Student Response
System
A student response system is a way to
use technology to collect responses from your students. There are many
applications out there for doing this. Some of the best ones that the Module
reading suggested were Kahoot, Quiz Socket, Infuse Learning,
Verso, Socrative, Poll Everywhere, and Mentimeter. These applications
offer a variety of ways to create polls, surveys, and quizzes that collect the
responses of your students.
Benefits
Our reading mentioned a handful of
benefits that come from using an SRS. This type of participation is especially
nice for students that tend to be more shy. This way they can participate
without having all attention on them. Using these applications
during class allows the students to stay engaged and have a part to play
in the classroom. An SRS is also nice because it gives the teacher a
brief look at how their students are doing with that material so they can see
what the students may still be struggling with. It is also beneficial for
the students because they are shown right away if they have gotten the material
correct or not. I think SRS's are a great tool to quickly get an idea of where
the class is at in terms of understanding the material being taught.
My Opinion
I believe that Student Response
System's are useful tools to utilize in the classroom. It is a good way to get
students involved and engaged with the material. It is very useful in that
it lets the teacher and student know right away where the student is at with
understanding the material. I have always enjoyed using these in my classes. It
helps me know how I am doing and to evaluate that. I have used Kahoot in one of
my classes before and I thought it was a very useful tool.
Kahoot
https://getkahoot.com
Kahoot is a interactive response
system that incorporates competition. It allows you to test the students on the
material while they race the clock to beat classmates (that part is optional)
It is a simple way to see if students are understanding the material through
the result options. A weakness to this tool is that on the quizzes
there isn't an option to hide standings of all the students. To cover this
up the teacher may tell the students to use random fake names. I enjoyed this tool and would use it in my future classroom because of the engaging competitive aspect.
Class Responder
http://www.classresponder.com
Class responder is a great
response system especially for younger students. It is fun and engaging
for the students with the school building theme. The tool allows you to create
your own activities. It gives you the options of multiple choice, true/false,
or short answer. You can then view the students results. A nice feature of this
tool is the quick poll. Here you can verbally ask a question or two to the
students and they can answer. This is nice because the teachers can quickly see
if they are understanding. I would say a weakness may be that it is mainly targeted to younger students. There are not that
many unique features to the tool that set it apart from the rest.
Formative
https://goformative.com
Formative adds a fun twist the
student response systems. It allows an answer to be drawn. This is a fun way to
switch things up from the traditional assessment. The teacher can go through and grade each one. One down side could be that you can't enter a correct drawing
that would automatically grade each one, you have to go in and do it manually. This
a fun way to test students' knowledge that steps out of the box and is
creative.
