Remind: School Communication 4+

The act of Remind and now you know… By Naomi illustrated by Naomi

It good for children and it makes them remember when their teacher text them or send them something on Remind because Remind kind of remind somebody when they’re supposed to get a text message from like their teacher and their parent or them that have a phone can just go on it and scroll and see if they see a teacher and then they go and look at what they’re supposed to do and that’s why I love Remind also because my teacher sees a lot and if my mom didn’t have her mind, I would not know what to do cause well my mom she forgets stuff a lot, so Remind is good for me and my mom bye and that’s why I love my remind I also tell you when your teacher said something because your teacher in class might like I’m gonna send something off remind see this so that you can see this too and it might be like a dress up thing you like something for what y’all doing for like you never know and that’s why mine is good because I remind you of something when you don’t know when it’s coming and then your teacher can just type it or say it like I am doing on the micro other than that, she can do a lot teacher. She can do a lot because she can make sure you see it and you can text her right back and like OK I my child saw it so that’s why Remind is called Remind because it’s supposed to remind you. Well that’s what I I wonder what you think in your opinion, but that’s why I like remind

Awesome for texting but lacks features for educators

Being able to text people in a class or small groups is amazing and very helpful. However finding individual texts is very difficult to do...there’s no way to sort or organize msgs and if you receive images or attachments from members (students) they are also extremely difficult to find after several threads. You’d have to download or copy the attached picture right away because if you miss it or if you don’t do it immediately then you might as well forget it. The new features to attach files from different platforms is amazing but if you can’t receive msgs in a way that’s easy to organize, you might as well stick to email for more classroom related tasks like assignments and schoolwork communication. If it’s being presented as a tool for constant communication in an educational context it would be most helpful to sort msgs or find attachments somehow in a way that’s efficient and organized. It’s also difficult to find contacts when parents and students are not separated or filed easily, especially using it in the primary grades where the main contact or only contact is with a parent (you still need to know who’s parent they are) and adding that to the “notes” is not the best option.

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A great teacher-to-student ap and vice versa

When I returned to teaching in the fall of 2018, I knew some teachers were using Remind but I did not see what the big deal was. Mr. Covid has made it very clear to me what the big deal with Remind is.
Remind gives a teacher the convenient, easy, and quick way to communicate with his/her students, either individually or as a class. Remind also gives each student the same option to communicate with his/her teacher.
If a student has a problem or issue that s/he does not want to share in front of the entire class, Remind is the perfect vehicle for that student-teacher communication, especially if the teacher has his/her phone out and available while teaching - as I now do.
Why not just use the school's email system? Simply because many students now do not check their emails frequently. They use phone aps to send and receive messages. I know now that Remind is a terrific phone ap for useful and needed teacher-student conversations.
I am now a true believer in the power of Remind and will be making extensive use of this ap in the fall when my school district returns to in-person instruction. I strongly recommend all other teachers do likewise.