Parlay is an Artificial Intelligence-powered app that helps teachers in the facilitation of classroom discussion. As an edtech, teachers get unprecedented levels of control over the classroom discussion, such as the choice of anonymity and availability of AI-generated peer feedback questions with a mouse click.
Teachers may find Parlay useful to elicit meaningful responses from students, who are otherwise too shy to speak in a classroom setting.
Teachers can use Parlay to uncover perspectives that are unconventional, especially when navigating through difficult conversations in CCE and Humanities-based subjects.
Depending on students' readiness and learning needs, teachers may make use of the anonymising function to help students
Teachers can help students craft feedback to their peers using the pre-prepared prompts.
Teachers can see, at a glance, meaningful data of the students' responses. Examples of data would include word count, chord diagram of student interactions, and response rate.
Teachers can choose between written Roundtables or verbal Roundtables as a blended learning tool.
Teachers can adjust lesson during enactment on decisions such as anonymity with a click.
Students can learn how to write feedback or reply to a classmate's comment respectfully, thereby inculcating cyber literacy skills to students implicitly.
Integration with Learning Management Systems such as Google Classroom
Embeddable on Student Learning Space (SLS)
Free version allows for 12 Roundtables (functions similarly to Padlet/Mentimeter's limits)
Anonymising function turned on (i.e. Students' names are masked as names of historical figures)
Anonymising function turned off (i.e. Students' names are revealed)
Feedback Prompts
In her English Language lesson with Sec 3F, Mdm Zubaidah used a Roundtable in Parlay to elicit responses to the question "What constitutes racism in Singapore?" She used the anonymising function to allow students to express themselves more freely. As an assessment for learning, Mdm Zubaidah can view, from her account, which student is behind the generated pseudonym.
Using the generated feedback prompts, students then provide their feedback on other students' work. Mdm Zubaidah could check on her class' progress through the Summary page of the Roundtable.