Clickers in Psychology: Change-Ups, Recaps, and Times for Telling
The Educational Support Team at the School of Arts and Social Sciences (ESTSASS) at the City University London recently posted a six-minute …
Clickers in the Social Sciences
I’ve often said that those teaching in the social sciences have the most options for using clickers. Both content and opinion questions …
Can Clickers Help Teach Critical Thinking? In the Humanities?
Earlier this month, David Clemens, who teaches literature at Monterey Peninsula College, authored a post titled “The Data-Driven Classroom” on the National …
Backchannel in Education – Nine Uses
I wanted to share some additional thoughts on Cliff Atkinson’s new book, The Backchannel, and its implications for higher education. As I …
Multiple Mark Questions
I’ve recently become a fan of the “mark all that apply” type of question my classroom response system facilitates. I call these …
Evaluating Teaching with Clickers
Teaching with clickers provides instructors with a wealth of information they can use to learn about the effectiveness of their own teaching. …
Clickers on Capitol Hill
Last week teacher Lisa Short of Gaithersburg Middle School in Maryland shared her perspectives on educational technology with the education committee of …
Podcast #2 – An Interview with Kelly Cline
I had hoped that my second podcast episode would follow the first one a little more closely in time, but the spring …
Bill Gates on K12 Education
I finally got around to watching Bill Gates’ recent TED talk. This is the talk you may have heard about where he …
Mobile Learning Part 3
More ideas today for how using mobile devices (particularly smart phones like the iPhone) as part of classroom response systems might enhance …