{"id":81,"date":"2023-12-29T13:47:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/?p=81"},"modified":"2024-01-05T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:00:11","slug":"answergarden-a-tool-for-immediate-formative-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"AnswerGarden &#8211; a tool for immediate formative feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was looking around the internet for a tool that could very quickly identify learning gaps. I like the idea of running a backchannel when it can be beneficial, but I can see how a backchannel could become a distraction. I stumbled upon AnswerGarden, which seems to fit what I was looking for!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AnswerGarden is an online tool that allows the instructor to post a comment or question, and very quickly build a word cloud based on the feedback from the students. This is potentially a more active approach to gauging students understanding than a backchannel because you are taking a quick pause from a lesson to have students participate in building this word cloud with their peers, with the added bonus of anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/answergarden.ch\/embed\/106659\" width=\"640px\" height=\"400px\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"AnswerGarden\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/answergarden.ch\/106659\">Go to AnswerGarden<\/a><\/p><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>One way I see myself using this tool is to ensure students are on the right track. For example, after introducing the fundamentals of electrical math to students, I could pose a question like &#8220;In a 12V system, what happens to current when resistance goes up?&#8221;. Give the students a minute to think and answer and then take a look at the results. If I see a lot of &#8220;down&#8221; &#8220;current goes down&#8221; &#8220;decreases&#8221; in the word cloud &#8211; great! If I get a lot of the opposite, or answers that aren&#8217;t entirely relevant to the question, I&#8217;ll know I better back track a bit and review the fundamentals of electrical math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check it out, and create your own <a href=\"https:\/\/answergarden.ch\/\">AnswerGarden!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking around the internet for a tool that could very quickly identify learning gaps. I like the idea of running a backchannel when it can be beneficial, but I can see how a backchannel could become a distraction. I stumbled upon AnswerGarden, which seems to fit what I was looking for! AnswerGarden is an online tool that allows the instructor to post a comment or question, and very quickly build a word cloud based on the feedback from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/?p=81\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyleward.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}