My Techquest project focus has narrowed. It now focuses solely on the use of Student Response Systems (also known as Audience Response Systems and clickers) to provide students with quality and timely feedback, thus resulting in more positive learning outcomes. While doing my internet research, I came across a variety of articles that spoke to the role of feedback in learning and that listed providing quality and timely feedback among the top practices for effective teaching. I also found many promoting the use of clickers in the classroom for promoting engaging, classroom discourse, and providing students with feedback. I plan to tie the two together and explore how they can be used, specifically, in a 9th grade Algebra setting. Many of the articles that I found also address the pitfalls of using clickers and how to avoid them. As we know, any technology can be misused and then rendered ineffective. Here are a few of the articles that I found.
I hope to link solid teaching practice to improvement oriented feedback and then show how clickers (Qwizdom, specifically) can be used to give quick and quality feedback to students and parents.
Looks like you were able to gather up some great resources for your project. Were you able to find any projects out there that are similar to yours?
ReplyDeleteYou have some wonderful sites to start to help narrow down your research.
ReplyDeleteThe use of clickers are great for student feedback, but I've also heard from faculty that they can also not be so positive to what you may be trying to achieve. I know you are trying to find all the positives, but be ready to also address the negatives of clickers also.