Creativity Tools
If you are wondering where the comparison for is, well you are looking at it in the above chart. Canva is a graphic-design creator. It is an iPad app and allows the creation of many charts, graphs, posters, and Venn diagrams. I like that it is easy to select a template and add your own text. At this point, I like the app more for myself. It is useful in organizing my thoughts and creating visually pleasing data. I love it when information is bulleted and easy to read. This would be a great tool for high-school students and I would definitely suggest it as a Digital Learning Coach.
is, well you are looking at it in the above chart. Canva is a graphic-design creator. It is an iPad app and allows the creation of many charts, graphs, posters, and Venn diagrams. I like that it is easy to select a template and add your own text. At this point, I like the app more for myself. It is useful in organizing my thoughts and creating visually pleasing data. I love it when information is bulleted and easy to read. This would be a great tool for high-school students and I would definitely suggest it as a Digital Learning Coach.
Flip Grid
Flip Grid supports student learning and good teaching.
Flip Grid supports student learning and good teaching.
Using the example in the chart under student use for Flip Grid, the content goal 5.4(H) represent and solve problems related to perimeter and/or area. is to show how they worked through the following math problem:
Different partner groups are given choices A, B, C and D and they must justify their answer as either correct or incorrect.
The best pedagogical approach would be collaborative learning. Students who work together learn more and retain more. Collaborative pedagogy traces its philosophical roots to the social constructivist philosophy of Richard Rorty. Partners working together to discuss, plan, and solve. Then partners discussing and asking questions of other partners. Finally, sharing their results with the rest of the class. Flip Grid ( technology affordance) supports this pedagogical approach by allowing the final results to be shared via video format with the entire class. Students can then comment on the different videos reflecting on the ways everyone went about solving the problem. They can see who thought like they did and who had a different approach that also worked.
Flip Grid student response example
An additional way that Flip Grid could be used is as a response to reading. In the content of Science, students can be assigned partners and an article on any topic. Students can upload their thinking to a scaffolding strategy used for reading non-fiction text. The video response to the article showing their discussion and questioning in order to slow down and develop understanding. Other students can then comment and learn how everyone developed understanding.
Science reading can sometimes be difficult to understand. The Vygotsky theory of cognitive development states that students will learn more when they receive guidance from someone with more skills in the subject they’re learning than they would if they were tackling the subject on their own. The above "Three Questions" scaffold will help the student solve any comprehension problems. It helps them to slow down and pay more attention to the non-fiction text. This is a questioning strategy that can help them clear up any confusion they will experience in a more difficult text. Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky developed the ZPD and the Vygotsky theory of cognitive development, while Jerome Bruner developed scaffolding psychology several decades later. This pedagogical approach to reading science non-fiction text along with the integrated technology affords students opportunities to own their thinking and learning.
Knowledge and use of Creativity Tools
As a teacher and educational technology leader, it is important to know about several creativity tools. Having several tools to select from to show their learning will keep students interacting with all content. Students can get bored of just using Flip Grid in the same way for all content after a while. Providing several choices will encourage engagement. Using creativity tools helps empower learners. They are able to create their own meaning and show their learning in different ways. I personally don't care for iMovie
. I have used it several times and find that there are several other apps to tell a story digitally. There is still value in this app for my up and coming students. Using their epistemic curiosity they can make meaning of any content area. Students are so unique in their approach to learning that they constantly teach me new ways of creating. Just this year, students showed me a new feature to add voice to this app. I am so glad I let them experiment with something I thought was "older" technology. I can now see, this old gem can continue to empower students. Plus, the kids love the final product and when it is relevant to them, the content gets learned that much better.
The best pedagogical approach would be collaborative learning. Students who work together learn more and retain more. Collaborative pedagogy traces its philosophical roots to the social constructivist philosophy of Richard Rorty. Partners working together to discuss, plan, and solve. Then partners discussing and asking questions of other partners. Finally, sharing their results with the rest of the class. Flip Grid ( technology affordance) supports this pedagogical approach by allowing the final results to be shared via video format with the entire class. Students can then comment on the different videos reflecting on the ways everyone went about solving the problem. They can see who thought like they did and who had a different approach that also worked.
Flip Grid student response example
An additional way that Flip Grid could be used is as a response to reading. In the content of Science, students can be assigned partners and an article on any topic. Students can upload their thinking to a scaffolding strategy used for reading non-fiction text. The video response to the article showing their discussion and questioning in order to slow down and develop understanding. Other students can then comment and learn how everyone developed understanding.
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| Reading Nonfiction: Notice & Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies by Kylene Beers and Bob Probst |
Science reading can sometimes be difficult to understand. The Vygotsky theory of cognitive development states that students will learn more when they receive guidance from someone with more skills in the subject they’re learning than they would if they were tackling the subject on their own. The above "Three Questions" scaffold will help the student solve any comprehension problems. It helps them to slow down and pay more attention to the non-fiction text. This is a questioning strategy that can help them clear up any confusion they will experience in a more difficult text. Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky developed the ZPD and the Vygotsky theory of cognitive development, while Jerome Bruner developed scaffolding psychology several decades later. This pedagogical approach to reading science non-fiction text along with the integrated technology affords students opportunities to own their thinking and learning.
Knowledge and use of Creativity Tools
As a teacher and educational technology leader, it is important to know about several creativity tools. Having several tools to select from to show their learning will keep students interacting with all content. Students can get bored of just using Flip Grid in the same way for all content after a while. Providing several choices will encourage engagement. Using creativity tools helps empower learners. They are able to create their own meaning and show their learning in different ways. I personally don't care for iMovie
. I have used it several times and find that there are several other apps to tell a story digitally. There is still value in this app for my up and coming students. Using their epistemic curiosity they can make meaning of any content area. Students are so unique in their approach to learning that they constantly teach me new ways of creating. Just this year, students showed me a new feature to add voice to this app. I am so glad I let them experiment with something I thought was "older" technology. I can now see, this old gem can continue to empower students. Plus, the kids love the final product and when it is relevant to them, the content gets learned that much better.
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