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Revolutionise Your Classroom: Unleashing the Power of Technology in Teaching and Learning

The SHOWBIE app is a versatile workflow management tool that significantly enhances independent learning for students with SEND. When integrated into your curriculum, SHOWBIE can foster greater student autonomy both inside and outside the classroom. Many schools have reported a notable increase in student engagement and participation. Below are some features that specifically support our students with SEND:

Þ Metacognition: live modelling on the PowerPoints directly saved to students work: no need for students to copy notes from the board. Increasing more time for explicit instruction and student practice. With a huge reduction in cognitive overload. Þ Recording the modelling aspect of the lesson live and saving it to students areas. Hattie’s effective size for “Micro - teaching video review of lesson” is 0.88 which means it has a strong influence on “what works best in education”. Þ Scaffolding resources can be easily shared at the touch of a button and shared to multiple students. Helping to foster independence to allow students to access the same resources and have high expectations of all. Freeing up the teacher to circulate and support the students individually. Þ Planning for autonomy: Full access to lesson materials, a range of scaffolding resources, access to prior lessons and teacher modelling videos. This can give students opportunities to use resources and tools which learners themselves identify as necessary. Encouraging far more autonomy. Þ Teacher capacity is greatly increased within the lesson: more time can be spent on targeted intervention in class, adaptive teaching and personalised learning where needed. Þ Assessment using Socrative: quicker quizzing, shared detailed results, better tracking of students results, give better feedback. Þ Showbie’s voice recording feature has also dramatically increased the independence of visually and literacy - impaired students. Giving real time feedback in a manner students can access. Þ Creating short videos of a practical task , to be uploaded onto the SHOWBIE lesson page. To allow students to access the explanation and demo whilst in their seats and at home. Þ Full integration of other applications such as YouTube clips to aid explanations.