This is a tool that makes decision-making fun. Its uses are limited only by the needs and imagination of the educator. Some possibilities include choosing: questions for review, vocabulary to define, student to answer a question, students to work on a team, next student to make a presentation.
According to the FAQ page, once made, wheels can be saved and used offline or embedded in a Web page.
Type of Material:
Drill and Practice
Recommended Uses:
Building activities in decision making. Introduce decision-making in basic programming.
Technical Requirements:
Includes audio effects but can still run without a speaker.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Learning goals can be established individually by the creator. Goals could be to help with decisions, a decision tree type activity, to assign specific tasks to students, or as a way to spark a discussion.
Target Student Population:
Instructors, Instructional Designers and SMEs can be used to develop lessons from PreK through Life-long learners.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Ability to add text and follow simple instructions.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Easy to use. Create your own wheel. A wheel can be tailored to any topic. Modify a wheel to make your own. Includes the ability to choose colors and sizes
All that is needed is a web browser to build your own decision wheel. The tool is very flexible and can be used in most any educational environment.
Concerns:
None
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
This material's pedagogical strength is that it can be readily integrated into a lesson. A suggested use is to replace flashcards. It can be used to present material within the context of decision-making in a particular topic.It can also be used as as an experiential tool where the student builds their own wheel based on the subject matter. Can enhance student creativity by having learners make their own wheels. The tool can be used as a concept reinforcer, as a way to have students explain a selection from the wheel, or as an assessment of learning.
Concerns:
None
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
This tool can be used by any age level able to read the labels. It will mostly be used by teachers to create the wheels, but students could create their own. The tool is extremely intuitive--one can easily modify or build a new wheel.
Concerns:
None
Other Issues and Comments:
Great tool to add to a learning context.
Creative Commons:
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