Poll Everywhere is marketing itself to the education community as a cheaper alternative to buying proprietary clicker systems. There’s a lot to like about Poll Everywhere. This post is the third post in a series about Using a Student Response System (SRS) in a K-12 classroom We’ve looked at using Twitter as a teaching tool, […]
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Student Response System (K-12): Part 2 Clickers
This is the second post in a three part series on Using a Student Response System in the classroom Last time, we looked at using twitter in the classroom Today, we’re looking at using clickers as a Student Response System (S), and Next time, we’ll look at Poll Everywhere as an online way to get […]
Student Response System (K-12): Part 1 Twitter
Classroom technology is digitizing the way we teach. A Student Response System is a way to create interactivity between the teacher and students in class. Think about the handheld remotes (clickers) used in the game show, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” when the audiences are voting in their answers. Now think about that in […]
Clickers in the classroom improve student understanding and engagement
Technology should not be used in the classroom. At least, that’s what some people believe. A colleague of ours who is doing his Masters in Education, recently told us that some people in his class are strongly against integrating technology into the classroom: technology is an unnecessary distraction. On the other hand, technology can be […]
Dropbox saved hours of marking by restoring an accidentally deleted mark file
Things go wrong. The problem with computers is that they never work when you need them to and the closer we get to report cards, the more things tend to go wrong. Has this ever happened to you? A) You accidentally delete a file but for some reason, you can’t recover it from the recycle […]