Using Clicker Systems for Classroom Interactivity
What are ‘Clickers’
What faculty do you work in?
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• Eric Mazur and ‘Peer Instruction’• University of Strathclyde’s uses include Peer
Instruction [video]
Examples of Use
• 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, Turning Point, ActivExpression at EHU– Contact [email protected] to book
• Mobile Phones– Socrative, ActivEngage– Building block available for Blackboard mobile
Different Tools
Also
– Setting up slides for TurningPoint and Optivote.– eShare guides – Optivote, TurningPoint
Hands On
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