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Improve vocabulary skills with Vocabulary.com

Improve vocabulary skills with Vocabulary.com

From the course: Teacher Tech Tips

Improve vocabulary skills with Vocabulary.com

- [Voiceover] Welcome to Teacher Tech Tips. I'm Oliver Schinkten. This week, I want to introduce you to a website that will help you and your students to improve their vocabulary. In the digital age, we have access to a ton of information. And it's become less important to simply memorize things. If I want to know the eighth president for example, I could go on Google, type in eighth president, it's good old Martin Van Buren. So, the need to memorize things has really declined. Vocabulary on the other hand maybe more important than ever. It's critical that our students have the ability to use the correct terms and keywords when they're using these search engines or when determining whether a resource is credible, or when communicating with others. Now there's a website that I want to introduce that can help out with vocabulary and it's fun. Let's navigate to vocabulary.com. And on the vocabulary.com homepage, I can sign up for an account in the upper right. In this case, I already…

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