15. USING TECH: SOCRATIVE (Feedback, Discussion)
Description: Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class’ current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.
Application: Use Socrative to build various types of assessments and see results in real-time.
Process: Go to www.socrative.com and register for free. Explore the website, accessing the user guide (http://www.socrative.com/materials/SocrativeUserGuide.pdf) for a complete list of website capabilities. Note the particularly interesting features that Socrative provides such as randomization of answer choices to prevent cheating and a student-paced vs. teacher-paced option for timed activities to help students prepare for the timed element of the ACT/SAT.
Description: Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class’ current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.
Application: Use Socrative to build various types of assessments and see results in real-time.
Process: Go to www.socrative.com and register for free. Explore the website, accessing the user guide (http://www.socrative.com/materials/SocrativeUserGuide.pdf) for a complete list of website capabilities. Note the particularly interesting features that Socrative provides such as randomization of answer choices to prevent cheating and a student-paced vs. teacher-paced option for timed activities to help students prepare for the timed element of the ACT/SAT.
Reference and/or for more information:
15. Using Tech: Socrative
http://www.socrative.com
15. Using Tech: Socrative
http://www.socrative.com