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Instant Peardecks with AI
Peardeck has joined in the AI craze and I am all in! You can ask Peardeck to create a peardeck with content and questions based on a topic, standard, pdf, website, video, etc… And as always you can edit and change what is generated to fit you, your students and your content.To do this, all you need to do is log in at Peardeck.com and then click Create and choose “Instant Pear Decks”. Peardeck’s “content orchard” is also much more robust than in the past and has many ready-to-go slide decks that you could adapt and use.
Background Music/video… as a classroom management tool.
Set the mood… in your classroom! SoniCentric has a plethora of background image/sound videos that are all one hour long. Each video has a couple commercials at the beginning, but after that, the music/video is uninterrupted.
Canva has a new feature: “Ready-to-teach lessons”
Click on templates on the left (see red arrow) and then you can filter the lessons by subject, grade and resource type! All of these materials are editable!
Fluency Tool: Reading Progress and Reading Coach in Microsoft Teams.
Reading Progress is a free fluency tool in which educators can allow students to practice reading out loud. Students get personalized coaching tips from “reading coach”. Educators get insights and data about that student’s individual reading. Great tool for elementary classrooms working on fluency!
They also have a great reading passage library in which you can sort by grade, lexile, etc… You can also upload any word or pdf document and use reading coach with that uploaded passage.
Bell-ringer and Warm-up Ideas
Connections: Create your own for your classroom and your content using your favorite connections creator… here or here are a couple of good ones. Check out this Ecosystem example that was created with one of the free creation tools linked. Another tip: Use an AI tool like Chatgpt to create your connections terms and categories for a particular topic at a certain grade level. AI can give you lots of suggestions and ideas in which you be the expert and pick what works for you. See the chatgpt example here for ecosystems.
Wordle: Great way to introduce a topic or review! Use it to reinforce vocab in which you can give a couple descriptions or example of the term and students play wordle to figure it out. There are many sites that allow you to create your own worlde… here are two: Lingle and My Wordle.
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