What Is Wakelet and How to Use It in Your Teaching?

Wakelet is a digital organization tool that allows you to save, organize, and share digital resources. Wakelet’s collaborative features make it a tool with huge learning potential for teachers and students. Easily create groups with fellow teachers or with students and start creating transformative learning experiences.

How to create a group in Wakelet?

Wakelet’s strength lies in combos. These are subject-focused spaces where you save and organize curated content. You can create groups on any topic you want. Here’s how to do it: Log in to your Wakelet account and click Create group. Type a title, description, and add a cover photo. Next, click on the “+” icon to start adding items to your collection. You can add various forms of digital content including:

Wakelet Layouts

Wakelet offers different types of layouts to help you organize your groups. These include:

Waklet molds

How do you invite collaborators?

Collaboration is one of the best features I love about Wakelet. You can easily invite others (for example, your fellow teachers or students) to join your group and start adding items. The process is simple and easy: open one of your groups, tap Share and select Invite Collaborators. You can invite people using a code, QR code, link, email, or Wakelet handle. Collaborators do not need a Wakelet account to join a group.

How to use Wakelet in class?

Here are some suggestions for ways to use Wakelet in your education:

1 – Create digital newsletters for your classroom

Students can create digital portfolios to record their ongoing learning. Digital portfolios are a great way for students to express their opinions and track learning progress over a long period of time. As students become aware of how their learning is progressing, they are more likely to take ownership of their learning and develop essential lifelong learning skills.

2 – Formative calendar

3- Communication between teacher and parents

A great way to establish communication with and engage parents in both in- and out-of-class learning is by sharing their children’s work and achievements with them, for example, you can share and empower students’ portfolio groups or class groups. To track their children’s academic performance.

4 – Inverted learning

Another practical way to use Wakelet is the heart of student learning. Instead of learning in class, students learn at home using the curated groups and resources you’ve shared with them and when they come to class they engage in activities, discussions, and practice what they’ve learned at home.

5- Digital literacy and digital citizenship

6 – digital storytelling

Students can create groups to retell stories using the resources they create or organize from the web. The media layout is ideal for this activity. Its linear view is easy to navigate providing students with a digital space where they arrange their events in sequential or chronological order.

7- Professional Development