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8 Engaging Ways to use Technology in the Classroom to Create
Lessons That Arent Boring
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For each of these techniques, we offer several tools to try them
out, and resources for learning more!So come and explore!
This Slideshare presentation is based on the article of the same
title originally published on EmergingEdTech:
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2014/10/technology-create-lessons-that-arent-boring/
1. Incorporate Student Input & Gather FeedbackThere are many
applications that allow students to provide live feedback. A lot of
them can be used from smartphones. You can also gather feedback by
creating a back channel using Twitter or other applications.
Socrative! Socrative is anawesome free app that lets you
gocapture student feedback in Snap. It works from just aboutAny
device. You can ask simplequestions, or create more complexquizzes,
and download result!
Look for our 3 Minute TOOL-torial for Socrative on
YouTube!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCG1MuWf_Os
1. Incorporate Student Input & Gather FeedbackPlickers: This
is a great low-tech approach to collecting student responses during
class, that doesnt require students to have or use technology!Come
learn more! emergingedtech.com/plickers
Twitter: Twitter is a great way to gather input by creating an
easy to use backchannel. This is great for students with
smartphones (they will need the Twitter app and an account). Simply
create a unique hashtag and have students post feedback to Twitter
using that hashtag!1. Incorporate Student Input & Gather
Feedback
LEARN HOW! Check out Maggie Vs 6 Steps to create a Twitter
Backchannel with this link:
emergingedtech.com/twitter-backchannel
2. Gamify ItLeveraging gaming mechanics that can make learning
more fun is probably easier than you think. Any time you bring
competition or levelsof achievement to a classroom exercise, youre
adding an element of 'gamification'.
Of course, gamificationcan be leveraged in much richer ways.
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2. Gamify ItThe article, 4 Ways To Bring Gamification of
Education To Your Classroom on the TopHat blog offers these great
ideas:
Gamify grading: Lee Sheldon, a professor at Indiana University,
who gamified his course by abandoning grades and implementing
anexperience pointssystem.Award students with badges: For each
assignment completed, award students with digital badges!Integrate
educational video games into your curriculum: Games allows students
to fail, overcome, and persevere. Students are given a sense of
agencyin games, they control the choices they make, and the more
agency students have, the better students do.Stir up a little
competition: Professors have found that the tournaments incentivize
students to learn the material and practice.
Read the full article
here:http://blog.tophat.com/4-ways-to-gamify-learning-in-your-classroom/
https://jeopardylabs.com/
2. Gamify ItCreate your own Jeopardy Game!Larry Ferlazzo offers
tons of great web sites for creating online learning games (heres a
shortcut to his web page about this:
http://emergingedtech.com/create-online-learning-games). One idea I
really like is creating a Jeopardy-style learning game. Heres a
resource to try:
Explore dozens of additional ideas, articles, & resources
here:
emergingedtech.com/gamificationhttp://education.minecraft.net/Try
the new Minecraft Education
Edition!http://education.minecraft.net/
2. Gamify It
3. Let Students CreateThere are so many fun free tools and apps
available today that can let students create all kinds of fun
digital content: presentations, interactive digital posters,
eBooks, videos, and so much more! Happily, weve seen a further
embracing of the spirit of creating in the classroom through the
burgeoning Makerspace Movement in education.
Lets explore someresources for studentcreativity!
3. Let Students Create One of the most rewarding moments as a
teacher is seeing the pride in students faces when they present
something they have created.
emergingedtech.com/student-presentationsStudents in my Emerging
Information Technologies class used a variety of tools to create
presentations about the 4 Cs: communication, collaboration,
creation, or curation. Heres a short cut to the article:
3. Let Students CreateCreate Awesome Graphics with Canva:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3EB1up4Dpk
Create Interactive Images with ThingLink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zni_dEB9t30
Combine different types of media into a presentation with
Blendspace:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsONWnbYGnM
Heres a set of TOOL-torials that offer quick intros to three
very different free tools for creating cool digital content:
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3. Let Students CreateExplore a wealth of ideas for WHAT
students cancreate and get inspired! Here are 60 Things Students
Can CreateTo Demonstrate WhatThey Know fromTeachThought.
