Research shows that if you ask a question of the class and then have student raise their hands to answer, teachers most often pick smart, white, boys. To eliminate this bias and to increase the rigor in your classroom, pick students at random!!! This tool does the work for you in front of the kids so they know who gets to answer. Once you do it a few times, the kids get used to it and many more kids will pay attention in your class because they know that they could get picked to answer at any