Using Clicker Systems for Classroom Interactivity
What faculty do you work in?
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Examples of Names
• 26 terms used in the literature (Kay, 2008), most commonly:– Audience Response Systems– Personal Response Systems– Electronic Voting Systems– Student Response Systems– Classroom Communication Systems– Classroom Response Systems– Electronic Response Systems– Clickers
Examples of Uses – 1. Peer Instruction
• Issues with understanding of concepts in Physics class. • Video of Peer Instruction in action• Pre-lecture reading, ConcepTests, Discussions
Examples of Uses – 2. Attention
• Edge Hill Inductions• Most simple use• Ask questions throughout the lecture
and give correct answer• Aim is to try to maintain attention
• Kay and LeSage (2009) literature review• Classroom (attendance, attention, anonymity)• Learning (interaction and discussion,
contingent teaching, learning performance and quality)
• Assessment (feedback, formative, compare)
Effects of use in HE
• Technology (remembering kit, systems failing)• Teacher-based (responding, coverage,
question writing)• Student-based (new method, discussions,
summative assessment)
Challenges to use in HE
• Handsets– Optivote, TurningPoint, ActivExpression at EHU– Contact [email protected] to book
• Mobile Phones– TurningPoint ResponseWare– Socrative, ActivEngage– Building block available for Blackboard mobile
Different Tools
Also
– Setting up slides for TurningPoint and Optivote.– eShare guides – Optivote, TurningPoint
Hands On