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Interactive Learning & Quizzing

Interactive learning is a hands-on approach to help students become more engaged and retain more material. It has been said that interactive learning helps students strengthen problem solving and critical thinking skills; skills crucial to future academic and professional success. According to Stanford University School of Medicine, 'Interactive learning actively engages the students in wrestling with the material. It reinvigorates the classroom for both students and faculty. Lectures are changed into discussions, games, quizzes, and students and teachers become partners in the journey of knowledge acquisition.' (Stanford, 2016).

Quizzing is a commonly used technique to further learning in a classroom in an innovative way. It is one of the simplest knowledge retention techniques is to incorporate a quiz into your learning content. It helps you to keep track of your own progress and lets you see what you have learned and retained. Additionally quizzing has been said to foster a sense of healthy competition further motivating students to push themselves and learn from their peers.

Interactive learning techniques, including quizzing, do require extended teacher commitment and resources, including time. At low-income schools across India, teachers are overworked and underpaid; the battle student-teacher ratios of 100:1; they unfortunately don’t have the time or energy to develop and integrate such efforts. Enter, The GeeK Project!