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Dec 04 2024

Day 4 of #24DaysOfAI: Quizizz for Engaging Assessment For (And As) Learning

By Mark Anderson 24DaysOfAI, AFL, AI, Appvent No Comments

Welcome back to the #24DaysOfAI Appvent Calendar! Today, we shine a spotlight on a platform that many educators already know and love - Quizizz. While it’s long been celebrated for its gamified approach to learning, Quizizz has quietly evolved into a powerhouse of AI-driven teaching tools, saving time, reducing workload,…

Dec 20 2023

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Welcome to Day 20 of the #24DaysOfAI #Appvent calendar where today we share a great tool with #AI baked in to help with quizzing and more, @GoFormative

By Mark Anderson AFL, AI, Appvent, EdTech No Comments

Welcome to day twenty of the 2023 Appvent calendar where today we will focus on Formative. AI tool of the day: Formative is a popular platform for creating engaging assessment tools. Recently, Formative has incorporated an AI content generator tool (currently in beta mode) which makes it easier for teachers…

Jun 25 2020

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FREE CPD >> Five Evidence-Informed Uses of #Edtech To Help Get Online Learning Right

By Mark Anderson AFL, CPD, Distance Learning, EdTech, Featured, Free resource, Home Learning, Learning, My Screencasts, Remote Learning, TeachMeets, Tutorial, Work with me No Comments

A few months ago I was approached by Seneca to deliver a Teachmeet (as a webinar) as part of their TeachMeet series. When I agreed and was asked what I would like to share about I thought what better way than to share some evidence-informed approaches to using technology. I…

Dec 17 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Seventeen – @KristianStill

By Mark Anderson AFL, Appvent No Comments

Morning and welcome to day seventeen on my edtech AppVent Calendar! I can't believe how quickly the days are rolling by through December in the build-up to Christmas! Today's recommended app comes from somebody that I have known for many years now. When I was first developing my PLN and…

Dec 16 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Sixteen – @Mentimeter!

By Mark Anderson AFL, Appvent, Data, EdTech No Comments

Morning and welcome to day sixteen of the edtech AppVent Calendar. Thank you so much to Philippa Wraithmell for her recommended app of AR Makr in yesterday's entry. Stay tuned for an entry tomorrow from Kristian Still! In the meantime though, today's entry is something I've been sharing for a…

Dec 12 2019

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Appvent Calendar Day Twelve – Guest Teacher @MrTullock

By Mark Anderson AFL, Appvent, EdTech, Learning No Comments

Welcome to day twelve of the Appvent calendar. I have honestly been loving sharing all of these fantastic tools these last twelve days. It's been a great opportunity to catch up with some really valued members of my PLN too. Today's guest teacher to share an app on the calendar…

Feb 28 2019

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Support Retrieval Practice simply using this free quizzing tool

By Mark Anderson AFL, Cognitive Science, Education, Exams, ICT, Learning, Pedagogy first, Resources, T & L No Comments

If you haven’t read about using retrieval and spaced practice in recent years, that’s fine. Retrieval Practice is linked to the idea that by regularly revisiting learning content, you will help flatten out your ‘forgetting curve’ a la Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve. Along with Spaced Practice, these key pieces of information…

Nov 22 2017

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Oracy in the curriculum and how technology can help

By Mark Anderson AFL, Computing, EdTech, Literacy, Quotes No Comments

There's no getting away from it, oracy is an essential skill. It is something that can be taught and there's a pretty firm evidence base for it given the research quoted in this paper. Add to this the impassioned article here explaining: "What is oracy and why should every child…

Aug 19 2017

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Top five low-stakes quizzing tools for teachers

By Mark Anderson AFL No Comments

Now I know there are more than five and I rate lots of different tools that I haven't mentioned here such as ClassKick, Quizalize, GoFormative, Google Forms, Mentimeter, Poll Everywhere... there are so many of them. Rather than focus on absolutely everything, I thought I would share 5 great tools…

Jul 03 2017

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Which to use – Kahoot or Quizizz?

By Mark Anderson AFL, EdTech No Comments

So first things first. Whilst I realise the actual embarrassment that I have never actually written a specific blog post about Kahoot I've included it many times. It is fair to say that over the years I've shared it with tens of thousands of educators as a great tool for…