Relevant Questioning Apps
Question Builder (Junior Primary)
by Mobile Education Store LLC
Question Builder is designed to help junior primary aged children learn to answer abstract questions and create responses based on inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders. Audio clip reinforcement can be turned on or off for non-special needs children (Apple Inc. 2014).
Available at
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/question-builder-for-ipad/id364823150?mt=8
by Mobile Education Store LLC
Question Builder is designed to help junior primary aged children learn to answer abstract questions and create responses based on inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders. Audio clip reinforcement can be turned on or off for non-special needs children (Apple Inc. 2014).
Available at
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/question-builder-for-ipad/id364823150?mt=8
Stick Pick (Senior Primary)
by Buzz Garwood
"Pick a student at random just by giving your device a shake or tapping the screen -- but that’s just the beginning. Stick Pick suggests question starters for learners at different levels and also records how well students respond during classroom discussions. If a student is consistently scoring near the top or bottom, simply change the level so students aren't bored or frustrated. Depending on students' levels of English proficiency, they might be asked simple yes-or-no questions or to elaborate in longer sentences" (Apple Inc. 2014) (Google, 2014).
DIFFERENTIATE INSTRUCTION
Stick Pick is the first app of its kind to uniquely link question stems to the cognitive or linguistic needs of each individual learner. Teachers can have multiple soup cans (classes) filled with sticks (students). During setup, teachers choose a category of question stems they wish to focus on for each learner. Questions can be based on Bloom's Taxonomy, English as a second language skills, and degree of difficulty can be chosen for each learner (Google, 2014)
TRACK FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
"Formative assessment is easy to track because teachers can tap a corresponding correct, incorrect, or opinion button based on the student's answer. Teachers can also rate each student's answer by selecting 0-5 on a critical thinking rubric (Bloom's) or an elaboration rubric (for English as a second language)" (Google, 2014)
ENRICH LEARNING
"Stick Pick is a handy tool for any teacher device and can guide classroom discussion and formative assessment in really helpful ways. Teachers can mark sticks so they aren't constantly calling on the same students or asking students the same questions over and over again.Students in small groups can use Stick Pick too. During small group work, students can take turns asking one another questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy, making group work more productive and on-task" (Google, 2014)
Available at:
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/stick-pick/id436682059?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buzzgarwood.stickpick&hl=en
by Buzz Garwood
"Pick a student at random just by giving your device a shake or tapping the screen -- but that’s just the beginning. Stick Pick suggests question starters for learners at different levels and also records how well students respond during classroom discussions. If a student is consistently scoring near the top or bottom, simply change the level so students aren't bored or frustrated. Depending on students' levels of English proficiency, they might be asked simple yes-or-no questions or to elaborate in longer sentences" (Apple Inc. 2014) (Google, 2014).
DIFFERENTIATE INSTRUCTION
Stick Pick is the first app of its kind to uniquely link question stems to the cognitive or linguistic needs of each individual learner. Teachers can have multiple soup cans (classes) filled with sticks (students). During setup, teachers choose a category of question stems they wish to focus on for each learner. Questions can be based on Bloom's Taxonomy, English as a second language skills, and degree of difficulty can be chosen for each learner (Google, 2014)
TRACK FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
"Formative assessment is easy to track because teachers can tap a corresponding correct, incorrect, or opinion button based on the student's answer. Teachers can also rate each student's answer by selecting 0-5 on a critical thinking rubric (Bloom's) or an elaboration rubric (for English as a second language)" (Google, 2014)
ENRICH LEARNING
"Stick Pick is a handy tool for any teacher device and can guide classroom discussion and formative assessment in really helpful ways. Teachers can mark sticks so they aren't constantly calling on the same students or asking students the same questions over and over again.Students in small groups can use Stick Pick too. During small group work, students can take turns asking one another questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy, making group work more productive and on-task" (Google, 2014)
Available at:
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/stick-pick/id436682059?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buzzgarwood.stickpick&hl=en
Relevant Questioning Websites:
Blooms Buttons: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Blooms-Buttons-440161
"Incorporate Bloom's Taxonomy language and questioning in your daily lessons with this set of Bloom's Button Question Cards. Great to use with any fictional read aloud.
"Have students take a button break. Students can choose a button color randomly (I'm using real buttons), and then answer a question that corresponds to that particular level of Bloom's Taxonomy.
They can answer the question orally, with a buddy or group, or even in a journal.
There are 6 questions for each of the 6 levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. There are also blank (editable) cards provided for you to add your own questions as you see fit. There is also a black line master available of the Button Chart, if you would like to have your students color it in and then place it in a journal/notebook to refer to throughout the year.
Black and white button cards are also provided. These can be used for individual or groups of students. Students can color the buttons themselves. This would work great if you wanted to have a set for each of your groups.
There is also a form provided for student to respond to the questions"(Teachers Pay Teachers, n.d).
"Incorporate Bloom's Taxonomy language and questioning in your daily lessons with this set of Bloom's Button Question Cards. Great to use with any fictional read aloud.
"Have students take a button break. Students can choose a button color randomly (I'm using real buttons), and then answer a question that corresponds to that particular level of Bloom's Taxonomy.
They can answer the question orally, with a buddy or group, or even in a journal.
There are 6 questions for each of the 6 levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. There are also blank (editable) cards provided for you to add your own questions as you see fit. There is also a black line master available of the Button Chart, if you would like to have your students color it in and then place it in a journal/notebook to refer to throughout the year.
Black and white button cards are also provided. These can be used for individual or groups of students. Students can color the buttons themselves. This would work great if you wanted to have a set for each of your groups.
There is also a form provided for student to respond to the questions"(Teachers Pay Teachers, n.d).
Effective Questioning: http://www.slideshare.net/suziea/effective-questioning#
This PowerPoint is a presentation to help improve your questioning strategies in the classroom taken from a range of sources.
This PowerPoint is filled with 30 slides to provide you with information to improve your questioning skills through looking at why we question and also include what it looks like, sounds like and feels like. It is a very friendly PowerPoint to work with giving great tips on questing techniques.
This PowerPoint is a presentation to help improve your questioning strategies in the classroom taken from a range of sources.
This PowerPoint is filled with 30 slides to provide you with information to improve your questioning skills through looking at why we question and also include what it looks like, sounds like and feels like. It is a very friendly PowerPoint to work with giving great tips on questing techniques.