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> Think how cool it would be, if we had this button in lecture notes and so on! Years ago (2002?), I heard about a Uni that was handing out little clickers tha
by jarofgreen 14y ago
> Think how cool it would be, if we had this button in lecture notes and so on!
Years ago (2002?), I heard about a Uni that was handing out little clickers that TV audiences get for live voting.
With these, students could rate how much they were understanding as the lecture went along, or the lecturer could put up multi-choice questions for an instant gauge of how well the students got it. (Crucially, all voting was anonymous so students didn't feel like they were being tested.)
Apparently it really helped lecturers, but there was more than once when the lecturer came to a complete stop because they didn't know where to go. (Better than carrying on blindly not knowing no-ones with you tho.)
These days, with cheap smart-phones and wifi on campus it would be easy to do something similar with just a website.
- vhf 14y agoI'd be very interested if you could provide a link to the Uni experiment you're talking about. Tried google without luck. Thanks
- gromy 14y agoWe used a device called an "iclicker" at my school that could do all of this, though it was pretty much only used for paperless pop quizzes. One benefit was immediately after, the teacher could display a bar chart showing the correct multiple choice answer and how many students voted for each of A,B,C,D thereby giving students and idea of where they ranked in the class. http://www.iclicker.com/ http://www.iclicker.com/
- jarofgreen 14y agoHow is that a benefit? Won't that just promote feelings of smugness or worry? Surely a students independent learning is what's important, not where they rank in an arbitrary group of others? Did they really emphasise this aspect of it?
- jarofgreen 14y agoIt was a decade ago and I can't remember any names, so probably not. Pretty sure it was the University of Stirling (UK) if that helps. Sorry.