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Peardeck is a Google education online platform that provides an interactive approach to engaging students in learning activities in class and offers teachers the possibility to know students’ responses immediately. Compared with the traditional SRS with clickers, Peardeck is more convenient, easy to use, and low cost because any digital device with the internet can be used to access the platform. Below, I give an introduction of different views and question types, and demonstration of a student response and teacher analysis in Peardeck.
Figure 1 shows three different viewing interfaces that illustrate the arrangement and function of the SRS supported by Peardeck. In the student view, questions and answers area are separated in order to give students accurate instruction. In the teacher view, a teacher has access to all students’ answers including the typing process, which cannot be seen by students. In the projector view, a teacher can choose a time to stop accepting students’ answers and can show all their answers anonymously on the projector. These answers can be seen by all students and can be used to motivate and engage them. Peardeck provides different question types to meet teachers’ different needs to organize diverse activities in class. The most common types of questions include multiple choice, short text, debate and free drawing questions, as shown in Figure 3. Each time students finished answering, the responses were displayed on the projector and the teacher gave the explanation and the correct answer. It is extremely exciting for students to see all answers simultaneously and it increases the concentration degree in class. At the same time, all students’ answers with their names are displayed in the teacher view. Therefore, the SRS provides a strategic approach for teachers to organize in-class activities in flipped learning process. Teachers can use the SRS to organize group projects, discussions, debates and give exercises concerning pre-class videos (Figure 3).

Source: Liu, Chenchen, Sarah Sands-Meyer, and Jacques Audran. “The effectiveness of the student response system (SRS) in English grammar learning in a flipped English as a foreign language (EFL) class.” Interactive Learning Environments (2018): 1-14.

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