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Nearpod

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Interactive slides

Make any slides-based lessons interactive and gather data on student understanding by adding formative assessments, simulations, and dynamic media.

Or choose from thousands of ready-to-teach, customizable, standards-aligned lessons from teacher favorite brands.

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Nearpod: You'll wonder how you taught without it

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Real-time insights into student understanding through interactive lessons, interactive videos, gamified learning, formative assessment, and activities -- all in a single platform.

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Math apps for Android

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This is a free app that provides a set of smart games to help you improve your Math skills starting from the basics

This is another great Math Game that offers different layers of difficulty to players. What is cool about this game is that users can easily share their scores with other with one click.

This is a fremium app that is designed particularly for preschoolers to improve their math skills

Learns Numbers is a mathematical enlightening game for babies. It has 2 scenes to choose from. Your baby can learn and understand numbers and quantities while playing and enjoying the underwater world scene and the Panda fishing scene.

Math/Maths Workout is a set of daily brain training exercises and math drills designed to enhance mental arithmetic.

This fun Android game isn't complicated at all, but it will definitely challenge your child's mental muscles. Kids have fun playing this easy math game, and it is one of the best math puzzle for kids, and an easy math puzzle for kids.

Useful tips to simplify difficult math problems and exercises to use them. Four arithmetic operations training in three difficulty levels

this entertaining math game that challenges your child's mind. It's so much fun, he or she won't even know they're learning! Simply connect three adjacent numbers using addition and subtraction so their sum equals the target number. Your goal is to beat the clock and score as many points as possible.

Playing the game is easy (finding equation that works), but mastering it is hard due to the cleverly crafted scoring system. Make strategical decisions and improve skills to plan ahead.

Walk through step-by-step solutions to see where you made your mistake. See your stats for every problem type (saved across app runs). Work out problems without needing to take notes.

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This is a free app that provides a set of smart games to help you improve your Math skills starting from the basics This is another great Math Game that offers different layers of difficulty to players. What is cool about this game is that users can easily share their scores with other with one click.

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storytelling apps for Android

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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This i app allows you to create Comics, Memes and Funny pictures all from a single app ! And share them with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and by Email. Its as easy as Touch, Type and Share.
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Share your voice and surf the world of sound with the all new Audioboo! New features include an all-new user interface,download and keep your favourite clips to listen offline,support for Boo Boards and new search options.
3- Talking Tom and Ben

Talking Tom & Ben have become famous TV news personalities! Talk to them and they will repeat what you say in turns. Create & record funny conversations between them.

The WeVideo Video Editor helps you capture memories and moments wherever they happen, and turn them into amazing videos to share with others, across your favorite social networks
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Turn your camera roll into beautiful, pro-quality videos. Choose some of your favorite photos, mix them with one of our engaging styles, and pick a soundtrack from our huge library of music. Within moments you'll have an amazing video to share with everyone!

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5 Good Digital Storytelling Apps for Android

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This i app allows you to create Comics, Memes and Funny pictures all from a single app ! And share them with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and by Email. Its as easy as Touch, Type and Share. 2- Share your voice and surf the world of sound with the all new Audioboo!

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iPad apps for school

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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Google Drive is one safe place for all your stuff. Upload photos, videos, documents, and other files that are important to you, then access what you need wherever you go, on any device. Get going with up to 15GB of storage. Free.
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ToDo for iPhone and ToDo for iPad has a beautiful, simple interface and is full of features (projects, sub-tasks, due-dates, categories, etc), while remaining simple to use. ToDo makes it easy to keep your lists in sync between your mobile devices and computers.

Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.
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Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Access any file you save to your Dropbox from all your computers, iPhone, iPad, and the web. With Dropbox you'll always have your important memories and work with you.

The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface.
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Flipboard is your personal magazine. It is the most popular way to catch up on the news, read stories from around the world and browse the articles, videos and photos friends are sharing. To begin, pick a few interests and tap any of the tiles to begin flipping through your personal magazine.
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Feedly is a new way to browse and share the content of your favorite news sites, feeds, tumblr blogs and youtube channels. Instead of having to hunt down for news, feedly uses RSS to aggregate the contents of the news sites and blogs you like and deliver them as a fast mobile-optimized experience.
4-Instapaper

Instapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted.

