Student response systems are a great way for students to get
real-time results for their problems and for teacher to easily assess and keep
students involved. The answers can be shared with the class but the students’
answers are kept anonymous to everyone except the teacher. Since feedback is
immediate, students do not have to wait for things to be graded and issues can
be addressed immediately. Students have shown a positive reaction to these devices
and respond well to them.
Three free apps that can be used for this is
Plickers, Ping Pong, and Socrative. Plickers is great for a low technology
classroom, because it only requires the teacher to have access to a smartphone
or tablet. The students are each assigned papers with codes on them. those
codes are numbered and have a-d on each side. The teacher asks a question and
the students hold up their answer with the letter they want on top. The teacher
then scans the room with the app and it detects all the answers and once an
answer is received, the student may not change their answer.
Ping Pong has
several options that can be used to assess students. Each student must have the
app and the teacher oversees the host account. The teacher asks a question out loud
and the students can either answer through multiple choice, drawing,
true/false, or text. Socrative is similar to the previous app, but it has a
feature called “Space Race.” Here, students can compete in teams or
individually against each other. The teacher will have pre-made quizzes and the
students race their rockets with correct answers. Correct answers move the
rockets forward, but incorrect answers leave the rockets where they are, so the
students are not penalized. 
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