#PADLET IN THE CLASSROOM FREE#

Padlet is a perfect place to ask students to share an image to document their work or experience. Padlet allows students to sketch using a mouse, so its a great tool to use to ask them to (simply) illustrate a concept like a vocabulary term or create an analogy between ideas.

One of the best ways to demonstrate understanding is to represent information in a novel context or through an analogy. I find that Padlet is a low-stakes, engaging tool for this kind of practice which can otherwise feel rote. Posting their work on a shared wall allowed them to see others’ working in real time and to comment on the strengths of others’ work. In addition to using the Canvas layout used above, Padlet allows students to collaborate on annotated maps or organize research via timelines.Īfter a mini-lesson on sentence variety, students worked in pairs to revise a sentence to add variety. This research used Padlet’s “Canvas” layout, which allows students to draw arrows to connect ideas. For this activity, I asked students to look into the allusions underlying Peter Pan’s names, and to support their inferences with quotations from the text illustrating these traits. This activity used Padlet’s classic “Grid” layout.Ĭrowdsourcing information is a powerful capacity of our digital world, and one that lends itself to asynchronous learning activities. As a group, we looked for themes that emerged from the student-generated choices the final statements and quotations provided the framework for our final discussion for the unit. Students generated a question or quotation for the class to respond to. This activity supplemented the close of a unit that brought Transcendentalist thinkers into conversation with Jon Krakauer’s text, Into the Wild. Here, I’ll dig into the simplest of these, Padlet, to share five ways to use an online whiteboard in your classroom immediately.Īsking students to share a question or a quotation can act as a check for understanding and build into further activities for the class. In my last post, I shared five simple web tools that you can readily implement in your digital classroom.

#PADLET IN THE CLASSROOM FREE#

Overall, I think Padlet is an excellent digital tool to use the classroom for almost any age group.įeel free to check out my other blog posts and follow my educational twitter cooper_jenna1.Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. The lesson plan uses Padlet and Wordle (another digital tool). I found this lesson plan intended for grades 2-5 about ‘Respecting Others and Ourselves’. Since I am looking to teach at the Elementary level, I focused it on that age-range.

While doing research about using Padlet in the classroom, I also wanted to find lesson plans for it being used. This is great for students who do not have the best handwriting and for improving the students’ digital literacy. Students can make graphic organizers such as Venn Diagrams that compare and contrast two things. Students would be able to see their classmates ideas and also come up with their own. Brainstorming and Sharing Ideasīoth students and teachers can brainstorm ideas and put into Padlet. By using Padlet, teachers or students can add photographs to the timeline to make it more stimulating/ visually appealing. Teachers and students can create summaries and/ or timelines for topics or books read. While all ten of these are great classroom uses for Padlet, the three that I found most helpful are: 1.