Random name pickers can be an extremely useful tool for teachers, not only ensuring fairness in the classroom but also adding an element of fun and suspense to the learning environment. These are free web based tools that enable you to generate random names for whatever activity you want to do with students. We can delegate some of our decision making work to technology.įor instance, activities that require picking out students names can be easily managed using random name picker tools (and group generator tools). However, decision making, as important as it is, can be an energy draining and time consuming process especially when it branches out into micro management.