Friday, March 5th 2010
2 pm (EST) / 1 pm (CST)
Join Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University, Holly Bender, Iowa State University, and Steve Ehrmann, TLT Group
Clickers are small, handheld devices that instructors can use to quickly poll their students and aggregate their responses to multiple-choice questions about course content. In an interview with journalist John Merrow, Carnegie Foundation president Lee Shulman stated that "anonymity and invisibility" are the "great enem[ies] of learning" and described the use of clickers as one way to remove "the cloak of invisibility" from students.**In this FridayLive! session, we'll take a look at some ways instructors in a variety of disciplines have used clickers to engage their students with course content by leveraging the individual student accountability that clickers provide. We'll discuss using clickers to warm students up for great discussions, to create a "time for telling" when students are eager to learn answers to the questions we ask them, to structure small-group learning activities, to connect course material with students' personal experiences, and more. Bring your questions about how clickers and similar technologies can transform classroom dynamics in ways that excite students about learning.
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