How to Make Memorization Fun!

An Educational Ditty to Remember the Hard Stuff

Bringing music into the classroom is always a fun way to engage with the students. Ditty is an app that allows you to do just that. It takes

songs students love and changes the words to match a second video. It was designed to be a fun app to play with, but you can use it to incorporate technology into the classroom. Like other fun sayings to remember theories and dates, it needs to be memorable.

Teachers can create videos themselves to use in the classroom or use it as an assignment for students to develop a video to learn about a specific topic. Check it out here. 

Is this just for math?

Ditty is perfect in any subject. The focus could be on learning formulas in math, dates in history, rules of grammar in language arts or theories in science. No matter what subject you teach, you can use the app to add some fun and humor to the lesson. It’s a fun way to learn a key phase in a foreign language, genres of art, memorizing musical notes, or vocabulary needed while doing a science experiment.

It’s another way to engage with students and get them discussing the topic of why the video works or throwing out opinions on other songs you can use. 

A tour of DITTY

Lynda Moore demonstrates how she incorporates Ditty into her math classroom in the “All Things Google” class for teachers. As a math teacher herself, she breaks down how she uses Ditty and other tools to keep her classroom interactive and engaging.

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