Portfolio: Socrative

What?

Socrative is an online tool used for activities, quizzes, games, and data gathering. In my Universally Designed unit plan I designed a lesson that asked the students to use the concepts taught in Buddhism is real life situation. Socrative allowed me to take a PowerPoint and make it into a teacher directed quiz/activity. Students could use a computer, laptop, tablet, or cell phone to complete the activity. Once the activity is over, Socrative stores all of the responses so I can view, grade, and assess later. See the ScreenShots from my quiz below!

So What?

5b: Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.

7b: Use technology to design and implement a variety of formative and summative assessments that accommodate learner needs, provide timely feedback to students and inform instruction.

Socrative is a simple, but dynamic tool that allows educators to present material to students both in the classroom and at home. It links the class to technology and makes everything from activities, quick checks for understanding, and assessment easier for students and teachers. It is also flexibility in that students can use almost any device to use/access Socrative. This allows individuals the ability to be self-advocates and use their own tech accommodations to facilitate the activity. This particular activity allows students to consider the content in a deeper, more meaningful way that means something to them.

Now What?

In the future I plan to use Socrative in many ways. I have already used it as a means to facilitate activities and discussion. I'd like to start using it for more in-class polling, to improve discussion. I would also like to use it more for exit tickets as a means to collect more useful assessment data. Socrative uses the data to create reports that I can use to determine future instruction. Personally, I see Socrative as a tool to make daily instruction easier, not necessarily something to build a large assessment/project around.