Poll Everywhere gives teachers the opportunity to ask questions and get answers from every student simultaneously. Poll Everywhere gives students the opportunity to answer with devices they use to communicate with one other all the time.
A teacher poses a question and students respond through a text message, and all answers display in a web browser. If the lesson is about the current novel students are reading, the teacher can ask students who they think the protagonist is. Students have a chance to answer and the teacher gets a quick glimpse at how well students understand characters.
A teacher may be in the middle of a math lesson and have students compete with parents. A link can be sent to parents beforehand and any answers they submit can be sent in to a specified text number. All answers can be viewed live by anyone with the link.
A teacher working on a science project can have an engineer from NASA text in answers to questions students submitted earlier in the week after performing an anti-gravity lab. Students have the chance to receive real feedback from a NASA engineer on the lab reports they completed together.