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Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers

Cult of Pedagogy

” Another advantage is the fact that they require every student to participate “something in social psychology we call the diffusion of responsibility. You can do completion or participation, but I would avoid assigning points you don’t want to create anxiety around making mistakes.” It’s crickets.

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Increase Engagement in Video Conferencing Sessions with Mentimeter

Catlin Tucker

I decided to use Mentimeter to encourage audience participation throughout my presentation. Mentimeter is an interactive online presentation software that has a variety of question types to increase engagement during a presentation (in person or online). ” The larger words in the cloud have been entered by multiple participants.

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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

Engagement Strategy #1 Pair the Video with Questions. You can use Screencastify (a new feature ) or Edpuzzle to insert questions into the video itself. Screencastify allows you to insert multiple-choice questions to check for understanding and collective formative assessment.

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5 ways to integrate gamification into your classroom

eSchool News

Quizizz: Turn assessments into fun competitions Quizizz is my top choice for a gamification platform. It allows you to create or search pre-made question sets and host a variety of games that students can join. Students answer multiple-choice questions on their devices while seeing fun memes, leaderboards, and progress bars.

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Improving Critical Thinking May Take Practice

Edsurge

The research aimed to test and improve participants’ ability to identify the following common fallacies, which can lead people to draw inaccurate conclusions from information and data: random chance. Each group of study participants started the experiment by taking a pre-test and receiving training about critical thinking.

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SMART Technologies Launches AI Assist in Lumio to Save Teachers Time

eSchool News

Designing effective quizzes takes timeespecially when crafting well-balanced multiple-choice questions with plausible wrong answers to encourage critical thinking. Monster Quiz and Team Quiz : Game-based activities that foster collaboration and competition as students work in teams to answer questions on their devices.

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My Second Conversation with ChatGPT: Can It Be My Teaching Aid?

Faculty Focus

Although I will focus on the same course (one about how to write multiple-choice questions), this time I want to find out whether ChatGPT can function as my teaching aid. For example, can it come up with examples and questions that I can use in learning materials and activities? It’s similar to a very fast brainstorm.