My socrative lesson went well and revealed some interesting preferences from my students. I confirmed that they all had a smart phone in their possession. I let them know they could either use their smart phone or a laptop (I'm fortunate to teach my Accounting class in a classroom which houses a laptop cart). Now, I have a small class of five students (this is a running start college credit Accounting class). Not one student wanted to use their smart phone--that really surprised me. I asked them what they would do if we didn't have laptops in the room and they said they'd ask for paper to record their answers. Again, this really surprised me. When I asked them why, they responded that their phones are too small to see and a few mentioned low battery available.
Using socrative was easy. My students didn't have any issues signing in and entering my class code. They felt the app was easy to use. I really enjoyed seeing the responses on my laptop as quickly as they were clicking their answers.
Nothing went wrong, but I would have liked to have a paper version of my questions so I could compare it to the questions that I saw were NOT being answered correctly. That would have made talking and reviewing those questions a lot easier. It was great to get instant feedback as to what the students understand and what the majority didn't answer correctly.
The students had fun more with me showing them my screen and viewing the results. I also tried a few quick questions, like... You liked the pep rally today/True or False...they laughed more at hearing the results and prompted a discussion about that event. My students actually explained to me that they prefer to do quizzes on paper because they like to see the question on paper and felt they needed to re-read the question too much on a computer. I found that very interesting and didn't expect them to prefer paper to using a computer.
I could improve upon this lesson by using it more for a quick check (instead of a quiz) on whether my students are understanding concepts or material being covered in class. It might be better to have a projector hooked up to my laptop and have the students use a special name (assigned by me for anonymity) because they really seemed to enjoy seeing the results and it might help to direct the review needed as a result of their answers.
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