"Three things to Remember" by Mary Oliver | Nearpod
Nearpod is website that you can use to incorporate formative assessments and creative add-ons into your presentation or lesson. In Nearpod, you can search for presentation templates in the library, create your own content in Canva or PowerPoint and and upload it, develop a presentation from scratch in Nearpod, or use the Google Add-On for Nearpod in Google Slides. In addition, you can create a lesson video or search for a YouTube video and add open-ended or multiple-choice questions to be interspersed throughout it to check for student understanding. Within the presentation tool of Nearpod, you can add content and activities to your presentation from the Nearpod box of technology tools. The content that you can add includes: videos, slides, websites, 3D elements, a VR Field Trip, BBC videos, Microsoft Sway documents (from the library or personally created), slideshows, and PDF. The formative assessment activities that you can add in Nearpod are as follows: Time To Climb (A game that requires you to answer multiple-choice questions quickly and efficiently to race up a mountain), open-ended questions, matching pairs, multiple-choice or true/false quizzes, Flipgrid responses (Teachers must first have a Flipgrid account to add this), drawing responses, collaboration boards (Short sticky note responses), polls, fill in the blanks, and memory tests. Nearpod has a huge library of excellent resources! Then, after you add your desired features to a presentation, you can either assign this presentation asynchronously or do live participation where students join the presentation online with a join code. Nearpod can also present online with Zoom. Students do not need to have a Nearpod account to access the presentation and you can see the stats and answers of your students. It is a great technological resource!
Nearpod directly relates to the Danielson Framework for Teaching. It falls under Domain 1: Planning and Preparation, Component 1e Designing Coherent Instruction and Component 1f Designing Student Assessments. Nearpod enables teachers to design coherent instruction because it provides technological resources for many different types of learners to gain knowledge. Students can learn about a topic through an informational presentation (Great for reading learners!), a 3D experience (Great for kinesthetic learners!), a video (Great for auditory learners!), and VR Field Trips (Great for visual learners!). These instructional tools that correspond to different styles of learning enable a teacher to reach a variety of students efficiently because they can use many of these varied tools in one lesson! Nearpod is a one stop shop for teachers to use to design coherent instruction for students with many different learning styles. In addition Nearpod is a great resource for designing creative and easy formative assessments throughout a lesson. Whether it is adding a collaborative board to share ideas during a presentation or asking a multiple-choice question while the students are watching a video to check for understanding, Nearpod empowers teachers to ensure that they know what their students are learning and can test for it effectively. Formative assessments such as Time To Climb and fill in the blanks are easy for teachers to add to different resources and they are again varied to cater to different learning styles. Nearpod helps a teacher to succeed at adding formative assessments to lesson plans.
Nearpod relates to the 4 C's of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning Skills (Creativity and innovation, Critical thinking and problem solving, Communication, and Collaboration). The C that Nearpod particularly corresponds with is Critical thinking and problem solving. The formative assessments and the varied methods of instruction that Nearpod has challenge students to think critically by being challenged to recall and reflect on the content that their teacher is presenting in a lesson. In addition, the creative ways of presenting content in Nearpod enable students to problem solve because they show students different perspectives on content, providing experiential learning tools that are memorable for students that they can easily recall in classes to answer questions.
In the ISTE Standards for Students, Nearpod enables students to both be Empowered Learners and Creative Communicators. As a tool empowering learners, Nearpod caters to the learning needs of the students by allowing them to recall what they are learning and from this reflection know what they need to improve on. Nearpod also has many different methods of formative assessments that teachers can incorporate into their lessons. So, students are able to demonstrate their learning through a variety of technological assessments, showing their versatility and strengths as learners. In addition, as a tool for creative communication, Nearpod is a platform that indicates to students that they can communicate knowledge to others through a multitude of methods. These methods include simulations, videos, presentations, and Flipgrid audio. Students become more educated about the many different ways to communicate knowledge through the use of Nearpod.
