PLICKERS: Real Time Augmented Student Lesson Feedback
Plickers, http://www.grabandteach.co.uk/plicker..., is a new classroom polling system. All you need to get started is paper and a single smartphone. With Plickers each student gets a card which is assigned to them, I then ask them at various points in the lesson for students to identify their level of learning, A is High ranging through B and C down to D, where, "my learning is Low". The student turns the card to the appropriate position and holds it up. Then using my mobile device with the App, I enable the camera and scan the room. In 20 seconds or less this amazing app reads each of the cards, identifies the answer the students has selected and returns an overall graph of the results. Furthermore it privately links the answer back to each individual student for me to view. Other students cannot identity other responses but I can via the App.