Drill and practice is frequently and beneficial when students need to memorize and recall information. During drill and practice, students are led through a series of practice exercises designed to increase proficiency in a newly learned skill or to refresh an existing one. To be effective, drill and practice exercises should include feedback to correct errors students might make along the way.
Drill and practice is a common method for helping individual learners master basic skills or knowledge through repetitive work. Drill and practice is not designed to introduce new content. it is assumed that the skill or knowledge has already been introduced and, fuss, its purpose is to give learners the opportunity to master the material at their own pace.
The computer can present many problems and require student responses
The computer can immediately inform the lawyer if an answer is right or wrong and in a well designed program tell the learner why some drill and practice programs automatically recycle missed items until they are mastered.
A computer drill and practice program can go all day without getting tired or irritable.
The computer can adjust the level of difficulty. This might be set by the teacher or the learner, or the program me it just automatically based on the student's performance.
Introduced content prior to the drill and practice session.
Use many short drill and practice sessions instead of a few longer ones. Use both individual and group activities.
Use competition ( against self or others) to make drill more interesting.
Make sure students are practicing the correct information or procedures.Correct practice makes perfect.
Provide opportunities for students to apply what they master through drill and practice.
For each of the following instructional activities, review the questions and reflectively consider how the various activities and strategies can be incorporated within your instructional materials:
What strategies will you use to hold students’ attention throughout the lesson?
What strategies will you use to help students see the relevance of the information?
Will you use to increase students’ confidence in learning?
What strategies will you use to increase student satisfaction in learning?
Do to help students understand the objectives of the current lesson?
What will you do to link the lesson to previous lesson?
What will you do to form transitions?
What will you do to summarize the lesson and Link it to future lessons?
What major content ideas will you present? In what sequence? Using what examples?
What will you do to help students understand and remember those ideas?
What will you do to help students see the relationships among the ideas?
What will you do to help students understand when and why the ideas will be useful?
What will you do to give students an opportunity to apply their new knowledge or skill?
How much guidance will you provide in what form will that guidance take?
In what way will you give students feedback about their performance during practice?
What will you do to determine whether students have achieved the learning objectives?
how will you give students feedback about their performance during the evaluation?
ovides repetitive practice in basic skills to enhance learning, build competency, and attain mastery
Promotes psychomotor and low-level cognitive skills
How to build speed and accuracy
Student can perceive it as boring
Does not teach when and how to apply the facts learned
Gimkit
Assign kits to specific classes with time/point goals as independent practice
Kahoot
Kahoot can be played live with a group OR question sets can be assigned as individual practice
Mural.co
Collaborative whiteboard - students can work synchronously or asynchronously. Comes with templates to help structure thinking, built in timers, the power to summon students to certain areas of the board, voting tools.