Building on 25 years of development led by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram|Alpha has rapidly become the world's definitive source for instant expert knowledge and computation.
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Pubget for iPad delivers PubMed and full text journal articles straight to your iPad! Read them as PDFs on the spot or save them to take on the go.
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instaGrok is an educational (re)search engine that lets students (any anyone else) research any topic in an engaging, visual way. instaGrok finds the best information on the topic and presents it as interactive concept map ("grok"), showing key facts, concepts and relationships, videos, images and more. Users can pin their favorite materials to their grok and take notes in the built-in journals.
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EBSCOhost databases and discovery technologies are the most-used, premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide. This free app ensures that iPhone and iPod Touch users get the most from searching premium EBSCOhost database content, provided courtesy of your library.

The most natural digital handwriting experience on iPad, Penultimate gives you the convenience and feel of writing on paper with the added power and availability of Evernote. Take notes in class or a meeting, journal your thoughts, or outline your next big idea -- in the office, on the go, or at home on the sofa.

Awesome note is the only application that combined Note-taking and To-do list which helps you to organize your life with the ability to keep everything.
Especially integrated iOS Calendar and Reminder will gives you to tracking your life plan much easier than before.
3-Notability

Write, illustrate and annotate using gorgeous retina ink. Notability's zoom window helps you quickly and clearly draw every detail, while the palm rest protects your notes from unwanted marks. Choose the right pen and paper for any project.
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Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.
5-Note Taker HD

Note Taker HD is a powerful app for writing and organizing handwritten notes, diagrams, etc., on the iPad. It can also be used to annotate PDF files. It can shrink your writing so you can easily fit a lot of text on a page. You can read the reduced-size "ink" as if you had written those letters with a very fine pen. It gives you solid functionality and control to produce the pages you need.

Citation and Bibliography Apps

Create accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago style citations in seconds by scanning a book bar code or by typing the name of a book. Build and manage your works cited. Once done, email your citations and then export your citations to EasyBib.com's popular bibliography management service. 2-

Writing a bibliography can be hard. Keeping track of your resources, quotes and how to format them can be downright daunting. iSource does quick work of formatting bibliography entries and in-text citations for you, saves these formatted entries all in one place and is simlpe and easy to use. iSource even includes a list of the most common formatting rules for you to use as a reference guide.
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My MLA is the ultimate guide and companion for students, researchers and scholars who need to utilize the style (6th Ed.). MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

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20 Must-have iPad Apps for Student Researchers and Academics

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Google Drive is one safe place for all your stuff. Upload photos, videos, documents, and other files that are important to you, then access what you need wherever you go, on any device. Get going with up to 15GB of storage. Free.

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Ideas for using iPads

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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iPad, as some argue, is leading a silent but radical revolution in the world of education. It is now being embraced by a budding host of schools as the official learning device in the classroom and though we are still in the embroyinic stages of the integration of this device in instruction, yet the first results coming out 1:1 programs using iPad are promising.

You might be already using iPad with your students or may be thinking about using it in the future, but wherever you are in this "iPadded revolution ", make sure you tap into the full educational potential of this versatile gadget . In this same vein, and to help you better make informed decisions on the whats, hows and whys behind your use of iPad in your teaching, I am sharing with you some excellent book apps I have recently downloaded. These could be somthing you would want to read in the coming Christams break. Enjoy

1- A Guide to The iPad in Primary Education

A Guide to the iPad in Primary Education is an illustrated reference book to guide teachers through using the iPad successfully within the Primary Curriculum. Written by Adam Foster, an experienced Primary School Teacher and Apple Distinguished Educator, the eBook is divided into chapters covering management of iPads, using the camera, teaching aid, film-making, screen-casting, eBook creation, Early Years and more. The book also includes over 40 minutes of video tutorials and many classroom based ideas for all year groups.

