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Students click their way through class with new remote control technology
By D.A. James
Issue date: 4/20/07 Section: News
Originally published: 4/19/07 at 4:30 PM CSTLast update: 4/19/07 at 4:30 PM CST
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It will allow teachers and students to communicate more effectively like voting on different statements made by the professor with a yes or no, or a true or false answer registered on the professor's laptop.
This system not only keeps track of all questions asked, but also it keeps up with who made what responses, allowing the professor to send grades to a grade book and upload results to the Internet.
This could not only alert the teachers to the student's understanding of the class material being covered, but also it could be used in conferences with students in determining what they need to study.
A clicker looks like a television remote control and allows students to respond immediately to statements or questions made by the professor for instant class surveys.
These statements will have answers labeled as either a, b, c or d, all of the above or none of the above. Students will purchase one of these when buying their books for the classes that will use them.
The new devices have a lot of conveniences, and could take the place of the widely used Scantron that students must have when taking a test.
The McGraw Hill companies has partnered with a company called Einstruction located in Denton and has a Web site, www.einstruction.com, that offers teachers more than 25 instructional videos and a PDF download that has an instruction book of about 300 pages in it.
They also offer an instructor help line, (888) 333-4988, student help line, (888) 333-7532; and customer support with live chat for both instructors and students.
Students would purchase keypads in the bookstore for $16 to $25 and register keypads at CPSOnline and pay another $15 per semester registration fee, which would be reduced to $6 if the student purchased a new textbook from McGraw Hill.
Paul Moorman, eLearning Consultant for McGraw-Hill, said that if students were taking more than one class that required a keypad, there would be only one activation fee provided each class used the same keypad for each class.
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posted 4/20/07 @ 7:25 AM CST
I think it is vitally important to share that there are many companies that offer clickers WITHOUT semester by semester registration fees and have superior features/ and capabilities. (Continued…)
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