts necessary!

TED Talks

Watch TED talks wherever you are. Sync your account seamlessly to access your favorite talks and watch history, save talks to watch offline.Available in 20+ languages.

Citationsy

Create citations, reference lists, and bibliographies.

EasyBib 

EasyBib is a citation generator tool which can also allow users to create a personal database of bibliographic references and automatically format a bibliography with citations in APA, MLA, or Chicago style..

MyBib

MyBib is a free bibliography and citation generator that makes citations for you to copy straight into your assignments and papers. MyBib creates citations automatically for books, journals, websites, and videos by searching for a title or identifier (such as a URL or ISBN).

ChatGPT 

OpenAI's ChatGPT is a large language model chatbot that utilises advanced natural language processing and dialogue-focused training to engage in open-ended, human-like conversations that you can use ChatGPT as a study buddy for brainstorming, writing feedback, and to help with the research process. The free version of ChatGPT can generate text and code. The paid version can generate text, code, and images.

*ChatGPT is both available through a free (GPT 3.5) and paid (GPT 4.0) version - you must have an OpenAI account 

Copilot 

Microsoft's Copilot is a multimodal study buddy, boosting productivity and creativity by generating ideas, summarising information, and suggesting improvements in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and even Teams discussions. Copilot can generate text, code, audio, and images.

*Copilot is available free through the Microsoft Edge web browser 

Gemini 

Google's Gemini is a multimodal study buddy that can help explain complex topics, generate creative ideas, and brainstorm. Gemini can generate text, code, audio, and images.

*Gemini is both available through a free (Gemini Pro) and paid (Gemini Ultra) version - you must have a Google account

Grammarly AI 

Grammarly AI writing assistance can help you generate quality text for emails, articles, reports, and more.

*Grammarly AI is available free through your web browser - you must have a Grammarly account