Learning in the Lou

Plickers providing Amanda McKay with instant, actionable data Plickers is an awesome app.  Just ask Amanda McKay. It's the end of 4th hour and Amanda's physics students have been hard at work.  A poll question appears on the board.  Her students reach under their desks and grab personalized QR codes.  As they hold up their codes, Amanda scans the room.  In a flash, Amanda knows every student's response to the poll question. Three questions with Amanda McKay about Plickers: What is/are "Plickers"? "Paper Clickers.  The mini QR codes can be oriented in four ways to show four different choices for a multiple choice question.  As I scan the room for responses with my device, a real-time bar graph of results appears." How do you use Plickers? "I use them to collect quick bits of formative information to assess what students know or how comfortable they feel about a topic that we've covered.  They are secured to the ...

Most teachers are familiar with  Kahoot! , a multiple choice-based game system that awards points to students based on their speed and accuracy.  If you have been to an establishment where you can answer trivia questions that pop up on TV screens while you answer using a device at your table, you've basically played Kahoot!. Quizizz is a similar game system with some minor but significant differences.  Kahoot! and Quizzizz have pros and cons and each platform can help students and teachers learn.  This blog post will highlight the differences as they might play out in a classroom setting during a game-based learning experience. 1) Time limits (per question) Kahoot! - from 5 seconds to 2 minutes Quizizz - from 5 seconds to 5 minutes 2) Pacing Kahoot! - Students move as a group from question to question  after everyone has answered,  when time has expired, or  when the teacher advances the game to the next question. Quizizz...

Every student deserves useful, specific, timely feedback.  Formative assessments provide data that helps teachers differentiate instruction.  Personalized learning is the goal, but I just don't have enough time to sort through all that data. Can anyone help me??? *rumbling noises...like a jumbo jet or an earthquake* Look!  Up in the sky.  It's...SUPER QUIZ!!! Super Quiz is a Google Sheets add-on that does amazing things with student response data from Google Forms.  There are so many things!  Super Quiz: grades your student Google Form responses highlights correct answers by student compiles and sorts class averages on each question by teacher lists the students that got each question wrong allows the teacher to integrate specific feedback and supporting questions on individualized reports for each question creates printouts, emails, and google docs for each student with customized quiz analysis, including specific feedback an...