Active Engagement with Socrative
Socrative: Student Response System
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. FREE
Getting Started with Socrative
- Download the Socrative app on your cellphone or tablet. For this demonstration download Socrative Student:
- Navigate in any browser to: http://b.socrative.com/login/student/
- Enter the room number in the box: 3253259
- Click the Join Room
- Enter you name when prompted
- Follow the prompts on the screen
Active Engagement Strategies
What is Active Engagement?
"Active engagement refers to the joint functioning of motivation, conceptual knowledge, cognitive strategies, and social interactions in literacy activities" (Guthrie & Anderson, 1999).
"Active learning involves providing opportunities for students to meaningfully talk and listen, write, read, and reflect on the content, ideas, issues and concerns of an academic subject" (Meyers & Jones, 1993).
Active Engagement and Motivation
Factors affecting the development of intrinsic motivation in a school setting:
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Level of challenge offered by tasks and materials
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Quality and timing of feedback to students about their work
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Supports and scaffolds available to learners
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Students’ interest in tasks and content
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Nature of the learning context
Intrinsically motivated students tend to persist longer, work harder, actively apply strategies, and retain key information more consistently.
Guthrie, McGough, et al., 1996; Guthrie & Van Meter, et al., 1996
Active Engagement and Cognitive Strategies
Engaged readers use cognitive strategies for integrating information, and communicating and representing their understanding. Cognitive strategies are procedures that can help students succeed at higher-order tasks. Some strategies are:
- Activating prior knowledge before, during, and after reading
- Self-questioning
- Monitoring comprehension
- Summarizing
Baker, Dreher, & Guthrie, 2000
How Socrative Works
Live results from student quizzing or polling
Instant feedback for students on the device or web browser
The beloved Exit Ticket - Ask students what they learned before they leave class. There are three slides that appear after you deploy the Exit Ticket.
Pull reports of student activity
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