While these tools will help you give students opportunities to reflect on their own thinking,
it is the design of the question or task that really matters!
How will you get students to think about their thinking? How will you get them to explain and justify?
Once you identify your strategy, then pick the tool to support that.
it is the design of the question or task that really matters!
How will you get students to think about their thinking? How will you get them to explain and justify?
Once you identify your strategy, then pick the tool to support that.
Individual or Group written reflection
What prompt will you create to help students reflect on their own learning?
OneNote, an electronic notebook that is part of the Microsoft Teams package, is a perfect way for students to write about all they have learned or to justify their opinions or thinking. By default, the notebook is public. If you want the notebook to be for each individual student, or for specific groups of students, create a private channel for each student or group and add the notebook to that private channel.
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Manual from Microsoft on how to add a OneNote notebook to Teams.
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individual or group presentations
The assignment design will matter here. Having students present facts and summarize information will not get them to explain or justify their opinions. What prompts will you create so "explain" and "justify" will be a key component of the assignment?
PowerPoint ( also known as PPT or PP) is a presentation program. Students can use it to present their thinking and justify their answers. They can do voiceovers, export as a movie... Many possibilities!
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Manual
Video Tutorial - from Microsoft.com Video Tutorial - PowerPoint 2019 Beginner Tutorial Tips and Tricks for Teachers |
YouTube is a popular video sharing website where registered users can upload and share videos with anyone able to access the site. These videos can also be embedded and shared on other sites. Students can record themselves explaining their thinking as they walk the teacher through an essay or other project.
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Seesaw is a digital app-based platform that allows students, teachers, and parents or guardians to complete and share classroom work. From recording a video of themselves working on a math problem to snapping a pic of a paragraph they wrote to recording a video of them reading aloud a poem, there are many ways this software helps students reflect on their learning.
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Padlet is an extremely easy-to-use tool that allows learners to collaborate online or to work privately by posting text, images, links, documents, videos and voice recordings. The teacher creates "walls" for students and then the students can reflect on their own learning, using the features to explain and justify their thinking.
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class discussions
Class discussions are a great tool. The big questions still apply:
How will you get students to reflect on their thinking?
How will you build in opportunities for students to explain and justify their thinking as part of your whole class discussion?
How will you get students to reflect on their thinking?
How will you build in opportunities for students to explain and justify their thinking as part of your whole class discussion?
Teams can be used to facilitate classroom discussion online. Consider using this tool in a blended format. Perhaps the students, as homework, discuss your questions online. Then, you can continue the conversation in class, taking a deeper dive into content. Writing online will increase fluency and offer students a different way of contributing.
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Using the Chat feature - quick read from Microsoft.
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