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Compare and Contrast is effective in helping students identify connections and disconnections between two or more things. Since our brains are wired to analyze similarities and differences, this strategy opens a learner's ability to provide key insight and creative responses.

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3.1: Activate or supplying background knowledge

3.2: Highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships

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Students can compare how the meaning of a song changes when two different artists perform the song. For example, "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails with the cover by Johnny Cash. Students will brainstorm the similarities and differences as follows:

Genre

Audience

Tone

Tempo/Melody

Message/Lyrics

Students can then select a song and a cover of their choosing for comparing and contrasting.

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Documents

Worksheet

Mind map

eLearning Tool

MindMup for digital and/or collaborative mind maps

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Structure writing

Use notes and attachments to quickly create a structure for an article or a writing assignment, then create a document outline and continue editing in your favourite writing tool

Create storyboards

Use a frictionless planning canvas to capture and organise your thoughts, and then put them into a powerful storyboard to turn a hierarchy of ideas into a sequence of slides.

Post to social media

MindMup Atlas automatically adds images and contextual information to ensure that your maps show up nicely on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Pinterest.

Plan and manage projects

Add measurements to map nodes to automatically calculate cost, completion and other important factors. Manage project progress easily with icons and priorities.

Collaborate easily

Maps saved to MindMup Cloud support concurrent editing for teams and classrooms, enabling you to instantly see updates made to your map by other users.

Attach documents

Add longer text, videos and spreadsheets to your maps. MindMup for Google Drive also allows you to link to other project documents on Google Drive easily.

Add images

Quickly add images and icons to your maps to provide context and illustrations.

Administer easily

Administrators can easily control sharing settings for the entire organisation. MindMup also integrates with Office365 and Google authentication for easy account management.

MindMup Cloud

Free users can create public maps up to 100 KB and save them up to six months. No account or registration needed.

Gold users can create private maps, share and edit concurrently.
Create a new map Open an existing map

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Free online mind mapping. The most productive online mind map canvas on the Web. Supports Freemind mindmap import/export. Easy mindmapping software.

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This padlet lists 10 instructional strategies. Each column follows details on the strategy, example, and delivery options. When scrolling down on each column, you will find recommendations for eLearning tools for that instructional strategy.

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Direct Instruction is helpful in skill acquisition lessons. There are 4 phases:

1. Modeling: The instructor walks through the skill while modeling the process for the students.

2. Directed Practice: The instructor leads students through questions to help them understand the process.

3. Guided Practice: The students generate their own leading questions while the instructor coaches, mentors, and provides feedback.

4. Independent Practice: The students work through the skills independently.

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2.5 Illustrate through multiple media.

9.3 Develop self-assessment and reflection.

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The instructor creates a recording modeling a new skill for students to learn. For example, a lesson on how to identify essay structure in their first draft. The recording includes a guided practice quiz where the student can practice with feedback along the way.

The instructor leads the students through a student sample essay highlighting the hook, topic sentences, thesis, etc. The instructor also provides an alternative to highlighting with bold font or labeling the parts of the essay structure.

Aside from the recorded video, the lesson includes written instructions to follow along like an infographic and a copy of the sample essay to help students practice while watching the recording.

Students get independent practice by working on their own draft.

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Paper

Students work on their own drafts.

eLearning Tool

Canvas Studio for lecture recording and embedding a practice quiz.

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Break the fourth wall of video learning.

Canvas Studio turns passive viewing into active discussion between you and your higher ed students, whether you're in class, remote, or blended. Maybe it's more of a round table than a platform.

Our instructors find it very useful to have so many capabilities in one platform. They can connect with students, share videos, share a screen, do demonstrations.

—Judith Lea

Director of Distance Education, Coastal Alabama Community College, AL

Canvas Studio's A-list features:

Active Learning

Video learning that (!) involves the learner.

Canvas Studio's intuitive tools let you create and deliver interactive learning experiences that can hold students’ attention in a world of distraction. Students can also submit their own video creations in Studio and offer feedback on each other's work. Engagement all around.

Video learning anywhere, anytime

Easy video collaboration

Stream across platforms and devices

Not only can I see who watched a video, I can see how long they watched it. It provides me insights so I can know how this video is being used.

Alan Kinsey

Instructional Designer, Germanna Community Colleges, Virginia

Gauge Understanding

Quizzes and grading, baked right in.

Canvas Studio makes it easy to incorporate instruction, assessments, and additional learning opportunities right within the video experience.

Create video quizzes and add questions to the timeline; have students answer them as they watch.

Give students instant feedback on their responses, and submit their grades to the Gradebook.

Watch student-submitted videos and offer inline comments.

Apply rubrics with SpeedGrader, and provide quick, personalized feedback on students' work.

Assign differentiated videos based on MasteryPaths.

Data and Analytics

1. Get analytics and insights.
2. Actually use them.

Find out who’s watching which videos and for how long. See overall class data (this can tell you more about the video), or look at student’s viewing details (this can tell you more about this student). Then use this data to inform your instruction and improve the learning experience.

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Graduated difficulty allows for students to have learning autonomy by having them choose their level of difficulty. This allows for students to be most productive in that they get to choose what works best for their progress.

