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Stick Pick Helps Improve Student Engagement

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Stick Pick is a classroom-management and -assessment app that takes the popsicle-stick-in-a-can concept digital and expands it to help teachers improve the way they ask questions in the classroom.

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Stick Pick

Differentiate, engage with assessment app aimed at higher-order skills

Pros: Varying levels of questioning and question starters help teachers differentiate the question-asking process.

Cons: Teachers can only select one level of questioning per student.

Bottom Line: Useful reinvention of a classic means of encouraging student attention with the added bonus of support for higher-order thinking and response tracking.

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App of the Day picks are selected from the top edtech tools reviewed by Common Sense Education, which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. 

By Common Sense Education

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