The differences between formative and summative assessment - Infographic
Summative and formative assessment are two ways to evaluate a student’s learning. What kind of assessment strategy should you choose for your lesson...
BookWidgets Teacher Blog
How to relate BookWidgets to Bloom's taxonomy
If you’re a teacher, you probably know Bloom’s Taxonomy of learning objectives. It’s a key piece of many education systems around the world. In this...
9 Fun Classroom Activities to get your Students Moving
School can be boring. That’s a fact. And it’s often due to one thing: no activity. Students go to school, and sit on a school desk for about 6 hours....
Beware of the red rabbit - an interview with Ewan McIntosh
Education needs people who think differently. It needs people who aren’t afraid to tackle the problems. People who hold on to it and try to change...
Create Free-form Whiteboard Exercises
As handy as they are, sometimes, keyboards just aren’t enough to capture your student’s input in your digital exercises. Sometimes, you want them to...
How to Motivate Students to Enjoy Learning - part 3
It has been a while, but I’m back with a new post about the peculiar brain of the student. This blog post series will answer one of the most...
10 Tips to Ensure Proper Use of Smartphones in the Classroom
Mobile phones have been a teacher’s primary concern since they became highly rated mainstream gadgets a few decades ago. Back then, they were small...
How and when to use Exit Slips
In almost all education, one lesson builds on top of the other. Knowledge acquired yesterday, forms the foundation of knowledge that will be built up...
What is Mastery learning? A different approach to learning
A lot of students are struggling with math, science, language learning, and so on. Once they can’t master an exercise or solve a math problem, they...
