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MS Teams for Teaching – Engaging Students

It’s now the first week of term. Student inductions are getting underway and teaching starts this week as well. It may be students are taught face-to-face in some scenarios and today’s blog post looks at engaging students in live-teaching in MS Teams. On Friday, we looked at MS Teams and Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years21st September 2020 ago
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Teaching Toolkit – Blogs, Wikis and Group Work

Welcome to the final blog post in the series for the Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. Until now, we have covered eight other activities to engage students in active-learning. These will assist teachers with active-teaching. These include: Engagement Summarizing Content recall Using index cards Problem-based learning Role play Student presentations Think-pair-share Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years11th September 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 – 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 – Using Index Cards

If you have been following our blog posts last week, you potentially have added three tools to your Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. These include: passive lectures and engagement summarizing content recall activities Today, we look at activities where index cards can be used during teaching, both in-class and online. Use Read more…

By Daria Casement, 3 years31st August 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 – 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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