Hey, I'm all fired up about using the new clicker system we got through our district's Impact on Education grant! I've been using it for about four weeks now, and it has been a nice transition for my teaching!
The clickers themselves are only a small part of what is good about the CPS system made by Einstruction. With the great projector that displays the computer screen so well, my big sound system plugged into the laptop, and the mobile chalkboard, I am able to use multi-media with my kids just about every day! It's awesome to show graphs of earthquake data for predicting the eruption of a volcano using two colors on graphed lines with straight axes - using the CPS whiteboard question, click onto a saved movie, click onto a graphic - closeup on the graphic, then back out to a clicker question on the graphic.. Just last week, I showed a DVD on the laptop and stopped the movie at certain points with the remote chalkboard, so we could have mini-class discussions. The interaction was much greater than if it had been shown on a TV set. The quick grading, the quick demonstration, the quick learning, the ability to re-test and re-learn, all of it hugely beneficial to my class! My kids love it, and so do I!!
Anybody else here using something like that!?
The clickers themselves are only a small part of what is good about the CPS system made by Einstruction. With the great projector that displays the computer screen so well, my big sound system plugged into the laptop, and the mobile chalkboard, I am able to use multi-media with my kids just about every day! It's awesome to show graphs of earthquake data for predicting the eruption of a volcano using two colors on graphed lines with straight axes - using the CPS whiteboard question, click onto a saved movie, click onto a graphic - closeup on the graphic, then back out to a clicker question on the graphic.. Just last week, I showed a DVD on the laptop and stopped the movie at certain points with the remote chalkboard, so we could have mini-class discussions. The interaction was much greater than if it had been shown on a TV set. The quick grading, the quick demonstration, the quick learning, the ability to re-test and re-learn, all of it hugely beneficial to my class! My kids love it, and so do I!!
Anybody else here using something like that!?
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Re: New technology in the classroom.. Anyone else loving it!?!?
Sun, October 21, 2007 - 9:02 PMInteresting you should post this. I have been doing research for a future grant on the efficacy on learning of multimedia enhanced curriculum. What I have learned thus far is that multimedia is significantly more effective WITHIN a constructivist pedagogy and even more effective if it is a form of simulation AND problem based learning constructivist pedagogy. Multimedia in and of itself does not enhance learning. In some contexts learning preferences of the students plays a role in efficacy--e.g., preferences for auditory, visual, or haptic (hands-on) based learning. Multimedia use can span all three categories simultaneously even synthesizing them if employed appropriately (such as simulation conjoined with problem-based learning).
With that said, it is a fucking shame I am forced to rely upon goddamn chalkboards to teach my college students!!! -
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Re: New technology in the classroom.. Anyone else loving it!?!?
Sun, October 21, 2007 - 11:16 PMI have no idea what a clicker system is- I'll have to research it, but my classroom has SMART Board, which sounds silmilar. We can hook it up to the computer, write on it like a chalkboard, type, and show videos. It also has a touch screen, so we can play educational internet games and other things like that on it too. -
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Re: New technology in the classroom.. Anyone else loving it!?!?
Mon, October 22, 2007 - 5:51 AMYes, Shanna! I tried out a SMART board last year! They rock!
In the perfect world you would combine the SMART board and the CPS system,, but we're just lucky to be alive and teaching with chalk on a slate board. };-D
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