The Thing about Thinglink!

A Picture is worth a Thousand Words: 

  As 21st century educators we are constantly on the look out for tools which can help transform our classrooms into a powerful and engaging educational experiences for our students.  Everyday new apps, websites and programs are being developed to market to the education market which can be very helpful for our classes, but at the same time can be very overwhelming.  However every once and a while something stands out like a beacon of light radiating above all the rest, and to me that new beacon is called Thinglink.  

What is Thinglink?

What better way to learn about Thinglink to see it for yourself.  Below is a tutorial of how to use Thinglink.  Click on the icons that you see throughout the image to learn more about what it is and how it works.  


The Power of Thinglink:

Info-graphic created by: Lenora Haranaka

The user friendly interface of Thinglink allows for countless opportunities for deeper learning experiences to occur in our 21st century classroom.  Giving our students the power to create fully immersive demonstrations of their understanding, helps foster those ideas of 21st century learners.  The more opportunities we allow our students to make meaningful contributions to the world, the better prepared they will be for the future that awaits them.  

Application:

This next week my students will be starting to work on a performance assessment which will task the students with an objective to decide what are the most significant events of WWII and why.  This performance based assessment not only challenges the students to demonstrate their understanding of the material related to WWII, but to also create an argument and to rank the events in order of significance.  This dives into the more critical thinking aspects of blooms taxonomy while at the same time providing opportunities for our students to have voice in choice as to what their argument is focused on and how they want to present their explanations.  Providing a resource like Thinglink would be a great way for students to demonstrate their understanding of the material and to build their argument.  Not only does Thinglink allow students to customize their task, but it provides a variety of techniques and tools that the students can utilize the way they wish to complete the task they are given.  Using resources like Thinglink is a perfect opportunity for us as educators to promote the development of these 21st century skills.  

Comments

  1. Rod CarnillApril 1, 2019 at 1:52 PM

    Embedding the ThingLink about ThingLink was clever. I like the connection to displaying skills while evidenceing knowledge definately 21st Century...learner, communicator, designer, constructor. I think a future post should showcase some of those student samples.

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