Create – Engage – Assess
Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that teachers create and customize themselves. And it’s free.
Create – Engage – Assess
Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that teachers create and customize themselves. And it’s free.
Plickers is a Student response system which only requires one electronic device.
Plickers is fun, easy to use, and best of all free (60p printing costs).
Plickers requires No Electronic Devices in students’ hands – no laptops, tablets, remotes, or smartphones.
Therefore, no batteries to lose or replace, no expensive equipment to buy, no Bring Your Own Device, and no one is left out.
How it works:
This serves as a great starter or plenary activity with students.
To get pluckers for your classroom, go to: https://www.plickers.com
Paper response sheets: https://www.plickers.com/PlickersCards_2up.pdf
For instructions on how to use (10 min video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwz7x0yySsY
CNN reports;
Lernstift (German for “learning pen”) is a digital pen with a difference, carrying not only ink inside its casing but also a tiny computer that alerts users to spelling errors. A pen which vibrates when it detects its user making a mistake is being tested in schools. The Lernstift does not require ink or special paper to work and uses an internal gyroscope to work out what is being written.
Check out how it works here
The AAA battery-powered Linux computer includes a vibration module and a patent pending non-optical motion sensor which recognizes specific movements and shapes of letters and words. Lernstift recognizes all writing movements, the company says, written on paper or in the air and built-in Wi-Fi allows scribblers to connect with smartphones, computers or other pens in a network.
A Kickstarter campaign recently got underway looking to raise £120,000 ($180,000). The first pens will initially recognize only English and German spellings, but other languages will follow, says its co founded Daniel Kaesmacher. Eventually, the company plan to offer pencil, fountain and ballpoint pen options with a launch price between €120-150 ($160-200) falling to under €50 ($60) depending on how fast the company grows.
March 5th report by BBC News education correspondent Sean Coughlan …
The exam revision season is approaching. It’s when students want as much information as possible at their fingertips.
So how about if you could touch a screen and download all the lesson materials you need?
Not just broadly relevant, generic materials, but the actual classes you’ve studied, video and text, put together specifically by your own teachers.
These are the equivalent of digital textbooks supporting lessons for each subject, including the days missed or forgotten. Continue reading