“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. “ ~Albert Einstein

Teach, assess, and play and make your classroom more engaging and interesting.

Hello everyone!!
 

In this blog, I am going to introduce some websites which are based on game-based learning. These websites will help both the teachers and students to enhance their understanding of different topics and concepts. All these websites are completely free to use and some websites have basic available features for free. I will try to add more details about the websites so that you can choose as per your requirement.
 

Kahoot: It is a “game-based learning platform where you can play games based on different topics. You can also create games aligning with your topic and concepts. This platform can be used for energizers before starting, during the class, or after the class. The best part is that they can be presented on a shared screen and answered by a group of “players” all at the same time through any video conferencing platform.

Platform Highlights:

• Multiple game templates
• Gamified quizzes
• Grades: From 5th to 12th
• Subject: Not specified
• Cost: Free
• Device support and accessibility: Any device with a browser window
• App available: IOS and android
• Internet requirement: Yes

Overview:

Quizizz: This is a gamified student engagement platform that offers multiple features to make a classroom fun, interactive and engaging. As a teacher, you can conduct formative assessments, assign homework, and have other interactions with your students (for all grades) in a captivating way.

Platform Highlights:

• Instructor-paced lessons
• Student paced lessons
• Access to millions of Quizzes
• (Quiz + Lesson) Editor: Choose from 5 different question types to add images, video, and audio to teleporting questions from other quizzes and lessons.
• Reports: Get detailed class-level and student-level insights for every quiz. Share with parents/guardians to monitor student progress.
• Options to Customise: Options to customize your quiz sessions to toggle the level of competition and speed.
• Sharing & Collaboration: Share your quiz with other instructors and/or ask them to be collaborators.
• Grades: From 1st to 12th
• Subject: All
• Cost: Free basic features
• Device support and accessibility: Any device with a browser window
• App available: IOS/mac and android
• Internet requirement: Yes

Overview:



 

Educandy is a website and an app that can help you rapidly create short, interactive learning activities. Users enter vocabulary lists or questions and answers and the website converts this information into fun interactive games such as multiple-choice, crossword puzzles, hangman, and other memory games, which can be played with the whole class, or individually. When the teacher creates an activity, a unique code is generated which can then be shared with students so that they can play the games on their own devices. Activities can also be embedded into websites.

Platform Highlights:

• Instructional Design, Game-Based Learning, Media Literacy, Creating Media
• Grades: From 1st to 6th
• Subject: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, English-Language Learning
• Cost: Free
• Device support and accessibility: Any device with a browser window
• App available: IOS/mac and android
• Internet requirement: Yes

Overview:


 

PurposeGames: Purpose games make it possible to create game strategies and apply them to other areas (such as the development of soft skills). The aim is to ensure active learning and to improve the evaluation of the person taking part, without them giving up or losing motivation. With tools for teachers, games on every school subject, badges, groups, and tournaments, PurposeGames offers a lot of free educational fun. Create your own games and quizzes too.

Platform Highlights:

• Grades: From 5th to 12th
• Subject: French School subjects
• Cost: Free
• Device support and accessibility: Any device with a browser window
• App available: No
• Internet requirement: Yes

Overview:



 

Educaplay is a free website that lets teachers create a wide variety of different educational interactive resources. Teachers can create different activities like Riddles, Crosswords, Fill in the blanks, Dialogues, Dictations, Interactive maps, Jumbled Word, Jumbled Sentence, Matching Games, Matching Columns Games, Matching Mosaic Games, Quizzes, Slide show, Video quizzes, Word search puzzle.

Platform Highlights:

• Create unlimited activities for free, Play existing games based on almost all subjects
• Grades: From 5th to 12th
• Subject: French School subjects
• Cost: Free
• Device support and accessibility: Any device with a browser window
• App available: No
• Internet requirement: Yes

Overview: 

“Challenges are what makes life interesting but overcoming them makes life meaningful” this quote beautifully justifies the significance; life skills play in developing an individual personality. What is a life skill? It’s just the basic skills that play a greater role in shaping the future and characteristics of a person. It can be anything, be it a good communication skill, better cognitive skills, or a set of emotional skills.

Considering today’s situation, the life skill which can change the way we see our future is that of the skills of good creativity. The essence of creativity lies in its freshness, its freedom, its newness.

For instance; a large section of society is now on social media. Every second person in a household uses social media, some use it to pass their time while some use it by making content. It’s a tough job to create content which majority of the audience likes, and the competition is way higher, if you’re not creative enough, you wouldn’t be able to make it to the top. Cracking the code of social media is not everyone’s cup of tea. You need to be extremely talented and skillful to survive till the end.  Social media is a skill that requires all other life skills, you need to be good at communication in order to interact with your audience, mentally strong to ignore the negativity, and emotionally strong to take up harsh criticism.

As Albert Einstein said; “Problems cannot be solved using the same thinking that created them.” Playing with imagination and possibilities leads to a solution to any problem. One can use creativity in generating multiple solutions to a problem.

The creative process in problem-solving:

1.) Preparation: Identifying problem and researching for related information

2.) Think out of the box: Going beyond your comfort zone

3.) Incubation: Generating ideas to find a solution

4.) Illumination: Using knowledge of practical ideas that can be put to work

5.) Ideation: Generating alternatives

6.) Verification: Determining whether the solution has the potential to work

7.) Critical thinking: Examining the liability of an idea

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, making mistakes, and having fun.

Creativity is possible in every area of human life you just name it. Being different is the key to success in any field. If you want to stand out from the group; if you need change; if you want to invent something you need to be creative. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same pattern.

Another quote by Albert Einstein I believe is very important to understand by seeing today’s education system; “Imagination is more important than knowledge, knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world.” It is important for a student to be creative as it allows them to explore and learn new things from each other and their surroundings. Creativity allows you to see a bigger picture of everything, helps you with problem-solving, allows you to express your opinions and emotions, it gives you a sense of purpose, boosts confidence, relieves stress, and many more benefits.

Creativity is not magic it’s just about approaching things from a different perspective.

सुपर एडवांस्ड टेक्नोलॉजी 

Technology ने हमारी दुनिया को बदल कर रख दिया है। लोगों की जीवनशैली को आसान बनाने के लिए प्रतिवर्ष नई-नई टेक्नोलॉजी आती रहती है। Technique एक ऐसा क्षेत्र है जहां हर वक्त नए-नए अविष्कार देखने को मिलते हैं। इस साल कैमरा तकनीक के साथ स्मार्टफोन की स्क्रीन में काफी बदलाव हुआ है। इसके अलावा इंटरनेट के क्षेत्र में भी काफी कुछ बदला है। बहुत जल्द 5G technology आने वाली है। Source: supportmeindia.com.

दुनिया के सबसे छोटे जीव 

शेर, चीता, भालू, हाथी जैसे कई बड़े जानवर तो सभी ने देखे हैं और इनके बारे में सुना है। लेकिन क्या ऐसे जानवर देखे हैं जिनकी लंबाई और ऊंचाई को इंच में मापा जा सकता है। यदि नहीं तो बता दें कि दुनिया में ऐसे जानवर भी हैं जो अपने वास्तविक आकार से बेहद छोटे हैं। Source: https://www.roshandaan.com/smallest-animal-in-the-world/.