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LRS Experience

Being relatively young in education, I can remember different forms of LRS being used on me in

schools by different teachers as I was going through school. The earliest form of an LRS that I

remember was an extension of the promethean board called an “activote.” The Activote is an

egg-shaped controller with buttons A-F that logs a student’s answer on a program that is run on a

promethean board. These were the same in principle as an I-clicker, which I did not use until I

was in undergrad. The form of an LRS that I have seen used in education in modern times

neither proprietary, nor app based, but rather web based. The website Kahoot is a good LRS that

I have seen countless teachers used for its versatility and effectiveness. Kahoot is a web based

LRS that have a main screen that presents the question, and the students have individual screens,

either computer or mobile, that have different shapes to click on in order to answer the question.

I have many years of experience in classrooms as an undergraduate student at Coastal

Carolina but have not yet stepped in front of a classroom of my own, so I must draw from those

experiences in order to elaborate on this topic. In my internship at Plantersville elementary

school, many teachers across grade levels used/ created Kahoot quizzes for gauging progress,

taking attendance, and introducing topics. Kahoot was definitely the most prevalent form of an

LRS that Plantersville used.

Using an LRS

An example of a lesson that I could use an LRS to enhance would be a math lesson having to do

with number places. I had many students who were falling behind and needed reinforcement

with more basic math principles, so I create a mini lesson for them to do in small group where

they had to tell the place of an underlined number in a string of many numbers and tell the

underlined one’s place value. The only limitation was that the students had to go one at a time
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and took a longer time than was necessary. If I used Kahoot to give this activity, all of the

students could participate at the same time, and we could cover more content in less time.