Technology and Active L earning: Clickers
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Technology and Active Learning: Clickers Drew Kohlhorst, PhD Assistant Director, Emory Center for Science Education Instructor, Georgia State University, Dept of Biology
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Technology and Active L earning: Clickers. Drew Kohlhorst, PhD Assistant Director, Emory Center for Science Education Instructor, Georgia State University, Dept of Biology. Clickers and Student Engagement. Personal Response Systems. Types of Clickers. Traditional - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Technology and Active Learning: Clickers
Drew Kohlhorst, PhDAssistant Director, Emory Center for Science Education
Instructor, Georgia State University, Dept of Biology
Clickers and Student Engagement
Personal Response Systems
Types of Clickers Traditional
TurningPoint (TurningTechnologies); eInstruction iClicker (iclicker) SMART Response
Hardware-minimized PollEV (PollEverywhere) SMART Response CE & VE Socrative
Student Requirements: Handheld response deviceInstructor Requirements: Receiver base & handheld response device
Student Requirements: Smartphone, laptop, internet or cellular connectionInstructor Requirements: Internet-connect device, publisher software
Face the Fats:The Biochemistry of Lipidsby Nancy A. RiceWestern Kentucky University
http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=592&id=592
How To Vote via Texting using PollEV
1. Standard texting rates only (worst case US $0.20)2. We have no access to your phone number3. Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do
TIPS
EXAMPLE
Let’s learn about you…
What level of student-student interaction do you want in your classroom?
What level of control over your classroom are you as an instructor comfortable with having (or NOT having)?
How willing are you to take a risk in your instructional methods?
Classroom Resources for Clickers
Text Publishers National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS) CasesONLINE (http://www.cse.emory.edu/cases/) BioQuest (bioquest.org) ScienceCaseNet (sciencecasenet.org) Adapt & Adopt
Implementation
Understand how the technology fits in with your learning objectives How will this technology in
your classroom setting? Pick only 1 NEW technology
per semester SELL IT!!! Have a back-up plan
Technology and Active Learning: Clickers
Drew Kohlhorst, PhDAssistant Director, Emory Center for Science Education
Instructor, Georgia State University, Dept of Biology
Select Additional Resources
Caldwell, J. “Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practice Tips” 2007 CBE – Life Sciences Education
“How to Write a Clicker Case Teachers Want to Teach and Students Enjoy!” Eric Ribbins Western Illinois University Dept of Biology
James R. MacArthur and Loretta Jones “Self-Assembled Student Interactions in Undergraduate General Chemistry Clicker Classrooms” 2013 Journal of Chemical Education
Martyn, M. “Clickers in the Classroom: An Active Learning Approach” 2007 Educause Quarterly
Yun, K. and Maureen Lojo. “The Effect of Clickers on Student Learning” 2010 Academic Exchanges Quarterly v14, 1
Bloom’s TaxonomyLower Level Bloom’s Learning
Demonstrate rote or surface learning
Declarative or Procedural Knowledge
Answers found in the assigned materials
Higher Level Blooms Learning
Meaningful or deep learning
Learning that goes beyond textual material in that they must be inferred or extrapolated from the material in the assigned material.
Creativity, originality and critical thinking required
Student required to think in terms of real world performance
How does technology help students achieve higher order thinking?
