Student Engagement: Mobile Devices
AnswerGarden
Description: A website that gives you access to a minimal tool of maximum feedback in the classroom.
Value: This gives the students a way to brainstorm in the classroom by giving feedback through this website.
TodaysMeet
Description: This website is a teacher's tool to use have more and better access in the classroom. However, the teacher's tools cost money. This is a backchannel chat for students.
Value: This website gives everyone a voice. Students get to ask questions during class on the chats instead of talking out loud. This allows everyone to get the help they need.
Plickers
Description: Plickers is a way that teachers can do assessments in class without having too use any devices like clickers. This gives the teachers immediate feedback to see if they are mastering the skills in class.
- Value: This is an easy website to have the students engage in learning in the classroom. Other students will not see the answers of another student so they will not be self-conscious about their answers.
Quizizz
Description: Teachers are able to make quizzes for the class! The quizzes make learning fun in the classroom.
Value: Immediate feedback if your answer is right or wrong. The quizzes give a competitive aspect to the class which can make the classroom more interactive and fun!
Flippity
Description: This is a free website to use in the classroom to make very many different online tools.
Value: This is great website to make spreadsheets, games and charts to make all in one space. It gives a more interactive aspect to class that can make learning enjoyable for the students! Great tool for teachers to use!
QR Generator
Description: This is a website to scan a QR two-dimensional bar code. You can also encode and generate the bar codes on this website!
Value: Students will have easy access to the bar codes that the teachers make. These can be used as a part of an activity in the classroom!
Aurasma
Description: This app is the leading augmented reality platform. It allows people to interact with the world in a new way. It is an enhanced version of the world that can be used.
Value: This app allows the class to work with augmented reality and see the world in a different way! This allows the students to interact with the material and have fun in the process
Google Expedition
Description: This website allows people to explore the world without having to go anywhere! This allows you to bring a lesson to life with virtual reality.
Value: Students do not even need to leave the school to have a field trip. They can just have a virtually field trip in the comfort to the classroom! Teachers can set a class up on here and have the students follow along in the virtual reality!
