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Increasing Student Participation During Zoom Synchronous Teaching Meetings

User Generated Education

teacher education Zoom meetings although they can be adapted for any age group and age level (3rd grade and up), and in training professionals. Whole Group Discussions. Whole group discussions should be just that – discussions. A favorite whole group activity I do is to have a group video viewing party.

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20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom

Shake Up Learning

The post 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Recently, we discussed our favorite formative assessment tools for the classroom, and I wanted to share these here for you as a resource. In this post, you will find 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom!

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A Commitment to Digital Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Students were broken up into groups of 5-6 students. Once they had evaluated the source for these 4 elements, they wrote down their answers in a group created Google Doc. Once they had evaluated the source for these 4 elements, they wrote down their answers in a group created Google Doc. Levy’s website.

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4 EdTech Ways to Differentiate in a Student-Centered Classroom

The Web20Classroom

On the one hand, they have the traditional methods of accessing content and assessing what students have learned. Whenever a teacher reaches out to an individual or small group to vary his or her teaching in order to create the best learning experience possible, that teacher is differentiating instruction.”

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Advancing Mobile Phones as Learning Devices

A Principal's Reflections

For the most part they used a program called Poll Everywhere to check for understanding, review prior learning, and informally assess. In the rare case that a student did not have a cell phone with them my teachers would pair or group them with those that did.

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Ideas and Tools to Give Everyone a Voice

A Principal's Reflections

I remember as a teacher many years ago asking my students to raise their hands to respond to a question and even during Jeopardy-style review games had groups collaborate on their response. Even in situations where technology might be tight, cooperative groups can be utilized to reflect and then share out.

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The Blended and eLearning PBL Classroom… A Journey from Analog to Digital Project Based Learning

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

In groups, they work together to come up with a list of questions they can ask the hero they have chosen. Products: Research Notes, Journal, Class list, Group questions, Individual paper, Persuasive paper. It could start in small groups and go out to the entire class. Students are great at digital collaboration!

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