student engagement
Instructional strategies and technology tools can be grouped into six categories according to purpose: collection, presentation, communication, collaboration, organization and interaction. The categories are based on the function of the strategy and the affordances the technology tools provide. These categories are not meant to be exclusive or exhaustive, but rather to serve as an organizational scheme for pedagogically sound instructional planning.
During the planning process, pre-service teachers continually reflect on what they want students to do with the information they are learning. They consider the following questions – do I want students to collect additional information or evidence, communicate new ideas about the content with their teacher or peers, present their understanding of the content, collaborate with fellow students on group projects, organize the information into meaningful chunks, or interact with the content in some other way?
For narrated presentations on the six categories used for technology, and for help with the technology tools listed here, please visit the Tech Tools for School website.
Below is a presentation which explores student engagement strategies within the six categories. Narrated presentations can be accessed further below.
During the planning process, pre-service teachers continually reflect on what they want students to do with the information they are learning. They consider the following questions – do I want students to collect additional information or evidence, communicate new ideas about the content with their teacher or peers, present their understanding of the content, collaborate with fellow students on group projects, organize the information into meaningful chunks, or interact with the content in some other way?
For narrated presentations on the six categories used for technology, and for help with the technology tools listed here, please visit the Tech Tools for School website.
Below is a presentation which explores student engagement strategies within the six categories. Narrated presentations can be accessed further below.
Student Engagement Strategies - Narrated Presentations
presentation
Presentation strategies facilitate the sharing of new information or learned knowledge, and comprise such activities as creating storyboards, political cartoons, digital slideshows and posters, and audio and visual displays.
Storyboard Projects & Presentations Political Cartoons Interactive Historical Thinking Digital Poster Podcasts Video Presentations |
Presentation tools allow both teacher and student to construct digital posters, slideshows, videos and presentations. Web-based digital tools allow the productions to be housed in the cloud, and enable online editing, collaboration and sharing.
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communication
Communication strategies enable students to reflect on content through written or verbal means, and facilitate the flow of ideas between teacher and students, and text. There is a wide range of communication strategies from structured questions to journals to peer dialogues and beyond.
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Communication tools allow for the dissemination of information and exchange of ideas through social networks, audience response systems (clickers), surveys, polls and blogs. These tools allow teachers to efficiently assess prior knowledge, check for understanding, and evaluate student critical-thinking and reflection; and allow students to demonstrate their learning and reflect on course content.
Flipgrid GoFormative Book Creator Blabberize Survey Monkey Edublogs Tumblr Voicethread Polleverywhere Socrative Padlet Edmodo Weebly PearDeck Kahoot Nearpod |
organization
Organization strategies are used to organize new information in meaningful ways, display relationships among ideas, and make connections to prior knowledge. Organization encompasses such strategies as creating flipbooks, foldables, graphic organizers, charts, tables, graphs, mindmaps, guided notes and timelines.
Graphic Organizers Foldables Ranking Flip Books Chunking Two-Column Note Taking Timeline Human Timeline Big Paper Iceberg Diagram |
Organization tools allow students to create digital organizers to arrange, classify and categorize information. These digital tools allow images, sound and links to be embedded directly into the organizer to enable the student to display a richer and wider range of knowledge and evidence.
Gliffy Timetoast Preceden TimelineJS Bubblus Popplet LucidChart Mindjet Creately Mindmeister Mindomo Easel.ly Zen Flowchart Pic-Collage |
interaction
Interaction strategies involve critical-thinking, active engagement with content and application of knowledge.
Simulation and Interactives Social Studies SimulationsEconomics Interactives Civics Games and Interactives |
Interaction tools allow students to make informed decisions about content, either in a simulation or other critical-thinking activity.
GoFormative Quizlet PearDeck Nearpod Edpuzzle Plickers InsertLearning BrainPop Quizizz ChartsBin Tableau StatSilk 270 to Win - Presidential Interactive |
collection
Collection strategies engage students in searching, gathering, sorting and storing primary and secondary sources for inquiry and analysis. Collection incorporates such instructional activities as webquests, scavenger hunts, archive exploration, interviews and document searches.
Webquest Finding Primary Sources Analyzing documents, artifacts, cartoons, recordings, photographs and postersAnalyzing Visual Images Document Analysis Living Images Media Literacy - Analyzing Images |
Collection tools allow students to search, collect and store sources for analysis and sharing.
DocsTeach National Archives Library of Congress Teaching American History Document Library Diigo Mix LiveBinders Wakelet End Note |
collaboration
Collaboration strategies aid in the collective construction of new knowledge and involves group participation in investigation and presentation of new information.
Project-Based Learning Project-Based Approaches Digital Collaboration |