A good app: easy to use, a good way to assess student understanding.

How I Use It

The Socrative App is useful for conducting a variety of activities using iPads. I use it for practise quizzes for the students, as exit tickets at the conclusion of a lesson and as a tool for me, the teacher to judge how well students are understanding concepts. I also use it as a way to assess prior knowledge.The space race part of the app is great and allows students to compete with each other in groups while taking quizzes or answering questions. I use Socrative a lot at the start of a new unit when I want to elicit key words which allow me to tailor my lesson to my students understanding. I can show a short video- for example in science I show an interview with Michael J Fox about Parkinson Disease and use Socrative to gather feedback.