How Do We Define Quality Student Work in an Age of AI?
José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson have a new book out called Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New …
Shakespeak, a BYOD Classroom Response System
Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) class response systems seem to be popping up left and right these days. BYOD systems are ones in which students …
Cheating, Facebook, Clickers, and More – Problems in a Harvard Life Sciences Course
I’ve been following the coverage of the alleged mass cheating in Harvard University’s Life Sciences 1b course. The Crimson, Harvard’s student newspaper, …
Article: James, Barbieri, & Garcia (2008)
Reference: James, Mark C., Barbieri, F., & Garcia, P. (2008). What are they talking about? Lessons learned from a study of peer …
Article: King & Joshi (2008)
Reference: King, D. B., & Joshi, S. (2008). Gender differences in the use and effectiveness of personal response devices. Journal of Science …
Clickers in (Very Large) Economics Courses
Jennifer Imazeki teaches a 500-student microeconomics course at San Diego State University, and she recently blogged about her use of clickers in …
More on Slideware
Here’s another example of a slideshow that combines great visuals with a few short sentences and phrases to explain something. The “something” …
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 …
Article: Willoughby & Gustafson (2009)
Here’s part four of student participation week. I’m blogging all week about recent research on the impact of teaching with clickers on …
Article: James (2006)
It’s student participation week here on the blog. Last week I grabbed a handful of articles on classroom response systems to read …