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New EdTech Classroom is excited to announce our new brand partnership with Taskade, a real-time organization and collaboration tool with integrated video chat and messaging that helps educators optimize workflow through the use of visually appealing task lists, mind maps, org charts, and more.
It’s no secret that being a teacher can be incredibly stressful. A leading cause of that stress is overwhelm: the persistent feeling that no matter how much you work, you’ll never be able to get everything done that needs to get done. Technology alone can’t solve this problem, but it can certainly help.
Our team strongly believes that streamlining workflow and systemizing tasks is a key factor in alleviating much of the mental strain that accompanies needing to wear numerous hats. We also believe Taskade is one of the most effective tools educators can use to address this need.
Taskade is a workflow management tool used across industries, and if there’s one thing we’ve learned as educators who also run a business, it’s that the world of education could definitely benefit from adopting some of the tools and strategies that other complex industries use to make it all work.
Taskade helps you visually map out tasks in ways that can’t be done with the digital organization tools most commonly used in schools. Imagine the mental relief that would come from being able to easily access all your lesson plans, supplemental documents, multimedia files, every single piece of information you need to run your classroom in a single, well-organized location.
To be clear, we aren’t just talking checklists and hyperlinked documents here.
Taskade’s visually appealing workflow management tools allow you to map out tasks in roadmap view, to assign tasks and projects to individuals or groups, to create project templates for reuse, as well as to collaborate and even make video calls directly from individual pages.
Plus, Taskade is fully cross-platform, free to use, and you can sync all your documents across Web, Mobile, and Desktop for personal use and collaboration. Learn more here.
The possibilities for optimizing workflow and communication between administration, teachers, support staff, parents, and students are truly endless. Imagine teaching at a school where all the information you needed to access, from professional development resources to email templates to use for parent communication, was also housed in a centralized location. That’s the kind of school we would want to work at, and Taskade can help make that dream a reality.
Not only are we excited about how Taskade can help the adults who work in schools streamline their workflow, we also see enormous potential for how Taskade can support students with developing executive functioning skills, collaborating with other students on projects, and managing their own workflow and digital documents.
One of our core beliefs is that transitioning to a technology-integrated classroom requires a careful consideration of implementation logistics. In partnership with Taskade we look forward to helping schools, individual teachers, and students turn the challenge of digital organization into an opportunity to streamline practices, automate tasks, and ultimately spend more time on the important work of teaching and learning.
