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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Deja Vu All Over Again*: Clickers | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Deja Vu All Over Again*: Clickers | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

Deja Vu All Over Again*: Clickers

Recently, I saw a math lesson where the teacher used “clickers,” devices that permitted students to answer a teacher question without waving their arms in the air. Here is what I saw.

Students worked on a problem in pairs or individually. Then the teacher passed out “clickers” so students could answer a multiple choice question appearing on an Interactive White Board (IWB) by voting whether A, B, C, or D answer was correct.

Students pointed at the IWB and clicked.

The teacher then tapped a button and the results of the entire class were displayed in pie charts so that the teacher and students saw what percentage of the class got or