With the Blooket online review game, classroom teachers can transform an assessment with simple academic challenges, and help boost retention for students in any educational environment. Blooket also helps enhance their engagement and empowers K-5 instructors to facilitate authentic learning experiences in the classroom. So, this week, we’re telling you all about it.
Quizlet Live is a collaborative classroom game that your students can play together from their own devices. They could use it in the same classrooms or when studying from home—perfect for accommodating review efforts at all different times. To get started with Quizlet Live, teachers can just create a Quizlet account and they’ll get a Quizlet Live code to share with kids.
Typically, with online review tools, educators can find and utilize materials for the most general and common school subjects. With Quia, there are tons of specific review materials for all students and teachers to access. Beyond general math, science, and English content, Quia has valuable games for everything from SAT skills to world languages and more.
Whether you’re a fan of student-led learning or you’re looking for a new way to keep kids engaged, we have a potential solution to tell you about. Mentimeter is a real-time communication platform educators can use to pose questions and receive feedback from students in any type of learning environment, helping make learning more interactive.
For educators, there are a lot of different tech tools they can use. Some are geared towards math education, others towards teaching tech skills, and there are plenty of others for different areas of the curriculum. One of those areas is reading assessment. And, one of those tools for gauging an accurate picture of student reading skills is Literably.
Replacing face-to-face interactions and social experiences is essentially impossible. Video conferencing, however, has been used in an attempt to make learning feel more normal and, while we hope that the days of distance learning are behind us, there definitely remains a possibility that it’s staying. So, this week’s Rising Resources post is on CrossBraining.
Formative assessments can be used to count as graded work or simply for teachers to gain a clearer understanding of student progress. They can be formal or informal and the best ones often lend ideas for how teachers can improve their instruction. This takes time, however, and that’s why Formative helps teachers in individualizing instruction.
With Socrative, teachers can create quick quizzes and assessments that cover the key points of the material discussed in class. It’s a great way to leverage technology to check for understanding of key terms and concepts and it’s really easy to use! Both teachers and students can create an account and teachers can create questions very quickly.
This week, we’re highlighting Tes Teach—formerly known as Blendspace. This online STEM resource is a great way for teachers to improve upon their in-class activities and it’s awesome for creating highly engaging learning environments. To learn more about Tes Teach and some of the best ways to use it in the classroom, click to keep reading!
One thing I struggle with is teaching organic reading and math skills, and how much to teach students to tackle multiple-choice questions. Too often, they can say and write something that shows complete mastery of math and reading, but choose the wrong answer. I’ve found myself far too often telling my students, “One choice is always the ‘gotcha’ choice.
