Padlet

I have always made considerable use of Post-It notes within my lessons to allow students to gather and organise ideas, thoughts and questions.   Padlet brings a little bit of technology into this long used approach to teaching.    Through Padlet you can create a virtual Post-It board.   Once created you can then share a link with others to then allow them to add to, organise and edit posts as required.

Consider an open ended question leading into a new topic area or a new area for discussion within an existing topic area.   We could create a Padlet board for this question and then share the link with students for them to add their ideas, thoughts and questions as homework ahead of the lesson.    Another approach could be to keep a board for ideas, thoughts and questions which students update during their lesson.   This board can then be used within the plenary to review learning and any areas where students are unclear or have questions.