Clickers, Peer Instruction, and Classwide Discussion in #Math216
Recently, I blogged about my spring semester statistics course. Although the social bookmarking and pre-class reading assignments in the course are occupying …
Backchannel (and Me) in the New York Times
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel for a story on the use of …
Teaching Science by Reacting to the Past (#STEM11)
Last month I attended the AAC&U / Project Kaleidoscope conference “Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices.” You probably know what …
Video Clips from My Georgetown University Talks
The great people at the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS), who hosted my visit to Georgetown University last …
Clickers in the News (the Village Voice, to Be Precise)
I’m quoted in a nice article on clickers in the college classroom in the Village Voice today, “The Rise of Clickers Is …
Plagiarism or Not? More Clicker Questions about Academic Integrity
In my last post, I described the discussions that resulted in my first-year writing seminar from a few clicker questions on academic …
Ethical or Not? Clicker Questions about Academic Integrity
I recently described some of the components of my fall course over on my main blog. It’s a first-year writing seminar the …
Using Clickers to Engage Students in the Classroom (10-Minute Video)
Back in May 2010, I led a webinar on teaching with clickers as part of the CIRTLcast series for the Center for …
Article: Webking & Valenzuela (2006): Clickers and Critical Thinking in Political Science
Reference: Webking, R., & Valenzuela, F. (2006). Using audience response systems to develop critical thinking. In Banks, David A. (Ed.), Audience Response …
Teaching Mathematics with Clickers: Notes from the 2010 Joint Meetings
File this under “Better Late Than Never.” Back in January 2010, I coordinated (with Kelly Cline and Kien Lim) a contributed paper …