“Five Ways to Promote Active Learning with Lumio” was written by Kris Astle, M.A. an Education Strategist for SMART Technologies, the creator of Lumio.
Astle argues that Lumio encourages active learning–the process of truly connecting with material, understanding it on a deeper level, and activating higher level thinking skills. Lumio is a tool that allows teachers to use their existing teaching material and embed more active learning strategies within it.
Astle notes that Lumio encourages reflection and conversation. The “Shout-It-Out” feature allows students to submit responses to a question and have them pop up on the screen like a padlet. Allowing students to stop, reflect, and discuss with their peers, deepens learning. Next, digital manipulatives like sorts, labeling, fraction tiles, coins, and so much more can be added to lessons. Additionally, PhET simulations can be embedded right into the slides, so students can explore concepts and work through misconceptions.
Astle emphasizes the importance of connecting concepts to real-world content in active learning. Embedding short YouTube videos, graphs, and visuals into lesson pages can help make content relevant. Next, using friendly competition and motivation through gamification has been proven to deepen learning (and provide formative assessment data!) Lumio includes various quiz style games to accomplish this goal. Finally, lessons can be concluded in various ways, but setting up a whole class workspace that allows students to leave reflections or questions that remain at the end of a lesson, can create an easy snapshot of student learning and lead to valuable discussion.
Astle, K. (2022, January 14). Five ways to promote active learning with Lumio. Technotes. Retrieved November 15, 2022 from https://blog.tcea.org/five-ways-promote-active-learning/
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