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A face-to-face conversation while simultaneously reading might have been a distraction. However, by typing their thoughts, all students contributed their ideas while each having the autonomy to work at his or her own pace.

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Charlie needed an alternative means to participate, and a backchannel would have provided him with that outlet.

a digital conversation that runs concurrently with a face-to-face activit

TodaysMeet would have let teachers create private chat rooms so that students could ask questions or leave comments during class. A Padlet wall might have fueled students to share their ideas as text, images, videos, and links posted to a digital bulletin board. The open response questions available in a student response system like Socrative or InfuseLearning could have become discussion prompts to give each student an opportunity to share his or her ideas before engaging in class discussion.

When you find a video that works for you, trim the clip to a length that you like then write out your question and answer choices.

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This means that you can ask a short answer question and send respondents to a new question based upon their responses.

The best feature of Quizdini is that you can create explanations of the correct answer for your students to view immediately after trying each question in your quiz.

ImageQuiz is a free service that allows you to create quizzes based on any images that you own or find online. When people take your quizzes on ImageQuiz they answer your questions by clicking on the part of the picture that answers each question.

Socrative allows me to create single question and multiple question quizzes with multiple choice and or open-ended responses.

First, Infuse Learning allows you to create multiple rooms within your account. That means you can create a different Infuse Learning room for each of your classes rather than re-using the same room for all of your classes. Second, Infuse Learning allows you create questions that your students draw responses to.

Using Google Forms you can create multiple choice, true/false, and free response questions quizzes. The latest version of Google Forms allows you to include pictures in your quizzes.

Our most important institutions, like schools and workplaces, are designed for extroverts,

why is it that kids who prefer to go off by themselves or to work alone are seen as outliers?

How about the very definition of “class participation?”

how best to cultivate the talent of those students.

a student who has one or two or three friends, and prefers to go deep with their friendships instead of being one of a big gang, there’s nothing wrong with that at all, in terms of it being a predictor for adulthood.

But Cain particularly feels for one group of introverts: the quiet kids in a classroom.

make sure to build quiet time into the school day, especially when kids are younger. Have 15 minutes set aside every day where the students just read.

Apps that allow students to contribute to class discussions, sometimes anonymously and sometimes not.

less group work in general.

do more work in pairs, which is a way that both introverts and extroverts can thrive.

challenge teachers to rethink what they mean by class participation and start thinking of it as classroom engagement instead.

account the research of Anders Ericsson, who invented the concept of “deliberate practice.”

tools that allow students to participate through their electronic devices as opposed to raising their hand.

maximize choice.

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