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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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Small Changes, Huge Results

A Principal's Reflections

Refer to the archive mentioned above to see some of the amazing things my teachers are now doing. cell phones) responsibly as a tool for learning in certain classes using free programs such as Poll Everywhere. We also had to trust they would use their mobile learning devices (i.e.

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20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom

Shake Up Learning

Let’s make sure we are all on the same page when it comes to formative assessment, or what I like to refer to as, “Assessment FOR Learning,” as a follower of Rick Stiggins ‘ work over the years. Poll Everywhere. Poll Everywhere is a live audience polling tool that integrates into your presentation.

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The 12-week plan for building courses

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This term is stolen from the business world and refers to activities that help students get acclimated to the systems and culture of the class: Getting to know each other, learning about the focus and culture of the course, forming teams, learning the syllabus, practicing with the course technology, and so on.

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Instructional Upgrade

A Principal's Reflections

Students from Algebra 1B and Elements of Geometry have used Poll Everywhere in order to answer multiple choice questions. The students are excited to share their findings with one another and, if they find images they desire to use as references, they can print them using the computer and printer in the art studio.

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

Educator Innovator

It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you know what young people are into these days—which music and pop culture references will resonate, etc. Let your students teach you about their interests—don’t make assumptions. The problem was that I didn’t let my students teach me.