I definitely want to use Nearpod in my classroom! It is one of the best tools that I have used so far. It has so much content that you can incorporate into your lesson and enables you to leverage the use of technology in your classroom in many different ways. I love all of the different options for formative assessments in instruction, including the collaboration board and the use of the fun quiz game Time to Climb to check for understanding. I used a Time To Climb in my lesson as an exit ticket. I also really like the video tool that Nearpod has where you can add questions throughout a video to check for understanding. My physics teacher used another website that had a similar function in high school, and I really liked learning that way because it helped me to recognize what the important information was that I needed to get out of that video. One caution to using Nearpod is that it does not automatically save your work, so you need to be constantly aware of saving changes and it can often take a long time for content to upload and save. However, all technology tools have their downsides, I plan to use Nearpod in my classroom in the future, and I am excited to create more lessons with it!
Nearpod directly relates to the Danielson Framework for Teaching. It falls under Domain 1: Planning and Preparation, Component 1e Designing Coherent Instruction and Component 1f Designing Student Assessments. Nearpod enables teachers to design coherent instruction because it provides technological resources for many different types of learners to gain knowledge. Students can learn about a topic through an informational presentation (Great for reading learners!), a 3D experience (Great for kinesthetic learners!), a video (Great for auditory learners!), and VR Field Trips (Great for visual learners!). These instructional tools that correspond to different styles of learning enable a teacher to reach a variety of students efficiently because they can use many of these varied tools in one lesson! Nearpod is a one stop shop for teachers to use to design coherent instruction for students with many different learning styles. In addition Nearpod is a great resource for designing creative and easy formative assessments throughout a lesson. Whether it is adding a collaborative board to share ideas during a presentation or asking a multiple-choice question while the students are watching a video to check for understanding, Nearpod empowers teachers to ensure that they know what their students are learning and can test for it effectively. Formative assessments such as Time To Climb and fill in the blanks are easy for teachers to add to different resources and they are again varied to cater to different learning styles. Nearpod helps a teacher to succeed at adding formative assessments to lesson plans.
Nearpod relates to the 4 C's of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning Skills (Creativity and innovation, Critical thinking and problem solving, Communication, and Collaboration). The C that Nearpod particularly corresponds with is Critical thinking and problem solving. The formative assessments and the varied methods of instruction that Nearpod has challenge students to think critically by being challenged to recall and reflect on the content that their teacher is presenting in a lesson. In addition, the creative ways of presenting content in Nearpod enable students to problem solve because they show students different perspectives on content, providing experiential learning tools that are memorable for students that they can easily recall in classes to answer questions.
In the ISTE Standards for Students, Nearpod enables students to both be Empowered Learners and Creative Communicators. As a tool empowering learners, Nearpod caters to the learning needs of the students by allowing them to recall what they are learning and from this reflection know what they need to improve on. Nearpod also has many different methods of formative assessments that teachers can incorporate into their lessons. So, students are able to demonstrate their learning through a variety of technological assessments, showing their versatility and strengths as learners. In addition, as a tool for creative communication, Nearpod is a platform that indicates to students that they can communicate knowledge to others through a multitude of methods. These methods include simulations, videos, presentations, and Flipgrid audio. Students become more educated about the many different ways to communicate knowledge through the use of Nearpod.
I definitely want to use Nearpod in my classroom! It is one of the best tools that I have used so far. It has so much content that you can incorporate into your lesson and enables you to leverage the use of technology in your classroom in many different ways. I love all of the different options for formative assessments in instruction, including the collaboration board and the use of the fun quiz game Time to Climb to check for understanding. I used a Time To Climb in my lesson as an exit ticket. I also really like the video tool that Nearpod has where you can add questions throughout a video to check for understanding. My physics teacher used another website that had a similar function in high school, and I really liked learning that way because it helped me to recognize what the important information was that I needed to get out of that video. One caution to using Nearpod is that it does not automatically save your work, so you need to be constantly aware of saving changes and it can often take a long time for content to upload and save. However, all technology tools have their downsides, I plan to use Nearpod in my classroom in the future, and I am excited to create more lessons with it!