Analytic Tools
Data is an important conversation year after year in education. For teachers, it can be hard to find the time to organize and analyze the data that is collected from students to make it impactful for their learning. Here are some analytic tools that can be helpful to use for collecting and analyzing student data in an engaging way for students.
1) Storyboard That
About: Storyboard That is a website that allows students to use templates to create comic representations of stories. It can be used for planning and brainstorming, or as a formative assessment to recall knowledge. The numerous options of backgrounds, characters, and onjects make it easy for any student to create what they want.
Type of Learning: Storyboard That can be used in a variety of ways, but it would be useful as a way for students to recall details and draw connections in a story by showing what they remember. This would be remembering and understanding types of learning. It can also be used as creating, by inventing new stories or even new endings.
Type of Learning Experience: Storyboard That is leaning toward the abstract experience along Dale's Cone of Experience. I would classify it as a still picture or visual symbol.
2) MindMeister
About: MindMeister is a tool used for brainstorming and mind mapping. It allows ideas to be laid out in a visual way connected by branches, but also allows you to embed videos or attach files. This could be helpful in school by providing an easy collaboration tool for brainstorming, or a way for students to showcase what they know about a topic in a visual portfolio. It has presentation capabilities similar to
Type of Learning: Along Bloom's taxonomy, MindMeister would fit under the type of learning applying and analyzing mostly, with capabilities for creating in the right setting. It allows students to apply new connections to what they already know and break down information into a visual mapping format.
Type of Learning Experience: Along Dale's Cone of Experience, MindMeister has the ability to be an exhibit with the ability to link and embed media content, but would more likely be visual and verbal symbols with the connecting maps and brainstorms.
3) Draw.io/Diagrams.net
Type of Learning: While this could be used for a variety of types of learning, I see it best suited for the lower levels of recalling, understanding, and applying. It is best at these levels because its simple design and lack of collaboration and elaborate sharing is suited for students to use to show their mastery or understanding of a topic or apply information to new topics.
Type of Learning Experience: Draw.io would be categorized as a still picture or visual symbol learning experience along Dale's Cone of Experience.
4) Poll Everywhere
About: Poll Everywhere allows you to add different type of survey questions that participants can quickly answer, such as multiple choice, word cloud creators, or open-ended questions, among others. It is a great way to receive immediate feedback from students on a topic or discussion, and I could see this being used as a great entrance or exit ticket to check for understanding.
Type of Learning: Poll Everywhere could be used at the understanding level of learning, to show meaning and understanding of the material. It could also be used at higher levels of analyzing and evaluating to draw connections and make evaluations.
Type of Learning Experience: Along Dale's Cone of Experience, Poll Everywhere is more of an abstract learning experience, at the level of visual and verabl symbols with the visual representation of data as charts, graphs, or visualizations after questions are answered.
5) Canva Graph Maker
About: Canva Graph Maker could be a helpful tool for students to use to show relationships between topics or ideas, but also by teachers to organize and visualize their data. This is an important tool for teachers to be able to crack open some of the troves of data they are given on students (such as AIR or MAP standardized tests) to make it usable
Type of Learning: Canva Graph Maker would be categorized as analyzing or understanding on Bloom's taxonomy because it is showing connections between data and drawing conclusions and evaluations based on the data present.
Type of Learning Experience: Along Dale's Cone of Experience, Canva Graph Maker would be more abstact. I would classify it as visual symbols because of the visual nature of graphs and charts.
These five tools are just some of the analytic tools that could be helpful to teachers in education.
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