This book aims to provide educators with comprehensive information about how to utilize iPads for Learning, focusing on policies, guidelines, and practical information about the integration of iPads. This book is designed around four main themes of technology (Learn, Protect, Balance, Respect) that teachers, students and parents can utilize throughout the school year during a Digital Citizenship Camp or integrated into the everyday curriculum.

This eBook is written for educators and parents who have an interest in mobile learning and especially in the use of Apple's iPad tablet. It is not a "How-to" manual but a resource for enabling more informed decisions regarding the use of mobile technology in learning and teaching.

4- iPads in The Classroom

The iPad is an engaging, and intuitive piece of technology that has more uses than you or I can imagine. As application developers continue to create more apps, the iPad's uses will continue to grow. The creativity and imagination of its' creators and the developers of applications is absolutely amazing. This book will cover some basics of teaching with the iPad, setting it up, understanding settings, accessibility and using apps for differentiation. This book is geared toward educators.

5- iPad in Education for Dummies

The iPad is a natural fit for education in the 21st century, and this straightforward, full-color guide shows you just how to deploy it effectively in your educational institution. From understanding how iPads can be used for different learning styles to managing iPad content and classroom use, finding the apps to complement your curriculum, creating interactive lessons, and beyond, author Sam Gliksman, a sought-after consultant on integrating technology in schools, answers all your questions.

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5 Must Read Guides for Teachers Using or intending to Use iPads with Students

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iPad, as some argue, is leading a silent but radical revolution in the world of education. It is now being embraced by a budding host of schools as the official learning device in the classroom and though we are still in the embroyinic stages of the integration of this device in instruction, yet the first results coming out 1:1 programs using iPad are promising.

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5 apps for making movies

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Every year at Hollywood award shows, we see fantastic movies celebrated for their rich storytelling and dynamic performances. Your students can become moviemakers, too, thanks to some powerful apps for mobile devices. With these tools, your children can take videos and edit their work to make professional quality movies using iOS devices (iPads and iPhones) and Android tablets.

One good thing about this easy-to-use technology is that students can still use important English language arts skills like writing a narrative, planning a sequential story, and including key details when getting ready to make a movie. These apps can enhance the work that you are doing with children in the classroom and give them room to be creative storytellers.

iMotion HD (iOS: Free, Upgrade Available)

Your students can create a time-lapse or stop-motion film using this video app. iMotion HD lets kids make a movie by combining still photos. They can set this app to take photographs at timed intervals to show elapsed time (like a plant growing or a sunset) or for stop-motion film (using action figures or puppets). With the full version of the app, users can add music and get access to extra export features like uploading their movie straight to YouTube.

PicPlayPost is a video and editing tool that lets users combine videos and still images into a shared frame. With a tap of the screen, the videos will play simultaneously or sequentially, and the still images will be placeholders in the frame. It's a great tool for displaying a combination of pictures as an alternative to a traditional slideshow. Kids can manipulate the style of the frame and add music from their iTunes library to play in the background.

Magisto lets users shoot video from inside the app, edit video saved to their device and create a movie with this footage. Once students select the still images and videos that they want to include, they choose a theme and music. Then the app puts the pieces together. In order to save movies to an album, users will have to set up an account.

iMovie (iOS: $4.99)

With iMovie, students can edit video that they've taken with their iPhone or iPad. This powerful app lets kids create feature films and Hollywood-style trailers using the built-in themes and templates. iMovie lets them add titles, transitions and music as they apply different film techniques like slow motion and panning over still photos. Whether your students dig deep into all of the professional quality features in iMovie or simply scratch the surface, they'll create a fantastic final product.

Students can edit video saved to their device with Andromedia Video Editor. This app lets them organize clips, crop video and even apply the "Ken Burns" filming technique to still images and videos. Users can add transitions to each clip, edit audio, and record a narration using the microphone on the device. After rendering their video, students can share it on multiple platforms.

Have you tried using mobile devices to make movies? How could you see yourself using these tools in the classroom?

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Every year at Hollywood award shows, we see fantastic movies celebrated for their rich storytelling and dynamic performances. Your students can become moviemakers, too, thanks to some powerful apps for mobile devices. With these tools, your children can take videos and edit their work to make professional quality movies using iOS devices (iPads and iPhones) and Android tablets.