Graduated difficulty allows for a perfect pairing with gamifying lesson plans.

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3.4 Maximize transfer and generalization.

6.1 Guide appropriate goal setting.

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After a unit where students have studied and learned several new concepts, students can test their knowledge and application through gamifying.

In this example, the instructor will create one Kahoot quiz for the class to take together, and at least three JeopardyLabs quizzes for students to choose what level they want to start with.

Using Jeopardy Labs and Kahoot, students can establish where they are in mastering the content. For example, a class Kahoot can help students establish a baseline on where they are in understanding the concepts. Students with a certain score can then try various JeopardyLab trivia. Some students can start at level 1 of a JeopardyLab trivia while others can jump into level 2 or above.

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eLearning Tool

Kahoot

JeopardyLabs

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Create your own jeopardy template online, without PowerPoint. Or browse the pre-made templates created by other people!

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Reading for meaning helps students in understanding how to map a text. Understanding what to look for in different readings is crucial for critical thinking and the retention of information and transfer.

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2.3 Support decoding of text, mathematical notation, and symbols.
3.1 Activate and supply background knowledge.

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The instructor can model how they read a text. The instructor can emphasize that there are various ways of reading, and that they are showing their own example of how they read the text the students are expected to navigate.

The instructor can then showcase the "moves" of the text through interpreting its symbols and hidden meaning. Students can then practice along and then practice on their own using a new text.

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Students can follow along the same text as the instructor and make notes on what to look for.

Then the students can practice on their own with a new text.

eLearning Tool

Hypothes.is is a social annotation app where students can make collaborative notes on their readings. This connects to the LMS to allow for assignment creation and grading.

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Comment on and highlight what interests you.

Annotate articles, websites, videos, documents, apps, and more - without clicking away or posting elsewhere. Hypothesis is easy to use and based on open web standards, so it works across the entire internet.

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Mystery begins by making an intriguing statement or question that piques student interest. Students are then given clues to come up with an answer to the statement or question. The major theory behind mystery is that it actives lifelong learning by ensuring students become invested in the process of connecting ideas together to solve a mystery.

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3.2 Highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships.

7.2 Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity.

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After reading The Popol Vuh, which is a translation of a Mayan text, show students a painting that depicts several scenes from the text. Students can work in small groups or pairs to examine how many scenes they can find from The Popol Vuh in the painting. The mystery here is in making connections between the ancient text, The Popol Vuh, and the artistic depiction of its characters and settings in a modern way.

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In class, students can look at a projection of the artistic image or get a handout with the painting where they can circle scenes and get clues on the back of the handout.

eLearning Tool

H5P can help in adding clues to the painting where students can hover over dots on the painting to get a clue. This would serve as an alternative to students circling scenes of interest and looking at the back of a handout for clues.

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Create
Richer HTML5 Content in Existing Publishing Platforms

Share
Content Seamlessly Across Any H5P Capable Site

Reuse and modify
Content in Your Browser at Any Time

Start creating rich interactive content on your own website. It's free and easy to get started.

Get started with H5P

Supercharge your website with H5P

H5P makes it easy to create, share and reuse HTML5 content and applications. H5P empowers everyone to create rich and interactive web experiences more efficiently - all you need is a web browser and a web site with an H5P plugin.

Mobile friendly content

H5P content is responsive and mobile friendly, which means that users will experience the same rich, interactive content on computers, smartphones and tablets alike.

Share rich content

H5P enables existing CMSs and LMSs to create richer content. With H5P, authors may create and edit interactive videos, presentations, games, advertisements and more. Content may be imported and exported. All that is needed to view or edit H5P content is a web browser. H5P content types and applications are shared here on H5P.org. H5P content may be created on any H5P enabled web site like H5P.com or your own Drupal or WordPress site with the H5P plugin installed.

Free to use

H5P is a completely free and open technology, licensed with the MIT license. Demos/downloads, tutorials and documentation are all available for users who want to join the community.

Check out the content types

There are several H5P content types and applications to suit various needs.

Need help with H5P?

Take a look at the Documentation pages. If you can't find an answer there, you can post a question to the H5P community in the Forum. Selected companies also provide H5P related services.

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H5P empowers everyone to create, share and reuse interactive content - all you need is a web browser and a web site that supports H5P.

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Inductive learning helps students group ideas, topics, and concepts through various associations since ideas stem from other ideas.

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3.2 Highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships.

3.3. Guide information processing and visualization.

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When introducing several new concepts, students can begin to group the concepts with past lessons.

For example, if students are learning how to read poetry and fiction, they can group several literary terms into poetry or prose related categories. For each term, the students can look for examples that explain that literary term.

By allowing students to choose examples, they can practice making connections to past readings and visualize the similarities and differences between concepts.

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In Person

Paper

Whiteboard

Post-its

eLearning Tool

Jamboard

Padlet

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Jamboard is a digital whiteboard that lets you collaborate in real time using either the Jamboard device (a 55-inch digital whiteboard that works with G Suite services), web browser or mobile app.

