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Recommended Resources for Teachers
Recommended Resources for Teachers
***These are resources that I have personally used and have helped to differentiate instruction, helped improve student engagement, provided assessment opportunities and improved my overall lessons through technology support**
Resource 1: PearDeck
Resource 1: PearDeck
This is a plug-in that can be embedded within a lesson that has already been created on google slides. This tool allows teachers to progress monitor digitally in real time during a lesson. There are opportunities to have all students participate through drawing, multiple choice or write in answers. A teacher is able to see in real time if students are understanding what is being taught.
Activity Aligning with Content & Technology Standards ISTE-Standards for Students
Activity Aligning with Content & Technology Standards ISTE-Standards for Students
2b. Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
2b. Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
A teacher can create a presentation that is interactive. This allows students to engage with one another where they can practice digital citizenship skills while answering questions that are embedded in a presentation.
YouTube Video Resource
YouTube Video Resource
A guided resource that demonstrates how to use PearDeck as a formative assessment and as a way to progress monitor student learning.
Blog Resource
Blog Resource
Website resource for PearDeck that explains how to use it and the ins and outs of its benefits when it comes to progress monitoring and assessments.
Resource 2: Kahoot!
Resource 2: Kahoot!
This is a digital tool that can be used by a teacher to engage students in learning while progress monitoring. It is an excellent tool because it encourages students to want to answer correctly to earn points and win against their classmates! Competition always makes things more exciting for everyone involved. Kahoot! provides teachers with reports that show areas that could be improved upon, which students need additional support and overall how the lesson was retained. Students are also able to see what areas they could get more support with.
Activity Aligning with Content & Technology Standards ISTE-Standards for Students
Activity Aligning with Content & Technology Standards ISTE-Standards for Students
1c. Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
1c. Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Kahoot! can be used to get students to seek feedback through participating. This is done when students answer a question they are able to see if they got a question right or wrong. Therefore they are given immediate feedback on how they are doing with particular topics being learned.
Blog Resource
Blog Resource
This blog resource is written by a teacher. This teacher provides examples of how she has used Kahoot! to assess her students.
Blog Resource
Blog Resource
This is a website blog that has a video that explains how to use Kahoot! reports to assess student learning outcomes.
Nearpod
Nearpod
This is a digital engagement platform that enables a teacher to design presentations that include videos, quiz's, polls, drawing board, collaboration board and much more! This way of presenting a lesson allow students to interact with the media and it can be student-paced where they are in control of how they go through their lesson. This also has a google slide plug-in where Nearpod can be inserted into previously created presentations.
Activity Aligning with Content & Technology Standards ISTE-Standards for Students
Activity Aligning with Content & Technology Standards ISTE-Standards for Students
5c. Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.
5c. Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.
Nearpod can support standard based learning by having students routinely participating within a presentation that has been created to challenge thinking skills and promote higher learning. Students can be given situations, questions or problems that need to further explored through research.
Blog Resource
Blog Resource
A resource blog by Nearpod that explains various ways it can be implemented within classroom instruction.
YouTube Video Resource
YouTube Video Resource
This is a YouTube video resource that goes into detail of how to use Nearpod in online classes to enhance student engagement. This is a video recorded by a teacher who also explains how to navigate and create a presentation using Nearpod within Google Slides as a plug-in.
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