Get a jump start on Alexa, one of the newest technologies, and how it can be used in your classroom to reinforce content and fun!
Classroom Uses
There are many ways that Alexa can help you in the classroom even in addition to adding skills (which we’ll highlight in the next section).
- Get rid of all of your dice, cards, coins, and other probability tools as Alexa can take care of that for you. Just ask her to flip a coin, pick a card, roll a dice, or pick a random number between 1 and whatever top number you want.
- Use Alexa in your classroom to support literacy by having students ask her how to spell a specific word, suggest a synonym, or provide a definition.
- Social studies students can skip an internet search by asking Alexa simple geography and civics questions.
- Math students can use Alexa to check their work when they’ve finished an assignment, and science students will find Alexa is great at converting units of measurements.
- If it’s been a stressful day, you can ask Alexa to play a track like “Nature Sounds for Relaxation” and give your students the opportunity to unwind.
- To help your students keep up with current events, set up daily news briefings from the app.
- Etc. Etc. Etc.
