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Last spring I received an e-mail message from my university’s Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching that read like an advertisement: “If you are thinking of ordering personal response system ...

Good that you have Michael Bugeja’s article on clickers (“Classroom Clickers and the Cost of Technology,” The Chronicle Commentary, December 5, 2008), and good that it sounds a warning about cost ...

"With clickers, you're giving every student a voice, even the introverts," according to Edna Ross, a resource teaching professor and the chair of the University Instructional Technology Committee in ...

An honors student at Ohio State, a kid in a fifth-grade science class in Kentucky and a deaf student in England all begin their learning experience the same way: with their hand wrapped around a ...

It was well into the start of the semester at the University of Michigan, and Justin Lomont hadn't missed a single psychology lecture. Attendance was key because the instructor had all of the ...

Michael Matassa is a K-5 math specialist for Colorado’s Boulder Valley School District. Turning from the blackboard, middle-school math and science teacher Megan Fisk asks her students whether anyone ...

Plenty of peer-reviewed research shows that classroom “clickers” improve student learning when it comes to delivering facts. But a new study found that the devices can actually work against deeper ...

Math students at New Mexico’s Belen High School better pay close attention in class this fall. If they don’t, teachers will know. Belen, which serves a town by the same name about 40 miles south of ...

If not for their eye-catching shade of blue, the small, plastic oblongs would be unnoticeable amid the clutter of papers, book bags, and purses on and around the desks in Kenneth McCreary’s English ...

Math students at New Mexico’s Belen High School better pay close attention in class this fall. If they don’t, teachers will know. Belen, which serves a town by the same name about 40 miles south of ...