Technology and Total Participation

Levon EdwardsMelissa M. SykesNC NTSP Instructional Coaches

In this session we will introduce you to:

• Active Teaching Strategies• Additional Strategies for Differentiation• Technology Tools for Engagement

Activities through which all students learn:

•Talking AND listening•Writing•Reading•Reflecting

•Active Teaching Strategies incorporate at least one of these.

Active Teaching Strategies

Symbaloo

• Design surveys for students to take

• Agree or DisagreeComment Agree or

DisagreeExplanation

It is important for my family to approve of who I date.

o Likert-Scale

Statement Scale 1 (not at all)-4 (very)

Explanation

Juliet is brave.

1 2 3 4

Romeo is a whiner.

1 2 3 4

o Use as a pre or post-assessment

Surveys

Plickers Video

Plickers

• When beginning a new concept or unit, have a collection of vocabulary words on the board.

• Students should create a story or start of a story using a suggested number of words in a limited amount of time. They should be as creative as they’d like!

• Have volunteers share their stories.

• Now students are already invested in the words when you begin!

Story Creation

Story Boards Story Creator

• Put a picture on the board of a historic event, scene from a novel, or some visual representation of the lesson that you are going to teach

• Have students write about what they think is happening in the picture. Give them a time limit and let them be as creative as they want.

• This is a great way to get students interested in what’s to come (they want to see if they were correct or not) and it also lets you see who might have prior knowledge based on their responses.

What’s going on in the picture?

Blendspace

• Provide students with a topic.• Create a table with the letters of the alphabet.• Instruct students to write words, phrases, or sentences that are related to the topic for each letter of the alphabet.

• Let’s try with the topic of TEACHING!• Advice

• Group students and have them work together• Tell students they don’t have to go in order.• Give a time limit and make it a contest• Most letters in 10 minutes win.

The ABCs of __

Lino

• Students can create their own boards on notebook paper with your term list as a warm-up

• As you lecture, students can indicate they heard the word or write the actual definition in the square

Lecture BINGO

• After reading a text, use discussion cards to promote and encourage active discussions in small groups.

• Each participant should choose TWO cards from the pile. DON’T SHARE WHAT IT SAYS!

• Students use the cards to prompt their discussions.

• Provide a reflection sheet for students to complete at the end of the discussion

Collaborize Classroom

Discussion Cards

• Provide students with a text

• Display and discuss Think Marks with students• = Favorite sentence SMH=statement you disagree

with• ? = Confusing part HMM=something you wonder about• LOL= Funny Part DUH=obvious info

• While reading, students “mark up” the text with the different symbols

• Great way to interactively annotate and then discuss texts

Think Marks

Skitch

• Students must write 8 sentences using vocabulary words in each direction

Tic Tac Toe

Distribute

Cell Effect

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• Students must choose three activities to complete with vocabulary words

Connect Four

Interactive Blooms

• Stop students after a short time of lecture and ask, “If you were going to be quizzed on what you just heard, what would be one of the questions?”

• Student writes question, passes to neighbor who answers question, then passes to third student who checks answer

• Elicits class discussion about misconceptions

Pass the Paper

Twiddla

Reading Road Map

Interactive Stories

• Head: Thoughts• Eyes: See• Mouth: Say• Ears: Hear• Stomach: Feel• Heart: Care about/love• Hands: Do• Arms: Strengths• Legs: Where have they been?• Feet: Where does the person go?

Character Mapping

Vennage

3 things I learned in class:1.2.3.

2 questions I still have:1.2.

1 comment about class today:1.

3-2-1 Slips

Vocaroo

iClicker

• Teachers know that reflection is important so we should also teach our students to do the same.

• Have students keep an in class notebook that they can pick up at the beginning of class, or have a student pass them out.

• At the end of class give students five minutes to reflect on what they learned that day. Feel free to give guiding questions to help them.

• Students can put their journals back in a designated spot on their way out

Closers: Reflection Journal

Class Chatter

Additional Ideas

• Cool Tools for Schools

• NAEIR

• NWEA

• Primary Access

• Sticky Bits

Using your devices, explore one or moreof the sites presented today and create a user name/password if necessary

Questions So Far?