Surfmark for Education

Description

Surfmark is an online research application that encourages critical thinking and helps students learn how to synthesize and integrate knowledge around topics. It is the most powerful research tool currently available on iPad that also teaches the process of doing research properly.

Surfmark is changing the whole structure of a work assignment and in the process making students better critical thinkers. Students are able to navigate through complex texts to analyze, synthesize and integrate ideas and successfully apply their learning to projects. Surfmark provides the student a structured way to capture the inherently unstructured dynamically changing content that is available to them, providing them the tools and opportunity to more effectively synthesis and organize and then collaborate on this information. It gives teachers a deep and unique view into a student’s thinking process as they research on different topics and lets them offer specific pointers that can directly improve students’ performance.

Benefits:

Plugs into researchers’ workflow

  • Multiple annotation tools (including voice notes!) for web pages and pdfs
  • Limitless edits and additions to saved research for continuous improvement
  • Automatically generates bibliographies (MLA, APA, Chicago and many more) and research summaries

Enhances the process of research

  • Contextual saving and automatic organization allows fearless exploration
  • Quantifies the iterative process of exploratory research
  • Generates multiple views to gain key insights into the thought process

Encourages pedagogy

  • Allows synthesis and integration of knowledge in a more visual way
  • No need for plagiarism detectors – all the work is automatically attributed
  • Changes Student-teacher dynamic from suspicion to that of collaboration

Spurs collaboration

  • Collaboration with individuals and groups
  • Wiki-like model of enhancing the research
  • Contextual-search of public or shared private research for shared learning

Features:

Save content and context:

  • Save exact copies of web pages
  • Add annotations such as highlight, drawings and notes directly to the web pages including PDFs.
  • Add voice notes directly on web pages.

Organize:

  • Group pages into chapters
  • View them as collage, book or flow graphs
  • Search through them using full text search

Modify:

  • Add or delete saved pages at anytime
  • Rearrange the surfmark to better reflect the progress of your research
  • Collaborate with others and mix-n-match pages to cross-pollinate ideas

Report:

  • Automatically generate bibliographies using MLA, APA, Chicago and other formats
  • Automatically generate summary reports including detailed ‘flash cards’ for each saved page

Access anywhere:

  • Access your surfmarks from any computer or even the phone
  • Add more pages through browser extensions and bookmarklets and continue the work on iPad

Analytics:

  • Monitor how students are using the platform
  • Correlate progress with real academic progress

Administration:

  • Control accounts through administrator and teacher dashboards
  • Set collaboration levels across courses and teams

You can only use this app if you already have an institution account. You can also request an institutional account through the app. For general usage, please check out non-edu Surfmark app.

This is our first attempt at the ipad app. Please help us make it better by reporting bugs and by providing feedback! support at surfmark dot net

Pricing

Plan Price Details
Free for Educators Free Includes: 50 Pages, Voice Notes (30s), One Course, and 40 Students.
Pro for Educators $40/year Includes: Unlimited Pages, Voice Notes (300s), Unlimited Courses, Unlimited Students, Teams Analytics, and Download as PDF.
Institution for Educators Contact Us Includes: Create and manage Administration, Teacher and Student Accounts; Set policies for access; Set policies for collaboration; and All PRO features.

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