How Can #EdTech Boost Creativity? - HoET150

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#EdTech Thought

Yale Lets Anyone Take Its Most Popular Class Ever for Free. 7 Things You’ll Learn If You Do.

1. Strike up a conversation with a stranger.
2. Meditate.
3. Reduce decision fatigue with fewer choices.
4. Do an activity for the pure joy of doing it.
5. Phone a friend.
6. Jot down what you’re grateful for.
7. Get enough sleep.

#EdTech Recommendation

Oodlü enables students to prepare for tests and exams by playing games.

• Teachers (or students) create question collections (or select or merge any of the 2,000,000 questions already created by other users).
• Students then practice those questions in their choice of 20 silly games (on computers or mobile devices).
• The oodlü approach is grounded in learning sciences research.
• Oodlü is available in multiple languages (which currently includes Arabic, Croatian, English, French, Hebrew, Mandarin, and Slovenian). All the translations are by teachers.
• Oodlü is a social enterprise (we prioritize supporting students and learning as well as, one day, making a profit).

Featured Content

• Blogs for creative thinking
  • Edublogs, Blogger, WordPress, Weebly, & Wix
• Cartoons, Comic Strips & MEME Tools
  • Storyboard That, Make Beliefs Comix
• Mind-Mapping and Brainstorming tools
  • Some free mind-mapping tools for students and teachers are SpiderScribe, Wise Mapping, Creately.
• Infographics
  • Some free tools for creating infographics are Picktochart & Canva.
• Video and Audio tools
  • Some video-making tools for students and teachers are WeVideo, Flipgrid, iMovie
  • Some audio-recording tools are phone audio recorder, GarageBand, audacity.
• Digital storytelling is the bottom line

Just Give It A Try

Dennis Dawson shares Zipgrade