Equity Maps - Premium 4+

Classroom Discussion Mapping

David Nelson

Designed for iPad

    • 4.7 • 43 Ratings
    • $9.99

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Description

Equity Maps offers exciting new features for teachers and their students!
• Share in our passion for inclusion of all students' voices

• Elevate the voices in the room -- help students to reflect & grow!
• Provide Instant Feedback – Nurture Reflection – Ignite Collaboration – Promote Equity
• Created by teachers, for teachers, and their students.

Ideal for Socratic seminars, Spider Web™ & Harkness® (*) discussions, Literature Circles, Dialogic lesson designs, or anytime students interact.

Effortlessly chart & record students’ interactions to graphically illustrate levels & types of participation. Spur deeper reflection with the discussion maps, instant analytics & animated playback at multiple speeds.

NEW IN PREMIUM! – Export sessions to other Premium users, send feedback and data to individual students or post in your LMS, along with their talk time, Checknotes of types of contributions, the discussion map, & your feedback.

PREMIUM FEATURES:

• Up to 40 participants w/unlimited seating options
• Quick edit features to create, import, & group students w/ Identity Markers
• Playback the discussion maps in real-time or fast-forward
• Select & listen to any speaker & view notes linked to their participation
• Export sessions to other Premium users
• Export audio or analytics to post for students or send via email or to CSV file to track over time
• Track student contributions w/ enhanced Checknotes - 17 templates or customize your own
• Add Checknotes and comments for students following the discussion
• Individual/Group analytics – Include/Exclude participants from the data to see how the dynamics change
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CONFERENCE WITH YOUR STUDENTS OR TEACHERS:

• Debrief w/students individually! Review contributions of any one student in the improved participant analytics: see each time the student spoke & playback what they said, or play from the person who spoke before/after, review notations for that student, participation data, or Checknotes… all on one screen!

• Give better feedback! Take notes or write comments during or after the discussion that link directly to the student speaking and share with them immediately after.

• Identify Markers: customize the groups w/n your class that you’d like to measure, such as grade level, language level, race, seating area, or anything you’d like to see.

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REFLECTIVE DATA AT YOUR FINGERTIPS:

• Simply tap on the participants’ icons when they speak & Equity Maps will do the rest by visually charting the interactions & calculating levels of participation.

• Track the nature of each participants' contributions with Checknotes, choose among the 17 templates or create your own, or take notes during or after the discussion that attach to the speaker for review after.

• The “Feedback Frames” provide key statistics for teachers, students or group members: time spoken, times spoken, gender equity, or customize anything you’d like to measure.

TEACHERS:
• Enhance your Socratic Seminars, Literature Circles, Harkness®(*) discussions, or full classroom discussions
• Monitor & assess Common Core Speaking & Listening Standards, ATL, Dialogic lessons, or seminar criteria
• Promote student involvement & self-reflection
• Perfect for schools with VPP for 50% discount

FACILITATORS & GROUP LEADERS:
• Encourage deeper reflection of your group’s goals, norms & processes
• Give your boss an Equity Check & share how equitable your last meeting was
• Critical Friends Group® coaches & facilitators (CFG work) or in PLCs

ADMINISTRATORS & INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES:
• Provide teachers an “image” of their classroom instruction like they’ve never seen before!
• Revitalize reflective practices for teachers, while reducing anxiety of post-observation meetings
• Make your classroom observations more meaningful & reflective

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Equity Maps® is a registered trademark at the USPTO / U.S. Pat. No 10,553,129

*Equity Maps has been developed completely independent of Phillips Exeter Academy & is not affiliated in any way with the academy.

Critical Friends Group® is a registered trademark of the National School Reform Faculty (NSRF®)

What’s New

Version 6.0

Check out these new features!
• Export sessions and data with another Premium Equity Maps user
• Email individualized feedback, maps, and participation reports directly to your students or upload to your LMS
• Add Checknotes and comments for students after the class
• New colors and patterns for the icons
• Made easier: adding emails, quick edit of info, sort sessions, sort feedback frames, and much more!

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
43 Ratings

43 Ratings

ChrisLeeHTX ,

Invaluable

If you use Harkness or Socratic style discussions, this app is a must have. This app easily tracks conversations, but there’s more to it than that. It records audio of conversations and you can match that in the app to the person who spoke. It has check marks that allows you to record qualities of contributions or type of contributions to the conversations such as “critical thinking” or “disruptive comment” east time a student speaks. There’s so much more. This data can be used in reflection to provide feedback to students and teachers alike. I can do some things this app does on paper, but this app does it better. The developer quickly replies to emails and requests as well.

DFacilitator ,

Love the new export functions!

Having the ability to send feedback directly to each student, along with the stats and discussion map, is awesome. Thanks for adding the ability to add comments and Checknotes after the class is over as well.

Students can now use the app in their Lit Circles and export the entire map to me to listen to after. I can have 4 smaller groups discussing at once and provide feedback to each group after. Very cool!

OscarRuitt ,

Keeps Getting Better

This is the BEST discussion tracking/reflection app out there. I first used this app with a group of honors Language Arts 7th graders to log participation in Socratic Seminars. Students were engaged from the beginning, and were eager to see participation times and times spoken in the Feedback Frames section.

The ability to record and playback discussions is terrific, and the new features, like the non-binary person icon and class import from .txt are great.

App Privacy

The developer, David Nelson, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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