Explore and create: Exploratory Creation lab 
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The purpose of this session is to show teachers five strategies that assist with student vocabulary retention. Participants will learn how to create and facilitate these strategies in their own grade level and content area. These framework strategies could be implemented for each unit of instruction throughout the learning cycle and use different digital tools. This helps teachers learn new tools and implement them in new ways. We will use digital Frayer models, enhanced EduProtocols, digital guessing games, and student-created digital resources in Peardeck’s Flashcard Factory. As the facilitator, I will clarify any misconceptions throughout the entire process to ensure participants are successful in learning these strategies.
I start this session with a warm up to get participants out of their seats. After doing so, we go into our first strategy that utilizes Canva. The participants go through this exercise with a partner which is a game show based activity. This goes on for about 8-10 minutes and after going through this exercise, we unpack the activity, the tools used, and how we went about facilitating this activity. Participants share ideas and how the strategy can be modified for various content and grade levels. We then go into the next activity which is a Flashcard Factory activity. I take the participants through this and we go through the lesson. We then show how this creates a student-created flashcard set that students can use to study. We unpack this just as we did the first one. After this, we go through a Sketch And Tell activity where I teach them a quick lesson and they go through the activity filling out a Frayer model for this. They then share with others and we unpack this. Next, we do a quick Time To Climb activity in Nearpod to check for understanding. This activity demonstrates how students use individual skills to focus on the vocabulary. We then use the same vocabulary list to go through a Monster Quiz in Lumio. This shows how the same activity can be used in small groups. Lastly, I demonstrate how a Google Slide “Guess Who” can be used to wrap up a unit and help pivot instruction before an assessment. This session has gotten great feedback and leaves people wanting more.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9895958/#:~:text=investigated%20how%20digital%20flashcards%2C%20installed,well%20as%20the%20control%20group.
https://www.azk12.org/homeroom/2016/06/15/6-ways-to-expand-students-vocabulary-with-technology
https://www.smekenseducation.com/add-a-tech-twist-to-marzano-six-steps/
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