Most teachers use quiz tools only for testing purposes. However, it isn't to many people's knowledge that they can also be used for teaching. In this post, you will discover how I use Socrative to teach new vocabulary items. If you're new to Socrative, explore it at socrative.com as a teacher before or after reading this post. Note that this activity can also be done with many other quizzing tools. Old days... I used to teach new vocabulary items in the following manner like many other teachers:
Nowadays I have moved this activity online with Socrative. Now, my learners study new words online before class and during the class we practice applying them into communication. This has resulted in more active learning and mastery of new vocabulary. If you also wish to harness the potential of Socrative to teach vocabulary, here are the instructions to follow:
3. Enter your first word or phrase and explain its meaning. When explaining, make sure that
4. After the explanation, give learners a task to produce new sentences in which they not only use the new word, but also relate the word to their own life and are encouraged to think about its meaning. See the sample task below. 5. Repeat step 3 and 4 for other words. 6. Share your quiz with your learners. Here are some of the answers to the quiz questions above: What’s the Added Value?
Compared to the traditional way of teaching vocabulary, the reworked way has the following advantages:
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Note: Although this activity is about vocabulary revision, I believe it can also be tried in the teaching of other information-heavy subjects like History or Biology. Resources Needed: You: A computer with an internet connection, a projector and access to the AnswerGarden Learners: internet-enabled hand-held devices What’s AnswerGarden? AnswerGarden is a digital tool that allows educators to get brief feedback from an audience. The best thing about it? It requires no account creation and almost no digital skills. If you haven’t heard of it, explore the tool at answergarden.ch Old days… I used to do the following simple vocabulary revision activity with my language learners when preparing for tests. I would ask my learners to tell me vocabulary items they remember from previous classes. Then I would write down as many vocabulary items as they remember on the whiteboard. Once done, I would also add words that were taught, but not mentioned. However, nowadays I opt for AnswerGarden to do this activity. Follow the instructions below to try out. Getting Started
Answer Length: 20 Case: lowercase Other features: leave them untouched for now Now you should be able to see a new page like this one: 4. Copy the link in the URL tab on your browser and share it with your learners. There are a number of ways to provide the link such as:
6. As your learners begin to submit responses, keep refreshing your browser from time to time. The page will show you the words entered by students. The end result should be similar to this: As you notice, some words appear in big size while other stay in tiny size. The more the same word is entered, the bigger it appears. Numbers next to them therefore indicate how many times a particular response is entered by an audience.
What’s the Added Value? Compared to the old version of the revision activity, the new way has the following advantages:
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