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 …
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 with Clickers in Philosophy
Although relatively few instructors in the humanities use clickers, if there’s one discipline in the humanities where clickers are starting to get …
Article: Debourgh (2008) – Using Clickers to Promote Critical Thinking in Nursing Education
Reference: DeBourgh, G. A. (2008). Use of classroom “clickers” to promote acquisition of advanced reasoning skills. Nurse Education in Practice, 8(2), 76-87. …
Nuggets from the Joint Mathematics Meetings
Here are a few interesting ideas shared during the first set of talks about teaching with clickers at the Joint Mathematics Meetings …
Cell Phones as Clickers on the World’s Technology Podcast
Note: I’ve had a couple of problems with this blog recently–the RSS feed stopped working and I haven’t had any time to …
More Cryptography Questions
Here are a couple more clicker questions I tried out in my cryptography class recently. “Cryptography was the decisive factor in the …
First Day of Class
It’s the start of a new semester at most colleges and universities, so I thought it would be interesting to hear how …
Article: Smith et al. (2009)
An article in last Friday’s edition of the journal Science on peer instruction, a pedagogy often used with (and enhanced by) clickers, …