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How Gimkit engages my students

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During this time, students experienced significant change and evolved into a more technologically-dependent group. Gimkit offers so much more than just a game-based learning experience for students–it can be used as an introduction to a lesson, as assigned homework, or as a tool for reviewing. You see how many got it right.

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Why Giving My Students More Choice Was the Most Punk Rock Thing I Could Do

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Authority, on the other hand, is when I decide what lessons to assign to students, or when they must read silently to themselves or aloud to the class. They are for everyone. I have control over their actions and learning. Of course, it's easier to be in control when your role as a teacher puts you in a position of authority.

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Flipped Classroom: Engaging Students with EdPuzzle

Catlin Tucker

These open-ended questions are a great way to begin discussions in class the day after students have completed this assignment. Multiple Choice Questions. Teachers can also create multiple-choice questions to see how well students are understanding and retaining the information they are watching.

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Blended Learning: Design a Mini-playlist that Allows Students to Control the Pace of Their Learning

Catlin Tucker

Students who generally struggle to read at grade level could engage with this assignment in ways equal to their classmates who read at or above grade level. Each time I return to an assignment, I add strategies, like polling, discussion boards, and partner work to make the experience more engaging.

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Florida district deploys new math tool

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LearnBop is fabulous for remediation, as it helps teachers assign the standards we are focusing on, and then track and monitor each student’s progress toward those standards.”. The previous math program in the district didn’t allow teachers to assign work to students by specific standards, which made it difficult to identify students’ gaps.

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Should Professors (a) Use Multiple Choice Tests or (b) Avoid Them At All Costs?

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Multiple-choice questions don’t belong in college. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines. You can use an LMS rubric tool, and click, click, click, you have a grade.”

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6 tips to make the most of student blogging

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They’ll like it a lot more than answering multiple choice questions on a worksheet, which will lead to deeper thinking and higher quality work. I’m a firm believer in not asking students to do anything that I’ve never done before, especially when it comes to technology. And guess what? Begin by starting your own blog.