Still, this doesn’t mean that the time away from the brick and mortar classroom should have to prevent you from presenting vibrant, fully engaged classroom activities at a distance.
But with the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to hybrid and distance learning, physical playing cards are totally out of the question (at least for now). Whether you’re breaking students into groups, taking a quick brain break, assigning card-coded tasks, or pulling up unexpected question prompts - I’ve used playing cards in the classroom for all sorts of activities in my physical classroom. Flipping through a deck of playing cards are one of the easiest ways to randomize all sorts of items in the classroom.
