For education professor Linnea Lyding, the reason to use Jamboard is simple: “It was very exciting to see and hear the engagement as I flipped through the boards, went into the breakout rooms, and walked around my classroom. The students were actively processing the information.” The popular collaborative digital whiteboard helped Lyding make her hybrid classroom “as interactive as my in-person class,” and she adapted six teaching strategies for use with the tool.
🗺️ Concept maps: To help students structure and make meaning of what they’re learning, Lyding puts them into breakout rooms and has them create a diagram to map out what they know. “The cool thing is that virtual and in-person students can work together on the same board at the same time,” says Lyding, and she can hop in and out of the breakout rooms to listen in on conversations.
When students finish, they present their work to the whole class, which gives Lyding a chance to give feedback. “I was able to expand on what th...
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