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Old school classroom winners?

ERIN CUNNINGHAM
ERIN CUNNINGHAM 9 months ago

There's a lot of emphasis these days on going high-tech in the classroom but I'm curious about the low-tech options that still produce great results. What "old school" teaching strategies or activities do you employ that still produce great results?

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  • Julianne Horowitz
    Julianne Horowitz 9 months ago

    Chart paper all the way! Love me some visible thinking Slight smile

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  • ERIN CUNNINGHAM
    ERIN CUNNINGHAM 9 months ago in reply to Julianne Horowitz

    What kinds of activities do you think work best using chart paper?

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  • Julianne Horowitz
    Julianne Horowitz 9 months ago in reply to ERIN CUNNINGHAM

    I especially like using it for gallery walk responses, and "silent conversation" type of activities, but it also makes other things more fun, like the urbanization game, or basic graphic exercises, or  even for the contextualization tool.

    What are your favorite old-school tools? ERIN CUNNINGHAM Anne Koschmider 

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  • Anne Koschmider
    Anne Koschmider 9 months ago in reply to Julianne Horowitz

    I have a classroom set of small markerboards that come in handy for video notes, brainstorming, and review games. 

    I've also been trying to incorporate some variety with low-tech review games. One example is Roll and Review, in which students get a set of questions (like this) and roll two dice to determine which to answer. They play in small groups. 

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  • ERIN CUNNINGHAM
    ERIN CUNNINGHAM 9 months ago in reply to Julianne Horowitz

    These are great examples! Thank you for sharing. It can be so much more fun and meaningful to manipulate paper and markers and glue than to try to move around text boxes on a screen.

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  • ERIN CUNNINGHAM
    ERIN CUNNINGHAM 9 months ago in reply to Anne Koschmider

    Thanks for the roll and review activity! Low-tech and easy to prep but still fun and effective.

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  • ERIN CUNNINGHAM
    ERIN CUNNINGHAM 9 months ago in reply to Anne Koschmider

    Thanks for the roll and review activity! Low-tech and easy to prep but still fun and effective.

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