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CLASSROOM TECH TOOLKIT

Below is a list of Apps and Tech Tools that I recommend for creating a more engaging, 21-st century learning environment in the classrom:

Classroom Ideas: 

 

  • Share an important memo to families!

  • Support oral language development and storytelling

  • Support ELL families and students. Ask ELL students to audio record explanation of a concept or a read-aloud.

  • Record oral counting 

  • Make Learning visible by asking students to record solving a Math problem 

  • Share special events with families who could not attend

  • Video record a science experiment in action. Reflect after

Classroom Ideas: 

 

  • Assess students' knowledge before the start of a unit 

  • Have students create their own kahoots by taking material from a particular unit and create a Kahoot for it. 

  • Review for Assessment 

Classroom Ideas: 

 

  • Reinforce lessons taught in class by assigning practice at home 

  • Project iXL and complete problems as a whole 

  • Facilitate differentiation by assigning different levels for studetnts or early finishers 

  • Track progress, identify improvement and pinpoint trouble spots and scaffold instruction

Classroom Ideas: 

 

  • Students can create a book report such as a summary of a book or avisual story based on the book. 

  • Students can explain and record their thinking process as they solve a math problem. 

  • Let your students record the complete  proess of a science experiment and have them explain what's happening at each step. 

  • Let students use Explain Everything's highlighters as they read and analyze texts. Students can point out splling mistakres, or record their understanding of the text

Classroom Ideas: 

 

  • Create a Padlet in the classroom for students to get to know e one another. 

  • Use it as a formative assessment after teaching a lesson where you can post an "exit ticket" question to find what students learned that day. 

  • Create a Padlet for small student groups and ask them to post driving questions about a research topic and post the answers as they find the answers.

  • Ask students to share their work without taking the instructional time by posting a picture of what they are working on and post it on Padlet. 

Classroom Ideas: 

 

  • Book Talks: Ask students to select a book and record their book talk on Flipgrid. Other students can then view and comment on each other's book talks. 

  • Ask students to record their explanation for solving a numbers problem. Teachers can then listen to their vide as an informal assessment or to scaffold instruction. 

  • Cultivate a sense of community in the classroom by choosing a student of the week and ask other students to record Flipgrid video complimenting or noting something positive about that student. 

  • Ask students to record their demonstration for a STEAM project.

Classroom Ideas: 

 

  • Stories to Support Lessons: Epic! has thousands of book titles that you can use to accompany any lesson. Share a story with the entire class on your smart board or projector to start up conversations with students for a new lesson or concept. 

  • Use non-fiction books for research projects, such as reports on animals.

  • Compare two books by the same author

  • Students create book reviews and recommend favorites to classmates.

  • Perform experiments using ideas in Epic's STEM books

  • Create book commercials using multimedia tools such as iMovie, Telestory, or ChatterPix.

Classroom Ideas: 

 

  • Create a "NoRedInk" station as part of a rotating station activity on writing.

  • For summative writing assignments in which a student struggles with a particular grammar rule, the teacher can set up excercises that help students practice the rule. 

  •  A pair of students can log on to a shared account and work on NoRedInk together. One student can act as a tutor while the other receives the scaffolding he/she needs.

Classroom Ideas: 

 

  • Introducing a Lesson: Use BrainPop videos before the lesson to spark kids' interest and help them generate questions about an upcoming lesson. 

  • Review: Play a video after an activity and encourage students to hear the vocabulary in the video which will help them solidify their previous learning experience.

  • Extension: Great resource for early finishers or those that need more challenging content. These students can watch other videos extending the curriculum.

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  • Book Report/Review: Students can create a book report or review as a video. You can break the class into groups where a group create a video about the Plot of the book, other groups can do Theme, Story Elements, etc. 

  • Field Trip: Ask students to create a video of a recent classroom trip.

  • TV Advertisement: Ask students to use this tool to develop a brilliant end product which can cover a lot of different curriculum areas, particularly around writing (a script) for a persuasive TV advert for a product.

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