Work together in real time

You can share a jam session with collaborators whether they are on a Jamboard device, mobile app or web browser.

People in up to 50 user sessions can work on a jam at once. When using a web browser, each Jamboard browser tab counts as a session.

Using a Jamboard device, you can:

Write and draw with the included stylus.

Search Google and insert images or webpages.

Drag and resize text and images with your fingers.

Sketch a box, star, cat, or dragon. Image recognition technology converts your sketch into a polished image.

Using Jamboard on a computer, you can use a web browser to:

Write and draw using a mouse or trackpad.

Search Google and insert images or webpages.

Drag and resize text and images.

Present your jam to a Google Meet video call.

Open your jam on a Jamboard device.

Using the Jamboard mobile app, you can:

Write and draw using your touchscreen.

Drag and resize text and images with your fingers.

Open your jam on a Jamboard device.

Work with Google Drive

Using a Jamboard device, mobile app or web browser, you can also add Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to a jam.

And since your jam files are automatically saved to Drive, You can view and edit your jams from anywhere with an internet connection. Your jam work saves automatically.

Host video meetings

Using a Jamboard device, you can:

Display upcoming Google Calendar events on Jamboard.

Tap an agenda item to start a scheduled meeting.

Present your whiteboard to people viewing remotely.

Collaborate with any device

Create, edit, and share jams from your phone, tablet, or computer.

Open a jam on a nearby Jamboard from your phone or tablet.

Connect your computer to Jamboard device. Jamboard displays your screen and lets you control the computer from the board's touchscreen.

Pick up where you left off earlier or email your jam session when you finish.

Find Android and Apple® iOS® mobile apps to use with Jamboard.

Where to get Jamboard

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Helping students compare two dissimilar things heightens critical thinking. The exploration of metaphors allows for dual coding: a visual and linguistic connection to knowledge.

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3.2 Highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships.

8.3 Foster collaboration and community.

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In pairs, students can write a poem about their own identity using a metaphor as its guiding force. The students can choose to develop a metaphor that makes the familiar strange.

After all students are done writing their poems, the instructor posts the poems on a document or Canvas page and labels them using numbers.

In a Canvas small group discussion forum, students attempt to guess who wrote the poems. The metaphors in the poem serve as clues to determine who was the writer.

Alternatively, this can be done in person. The class sits in a circle and the instructor passes out the anonymous poems. Students take turns reading the anonymous poem they got and attempt to determine who was the classmate that wrote the poem.

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In-Person

Class discussion with poems written out

eLearning Tool

Canvas discussion forums

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How to Add Discussion Boards: Connecting Canvas with Core Standards

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In a Jigsaw, students practice cooperative learning. Each student is independent in finding information and interpreting that information. As a group, each student reports what they have learned as they become the "expert" on their part.

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6.3 Facilitate managing information and resources.

8.3 Foster collaboration and community.

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Divide students into groups of 3-4. Each student is given a section of a reading. Students are given 5 minutes to complete their section of the reading and take notes. Once the timer is up, the students take turns explaining what they learned in their section of the reading.

If the lesson takes place in a synchronous setting, the instructor can use Zoom and place students in breakout rooms. They can use Canvas collaborations to write notes on their levels of expertise.

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In-Person

Printed readings

Large Post-It for collaboration

eLearning Tool

Zoom

Canvas Collaborations

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Modernize workflows with Zoom's trusted collaboration tools: including video meetings, team chat, VoIP phone, webinars, whiteboard, contact center, and events.

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Decision making helps students make informed decisions by having them reflect on questions that hook them into questioning their knowledge and comparing outcomes. Decision making leads to more confidence and knowledge transfer.

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5.1 Use multiple media for communication.

5.2 Use multiple tools for construction and composition.

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Ask students to engage in a quick debate about their favorite place to eat. Students will then post these debates in a discussion forum.

Students can choose between writing a text, audio, or video response.

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eLearning Tools

FlipGrid

Canvas discussion forum

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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With Task Rotation, students are given a choice in selecting their learning format. Task rotation allows for differentiated learning with 4 styles:

1. Mastery tasks: Remember and describe.

2. Understanding tasks: Reason and explain.

3. Self-Expressive tasks: Imagine and create.

4. Interpersonal tasks: Explore feelings and relate personally.

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6.1 Guide appropriate goal setting.

6.4 Enhance capacity for monitoring progress.

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When introducing a new concept for students to learn, use the four styles to differentiate student learning. Students can choose in low stakes assignments how to convey their understanding of the new information. Build two other assignments that scaffold into a larger project where students can gather the knowledge they built in the low stakes assignments and choose their final assessment where they once again choose a final culminating task.

For example, if the final assessment is traditionally an essay. Give students a choice between writing a traditional paper or creating a VoiceThread presentation.

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eLearning Tools
These can vary when differentiating tasks. Though an example would be using VoiceThread as an alternative to a traditional essay.

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design discussions
no-schedule meetings
professional development
collaborate with clients
sales and marketing

replace text-only discussions
interactive lectures
support UDL principles
no-schedule office hours
professional development

student presentations
conversational practice
professional development
rich assessment
safe and accountable

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Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.