Ubiquitous Learning and Instructional Technologies MOOC’s Updates

Essential Peer Reviewed Update #7

Comment: How does the "logic" of assessment influence the logic of education?

In the new school, active learning plays an essential role, if learning process requires an active teaching, assessment process also needs to be taken placed actively. Teachers need to be facilitators and they need to achieve learning outcomes. The assessments are one resource for educators to design the best learning environment possible. With the help of technology, students are taught to find out observe themselves, they need to follow their own learning and assess their peers objectively. Because of those new trends in education, innovative assessment tools influence the logic of education.

Make an Update: Describe and evaluate an innovative assessment approach or technology.

As the Web Training Tools team, we will try to introduce you the Plickers tool, which is a very useful and fun web 2.0 application. With Plickers application, instead of boring and scary evaluation methods for children in classical methods, you can perform high-participation and entertaining evaluations that increase children's motivation. In addition, since all students participate in the evaluation, lesson interest decreases and we also include students who do not listen to the lesson. You can see which student gave the correct answer, which answer was wrong, and even the option of those who answered incorrectly, in 1 minute, as you evaluate the results instantly and give feedback. Plickers application can work on iOS and Android devices.

How Can We Use Plickers Web 2.0 Application in Education?

We can use the Plickers application to measure the readiness of students before the subject and to focus their attention on the lesson. Since it is fun and easy to use, you will not waste time.

The Plickers tool can be used to measure whether students have learned the subject after the course or unit. You can get feedback from all students because the application gives the right to answer all students.

You can easily perform it by using Plickers application in your activities such as in-school survey, competition, and selection.

How does Plickers Web 2.0 Application Work?

Using the Plickers web 2.0 tool is completely free and your students do not need any other tools (phone, tablet) other than the answer output you give. It is enough for you to enter the system, create an exam and add your students, and print out automatically generated answer sheets and give them to your students. When using the Plickers web 2.0 tool, reflect the question on the board and ask your students to pick up their answer sheets. By scanning the class with your Plickers mobile application, you save the answers of the whole class to the system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE3Sgw4fiQ4

https://get.plickers.com/

https://blogs.umass.edu/onlinetools/assessment-centered-tools/plickers/