Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning Using "Clicker"-based Interactive Classroom Technology
Tuesday, October 21
Gary Muir, 2008-09 CILA Associate, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Series
(co-sponsor: IIT)
How can we facilitate student engagement and learning in the classroom in a way that builds on students' increasing uses of interactive technologies in their everyday lives? How can we increase student participation in the classroom? Personal Response Systems (PRS), or "clickers," are an interactive technology that provides answers to both of these questions. Clickers make learning a more active and interactive process, enabling our students to become more engaged in the classroom. In addition, because student responses can be anonymous, clickers remove the social barriers that may discourage more public responses. In this session we will take part in hands-on demonstrations using clickers, and discuss how clickers can and have been used to enhance both student engagement and learning in the classroom.
Here is a link to a useful overview article regarding clickers: http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/CRLT_no22.pdf.
