Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Increasing Student Engagement (CMS, 5/4/16)

1. Take Attendance

Use the CMS Tech Training Attendance spreadsheet in Google Drive to record your attendance.

2. Increasing Student Engagement via Quizlet Live or Quizlet.com

Keeping students focused and engaged becomes a challenge the farther we get into May. One tool to help with this challenge is Quizlet Live from Quizlet.com. Quizlet.com is an oldy but goody when it comes to student engagement, and its newest activity Quizlet Live has been a hit in USD 443 classrooms. Depending on your team's needs, we'll look at Quizlet Live and/or Quizlet.com to see if it's a tool you can utilize in the coming weeks!

Click here to view a tutorial video for Quizlet Live.

3. SAMR Level?

The SAMR model (substitution; augmentation; modification; redefinition) helps us talk about the levels of technology use during various activities. At what level are students working? How about teachers?




4. Our Challenge

As we begin to wind down this school year, we are challenged to use technology as a tool to help us be more efficient and effective in our classrooms. We can help students focus on review or new content by increasing their engagement via quiz tools; we can assess students' understanding of content with video and assessment tools, and we can automatize procedures and activities to free our time to facilitate more. 

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