The tool I’ve created a screencast for is called Educreations. Educreations is an interactive whiteboard tool that’s simple to use, especially for younger students. Students or teachers can annotate, animate and narrate a lesson or task. Students and teachers can share their creation through joining a classroom or a shareable link.
This tool promotes engagement across all areas, including problem-solving, collaboration and blended learning. Students are able to solve math equations using problem solving skills and teachers can replay their screen to see the steps on how the student solved the problem. Students can share these with their peers to discuss agreements or disagreements on how the equation was solved. Teachers can also use this tool to teach lessons to be used in a blended learning environment or a flipped learning environment. Below is a link of a teacher who used this last week in one of the buildings I coach in. When you press play, please wait a few seconds before the child begins to speak and his work will appear shortly after that. https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/09-19-2016-lesson-brandon-word-problem/40207464/?s=6Vgcx6&ref=link This tool was used with all types of learners and was observed to be most impactful to students with learning/behavior disabilities, EL students and Higher Level Learners. Another example is using this tool to explain a process or life cycle. Students can either insert image or draw the image and then describe the process or life cycle. CommonSense Education provides teachers with many resources, especially for digital citizenship. There is a blog on their website that focuses on EduCreations: https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/easy-to-use-educreations-helps-students-show-what-they-know This was very neat to read. One math teacher stated that, “I give the question (for example count by 5s from 100 to 150) and then my students will record themselves. When all the assessment is over they save their video right to my dashboard and I can go back in my own time and see who understands the concepts (www.commonsense.org.).”
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