Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Another online game platform but this one may be the best one yet for promoting mastery learning
Another online game platform but this one may be the best one yet for promoting mastery learning
In a perfect world, we would monitor each students learning and growth by name and need. One student may need help with mastering causes of the War of 1812. Another cant remember the 3/5 Compromise. How to structure instruction so that each students individualized needs are met?
A free online game platform that could certainly help is called BrainRush.
BrainRush allows you (or your students) to create learning games that adapt to the learning skill of each player. To learn about BrainRush I took one of the activities that they had prepared on the Civil Rights Movement. Whenever I answered a question incorrectly (whoops), that question was pushed back into the deck of upcoming questions. It was then repeated in a different way several times, giving me extra chances to become confident in the correct answer and demonstrate my mastery.This video (1:23) gives you a good short introduction to how BrainRush works.
BrainRush has four learning-game formats:
- Cards Template: Just like flashcards. Great for vocabulary; students match the front to the back of cards.
- Buckets Template: A categorization activity; students drop and drag text, images, and/or audio into the correct bucket.
- Sequencing Template: A chronology or list-order activity; students drag and drop items in order.
- Hotspots Template: Students are presented with one image containing 10-15 hotspots, each one corresponding to a different concept to learn. They match the concept to the hotspot on the map. Hotspots Templates are best for diagrams and maps.
The last template was the most fun to create and play. For my practice I uploaded a blank outline map of the contiguous 48 states, and created four hotspots. I then associated a concept (like the Missouri Compromise Line) to each hotspot.
Playing my activity as a student, I was first shown the image (the map) with the four hotspots I had created. My first concept was in the left margin, and in the first round, I had to click on the correct hotspot to demonstrate mastery. Later in the Round 2 I was shown a hotspot and asked to type the correct concept in a dialogue box.
What was great was that I could not complete the activity until I gave correct answers to every concept. And the activity was personalized for my learning. Every time I made a mistake, questions about that topic were repeated (several times, interspersed with other questions) until I got it correct several times in a row.
Once you create your activity you post it to the online classroom that you create for your students.
One thing thats great about BrainRush is the amount of online teacher support it gives. It currently has 9 general video tutorials and three other describing BrainRushs game templates.
BrainRush makes creating engaging and effective activities that promote individualized mastery learning that much more achievable.
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
Another new book in our series Ola Ertsads Digtial Learning Lives
Another new book in our series Ola Ertsads Digtial Learning Lives
Spectre (2015) 400MB DVDScr 480P Dual Audio ESubs 1filemovie
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Released ion: 6 November 2015
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Thriller
Star Cast: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux
Synopsis: Spectre 2015 – A cryptic message from the past sends James Bond on a rogue mission to Mexico City and eventually Rome, where he meets Lucia, the beautiful and forbidden widow of an infamous criminal. Bond infiltrates a secret meeting and uncovers the existence of the sinister organisation known as SPECTRE. Meanwhile back in London, Max Denbigh, the new head of the Centre of National Security, questions Bond’s actions and challenges the relevance of MI6 led by M. Bond covertly enlists Moneypenny and Q to help him seek out Madeleine Swann, the daughter of his old nemesis Mr White, who may hold the clue to untangling the web of SPECTRE.
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