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Flipgrid as an Educational Tool

   Flipgrid is another app that can be used for remote teaching to make it more interactive. Main focus is to speak and to respond to a thread in class discussion. With this app, students record a video of themselves answering a question asked by teacher, they can use filters or emojis if they don't want to be seen, then they share their ideas about the topic.You can regulate your discussion in a way that will just permit students to enter your discussion and prevent others from entering. Recording a video for a dicsussion is not something that students usually do in education. That's why this app will provide interaction and make lessons more enjoyable. Here, I started a discussion about whether mobile phones should be banned at schools or not.


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