Dec 9, 2019, 12:48 PM
(from The 74 Million) A new app called Equity Maps lets users to track the flow of classroom conversation — often showing holes where students didn’t participate and highlighting those who may have dominated the conversation. Each student in the app is displayed as an icon. As the group discussion flows, educators tap the icon of each new speaker and a line appears to create a visual representation of the conversation. Equity Maps then plays back the data in actual time, or sped up to condense a 45-minute discussion into a one-minute recap, to show how the conversation flowed. Proponents of the app say it's tracking, recording and playing back student participation allows for “amazing reflection and feedback” during debriefing times. Other schools have used the app in faculty and staff trainings about dialogue in professional settings.
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