Using Wordle and Poll everywhere was a fun experience in class. We all asked a question that we were curious about on Poll Everywhere and we turned our responses into a Wordle. Wordle collaborates the answers into a nice creative pattern for everyone to see.
Poll Everywhere is a great way to get teen learners engaged in the classroom. This teacher set up a multiple choice poll on the first day of school and allowed the students to use their cell phones to answer so that they got the full effect of Poll Everywhere. Letting the students do that not only got them engaged in the lesson but it also let the teacher find out how the students felt about her question. The students were automatically more prone to listen to that teacher because of that one poll.
I feel like Wordle and Poll Everywhere are connected to the ISTE-NETS by almost every point. These two programs allow the students to be creative and to let them think for themselves. It gives them the feel for a face to face environment and also a virtual environment. It collaborates the knowledge of all students because it is an individual poll and the teacher gets the honest answer from the students and not from the child's neighbor.
Since I am hoping to teach a fifth grade math class, I would set up many word problems for the students and once they answered I would show the polls and show how many of the students got it correct. I would also have the students set up their own word problems and make sure the students answered at least 5 of the word problems from their peers. This lets the student explore the site and use it for their own. At the end of the day I would set up an open ended poll and ask the students what they liked about the assignment and what they didn't like about the assignment and when the students came in the next morning I would have the answers put together in a Wordle for the students to see and we would reflect on the assignment and let the students really give me their opinions.
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