Communication

Communication that demonstrates passion and understanding of the IB mission with an emphasis on international-mindedness and the learner profile.

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📽 Video 📜 Worksheet 🤔 Activity/ Thinking Routine 🔗 Website / Link

Give and receive meaningful feedback

25 examples of how to get whole class feedback 🔗📜🤔

IB: Oral presentation peer feedback 🔗📜🤔

IB: Give and receive appropriate feedback 🔗📜🤔

Teach students to TAG (Tell them something you like, Ask them a question, Give them a suggestion) 🔗📜🤔

Strategies presentation 🔗📜🤔

TED Ed: How miscommunication happens 📽🔗📜🤔

Reinventing the Feedback Sandwich 🔗📜🤔

Use intercultural understanding to interpret communication

Excited Educator: International Mindedness 🔗

YouTube: What kind of Asian are you? 📽

YouTube: Weird or just different? 📽

Common Lit 🔗🤔

Global Oneness Project 🔗📜🤔📽

Use a variety of speaking techniques to communicate with a variety of audiences

Public Speaking Techniques To Wow Your Audience 🔗

IB: Oral and non-verbal presentations 🔗

Improving Speaking Skills with Poetry Podcasting 🔗

TED ED Club 📽🔗📜🤔

Academic Phrasebank 🔗🤔

How to Speak with Confidence: Crash Course Video 📽

Use appropriate forms of writing for different purposes and audiences

Owl Purdue - Different Purposes 🔗📜🤔

Harnessing the Political Power of Words 🔗

RAFTS - Writing strategy for different perspectives 🔗📜🤔

Academic Phrasebank 🔗🤔

Use a variety of media to communicate with a range of audiences

Have students use multiple tools together, for example creating an EMaze presentation, which contains photographs they have manipulated and a video they have created 🔗📜🤔

Is this share worthy? Flowchart/Poster and Activity (Newseum) 🔗📜🤔

TED ED Club 📽🔗📜🤔

Social Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #10 📽

Interpret and use effectively modes of non-verbal communication

Visible Thinking Routines - Colour, Symbol, Image Routine "A routine for distilling the essence of ideas non-verbally" 🔗📜🤔

Artful Thinking PZ Routines! 🔗📜🤔

Access to high quality primary sources (art, artefacts, etc) to analyse from Google Art and Culture 🔗

Negotiate ideas and knowledge with peers and teachers

Visible Thinking Routine - Think Pair Share 🔗📜🤔

What Would You Do? Media Ethics Scenarios (Activity) 🔗🤔

Participate in, and contribute to, digital social media networks

TED Ed Lesson: Networking for the networking averse 📽🔗📜🤔

Spreadsheet of Digital Citizenship Resources 🔗📜🤔

Is this share worthy? Flowchart/Poster and Activity (Newseum) 🔗🤔📜

Social Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #10 📽

Collaborate with peers and experts using a variety of digital environments and media

Connect with other classrooms anywhere in the world through Google Hangouts and Skype. Contact teachers you know working abroad or connect with people through "Connected Classrooms" 🔗�

Is this share worthy? Flowchart/Poster and Activity (Newseum) 🔗📜🤔

Social Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #10 📽

Share ideas with multiple audiences using a variety of digital environments and media

How to Podcast 🔗

How to Speak with Confidence: Crash Course Video 📽

The Secret to Business Writing: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #3 📽

Read critically and for comprehension

Chunking - An important skill for students to practice is the ability to comprehend challenging texts. 🔗📜🤔

Cooking Up Clickbait - Activity (Newseum) 🔗📜🤔

Read a variety of sources for information and for pleasure

YouTube Video - The Benefits of Reading 📽

Have students sign up to Goodreads. Here they can log what they read, write reviews, take quizzes and more 🔗

YouTube Video - CrashCourse - How and Why We Read 📽

Make inferences and draw conclusions

TED Ed Lesson: Rethinking thinking 📽🔗📜🤔

Use the lesson "DICE Descriptions, inference, connections and evaluations" 🔗📜🤔

Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific terms and symbols

Visible Thinking Routine - See, Think, Wonder! 'Describing, interpreting and wondering' 🔗📜🤔

Write for different purposes

Owl Purdue - Purpose - Authors and audiences both have a wide range of purposes for communicating. The importance of purpose in rhetorical situations cannot be overstated 🔗📜🤔

Academic Phrasebank 🔗

RAFTS - Writing strategy for different perspectives 🔗📜🤔

The Secret to Business Writing: Crash Course Business 📽

Understand and use mathematical notation

The best stats you've ever seen - Hans Rosling 📽🔗📜🤔

TED Ed: Where do math symbols come from? 📽🔗📜🤔

How to visualize one part per million 📽🔗📜🤔

Paraphrase accurately and concisely

Owl Purdue: Online Lab: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing 🔗📜🤔

Visible Thinking Routines - Headlines 🔗📜🤔

Have students create note cards in Noodletools 🔗

Use Facing History's lesson 'Annotating and Paraphrasing Sources' (particularly good for historical documents) 🔗📜🤔

BrainPop Video and Quiz: Paraphrasing 🔗📜🤔📽

Preview and skim texts to build understanding

iTunes App: ReadQuick - Speed Reader "ReadQuick helps you read faster than ever before." 🔗

IB: Skim reading activities 🔗📜🤔

Take effective notes in class

Use this tool to generate worksheets for Cornell Note Taking 🔗📜🤔

How to get started with Sketchnotes 🔗📜🤔

Visual Note Taking! 🔗📜🤔

IB: Active Listening and Note Taking 🔗📜🤔

Taking Effective Notes Video (CrashCourse - Study Skills) 📽

Note taking tips when watching a video 📽🔗

Make effective summary notes for studying

How to Summarise 📽

Cornell Note Taking — The Best Way To Take Notes Explained 🔗

Create lotus diagrams 📜🔗

The Top 3 Most Effective Ways to Take Notes While Reading 🔗📜

Use a variety of organizers for academic writing tasks

Sync notes across devices with simplenote 🔗

The 11 Best Note-Taking Apps in 2021 – Evernote, Notion, and More 🔗

Cornell Note Taking — The Best Way To Take Notes Explained 🔗🤔

Create lotus charts 📜🔗🤔

Find information for disciplinary and interdisciplinary inquiries, using a variety of media, organize and depict information logically

Brain Pop Video and quiz on Concept Mapping 🤔🔗

Have students create a flowchart using PiktoChart (or similar) 🔗🤔

Structure information in a flow chart using Lucidcharts 🔗📜

Organizing Your Paper 🔗

Organizing Academic Research Papers: Academic Writing Style 🔗

Structure information in summaries, essays and reports

How to structure paragraphs using the PEEL method 🔗📜

How to structure an essay: Templates and tips 🔗📜

How to Write an Essay: 4 Minute Step-by-Step Guide | Scribbr 🔗📽

Organizing Academic Research Papers: Academic Writing Style 🔗

Organizing Your Paper 🔗

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