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Clickers in the News

Videos of Clickers in Action

Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn
The eInstruction handheld clicker is among the handful of devices
trickling into schools like Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School in
Brooklyn that allows teachers to know instantly how well their
students are understanding lessons.

Wichita Public Schools
See how teachers and students at Buckner Elementary, PV Middle
School and Heights High School are using student response systems
in the classroom (clickers).

North Dallas High School
Students in algebra class use clickers to improve scores.

Boulder Valley Schools
Clickers can engage 100% of the students 100% of the time without embarrassment at Eldorado K-8 in Superior, Colorado.

News Articles of Clickers

Students, teachers give new technologies thumbs up
The students at Camino Real Middle School will soon be texting in the middle of their 8th grade social studies class. And that’s perfectly fine with their teacher, Jennifer McColley. “I have 200 kids this year,” she said. “With the remote devices, I can give them immediate feedback.”
9-2-2010

High Tech Gadgets Give Students Edge
Thanks to a $10,000 Qwest Foundation/NDE Technology Innovation Grant, students at Meadows Elementary School are able to use groundbreaking classroom response systems with their everyday class work. 11-19-2008

Leadership in the 21st Century: The New Visionary Administrator
In fall 2007, Project Tomorrow surveyed administrators, for the first time, on their attitudes about technology and learning. Through this, they found a group of visionary administrators who are bridging the digital disconnect. Surprisingly, these visionary administrators have more in common with students than with fellow administrators in terms of technology use and priorities for technology in instruction. 10-29-2008

Look Ma, No Hands
Catholic schools are using clickers to let students answer questions in class. Students no longer need to fear being singled out for not knowing a correct answer. 9-24-2008

Interactive Learning at S. Huntington Schools
Imagine never feeling embarrassed if you got a wrong answer, imagine not having to raise your hand and still be an active participant in all classroom activities, imagine your teacher being able to “drop” a report in seconds that allows them to see just how well you grasp the lesson you just reviewed. 9-24-2008

‘Clickers’ Let Teachers See Who’s Really Learning a Lesson
Hand-held electronic devices for children may catch a lot of flak. But the little plastic keypad that Jill Hanford's sixth-graders use is revolutionizing the way she teaches her classes. Hanford swears by the "clicker," a device that looks like a remote control but functions as a silent link between Hanford and her students. The clicker lets students answer Hanford's questions simultaneously and allows her to see what proportion of the class understood the concept. 9-19-2008

School Tests Response to New Gadget
About 20 Pasco Elementary School students experimented Thursday with a new way of taking tests, a method that could provide a peek into the classroom of the future. The children used a hand-held device called a student responder to plug in their answers on a third-grade math assessment that serves as a benchmark for measuring how much they know and what they need to learn. 9-12-2008

No More Pencils
Pam Murphy's advanced math classroom in Afton Elementary School looks pretty traditional — desks, chairs, a blackboard and posters of geometric symbols on the walls. But this year, her fourth-grade students have been practicing their lessons in a way that resembles a game show more than a conventional classroom. 6-07-2008

Just a Click Away
Magdalena, NM schools put technology at students' fingertips. Some middle and high school classes in Magdalena are doing away with the paper and pencil theory of doing their daily work and have moved into the decidedly 21st century idea of using remote controls to log in their answers on tests and other assignments. 3-22-2008

Teaching With Student Response Systems in Elementary and Secondary Education Settings: A Survey Study
This study examined how 498 elementary and secondary educators use student response systems in their instruction. The teachers all completed an online questionnaire designed to learn about their goals for using response systems, the instructional strategies they employ when using the system, and the perceived effects of response systems. Participants in the study tended to use similar instructional strategies when using the technology as have been reported in higher education. 8-2-2007

Anonymous Electronic Reactions by Students
UCLA Law School describes an interesting use of the “clickers” and Data Slicing. “I then asked the students to imagine themselves as jurors, and to answer whether -- given the facts -- they would have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of forcible rape (as the jury in Alston did, though the appellate court reversed).” 10-5-2007

Teaching Tools - New technology enhances classroom learning at NMSU.
Advances in teaching technology, such as the "clickers" used by these biology students in Michelle Shuster’s Biology 111 have taken instruction at New Mexico State University to a new level. 2006

Teaching with Tech
The students in general biology at Johns Hopkins University wait for Prof. Richard Shingles to kick off his 11 a.m. lecture. "Please join the class with your CPS units," he announces, and suddenly there's a rumble of backpacks as more than 200 undergrads pull out thin blue devices that look like TV remote controls. 10-9-2005

In Class, the Audience Weighs In
Paul Caron, a professor at the University of Cincinnati, attributes a teacher-of-the-year award he won to the effective use of wireless keypads in his law class. Other professors weigh in. 4-24-2004

Blogs to Check Out

Britannica Blog Hosts Thought-Provoking Forum on Brave New Classroom 2.0
Chicago-based Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. has introduced a new blog forum focused on the issue of whether the new classroom technologies represent an educational breakthrough, a threat to teaching itself, or something in between. To explore the question intelligently, the blog explains, the company asked several experts on educational technology to weigh in on the subject.

Inhibitions and Anxiety of Using Technology in the Classroom
Here's another blog you might be interested in. Titled "The Whiteboard Jungle," the place for conversation and discussion for education, at all levels and in all disciplines, with regard to technology, you'll find a multi-part posting on "Overcoming Inertia: Inhibitions and Anxiety of Using Technology in the Classroom" by "ShakespearTheEngineer" (aka Peter Mody, Burnt Hills - Ballston Lake High School in Burnt Hills, NY).