Co-creating Flipboard magazines could be a great activity for students studying current events. Your students could share the articles that they're reading and put them into one magazine for the whole class to read.
As a professional development activity co-creating Flipboard magazines could be a great way for teachers to share articles with each other.
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We're spending six weeks studying and teaching each other some of the amazing online communication tools that offer motivating and inspirational ways to share thoughts.
Here's how we're doing that:
1. Assign worksheet for homework.
2. The next day, collect worksheets & redistribute randomly to other classmates.
3. Give students 5 minutes to silently study the student's paper they were given.
4. Each student will be given 60-90 seconds to stand up and introduce the person they were randomly assigned. They are to tell everything they can about that person based on their paper.
Challenge the students to practice higher level thinking + observations/inferences. For example, if the paper a student received is very neat & organized, they can infer that the student took his/her time and has good work ethic. If the paper is sloppy & only half complete, the student can infer that he/she rushed through the work or didn't try very hard.