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Welcome to Active Learning Ideas, a place for educators to collaborate on ways to engage students. Please contribute your ideas and become an active learner!

Teachers open the door, But you must enter by yourself.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.



Active Learning Techniques from Indiana University Bloomfield []Exit cards Entrance cards Write to Learns Turn and talk to your neighbor (also called "knee to knee" or "think pair share") Projects rather than assignments Reading and writing strategies concept mapping verbal quizzes/oral defenses using an interactive whiteboard lots of games! (SWAT, whiteboard, academic blackjack) Random cards Carousel notes and brainstorming Skits and role play The Great Energy Debate (from NEED) Clicker response systems Yes/No cards Jigsaw Stir the Class Traveling paragraphs/notes/diagrams