I heard about Plickers from the cohort above me at UGA and it sounded extremely useful and interesting. The student teachers just one year above me said they were using this resource in their student teaching classrooms currently, so I decided to take a look into it. Plickers is an app you can use on any mobile device or computer. It is a form of formative assessment, or a way to gage the students understanding of the topic that has been presented. It gives students individual QR codes or task cards that are printed on paper that match with their name and depending on which way they hold it the teacher can scan their answers in. (Each side of the square, depending on which side is on top, produces a different answer to be recorded). A fun cool way for students to submit their answers while they do not have to use technology themselves, just the teacher. It would be very useful in a permanent classroom to laminate said QR codes and reuse them throughout the teachers timing. It is an easy way to engage student to where they all need to submit an answer, and the teacher can see behind the screen what students are missing. This is a resource I am excited to employ in my own classroom; I believe formative assessment is the best way to prepare for summative assessment and overall learning.
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