Technology can be extremely engaging for students when we capture students’ enthusiasm and utilize it toward a productive end. You can add interactive elements into docs and slide presentations, layer multiple tools to get students more involved in lessons through engagement, create hyperlinks to easily connect students to various forms of media to enhance a lesson or activity, and so much more. Let's explore a few tech tools that can be used to increase student engagement, teach necessary academic content, and re-imagine the demonstration of understanding.
This slide deck offers ideas on how to increase engagement with interactive elements including:
Collaborative Slides
Interactive Notetaking
Use hyperlinks to bundle lessons into one place
Digital choice boards
Digital manipulatives
Embed Google Forms
Add Sound into Slides
EdPuzzle
PearDeck
Promethian Board/ActivInspire Software