Education Technology Tools & Tips

Wizer can be a great tool for teachers who want to quickly assess understanding of specific concepts. Using Wizen teachers can create meaningful, engaging learning experiences for their students with augmented worksheets.  Multiple activities can be embedded in one place giving students options for visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic learning modalities. Students can label images, categorize information, respond to open-ended and multiple-choice questions, or respond to video content.  Teachers will have to sign up for an account, to start browsing or creating worksheets. Once logged in, you can choose a template and then add a title along with written and/or voice-recorded instructions (for paid versions) and create their questions based on videos, images, charts, tables, and more. Students can worksheets assigned to them on computers or mobile devices via LMS logins (Google classroom, Edmodo, Microsoft), a class code, or a link to a URL or teachers can al...

 

"We all need people who give us feedback. That’s how we improve."  —  Bill Gates Most of the subjects involve a lot of manual work with paper and pencil, like drawing and sketching solutions. And oftentimes it gets difficult to take advantage of the affordances of digital technology to give timely and targeted feedback because of the limitations inherent in digitising student work and then trying to annotate the work using digital tools. It’s just clunky.  From research and our own experience, we know that feedback is the most impactful driver of student learning outcomes. However, teachers struggle to give enough timely feedback to make a difference. Then, when students get feedback, they don’t always use it to learn. Research tells us that in addition to students receiving actionable information, students also need to develop feedback literacy and the agency to act on their feedback. So here's a tool and can help you simplify the job of giving feedback.   Floo...

During this period of remote learning, we are experimenting with a range of technology tools that would suit our subject needs. However, there are a few core tools that we depend on more than most. These have been invaluable across the school, with a range of different ages and by teachers with varying levels of confidence when using technology. One of these, undoubtedly, has been  Edpuzzle .  Edpuzzle a very powerful technology tool which can enable you to turn any video into a lesson and customise the learning experience for your students. Here’s a link to video demonstration -  https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=gnL1DsRAQ0E Let me briefly highlight the features of Edpuzzle -  Reinforce accountability  - Check if students are watching your videos, how many times they're watching each section, and if they're understanding the content.  Using Edpuzzle, we can promote active learning by adding questions, notes and comments to videos. We can insert these at var...

It’s that time of the year when teachers across schools are slaving over formulating assessments, grading students, giving feedback, writing reports. The task can become quite overwhelming. To ease your anxiety a little bit  Google  has rolled out a new feature on  Google   classroom . Let me give you a sneak peek into this Beta feature (which fortunately is available to us on the GSuite package). You can now create and attach a rubric to an assignment as a guideline for students to refer back to when understanding their grades. When starting/posting an assignment,  rubrics  can be created and made available to students. These guidelines can be reused, as well as exported and imported. The rubric will then appear for the teacher during the grading process. Here’s a  video  to explain the process to you better. The rubric tool can be used to store evidence of your work as well as to speed up the process of grading and giving feedback. It’s time to ...