Versatile and Friendly
I purchased the premium app years ago to track participation in our professional collaboration team to see if we could improve our sharing ideas and feedback better. It helped all of us see where we could speak up or step back differently to respect everyone’s thinking. After that, I brought Equity Maps into my high school classroom. Pre- COVID, we were really seeing significant growth in student voice. It took a while to build that back up, and this app helped.
My role has shifted to an instructional coach. I still use this app to support my colleagues.
In the app, there is the option to track Spider Web Discussions, which are a model described in Alexis Wiggins’s book, The Best Class You Never Taught. The pairing of this app and that strategy created a huge shift in how my colleagues and I have true class discussions that lead to deeper engagement and learning.
My role has shifted to an instructional coach. I still use this app to support my colleagues.
In the app, there is the option to track Spider Web Discussions, which are a model described in Alexis Wiggins’s book, The Best Class You Never Taught. The pairing of this app and that strategy created a huge shift in how my colleagues and I have true class discussions that lead to deeper engagement and learning.
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Love the new export functions!
Having the ability to send feedback directly to each student, along with the stats and discussion map, is awesome. Thanks for adding the ability to add comments and Checknotes after the class is over as well.
Students can now use the app in their Lit Circles and export the entire map to me to listen to after. I can have 4 smaller groups discussing at once and provide feedback to each group after. Very cool!
Students can now use the app in their Lit Circles and export the entire map to me to listen to after. I can have 4 smaller groups discussing at once and provide feedback to each group after. Very cool!
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Invaluable
If you use Harkness or Socratic style discussions, this app is a must have. This app easily tracks conversations, but there’s more to it than that. It records audio of conversations and you can match that in the app to the person who spoke. It has check marks that allows you to record qualities of contributions or type of contributions to the conversations such as “critical thinking” or “disruptive comment” east time a student speaks. There’s so much more. This data can be used in reflection to provide feedback to students and teachers alike. I can do some things this app does on paper, but this app does it better. The developer quickly replies to emails and requests as well.
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Awesome - Add Co-Teacher / Google Classroom Function?
This app is awesome! I only feel limited by the collaboration element. I have a co-teacher and use a school provided iPad that is shared, so being able to log in and share a platform with a coteacher would be very helpful. The csv files can be helpful in sharing data, but sharing directly on the app would be more user friendly. Additionally, google classroom integration and importing student info would save SO much time!
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Keeps Getting Better
This is the BEST discussion tracking/reflection app out there. I first used this app with a group of honors Language Arts 7th graders to log participation in Socratic Seminars. Students were engaged from the beginning, and were eager to see participation times and times spoken in the Feedback Frames section.
The ability to record and playback discussions is terrific, and the new features, like the non-binary person icon and class import from .txt are great.
The ability to record and playback discussions is terrific, and the new features, like the non-binary person icon and class import from .txt are great.
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