Last week I led a workshop for a bunch of particular schooling lecturers, paraprofessionals, and consultants. One of the weather of the workshop was about creating and conducting enjoyable formative assessments. To that finish, I launched the group to Plickers. It was a success!
Plickers has been round for nearly a decade. It’s nonetheless an incredible software due to its simplicity mixed with its effectiveness. The means that it really works is college students maintain up QR codes (I’ve mine laminated) to answer your prompts. You use your iOS or Android gadget to scan the scholars’ playing cards and see their solutions in your display. This methodology permits you to have all college students reply to your questions with out their classmates understanding their solutions as a result of all they see are their classmates holding playing cards that look almost an identical. Watch my new video that’s embedded under to see an indication of how Plickers works.
Video – How to Start Using Plickers in Your Classroom.
There have been a few issues that I did not embody within the video above. First, when scanning an entire class you will note little dots seem in your display to point that you’ve got scanned a card. Second, in your on-line Plickers account you’ll be able to view your entire college students’ responses to all the questions you’ve got requested that day and on prior days.
Applications for Education
1. Quickly taking the heart beat of the category. Ask your college students, “do you get this?” (or an identical query) and have them maintain up their playing cards to point sure or no. You can do that with a saved class or a demo class within the app.
2. Hosting a evaluate recreation. Create a collection of questions in your saved Plickers class. To conduct the evaluate have college students maintain up their playing cards to answer every query. Every pupil will get to reply on the identical time and also you get to see how every pupil responded. This is a bonus over many evaluate video games through which solely the primary pupil to reply has his or her voice heard.
3. Take attendance. In a saved Plickers class every pupil has a card assigned to her or him. At the beginning of sophistication simply have them maintain up their playing cards to check-in.