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QR codes in the classroom

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40 interesting ways to use QR Codes in the classroom

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From Tom Barrett's awseome "Interesting ways" project. Thanks Tom!

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Tablets in the classroom

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How To Learn | Powerful strategies to master any new skill or subject

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As the trend to incorporate more and more technology in the classroom expands, teachers are looking for new and exciting ways to use tablets in the classroom during everyday learning activities and exercises. Educators and administrators alike are seeking new and innovative approaches to marry technology to the ever changing curriculum requirements.

While educators and administrators explore using tablets in the classroom, they are quickly realizing the task is not an easy one. Outside of school, students typically utilize tablets as a recreational device and enjoy games and virtual communities with them.

This means that kids instinctively expect to engage with a tablet in a recreational fashion. When we ask students to use their tables as a learning aid, they may be confused or irritated at the initial request.

To get kids to shift into tablet as learning tool, teachers are finding that instilling fair, reasonable and consistent classroom habits in tablet learning environments is key.

Here are a few strategies to employ to facilitate positive tablet learning habits:

Be clear with students at the outset of class whether tablets will be used that day. If tablets are not part of the learning plan for the day, just let students know that by saying, "We are device-free today, so please find a resting place for your tablet." This approach quickly takes the pressure off of the teacher.

If you are going to use the tablets with students, be prepared to move and engage a lot. Tablet-learning requires a lot of energy on the part of the teacher and a high level of engagement and interaction with students. Plan on weaving in and out of students as they work on the tablets so you can ask questions, probe, query, challenge and inquire.

Carefully consider space. Keeping students close together in a circle or a series of circles with tablets flat and easily viewable helps to maintain focus. For younger students, having the tablet on the surface of the floor makes it easy for the teacher to see the screens. Dispersing students around the classroom or outside opens up a can of worms in terms of management, unless the goals and objectives are clear for students, with a well-defined time frame for completion of a learning task.

Talk about the uses for tablets: creation, consumption, curation, and connection. Be clear with students about the purpose for the class. The use of the tablet for the class might be to create, or it might be to consume, or it might involve curation or gathering of sites around a particular topic, like government, with the opportunity to teach media literacy, or it could be used to connect to resources and to their peers.

Build an appropriately sized app library for the tablets. Too many apps can be overwhelming and too few can be limiting. Employ the Goldilocks rule to find the just right menu of apps for the tablets. As the school year winds down, ask your students which apps they found most useful to help you figure out how to modify the menu for next year.

Capture learning. Tablets present a wonderful opportunity for teachers to capture the magic moment that happens in a class discussion or activity. Have students be prepared to record their conversations or take photos of the learning process. Build a class library of positive learning moments that are happening with tablets so you can build on the positive behaviors, instead of harping on negative behaviors.

Accountability is key. Whatever the exercise, purpose or goal of the learning taking place with tablets, be sure to expect a result at the end of the class and have students share their work with the learning community so that the classroom is a "collaboratory."

Be confident and remember that you are the adult in charge of the learning environment. There is no need to let the tablet abdicate your authority. If a student breaks trust or acts inappropriately, be fair and consistent with consequences, as you would be with other behaviors.
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Be patient and take small steps. It does not all have to happen at once.

Schools can continue to keep learning and growing and recognizing that tablets are a new learning tool. As with any new tool, there are growing pains and it's a natural and healthy process to go through for teachers and schools. At the end of the day, focusing on new habits with persistence will help to create a positive tablet learning environment for students and teachers.

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Using Tablets In The Classroom - How To Learn | Powerful strategies to master any new skill or subject

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As the trend to incorporate more and more technology in the classroom expands, teachers are looking for new and exciting ways to use tablets in the classroom during everyday learning activities and exercises. Educators and administrators alike are seeking new and innovative approaches to marry technology to the ever changing curriculum requirements.

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ICT

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Professor Larry DeBrock at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used a Tablet PC in his Microeconomic Principles class in the Spring 2002 semester. The information in this section is derived from personal communication and presentations made by Professor DeBrock. The reader should note that Professor DeBrock has not yet reviewed this document. Any errors that may be in the following material are those of the current author (Hursh), not Professor DeBrock himself.

