The website I discovered when searching for interactive learning material on the web is called explorelearning (www.explorelearning.com) and the program is called Gizmo. Gizzmo includes a great deal of useful information and activities for teachers and students. You can search activities by grade, subject, topic, state correlation, textbook correlation, or by lists of collections. You are provided with detailed instructions as to how to set up your classroom, add classes and enroll students. The benefit of using Gizmo in the classroom is that it is designed to help students develop a deep lasting understanding of key concepts in math and science through inquiry and exploration by offering features such as: dynamic visualization, data gathering and calculation tools, inquiry learn
I found the discussion on the importance of using students’ output to affect your teaching and their learning quite useful. It is often falsely presumed that we are to be solely influencing our students in the classroom, but in reality, if we’re not being influenced by our students’ output, then we are not teaching to our full potential. The reason we give students tests, projects, homework and any other kind of assessment is to receive feedback from their performance that we then use to judge their understanding. If they are not performing up to par, we should then use that data to analyze what areas they need help in or what topics we should cover again.
