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Increasing Student Participation During Zoom Synchronous Teaching Meetings

User Generated Education

What I really love about using Google Forms for surveys and polls is that immediate feedback can be presented to the students through the response tab. Poll Everywhere. They were given several online articles as references and also encouraged to use their own experiences. In Breakout Groups, they were give a topic.

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Advancing Mobile Phones as Learning Devices

A Principal's Reflections

This morning I read a great article on PBS Media Shift by Audrey Watters entitled " Why Schools Should Stop Banning Cell Phones, and Use Them For Learning." For the most part they used a program called Poll Everywhere to check for understanding, review prior learning, and informally assess.

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What is the Most Effective Classroom Technology?

A Principal's Reflections

The other day I came across this article where interactive whiteboards (IWB''s) were touted as the most effective piece of classroom technology followed by individual netbooks for each student (these were being used predominately as e-readers). application like Poll Everywhere.

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Teaching Gen Text authors explain why cell phones should go to school

The Innovative Educator

You can read the entire piece at BYOD Goes to School, Here is what we said during our interview with the author of the article. Apps that Webb has used include Celly , which allows teachers to text students while not revealing phone numbers, and Poll Everywhere , which helps teachers conduct polls through text messages.

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Draw on Student Interests to Make the Common Core Work for You

Educator Innovator

As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere. This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. The problem was that I didn’t let my students teach me.

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Top Tips, Tools and Techniques for Easy Formative Assessment

The CoolCatTeacher

Poll Everywhere. Time Magazine Article mentioned in the show. Formative Assessment Tools and Blog Posts Mentioned in this Show: Tony Vincent’s Formative Assessment blog post. Gradecam – they are giving a 60 day free trial. Google Forms. GoFormative. Who is Tony Vincent? tonyvincent.