We are running into the 21st century where technology is taking over every niche and corner. If we keep on teaching our children the way we taught them yesterday, we would deprive them of their tomorrow. Digital interaction tools like interaction event apps and technology are the new answer to enhance students learning and creative skills.
Digitalization examples
Estonia is named ‘the most advanced digital society in the world’ by Wired, who has built an efficient, secure, and transparent e-ecosystem for its citizens. One of the examples of how digitalization took place in schools was the development of the “e-kool” (e-school) system, which is a platform that is now used in almost every school in Estonia. This platform connects students, teachers, and parents, which helps them to get access to grades and information easily. The more the era of digitalization grows, the more it is also integrated into our educational systems.
School students
Worksup app
Worksup interaction and event networking app and offers interactive tools like live polls, text tasks, and imaginative picture tasks. We believe that schools should use digital interaction tools for group work and home tasks. Researchers have stated that group projects can help students to develop a host of skills that are increasingly important in the later professional world (Caruso & Woolley, 2008; Mannix & Neale, 2005). If students are learning to collaborate together, they will be most certainly more ready for the upcoming employment years.
Attention
First of all, for an engagement, you could use both informative and fun tasks. If you use the same old methods and tools before the Internet was born, you might lose your student’s attention.
“Students do not pay attention continuously for 10-20 minutes during a lecture. Instead, their attention alternates between being engaged and unengaged in ever-shortening cycles throughout the lecture segment.” (Bunce, D.M., Flens, E.A., and Neiles, K.Y. 2010).
User Experience
Thus, supporting this research and results from the interaction app Worksup, teachers could use imaginative teaching and management strategies to enhance the development of their students’ adaptable attention processes for their interactive events.
Koidula Gymnasium comments: “We used Worksup interaction and event networking app for a school conference and it really gave our student event a new and professional look. With Worksup students could easily see the conference agenda and (anonymously) ask questions they maybe would not dare in front of everyone. Also, they had an easy and quick way to give feedback and much more.”
Student event in Estonia, Pärnu Koidula Gymnasium
Interactive attention tasks
For example, if your wish is to get secondary school students attending, you should think about the ways how to communicate with children whose attention is probably not the same level as it could be with grown-ups. Thus, how you could do this effectively? Here are a few examples of how you could use Worksup interaction tools to enhance the experience.
Live polls
Before you start your class, ask them something fun and try to get them comfortable with their new learning tools.
1. Give your opinion on how this subject makes you feel?
2. I want to persuade my career in this field
3. I want to escape on a small island
4. I want more information about this
5. I think we could do more practical work
6. Choose your own
Text tasks
Say one positive thing about this subject?
Later you could show one big and beautiful word cloud which describes how the majority of the class feels about the subject.
Picture tasks
Take into groups and make a fun group picture using only your eyes (cover the rest of your face with a textbook or smth fun).
Now, how you can use interactive tools to enhance better understanding of the subjects you are teaching. Another tip would be that don’t overuse it, ask questions that are relevant to the subject.
Live Polls
In what areas we need artificial intelligence the most?
1. Healthcare
2. Agriculture
3. Business processes
4. Education
5. Name yourself
Text Tasks
How we can apply AI in our day-to-day lives? Describe in your own words.
Picture task
Gather a group and draw a picture of the future AI technology in schools and share this through the Worksup interaction app.
Conclusion
In conclusion, we can say that eventually there is no right or wrong answer. Still, if we look at the facts and how technology is evolving into our lives, it would be falling behind, if we would not use it for our benefits technology and educations could start early stages of our lives, and most of all – learning should be fun and interactive! Technology and event interaction apps like Worksup could be the solution for teachers’ and students’ educational needs. Worksup is free for Educational Institutions, thus, do not hesitate to ask us more ideas and question how you could use it in your school.
Word Cloud task on Worksup
