__________________________________________________What is Duolingo? Duolingo is a free online tool to learn language. It teaches students through a series of mini-lessons and tracks their progress. Mini-lessons include skills across all 4 domains of language. Students can learn more than one language at a time! shows their weekly Experience Points (XP) and they get points for both completing new levels and strengthening old ones. How I use it in my classroom
Fridays: Students begin a drumroll and I project the teacher dashboard to announce the winner each week. We select the winner by the amount of XP points, because this totals how many minutes they spent practicing, including review. They are encouraged to play outside of class too! Extra Credit: Duolingo is the only way to earn extra credit in my class now. Students can play outside of class on their home computer or on their smartphone. For every 100 XP points earned, they receive 1 point of extra credit. They max out at 10 points a quarter. the winner’s name and their XP total. (Download here) My weekly winner also gets a prize, and I have included the prize board poster in the download as well. (Update: My students gave the feedback that they started losing interest when the same kids kept winning and thought the top 3 winners should get prizes, so that is what we do now.) Helpful Tools for Classroom Management
The best part about this app is that the Duolingo staff is so receptive and supportive of feedback. They have made some great updates within the past year alone that make it even easier to track your student's progress using their Dashboard feature. This tool has become a hugely effective and motivating force within my classroom!
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3/3/2018 02:37:58 pm
Love Duolingo and my students love it as one of their options for homework! One thing to be careful of with purely XP winnings - students can just repeat the same lesson over and over again, as I have found. I look at both the XP and the "Course progress" columns. Tons of XP and no course progress is suspicious!
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Super Señorita
3/3/2018 02:51:16 pm
Thanks Sra. Kennedy! Yes, I have had some students try this. When I catch the first student dong it, I will show the whole class how clever s/he was and then tell them that from this day forward, you can no longer be the weekly winner by just doing the same lesson all week. =)
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Angelica Jean-Pierre
3/7/2018 07:26:50 pm
This is a great share of ideas! I use Duolingo and give points using ClassDojo. Students earn points when I receive the Monday Monthly Report from Duolingo listning the students who logged in throughout the week, and the lessons they'd completed. Students earn points based on lessons. But, if they do lesson one (Basic) multiple times, they only get one point. It's a great resource. Thanks again!
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