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SAMPLE POST EDPuzzle as a Hook & Independent Practice 

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SAMPLE POST EDPuzzle as a Hook & Independent Practice 

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EDpuzzle can be used as a HOOK to get students’ attention at the beginning of a class with a surprising video and questions. Or it can be used as an Independent Practice when students (middle school or high school) locate their own YouTube videos on a specific topic and make them interactive by designing their own questions.

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Slido as an Assessment & to Check for Understanding

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Slido as an Assessment & to Check for Understanding

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Slido can be used as an Assessment of any kind, whether it be Pre-, Summative or Formative. Whatever part of a lesson it is where you want to evaluate where your students are, Slido is an ed tech tool you can reach for. It can also be used to Check for Understanding among students. A quick poll and you can track what students understand and or can do.

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Pear Deck as a Formative Assessment and colabrotive partnership with classmates 

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Pear Deck as a Formative Assessment and colabrotive partnership with classmates 

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Pear Deck is a popular formative assessment tool. It can be used in many different ways. This tool allows teachers to design interactive presentations and engage students in learning through multiple-choice questions, drag-and-drop and text-based prompts, drawing, interactive maps, and more. It can be used to review to check for understanding and comprehension among students. This ensures the teachers of their learning targets are successful. It can also be used as a daily review to make sure that each student grasped a little about the lessons taught in the day.

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Canvas LMS has an assessment and an open-learning management system. It can be used as a modern education tool. Also, it is great for teachers and educators to use for their students. It serves as a central hub for online, hybrid and in-person classrooms. Canvas was built to make teaching and learning easier. Different tools are provided to make quizzes, discussion boards, and different management skills.

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Symbaloo is an formative for students and teachers to put websites/ assessments 

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Symbaloo is an formative for students and teachers to put websites/ assessments 

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Symbaloo

Symbaloo is for managing and sharing links to online resources and websites. This is used as a modern education tool for teachers to share reverent links with their students. This can also be a way for students to organize their most frequent websites. Symbaloo can also be a formative assessment as teachers can post-assessment questions on what topic is being discussed.

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Jamboard as a Hook and a Check for Understanding

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Jamboard as a Hook and a Check for Understanding

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Jamboard can be used as a

HOOK to present a question that peaks the interest of the students to the topic. The teacher can then add interactive images and emojis to the question.

Or it can be used as a

Check for Understanding for when the teacher asks a comprehensive question about the lesson. Students can then use post it notes and text boxes to add their information on the topic, checking that they understand what they are learning.

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Mentimeter for creative and engaging presentations!

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Mentimeter for creative and engaging presentations!

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Mentimeter is very similar to a platform we know and love, Kahoot! There are endless ways to use mentimeter. Creating presentations and real-time feedback. Mentimeter helps presenters and educators create more dynamic and effective presentations by involving the audience in the learning or decision-making process.

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I really like Kahoot because it can be used as a interactive learning tool, like a formative assessment tool. It also helps at the end of each Kahoot session, the teacher can see who is struggling with the questions and who is succeeding. I also like how interactive it is and how any teacher can make any Kahoot they want to fit their teaching style and make it unique.

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Mackenzie Tierney- Code.Org as Hook and Independent Practice

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Mackenzie Tierney- Code.Org as Hook and Independent Practice

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Code.org is a site that uses gaming format to educate students on a topic. When using it as a HOOK students will see the potential fun they can have during the lesson, getting them excited to learn. Students can also log on to their account at any time to work on some INDEPENDENT PRACTICE.

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Brain Pop as a interactive assessment and learning tool

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Brain Pop as a interactive assessment and learning tool

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Brain Pop is an interactive website for your students. It teaches your students Science, Social Studies, Math, Engineering/Tech, Health, Art and Music. The website has videos for your students to watch and answer questions as the video goes along. This website also has interactive but learning games that your students can play. This can be used as a pre assessment, formative, and summative! I really enjoyed this website when I was in middle school. The two main characters are Tim and Moby, a young man and a robot.

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BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology

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Quizizz as Assessment and Check for Understanding

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Quizizz as Assessment and Check for Understanding

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Quizizz is an awesome tool for different types of assessments in the classroom. Quizizz allows you to develop assessments for students to take online. It can use AI to help you develop these quizzes, and provides you with real-time information and results. You can frame these quizzes as game, and host Kahoot-like games sessions for the whole class. Using Quizizz to check for understanding can be really helpful, as you can utilize the live feedback features in order to check on your students' progress and knowledge level of the lesson so far. At the end of the lesson, teachers can use this tool for a formative assessment. This type of versatility in the tool makes it extremely powerful for all educators.

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Gamma is a tool that students can use with AI to understand certain topics. I would have my students use this as an Independent study to show me how much they understood of a part of a lesson than I went over with them.

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Quizlet to Check for Understanding and for Independent Practice

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Quizlet to Check for Understanding and for Independent Practice

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Quizlet is a popular studying tool for students however it can be a very useful tool for teachers as well. Teachers can use the feature Quizlet live in class to check for understanding, they can use the Quizlet live features with the class to see how each student did and who is struggling with the concept as well as who is grasping it. It can also be used as independent practice because it has features like flashcards and a study section that students have access to at all times. They have the ability to take advantage of this and study the material independently.

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Nearpod for Presenting Information and Guided/Independent Practice

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Nearpod for Presenting Information and Guided/Independent Practice

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Nearpod is a versatile tool that has several applications within the classroom. It can be used as a MODEL to present lessons in a classroom of any grade-level. Interactive and gamified activities can also be made on this website for GUIDED PRACTICE for students during class or as homework.