Enhancing Learning Outcomes
A good learning experience can be had with a whiteboard, markers, and a lesson outline. A great learning experience supplements great pedagogy with prudently curated new technologies to clarify instruction, improve outcomes, and engage students. The tools below greatly assist with that:
Online Tools
UDL Guidelines note that “Information that is not attended to, that does not engage learners’ cognition, is in fact inaccessible.” Truer words have never been spoken and Classhook is a means recruit interest by providing an organized library of videos catered to all students, which can serve as Concrete Experiences for introductions or even add final guidance on a lesson.
Conceptboard is an interactive online tool that enhances student collaboration and creativity. It allows students and teachers to create, share, and quickly edit visual boards, facilitating brainstorming sessions, project planning, and group activities. The platform supports various media types, such as images, sticky notes, and documents, fostering dynamic and engaging learning environments. Conceptboard's intuitive interface and numerous templates, including commenting and live cursors, make it easy for participants to contribute and stay organized.
Discussion between students should be vibrant, organic, and complement the learning process. Unfortunately, many of us have been stuck on Blackboard and required to hit a certain word count. Parlay uses AI to help stimulate conversations within online discussion settings with the ability to refer back to past discussions and course material to drive newer discussions.
Students can use Pixton to make free comics and avatars. Aren’t comics for kids? Yes and for adults. Research in educational sphere shows the impact visual products can increase learning outcomes even with abstract concepts. Comics can be used as storyboards for products, a means to disaggregate and explain certain phenomena identified in the social sciences and humanities, and a comfortable medium student understand to engage with material.
Learning should be collaborative, and developers should be on the lookout for tools that increase team learning. Powernotes enables students to use internet material, keep it sourced and cite to prevent plagiarism or intellectual property concerns within a collaborative setting to great accountability, create organizational structure and task lists and add material to supplement to on-going research. Criticality Powernote’s design facilitates the academic research process.