🤔 Are you craving for authentic materials to help students learn English meaningfully?
🤔 Are you falling short of innovative and student-centred teaching methodologies?
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In Week 7, our ICT group had an amazing RUN-AWAY CLASSROOM experience with 💡 Nearpod💡. Honestly speaking, I have never thought PowerPoint did have a critical 'Point' to emPower us as students to learn AUTHENTICALLY with the school environment.
How does Nearpod work?
Interesting Pedagogical Facts / Positive Comments of Nearpod
Potentials of mobile learning
In the 21st century, the unprecedented growth of ICT creates new promising for education to meet diverse learning needs and pedagogical demands. Nearpod is one of the examples showing the trend or nature of ICT is gradually shifting from computer-assisted to mobile-assisted language learning.
Recalling from my Week 7 learning experience, I realize Nearpod has the potential to cater visuals, auditory and kinesthetic students at a very short period of time (i.e., 20-minute). The reason behind is the elements embedded in Nearpod. Accordingly, teachers can add both 'Web Content' and 'Add Activity' in the lesson. As shown in Figure 1 below, you can include a wide range of learning experience such as open-ended question, poll, quiz, draw it and collaborate to the PowerPoint content.
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Limitations
In terms of the given feature, it seems that there is no app can be downloaded to create the Nearpod PowerPoint offline. Also, teachers may not be able to save many PowerPoint as Nearpod only gives us 50MB of storage space.
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Wow! Another interesting post on Nearpod! A really cool tool to make mobile teaching and learning possible. The interesting features I have found here is teacher-paced and student-paced lessons. We can decide it depending upon the nature of questions and time available for the tasks.
ReplyDeleteYou have said, ‘Nearpod has the potential to cater visuals, auditory and kinesthetic students at a very short period of time (i.e., 20-minute).’ I completely agree with your take. The teacher can develop some activities which let the learners go out of the class, explore and respond it or the teacher can also embed some audio visual materials.
Another interesting thing is since it can be run in any smart phone, and these days most of the students do possess them, Nearpod can be a helpful tech-tool in a low-resourced classroom too.