Microeconomic Principles (ECON 102) is a large lecture format course normally taken by freshmen. There are two lecture sections with enrollments of 660 and 750 students. There are also quiz sections which are handled by teaching assistants.

Professor DeBrock dislikes standard PowerPoint presentations, believing that this format often leads the instructor to move too quickly, and to put too much material on each slide. He also found annotating and drawing on PowerPoint slides using a mouse unsatisfactory.

His teaching technique has evolved from overhead slides created with word processing software (which also made it possible for the lecturer to move too quickly) to the technique he's been using in recent semesters: blank or nearly-blank overhead slides which he filled in as the class progressed. Though the overheads allowed him to make annotations and draw, and the manual drawing process helped with pacing, they still suffered from several shortcomings. The overheads were ephemeral. The instructor disposed of them after each class, forcing the students to make their own drawings if they wanted to keep a copy (some instructors make copies of overheads available at local copy shops, but this has its own set of problems, discussed below).

DeBrock thought that the Tablet PC might allow him to work in his preferred style, while also allowing students to retain permanent access to the slides without the trouble of making their own hand copies.

DeBrock first used the bundled Microsoft Journal Software. This worked well in the classroom itself, but proved to be less than convenient for archiving. Annotating the slides for web use produced an unesthetic result. Also, the software only allowed saving the slides in one of two proprietary formats, .JNL or .MHTML. The .JNL format would have required the students to download and install the Microsoft Journal Viewer Software (available only for Windows), while the .MHTML format was only viewable on Microsoft Internet Explorer. Neither was a satisfactory option for such a large and diverse student population.

The professor then hit on a novel solution: use PowerPoint, but start with blank slides. The stylus made it easy to "draw" on the blank PowerPoint slides, just as he'd always done with overheads, and PowerPoint made it possible to save the slides in a format (HTML) that was viewable by most students.

DeBrock's current procedure is this:

1. Teach the first lecture of the day, creating each slide in real time.

2. Save the slides on the Tablet PC and return to his office.

3. Use the wireless network feature to move the slides onto his desktop PC for printing.

4. Print a copy of the slides on his color printer to use in the second lecture (he recreates the slides in real time for the second lecture, but having the first lecture as a reference helps maintain consistency).

5. Teach the second lecture.

6. In his office (or elsewhere), review the slides, add additional annotations as needed, save the slides as HTML, and post them on the Web.

DeBrock has identified the following major attractions of using the Tablet PC:

Drawing in color in real-time. Few new technology skills are needed when switching from overheads to the Tablet.

Paging back and forth. It's easy to revisit earlier material (unlike a blackboard that may have been erased, or trying to find an earlier overhead slide in a dimly-lit room)

Efficient posting of the lecture slides to the Web.

He also identified some shortcomings:

Unlike a mouse, the Tablet PC stylus doesn't leave an arrow on the screen when you're not holding it. This makes it difficult to point at specific material without actually drawing something. This can be done with a pen or finger on a traditional overhead, of course.

The stylus cursor sometimes bencomes unstable at the extreme edges of the screen.

The Tablet PC can be hard to read under some fluorescent lights.

DeBrock found the handwriting recognition good for standard vocabulary words, but less useful for technical terms from his discipline.

Conclusion

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Why tablets in the classroom

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Hi guys! It's Debbie from over at K is for Kinderrific.

Plickers are all the opposite.

Once students have their answers up, all you have to do is open the app and scan the room. You do NOT have to go from student to student scanning each individual's plicker. In fact, it works better if you stand back a bit and scan the whole room at one time.

And also on your computer screen!

As you can see in the photo above, student number 10 chose answer D, while all the other students chose answer B.

(You can choose to not show student answers on the screen, so that only you can see who answered incorrectly.)

It'll be fun for you too, I promise!!

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Hi guys! It's Debbie from over at K is for Kinderrific. Plickers are all the opposite. Once students have their answers up, all you have to do is open the app and scan the room. You do NOT have to go from student to student scanning each individual's plicker.