Blended Learning Tools and Resources
In a blended scenario, technology tools can use used for
- guiding content learning
- collaboration, practice, and accountability
- progress monitoring.
That formative data collected
- informs instructional decisions,
- allows for personalized learning,
- helps students set learning goals.
Below is a list of just a few options.
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1 - Guiding Content Learning
EdPuzzle - A collection of videos from all sources that allow for teachers to add to and put their own spin on it to accommodate for their own learners. View a tutorial here.
Pear Deck - Teachers create presentations with embedded and varied questions that allow for student interactivity.
PlayPosit - Engaging and interactive video that yields instructional data for teachers.
Khan Academy - Collection of web-based content in the form of video lessons paired with practice activities.
BrainPop - Engaging , animated video lessons that teach content and provide follow-up quizzes.
Nearpod - Curated lessons and functionality to interact with students.
Paper - Academic support for students.
Solcademy Create, share, and discover educational content easily.
2 - Collaboration, Practice, and Accountability
Padlet - A collaborative wall of responses, ideas, and understandings
Flip - Video discussion tool with an engaging grid that allows the teacher to "spark a discussion" that students can then respon wiht short videos in the grid.
Seesaw - Tool that allows students to document learning and share with others, allows teachers to formatively assess, and parents to have a "window" into their child's learning. Wakelet - Place to collect and curate learning resources.
Jamboard - Collaboration tool by Google.
Graphic Organizers - Great tools for reflecting on learning and comparing, analyzing, and synthesizing information.
Eduplace Organizers
Interactive Organizers
Editable Organizers
3 - Progress Monitoring
Plickers - Create a page for each student and Plicker will code in students names and answers on printable cards for them to hold up when you ask verbal questions. When you use the Plicker app on your smartphone, to view the class through your camera, each student name will appear and whether they got the answer correct or incorrect. Great for a classroom that is not one-to-one.
Formative - Progress monitoring tool that provides 1000s of pre-made assessments and tracks student growth over time.
Socrative - Student response system for on the spot assessment - Intro and Quick Tutorial.
Poll Everywhere - Students use their cell phone or a computer to respond to questions that allow for immediate response results.
Edcite - Assessments for learning.
Quizizz - Formative data is collected from visually appealing, teacher-created "quizizz." Students participate in a separate web link.
Google Forms - Using Google Forms to create quizzes allows for formative analytics to be provided.
Quizlet Live – Quizlet, but as a collaborative classroom game.
Gimkit - Live learning game.
Blooket - Interactive formative challenges.
Edulastic - Interactive progress monitoring.
Bonus -
Check out some differentiated tech tools by learning style.
Check out some differentiated tech tools by learning style.
Something to Consider......
When using engaging technology formative assessment tools, we need to also be aware of the questioning techniques we are using. Often typical true/false and multiple choice types of questions are constructed from the perspective of the teacher or publishing company....and not from the student and his/her true conceptual understanding. This assessment resource provides a list of a variety of questioning techniques, the pros and cons of each, and tips for writing them.
This article discusses authentic assessment strategies to formatively or summatively assess students.
When using engaging technology formative assessment tools, we need to also be aware of the questioning techniques we are using. Often typical true/false and multiple choice types of questions are constructed from the perspective of the teacher or publishing company....and not from the student and his/her true conceptual understanding. This assessment resource provides a list of a variety of questioning techniques, the pros and cons of each, and tips for writing them.
This article discusses authentic assessment strategies to formatively or summatively assess students.