Shortcut: emergingedtech.com/students-create
4. Get InteractiveOnline Interactive White Boards
Did you know that there are plenty of good free interactive
whiteboards available online? Some of these applications allow
students to log on online and collaboratively edit content. If you
have a computer and a projector, you can make them work a lot like
a smart board. Check outthese 6 Online IWBsto explore this idea
further:emergingedtech.com/online-collaborative-iwb
Be sure to explore the resources shared in the comments on this
article too!
4. Get InteractiveBounceapp(bounceapp.com): You can review,
notate, and share any web page with Bounceapp. Just paste a web
page address into the app and it turns it into an interactive
screenshot where students can jot ideas!
emergingedtech.com/interactive-collaboration4. Get
Interactive
Explore lots of other tools and ideas for getting interactive in
this article:
5. Have Students Collaborate
Getting students to work together as partners, in small groups,
or maybe even as one large group, teaches them about team work.
Collaborative work can be fun. It is even possible to collaborate
with students across the world thanks to many of todays
technologies.
Here are a number of tools and techniques for classroom
collaborations ...
5. Have Students Collaborate
Collaborative Document Editing with Google
Drive(drive.google.com):
Google Drive lets you share and collaboratively edit Google Docs
with anyone else who has a Google account, for free.
This is a powerful capability.
5. Have Students Collaborate
Collaborative Mind Mapping with
MindMeister(mindmeister.com):
This applications lets users easilycreate mind maps that can be
edited collaboratively.
Collaborative Research: Working in pairs or small groups to
find, assess, summarize, and present content in specific topic
areas make for a great learning experience and assignment.5. Have
Students Collaborate
6.Project Based LearningWhen students apply what they are
learning to projects that they undertake, the topics they are
learning about can take on a much deeper meaning. Not only does the
activity and the increasedsensory exposure of project work help to
stimulate the mind, the extended time oftenrequired of project
work, and the visible, tangible results further reinforce
learning.
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6.Project Based Learning
Were gonna dip into the great resources published by Terry Heick
and crew over at TeachThought. The article, 12 Timeless
Project-Based Learning Resources provides lots of great resources
to learn about PBL.
I made this shortcut: emergingedtech.com/pbl-teachthought
6.Project Based
Learninghttp://www.emergingedtech.com/category/project-based-learning/Check
out all of our articles about Project Based Learning on
EmergingEdTech!
7. SimulationsSimulations can be a powerful addition to the
classroom. Since they tend to be somewhat complicated, they are
typically suited towards high school, college, or post-graduate or
professional studies.
Following are some examples of simulations being used in
education:
7. SimulationsEconomics: The siteEconomic-Games.com offers free
online classroom games for teaching economics.
Marketing: Have you ever wished you could give your Marketing
students the chance to practice different e-marketing skills and
techniques?Check out Simbound.com.
7. SimulationsMedical: Simulations have been a significant
teaching and learning tool in the medical field for many
years.HarvardMedical School has even createda web sitefocused on
their use of Simulations:www.harvardmedsim.org.
Business:Business Simulation Gamesare a great way to bring
active, applied learninginto Business courses.www.cesim.com
8. Bring in a Guest or TwoWith the power of video conferencing
apps like Skype, Google Hangout, Facetime, and others, our ability
to connect with people all across the world has never been better
or less costly.
Teachers have been using Skype and similar tools to being guest
lecturers, experts, students, and others into the classroom for
years.
Nothing breaks up the monotony of same old thing like an
enthusiastic subject matter expert!
8. Bring in a Guest or Two
emergingedtech.com/skypeCheck out four exciting ways to bring
the world into your classroom, on Microsofts Skype in the Classroom
web page. Heres a shortcut:
8. Bring in a Guest or TwoAnother great popular free tool for
video conferencing in the classroom is Google Hangouts. The Lee
Summit R07 School District put together this Guide to help teachers
explore and use Hangouts:
Heres a shortcut to this article:emergingedtech.com/hangouts
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