SOCRATIVE

Socrative is an online tool that allows educators to create their own assessments (selected response and written response questions) for students to take using computers, tablets, or smart phones. Found at https://b.socrative.com the website makes it easy for teacher to sign themselves and their students up, create, save, edit, and share their quizes, as well as administer the tests and review answers immediately after the test as been taken. Data is visualized automatically by Socrative, making it easy to read and review individual and class results.


2. Pedagogical uses: Using real time questioning, teachers can instantly aggregate the data and put it on display for review.  It can be used before, during, or after learning and provides teachers the opportunity to formatively assess their students before moving on to other content. Information can be used as a springboard to guide class discussion, address questions and concerns, and guide conferences.

3. Here is a screenshot of my dashboard. This is really user friendly!

4. Socrative is found at https://b.socrative.com  If you can get online, you can access Socrative. Apps are also availabe for teachers and students. I found them both on Google Play under searchword: Socrative.

5. The cost is free!

6. Why would a teacher want to learn about Socrative? Unless one has something against free, user-friendly, and powerful formative assessment tools, any teacher could benefit from using Socrative in her/his classroom. Within minutes of finding the site, I was able to create an account, add students to my class list, and create a quiz. Since you have the power to control what questions to ask, what answer choices to list, and the number of questions to assign, the format allows for flexiblity in both formative and summative assessment uses.

7. All information I've gain about this amazing tool can be found at https://b.socrative.com

ISTE Standards for Students

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Communication and collaboration a. b.     

Research and information fluency a. b. c.      

Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making a.

Digital citizenship a. b. c. d.      

Technology operations and concepts a. b. c. d.      

ISTE Standards for Teachers

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Facilitate and Inspire student learning and creativity a. b. c.      

Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments a. b. c. d.      

Model digital age work and learning a. b. c. d.    

Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility a. b.      

Engage in professional growth and leadership a.      

Resources:

Information on Socrative: https://b.socrative.com

ISTE standards for Teachers http://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards/standards-for-teachers

ISTE Standards for Students http://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards/standards-for-students

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Below is a lesson plan I created that incorporates the quiz I created from Socrative.

Finding Your Place: Use Maps to Locate

Purpose:              Students will use their knowledge of primary and intermediate directions.

                                Students will learn their place in their community

Materials/Resources

                                Construction paper

                                Markers

                                Different types of maps (world, country, state, city)

                                “Where in this City” worksheet

                                Globe

Vocabulary:        symbols

                                Key

                                Grid

                                Compass

                                Primary directions: north, south, east, west

                                Intermediate directions: northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast

Standards Used:

                                6.4.1.1   Explore the world in spatial terms

                                a) Locate and label the 4 cardinal (primary) and intermediate directions on a compass

                                c) Locate and use map keys and symbols

                                d) Create simple maps

                                6.4.1.2   Explore knowledge of places and regions

                                b) Locate and label: city, state, country, and continent

Teaching Procedures/Activities:

1)      Coordinates review.  Hand out “Where in this City” sheet to students and review coordinates. Have students complete the page.

2)      Pass out the construction paper and markers. Tell students that we are going to be making a map of the classrrom.

3)      Introduce vocabulary (see vocabulary list above) to the class and explain how each part is used in a map, using the example maps to point to parts of maps as students respond.  Start with making a compass. As you model how it’s made and where it can go on a map, have students make their own compasses on their classroom maps.

4)      Go through each part of the map (key, scale, symbols, etc), describing the part’s job and guiding students as they insert these parts into their maps.  Symbols will need to be made to represent things in the classroom like student desks, teacher’s desk, computers, door, drinking fountain, and other other parts that the class believes is important enough to go on their maps.

5)      Direction Game: Choose one student to step out of the room. Pick an object in room (desk, wastepaper basket). Have student return to room. This student will be the “explorer.” Pick different students (one at a time) to “guide” the “explorer” around the room by giving such hints as “Take two steps southwest.” Students must give instructions as directions.

6)      Administer quiz to class from Socrative (https://b.socrative.com   Room:K2GOTHZN   Share Quiz (SOC #: 16761751) and review student answers to determine proficiency.

Questions on quiz:

7)      Allow students a few more minutes to work on their classroom maps before collecting them and explain how tomorrow we’re going to learn how maps use color to teach us more.