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Instructional Strategies
Instructional Strategies
Instructional Strategies
Model and teach quality presentation techniques with little text on slides and large, meaningful images.
Instructional Strategies
Use Google Drawings, Google Slides (or other cloud-based presentation tool), or Canva to create powerful images
Instructional Strategies
Create web-based, collaborative videos with YouTube Editor or WeVideo
Instructional Strategies
Use QR codes on student work in the hallway to see more information about their project
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Push student thinking while examining satellite imagery over time using Google’s Timelapse
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Use BreakoutEDU to build problem solving and critical thinking skills
Instructional Strategies
Ask students to sketchnote their ideas or a lesson to build synthesis of information
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Expect students to use the CRAP test to evaluate information (currency, reliability, authorship, purpose).
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Use the Google Advanced Search Tools to find information within a specific set of criteria.
Instructional Strategies
Utilize social media (class or individual accounts) to connect the curriculum to the real world (ie: students can: tag an author in a tweet linking the blog post the student wrote about the author’s book, email their state representative to share their thinking on certain issues they are studying, write a book review on Goodreads.com, etc.)
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Teach students the importance of Creative Commons. Great resources from Google’s Be Internet Awesome
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Explicitly teach students how to power search to find the information they need so they don’t need to plagiarize
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Give students time to reflect on their learning by creating a screencast using Explain Everything (paid) or Educreations (free).
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Give students time to respond in a Learning Management System like Google Classroom, Edmodo, or Schoology or in a Google Form before having a discussion
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Ask students to respond using visuals with Google Drawings, Canva, PicMonkey, or Google Slides (or other cloud-based presentation tool)
Instructional Strategies
Use Cast for Education to project directions for whole group while teaching small group
Instructional Strategies
Use Google Classroom or other Learning Management System to assign differentiated tasks to each group
Instructional Strategies
Have objectives posted via Google Slides (or other cloud-based presentation tool) or CraftyText
Instructional Strategies
Use Powtoon to create a video with directions for students using one of the templates
Instructional Strategies
Post objectives in Google Classroom or other Learning Management System for students to refer to before or after class
Instructional Strategies
Video a class discussion or find a discussion on YouTube or Teaching Channel and have students watch and critique
Instructional Strategies
Create student discussion on a Google Doc (or other cloud-based word processor) or in Google Classroom, or in Hangouts
Instructional Strategies