Plicker, a funny way of assessment

What?

Last Wednesday we learnt a tool which may be very useful in the classroom environment in which students are not allowed to use their mobiles or the access to the Internet is limited to teacher’s device only.

So what?

Nowadays maintaining students’ attention is challenging so more and more teachers/schools decide to introduce for learners a ban of using devices with the access to the Internet. Why? To limit distractors. However, there are numerous kinds of teaching and assessment that base on the Internet access. In this situation a teacher may use plicker to make the process digital while still keeping students away from the net.

Now what ?

I will use it for sure with my students. I hope they will like it, as a tool seems to be interesting and work with it may be both educational and entertaining.