September 11 12:00 - 1:30 pm Belk Library 206 Register
Clickers are a powerful tool for classroom instruction. Like any tool, however, they may be used skillfully or clumsily. Through personal teaching experiences, mentoring of others, and several years of research, Dr. Ian Beatty, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, found that clickers are most effective — transformative, even — when used to implement four key practices. Those are question-driven instruction, dialogical discourse, formative assessment, and meta-level communication.
In this workshop, we’ll explore the features that make clicker questions successful, tour a gallery of question types, and develop some tactics for developing potent questions. The workshop will be highly interactive and responsive, so participants should feel free to bring and raise their own problems, concerns, and interests. Lunch will be provided.
Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) is running a pilot program this semester to test out new clickers. If you are a faculty member and interested in using clickers, contact TLT for more information on how you can get access to a set of clickers.