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Edtech Throwdown

Episode 176: Super Lesson Throwdown with Gabby Migliore

Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is episode 176 called “Super Lesson Throwdown with Gabby Migliore”  In this episode, we’ll talk about how to engage all students from bell to bell with edtech at your side.  We’ll each share 1 sample lesson that you can use or take ideas from for your own classroom.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

Segment 1: 

Narrative:  Differentiation PD Day

Segment 2: Superlesson Showdown

Without further ado, our guest today is a former math teacher turned current teacher of physics and astronomy pursuing a doctorate in math education, as well as one of the most capable new educators around.  Welcome to the show Gabby mill your ee.

Guise introduces the showdown

Nick sample lesson

  1. The most perfect science lesson of all time?  Yup!!!  Flipped classroom, phenomena opener, POGIL in small groups, Quizizz whiteboards to monitor progress and spark discussion, model creation exit ticket

Gabby sample lesson

  1. A spectrum for technology use? BINGO! Nick isn’t the only one who can ask questions– we’ve got technology and information literacy, multiple representations, and of course my Aunt Lucky’s favorite game. 
  2. Diffit
  3. Flippity Randomizer
  4. Flippity Bingo Board
  5. Canva Bingo Template
  6. Duo Cards

Guise sample lesson

  1. Gamification Station Rotation- English Lesson for the Roaring 1920’s and the Great Gatsby
  2. Station 1:  Background
  3. NotebookLM Podcast that describes the color symbolism in the great Gatsby
  4. Listen to Podcast and take notes for what each color symbolizes
  5. Station 2:  Symbolism
  6. Have examples of symbolism from the book on index cards
  7. Students use the notes from station 1 to help them categorize the examples under the proper color category
  8. Students count the number of examples from each color and put the answer into a google form for immediate feedback
  9. Station 3:  QR Code Time Line
  10. Students view QR Codes and put events in chronological order
  11. Each QR code is embedded into a picture from the book
  12. Easily Generated in Canva
  13. Use Google Forms to enter 
  14. Station 4: Guess Who
  15. Create a fake tweet using Tweetgen that describes an event from the book.  Have the students match the tweet to the character from the book.  For this one you could use a picture of each character and place it on a different color of construction paper.  For the tweets, you can have the twitter handle be the name of the person and a # which tells the students the order that they would use for the google form.
  16. Station 5:  Themes of 1920
  17. Have a 3x3 grid of 9 themes from the 1920’s with their definitions or explanations.  Have pictures that represent each theme.  Each picture must include a number or mathematical operation (+,-,X,or/).  The themes on the left and right get numbers and the middle column gets operations.  Each line becomes a formula.  The answer gets put into the Google Form.

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