Kialo-Edu

Empowering reason

Category:  Communicate & Collaborate
Resource Type: Collaboration Platform
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https://www.digitaled.ie/a-review-of-kialo-a-tool-for-teaching-critical-thinking-and-rational-debate/

Kialo is a free tool used by educators world-wide to teach critical thinking, facilitate rational classroom debate and explain controversial issues.

Recommended by our Digital Champions:
Orla Skehill
ATU Galway-Mayo

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Ease of Use
3/5
The tool has a user-friendly interface and it is easy for instructors and students to become skillful with in a personalized and intuitive manner.
Media Rich & Flexible Features
1/5
The tool is restrictive in terms of the representational forms employed (audio, visual, textual) and presents information sequentially in a rigid, inflexible format
Mobile Design & Functionality
3/5
The tool can be accessed either via app or a mobile browser, regardless of the mobile operating system and device. Design of the mobile tool fully takes into consideration the constraints of a smaller-sized screen and has full functionality.
Integration / Embedding with Moodle
2/5
The tool can be embedded within Moodle, perhaps with with limited functionality, but can not be fully integrated.
Support / Help
2/5
Technical support and help documentation is available directly from the software providers website and/or built in to the application.
Facilitation
3/5
The tool has easy-to-use features that would significantly improve an instructor’s ability to be present with learners via active management, monitoring, engagement, and feedback
Learning Analytics
1/5
The tool does not support the collection of learning analytics
Enhancement of Cognitive Tasks
2/5
The tool enables functional improvement to engagement in the targeted cognitive task(s)
Metacognitive Engagement
2/5
Opportunities for receiving formative feedback on learning are available, but infrequent or limited (i.e. poor opportunities for tracking performance, monitoring improvement, testing knowledge on a regular basis)
Collaboration
3/5
The tool has the capacity to support a community of learning through both asynchronous and synchronous opportunities for communication, interactivity, and transfer of meaning between users
Sign Up / Sign In
1/5
All users (instructors and learners) must provide personal information to a third party in creating an account and there is some question or concern of the adherence to local, institutional, or personal policies/standards for protecting the collection and use of such data by the third party group.
Archiving, Saving, and Exporting Data
3/5
Users can archive, save, or import and export content or activity data in a variety of formats
User-focused Participation
2/5
The tool has some limited capacity to address the needs of diverse users, their various literacies, and capabilities
Cost of Use
3/5
All aspects of the tool can be used free of charge.
There is no IT support available for this product in any of the institutes.
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