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FridayLive!
Clickers as Tools for Engagement:
Removing "Cloaks of Invisibility"
Join Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt
University,
Holly Bender, Iowa State University,
and Steve Ehrmann, TLT Group
March 7 at 2 pm Eastern |
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.
Please join us on Friday from 2-3 pm Eastern. Register
here unless
you're already an individual member in which case you should
already have the
FASTPASS or Season Pass.
** you can find links to Lee Shulman's interview on John
Merrow's
Podcast feed
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