I have to admit, when another technology specialist first told me about this app, I dismissed it as being too complicated to use and not as easy and streamlined as other apps. Boy was I wrong!
Plickers is a simple tool that lets teachers assess their students and gives them real-time feedback. The cool thing about this app is that the teacher is the only one that needs to have a device. Students are given Plicker cards that the kids described as looking like the Minecraft game. They think it’s a game. You have to love that!
Plickers makes registration and set-up of your class really easy to do. In no time at all, I had registered my e-mail, set up a class, and added questions to my bank or library of questions.
Last week, I used a group of second graders as my Plickers guinea pigs. I taught the students how to turn their Plicker cards so that they were showing me the correct answer and I began to scan. Using my iPad’s camera to scan the students’ answers was a little tricky at first but in no time I got the hang of it.
So this week, I co-taught a lesson with a third grade teacher. We decided to use Plickers as a way to review for their social studies test. The teacher and students loved getting immediate feedback on whether or not the students got the question correct. Knowing immediately what questions the student’s got wrong allowed for further discussion of the content.
If you are looking for an easy way to do formative assessments, Plickers is the way to go.
Plickers is a simple tool that lets teachers assess their students and gives them real-time feedback. The cool thing about this app is that the teacher is the only one that needs to have a device. Students are given Plicker cards that the kids described as looking like the Minecraft game. They think it’s a game. You have to love that!
Plickers makes registration and set-up of your class really easy to do. In no time at all, I had registered my e-mail, set up a class, and added questions to my bank or library of questions.
Last week, I used a group of second graders as my Plickers guinea pigs. I taught the students how to turn their Plicker cards so that they were showing me the correct answer and I began to scan. Using my iPad’s camera to scan the students’ answers was a little tricky at first but in no time I got the hang of it.
So this week, I co-taught a lesson with a third grade teacher. We decided to use Plickers as a way to review for their social studies test. The teacher and students loved getting immediate feedback on whether or not the students got the question correct. Knowing immediately what questions the student’s got wrong allowed for further discussion of the content.
If you are looking for an easy way to do formative assessments, Plickers is the way to go.