Comments on: Riley Lark’s Red Dot

By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » The Digital Networked Textbook: Is It Any Different?

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:12:57 +0000

[…] lessons with integrated, formative polling. I'm talking about Riley Lark's ActivePrompt software built right into the […]

By: Steve Thomas

Steve Thomas — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:24:53 +0000

Sorry, seems it only works if you have a Scratch 2.0 password. Will repost when all can access.

By: Steve Thomas

Steve Thomas — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:56:02 +0000

I made a version of Riley’s balance scale using Scratch 2.0 (alpha) with cloud variables.

http://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/2013/01/balance-scale-test.html

The advantage of Scratch is it is easier for a teachers to use and create their own “active prompts” Also it wouldn’t be limited to just placing red dots.

Now its far from perfect, first its in Scratch 2.0 which is alpha.
Second, I would probably want to modify it, so you didn’t see all the answers until everyone had guessed (or at least most students).

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Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:44:52 +0000

[…] his Riley Lark’s Red Dot post, which gives examples of worthwhile tasks which I will write about in another post, Dan opens with […]

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It Could Be Beautiful: VSTE12 Presentation | Bionic Teaching — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:24:11 +0000

[…] done by Dan Meyer and others in graphing stories, 101qs.com, the 3 act stories, and most recently the dead simple but amazingly versatile red dot. There are people like Shawn Cornally who are doing work that is just fundamentally impressive. […]

By: Riley

Riley — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:07:25 +0000

I wouldn’t expect PDFs to work. Maybe Safari is more clever about it – the images look broken in Chrome and Firefox

By: Mike C

Mike C — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:03:15 +0000

They work on my mac. And if i right click I can download the image. I put them in as pdf’s, does that matter?

By: Riley

Riley — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:27:59 +0000

Hey Mike – I’m excited to see what happens! Double-check those links, though – it looks like the images are broken. Let me know if you need help figuring out what’s broken~

By: Mike C

Mike C — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:58:10 +0000

I have it all set up at my website for inequalities. I cant wait to see the students shade in a number line with all their guesses.

https://sites.google.com/site/mrcampbellatths/lessons/inequalities

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:17:45 +0000

David: I’m curious if any of you have thoughts on the best way to make this kind of approach (having students make an estimate, then look at the class’s estimates) work in an asynchronous environment. Particularly, what happens when the first student marks their guess, and there’s no other student guesses yet for them to continue working off of? In-class they can just wait a couple minutes, but online we don’t want students to have to wait until the next day to continue working. Is the best solution to just seed the system with some reasonable guesses? Dave Major and I have talked about this problem at length. Our conclusion was the same as yours.