#ililc4 8th & 9th February 2014

From if Bale can do it to why we !should all give Zondle a fondle :)

Garry Mills!Subject Leader of MFL!Cardinal Newman Catholic School

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empowering teachers, engaging students, enhancing learning

MISSION: To become the world’s online platform for all things education.

Introducing zondle zondle is a free web and mobile platform that

empowers teachers to engage students and enhance learning.

• zondle empowers teachers: enabling them to create and share educational content to meet the specific learning needs of individual students.

• zondle engages students: motivating them and giving them ownership of their learning, through their choice of web and mobile games.

• zondle enhances learning: consolidating classroom work, preparing for high-stakes tests, all without any marking.

Zondle empowers teachers

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Teachers can (for example):

• Create questions (any language, any subject, any level) or mash together any of the 1.4 million questions created by other users, to meet individual or group needs;

• teach using our unique whole-class teaching game;

• set questions for students to play in games or as summative assessment (no marking!);

• monitor progress (in the zondle grade book);

• connect with other teachers worldwide.

Zondle engages students

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Students can (for example):

• play questions set by their teacher in any of 60+ games, online or mobile;

• create, play and practice their own questions;

• monitor their progress;

• collect points and badges;

• compete on leaderboards;

• create their own reward games.

Zondle enhances learning

!zondle:

• is grounded in education, psychology and neuroscience research (from the universities of Oxford and Bristol);

• creates heightened moments of engagement (increased synaptic dopamine), which teachers can exploit for learning;

• encourages students to engage with the learning content, to encode into long-term memory and automatize;

• enables students to consolidate classroom learning, or prepare for high-stakes testing.

zondle topics and games

Database of educational content

Database of casual games

zondle interpreter

8,000,000+ topic and game combinations

using zondle topics and games !

• Teachers create, choose, customise or mash

together questions to meet specific learning needs.

• Teachers set the questions to their students (to consolidate learning, for formative or summative assessment, or to prepare for high-stakes tests).

• Students play and practise the questions in any of zondle’s games (on the web or a mobile device).

• Teachers monitor student progress in the zondle gradebook (no marking!)

zondle topics !

• Supports any subject, any level and any language.

• More than 1.4 million questions have been created on zondle (by teachers and students).

• Questions are in a wide range of formats (including, multiple choice, cloze procedure, label the picture...)

• Represents at least 10,000 hours of work freely given by teachers.

• Started to add some partner- and teacher-created premium content.

zondle games !

• More than 60 short immersive or reward learning games (web and mobile: Apple, Android, Kindle Fire).

• Designed to be quick to play (so that they can be integrated in typical time-pressured classrooms).

• Designed to be fun and engaging (to encourage students to engage with the educational content repeatedly, until they achieve automaticity).

• Also includes a whole-class teaching game (zondle Team Play), grounded in neuroscience research.

web and mobile games(some examples)

zondle games

games-based teaching (Team

Play) MCQ only.

games-based teaching

monitoring progress

monitoring progress

▪ A number of disengaged & sometimes ‘difficult’ pupils have embraced the competitive nature of Zondle. It has now become common place to overhear these pupils telling others as they come into class that they have been on Zondle & overtaken such & such….!

▪ Yes, pupils talking about ‘so called homework’ in a positive way. I say so called as pupils claim it does not feel like ‘real’ homework’ !

▪ One particular pupil has moved his way up towards the top the leaderboard

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Case Studies

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Liga de campeones

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! Celebrating Success !!!

▪ It’s not just a game!!▪ Making the pedagogical case for

Zondle!▪ The variety of question types!▪ HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills)

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BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

WHERE WHAT TIME

Classroom

Discussion: What makes a good quality revision/review question? 5

Using a previous topic studied in class (teacher’s choice!), each student creates one good quality question.

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Students feedback to class. 5

Using the same class topic, each student creates a total of five good quality questions.

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Computer room

Students log onto zondle, create a zondle topic and enter their five questions.

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Students play their zondle topic in any zondle game. 5

Students play a friend’s topic in any zondle game, and give votes for the topics.

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Computer room

Students create a zondle game. 20

Students play their topic in their zondle game. 5

Students play their topic in their friends’ zondle games, and give votes for the games.

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possible zondle lesson plan

creating zondle topics

creating zondle topics

using zondle topics and games

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testimonials“I can’t praise you highly enough for your efforts with zondle, it reaches stdents that I teach EVERY day.” Mr Branchflower (Australia)

“zondle has changed the way I look at teaching. An amazing tool and a vision of education that totally resonates with how I feel.” Mr Giotto (USA)

“OMG I only recently found zondle and all I can say is WOW!! I teach HS biology to at risk students. Using zondle has added that extra spark they needed to prepare for our state test in 2 weeks. Some of my kids have even come during my planning period to play more games so they can be the zondle dollar leader in their class. Unbelieveable. I now dream in zondle!!!” Mrs Goshert (USA)

“Thank you so much for your help and dedication to the current (and future!) students and teachers using your wonderful zondle program! You and your team are pioneers of a program that is bringing lots of fun in learning to all ages. :) A small team making a big difference!” Ms Tadsen (USA)

“I am in awe of you and the platform you have created. I am so amazed: I feel it's a dream. Pinch me. Wonderful a teacher’s dream :)” Orlanda Cline (USA)

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additional functionality !

• Zollars (zondle Dollars to reward student performance: 23 billion Zollars have been awarded).

• zondle Teacher Community (teachers can now create their own profiles to help them find other teachers: 1,300 teachers have created profiles).

• zondle Class View (a locked-down interface for use by younger children).

• Others include: animated reward game development tool, SDK (software development kit), Raspberry Pi kit...

empowering teachersengaging students enhancing learning

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www.zondle.com

THANK YOU FOR GIVING ZONDLE A FONDLE :)!CONTACTS DETAILS. !Email: peladomills@me.com!Twitter: @garrymillsmfl!Blog: profesormills.blogspot.com