Thursday, April 5, 2012
Classroom response systems are a great way to promote interaction and student engagement. When using this type of response system students will be willing to participate more. The students response is anonymous and they have no fear of being embarrassed by their peers. The response system also allows the teacher to assess the students and learn if there is a need for remediation or if they are all on track with what is being taught. The teacher will be able to identify where the student needs improvement instantly. The teacher will be able to clear up any misconceptions by viewing the responses that are given by the students.
I would like to use this type of interactive system to review for test as well as for prior knowledge assessment. By using it prior to teaching a unit I would know where I should begin. I remember watching who wants to be a millionaire and always thought it was helpful to use the audience. And as the video shows us we should embrace this technology and not bury our heads in the sand like an ostrich in order for our students to soar to new heights.
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Ramona, I think the clickers are a great tool to use in the classroom. Clickers are very new to me. I am not working as a teacher yet. I don't want to fall to far behind because technology is changing very fast. I like the fact that clickers allow students to respond to questions privately. Students who are normally shy would participate in class more often.
ReplyDeleteRamona I think that clickers are great tools in the classroom because they will allow you to do an informal assessment on the students as well as yourself. If you have the class participation but the students are still not grasping the concept then that will help teachers to know if they need to modify the lesson.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true. We need to modify and reteach sometimes. It is our responsibility to reach all learners. We have to make sure that there are different ways to teach the concepts and we must be willing to to change in order to reach ALL learners.
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