DyKnow Webinar: Chaminade Prep

This webinar was entitled "One-to-One: Choosing the Right Tools and Using Them Effectively." Because I have spent a year in a 1-to-1 classroom setting using DyKnow, this webinar was not very helpful. The first part was dedicated to why the school chose to be a 1-to-1 tablet school. Since my school is already past that stage, the information was not helpful to me but it would be helpful to a school in the process of deciding. An English teacher led the second part about the tools she uses in the classroom, and I already know about and use the tools that the classroom teacher discussed. Again, this would be very helpful to a teacher using DyKnow for the first time.

Here are some of the ideas the teacher shared:

1. Ask students to draw one scene from their reading the night before. The teacher would then collect the panels and discuss each students' drawing. I think this is a great starting point for class conversation.

2. Create a graphic organizer with three columns:

a. What are you sure you know from last night's reading?

b. What do you think you know from last night's reading?

c. What would you like to know from last night's reading?

This is another starting point for class discussion, and it gives the teacher an idea about what students understood and did not understand from the reading. The teacher used share control with this, where what the students write show up on the teacher's screen. This would work with a small class, but with a large class it would get too messy. With a large class, I would divide the students into group and then have them submit the panels to me.

3. Exit tickets. On a slide, write "What is one thing you would like to learn / discuss next class?" Students have to submit a slide in order to leave class.

4. Polls. Get instant feedback from students.

5. Use chat during lecture. For teachers that lecture during class (I am thinking English or History teachers), students can send a question via chat so as to not interrupt the flow of the lecture. This may be helpful to students who think of the question in the moment, but then do not ask the question at the end of the lecture. Another possibility is to give students participation points during the lecture based on the questions or comments they post to chat.

6. Remote study sessions. The night before a test, the teacher can start a session in DyKnow and open chat. The teacher can be there to answer questions and review any concepts the students want to review.