Democratization of Class Discussion
What Are The Strategies That Can Motivate and Fully Engage The Entire Class?
Overview
Don’t rely on a handful of vocal students, bring all your students into the conversation with mobile devices. Using Google Forms, Padlet or Socrative, you can empower your students to express their opinions and share their knowledge. When you couple these tools with a projector, your students receive recognition and are accountable to their classmates for their responses.
Why?
- To draw all students into face to face class discussions
- Discussion starterBeginning of class or day before
- Type of questions: engaging, relevant, thought-provoking, opinion
- Pre-test
- Show what you know?
- Use multiple choice, list, or checklist to generate graphs & tables for viewing data
- Discussion starter
- Brainstorm and share ideas
- Collect feedback or brief summaries of learning
- Teacher paced
- Ongoing feedback and discussion prompts
- Type of questions: engaging, relevant, thought-provoking, opinion
- Check for understanding
- Show what do you know?
Other Options:
- InfuseLearning Open Ended Text
- Kahoot - Surveys, Discussions Starters (not open-ended text)
