A backchannel (3) -- a digital conversation that runs concurrently with a face-to-face activity -- provides students with an outlet to engage in conversation.
The Backchannel: Giving Every Student a Voice in the Blended Mobile Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views
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TodaysMeet (4) would have let teachers create private chat rooms so that students could ask questions or leave comments during class. A Padlet (5) 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 (6) or InfuseLearning (7) could have become discussion prompts to give each student an opportunity to share his or her ideas before engaging in class discussion.
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They create a blended environment where teachers and students engage in both physical and online conversations so that learning is no longer confined to a single means of communication or even an arbitrary class period. Backchannels don't replace class discussions -- they extend them.
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Here are a few that I support: Collaboration: Padlet, TodaysMeet, Educlipper Creativity: Google Draw, Canva, Pixlr Express Critical Thinking: Kidblog, Breakout EDU Communication: Remind, Google Classroom
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