Collaborative Learning with Listium

Who doesn’t love making lists? With Listium, crafting and sharing lists becomes a breeze, transforming classroom activities into collaborative learning experiences. With its user-friendly interface and robust features, Listium is the ultimate companion for educators aiming to boost engagement and organization in their classrooms or collaborative learning centers.   A Collaborative Learning Tool That Empowers Students Encourage your students to dive into projects with enthusiasm as they co-create lists of literary characters, historical events, or scientific terms. Listium aids in organizing their thoughts and promotes a collaborative spirit that is crucial in today’s educational landscape. By facilitating group projects and discussions through shared lists, students develop critical thinking and teamwork skills.   Collaborative Learning with Listium in Math Encourage students to create interactive math journals using Listium’s intuitive list-making capabilities. In these journals, students can list mathematical topics they need to remember, along with explanations, examples, and problem-solving strategies for each topic. By documenting their thought processes and strategies, students reinforce their understanding of mathematical concepts and develop metacognitive skills essential for academic success.   For example, students could collaboratively develop a list of geometry theorems, including visual diagrams and step-by-step explanations for each theorem. Additionally, students can compile lists

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ActiveLearningLabs.com – Free Simulation Platform

The era of passive learning is waning, slowly giving rise to a demand for something more engaging, more challenging. Today’s students seek not just information but experiences that spark curiosity and foster active participation.  In a world where attention spans have shrunk, the team at ActiveLearningLabs.com has a FREE interactive simulation platform for teachers who want to create interactives that engage students as they manipulate variables and watch the impacts in real time. It can be used in most subjects– science, math, personal finance… even history!   Dynamic Worksheets – A Game-Changer? Unlike conventional digital or printables, ActiveLearningLabs’ dynamic worksheets go beyond mere input and scoring—they actively respond to user interactions by showing computed results, checking student entries as they work, or updating graphs in real-time.  Through a range of interactive controls such as sliders, spinners, drop-downs, and drag and-drop features, students can manipulate variables and witness immediate changes, from  calculated results to real-time graph updates.  Browse through ALL’s dynamic worksheet library here. 40 of the 99 activities are FREE. Real-Time Teacher Console:  The platform offers teachers the tools needed to enroll students and assign activities, track the student’s progress instantly,  provide feedback, view score reports, time spent reports, evaluate

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Will Magic School AI Outlast the AI Gold Rush?

Many generative AI wrappers have popped up in the last 12 months of the AI Gold Rush. Flush with investor capital, there’s a new one every day. But how many of them will last past the AI Gold Rush? To last, you have to find a solid customer base. I think we can say Khanmigo for sure. And likely whatever Google and Microsoft integrate into their education spaces. The problem with most of the wrapper products in the education space is they output text combined with multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and essay questions. That’s the extent of it– cool, but  who needs another multiple choice generator?? And most problematically, they leave delivery up to you. There are no instructional learning platforms on which to deliver your AI-generated content. That would be too expensive and too much of a commitment for most of these sites. But for we educators, it’s a huge problem!! In that regard, Magic School doesn’t provide a digital learning platform either. But it at least has integrations with Google and some LMS so you can get your content out of there and to your students with less friction. It also has a whole lot of other things specifically

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