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Learning Apps: Padlet

Good afternoon and we hope you’re having a lovely start to your week. DigiKnow has been covering different learning Apps lately. This has included: Duolingo TED Talks Anatomy 3D Atlas Flash Cards Office Lens, and Mind Mapping Padlet began life as an online tool but is now also available as Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years7th December 2020 ago
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Learning Apps: Flash Cards

In this weeks blog post, we look to Flash Card Apps which students can use in their learning. Last week, we looked at Anatomy Apps. This week, we look at what Flash Cards are, where they might be used in education and make some suggestions of Flash Card Apps that Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years16th November 2020 ago
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Learning Apps: Anatomy 3D Atlas

The academic year is well underway now and over this last few weeks, we have been looking at Learning Apps to benefit University students. Initially, we looked at Duolingo, a free language learning App. And last week, we checked out TED Talks and how anyone can access these from YouTube Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years9th November 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Think-Pair-Share

On Monday, we looked at student presentations as an activity to engage learners. Today, the activity we want to cover is Think-Pair-Share. Let’s look at: What think-pair-share is How it can be used in teaching Some variations to think-pair-share The benefits And how this can be used online as an Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years9th September 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Student Presentations

Wow. Monday’s come around so quickly. This is the third and final week of blog posts for the Teachers Toolkit for Engagement series. We have looked through a number of activities teachers can use when teaching. These activities promote active learning and engage students. They include: Engagement Summarizing Content recall Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years7th September 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Role Play

Today, we look at Role Play as part of the Teachers’ Toolkit for Engagement. By now, you should have a number of tools within your toolkit. To encourage active learning, why not try a few of the following suggestions from previous blog posts? Engagement Summarizing Content recall Using index cards Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years4th September 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Intro to Problem Based Learning

Last week, DigiKnow started into a series of blog posts to help build up a Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. We have been posting more frequently than normal for this series and we do hope you are enjoying it thus far. On Monday, we looked at Using Index Cards in teaching, Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years2nd September 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Content Recall Activities

This is the third post in the series of Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. Today we look at using content recall activities as a task for use in-class or online. Our previous posts, we looked at Passive Lectures and Engagement and Summarizing. As previously mentioned, passive lectures have their place and Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years28th August 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Summarizing

This is the second post in the series of Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. Today we look at using summarizing as a task for use in-class or online. Our previous post looked at Passive Lectures and Engagement and as discussed, passive lectures do have their place. Passive lectures should be complemented Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years26th August 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Engagement

Over the coming weeks, DigiKnow will be looking at how to engage students through active learning. This will help you build up a Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. There will be extra blog posts over the next three weeks: Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Today, we look at passive lectures and why Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years24th August 2020 ago
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