Poll+Everywhere

=__** [|Poll Everywhere] **__= Designed by Condense


 * Description: ** ﻿ Poll Everywhere is a resource that can be used to get live, quick responses to questions. It is a simple way to get a quick response from any venue of people. Poll Everywhere has a plan that can be used just for educational purposes. It offers multiple choice polls, text message polls with free response, and goal polls to monitor for fundraising events. This offers teachers the opportunity to to monitor class responses, see each students response, and monitor what is put on the screen for the students. It is a safe resource, because all personal information such as phone number or email address is kept private. There is also no soliciting from outside advertisements to the students or teachers.


 * [|﻿Creation] **

**For teachers:** ﻿ Teachers could use this tools to have quick responses to questions that the whole class could see. They can choose to give students choices or let them have a free response answer. It would be easier and more efficient than having students write out every answer and the teacher having to read every response. It would also keep students active in the process of learning, and give less down time for students to get distracted or off- task. 1. Teacher could create a poll for students to measure statistical analysis. 2. Teacher could let students create a poll to monitor statistics. 3. Teacher could let students create a poll to learn different ways in which polling is used in social studies. 4. Teacher could create a multiple choice test for students to take via a polling system. 5. Teachers could let students evaluate their personal and other learning strategies and effectiveness via polling.

**For students:** ﻿Students will create a poll for the class to complete in order to analyze statistical data, such as mean, median, and mode. Students will analyze effective techniques for polling. Students will use critical thinking skills to create analysis on the results of the poll. *Scaffolds: The website for Poll Everywhere is provided. The lesson would also include questions such as, why is this information useful?, what do the results of the mean, median, and mode tell us for the poll?, are the graphs you created accurate in describing the results?, etc. to promote critical thinking.
 * Learner Autonomy: Each student will get to choose the topic of the poll, choosing something that interests him or her.
 * Active: Students are actively monitoring their personal poll, as well as being a part of other students' polls. They are constantly monitoring and thinking about feedback they are getting, as well as, thinking about the polls they are participating in.
 * Holistic: Polls are a part of everyday life. There are countless polls going on in countless areas, including educational polls and entertainment polls. Students will have the opportunity to look at the components of a poll, and analyze the best strategies for polling, as well as, analyzing why different strategies are effective.
 * Complex: Students will have to design the poll themselves. They will thinking about something that interests them, and would be useful to have information on. They will be learning to evaluate statistics to see what is useful and how information can be skewed to direct a desired reaction.
 * Challenging: Students will have use in- depth thinking skills to evaluate their poll. Each student will determine the statistics behind the results, and then evaluate what that means for the class. Students will have to create a report using graphs to represent the statistics they found and an analysis of the results for the class.

Prepared by Christina Hale

Reviewed by Hannah Norman and Casey Clark