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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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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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The Future is Here: Take Advantage of It

A Principal's Reflections

In the case of mobile learning devices (cell phones), if a student does not have a device my teachers have been instructed to pair or group them when using polling sites like Poll Everywhere or conducting research. We highly value equity in terms of access to technology.

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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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Climate is Everything

A Principal's Reflections

After a few minutes of notes, the students were directed to get in their pre-selected groups and were broken up into pairs by Ms. Perna within each group. As a culminating activity, Mr. Manzo asked the students to take out their mobile devices and submit their questionnaire answers using Poll Everywhere.

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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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4 EdTech Ways to Differentiate in a Student-Centered Classroom

The Web20Classroom

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.” Content is the foundation of learning and skills are applied.

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