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segunda-feira, maio 16, 2005
Interactive 'Clickers' Changing Classrooms
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Professor Ross Cheit put it to the students in his "Ethics and Public Policy" class at Brown University: Are you morally obliged to report cheating if you know about it? The room began to hum, but no one so much as raised a hand.
Still, within 90 seconds, Cheit had roughly 150 student responses displayed on an overhead screen, plotted as a multicolored bar graph — 64 percent said yes, 35 percent, no.
Several times each class, Cheit's students answer his questions using handheld wireless devices that resemble television remote controls.
The devices, which the students call "clickers," are being used on hundreds of college campuses and are even finding their way into grade schools.
They alter classroom dynamics, engaging students in large, impersonal lecture halls with the power of mass feedback. "Clickers" ease fears of giving a wrong answer in front of peers, or of expressing unpopular opinions.
"I use it to take their pulse," Cheit said. "I've often found in that setting, you find yourself thinking, 'Well, what are they thinking?'"
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Interactive 'Clickers' Changing Classrooms - Yahoo! News
Professor Ross Cheit put it to the students in his "Ethics and Public Policy" class at Brown University: Are you morally obliged to report cheating if you know about it? The room began to hum, but no one so much as raised a hand.
Still, within 90 seconds, Cheit had roughly 150 student responses displayed on an overhead screen, plotted as a multicolored bar graph — 64 percent said yes, 35 percent, no.
Several times each class, Cheit's students answer his questions using handheld wireless devices that resemble television remote controls.
The devices, which the students call "clickers," are being used on hundreds of college campuses and are even finding their way into grade schools.
They alter classroom dynamics, engaging students in large, impersonal lecture halls with the power of mass feedback. "Clickers" ease fears of giving a wrong answer in front of peers, or of expressing unpopular opinions.
"I use it to take their pulse," Cheit said. "I've often found in that setting, you find yourself thinking, 'Well, what are they thinking?'"
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Interactive 'Clickers' Changing Classrooms - Yahoo! News
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