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Tricider
Pros: The simple interface is easy to use for both kids and teachers.
Cons: Tricider offers the structure, but whatever learning happens is up to you and your class.
Bottom Line: Used creatively and wisely, Tricider can set the stage for some great classroom conversations.
From decisions about basic, procedural classroom issues to the most erudite literary ponderings, Tricider can be a useful tool. Need to figure out the best day for an after-school field trip? Debating the most important theme in Beowulf? Tricider might just be the way.
While just fine for practical use in any classroom, Tricider is especially well-suited to an English or civics class, where opinions and grey areas prevail. While students could get rewards just for voting, there could also be a prize for the idea with the most up-votes. However, it's probably best to use this latter option wisely and with an eye toward equity among your students.
Tricider is a website that offers a free brainstorming and voting platform to help people make decisions. Billed as a "social voting tool," the site is geared toward business teams, classes, or anyone looking to gauge a group's response to an idea. As it's very applicable to educational use, teachers and students can readily and easily use it in the classroom.
Teachers can sign up for an account using only an email address and password. Once logged in, users can propose a question or "tricision." Questions don't have to be structured as only yes or no type; open-ended questions work as well, and may in fact be all the better when it comes to brainstorming. In the site's tool, students view responses, with the option of up- or down-voting ideas or comments as well as adding their own explanatory responses.
While not expressly developed for classroom use, Tricider can make for a really versatile learning tool. The ability to ask and discuss open-ended questions is likely to be the site's most useful aspect. With a bit more depth than some of the simpler online polling tools, Tricider may be a slightly better pick. The site's developers seem genuinely serious about using the open exchange of ideas as a way to make good group decisions.
The Motivate option allows teachers to offer incentives for various types of activity in the forum. However, the nature of online polls and discussions is likely to be motivation enough for your students. Even students who tend to be more introverted should appreciate the chance to have their voice included in the discussion. In general, these types of online discussions tend to lead to better in-class talks.
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Great way to collect ideas from the class or a group.
Overall, I think this would be a great to use as a formative assessment tool. It like how easy it is to set-up and manage as a teacher. I can save each of the sessions and view the results in graph form. I think the students will enjoy being able to share their thoughts in an interactive, non-threatening manner. It is a simple way to integrate technology and encourage students to critique the reasoning of others and defend their arguments with reasoning. Both of these are skills are part of Common Core Math and Next Generation Science Standards and Practices.